#smilde

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Smilde, DR

[artsparklets]

Nimbus (2012) - Berndnaut Smilde

To "create" an indoor cloud, conditions such as humidity and temperature must be carefully controlled. Once Smilde manages to construct the ideal environment, he emits a puff of fog from a fog machine, making a momentary cloud appear, seemingly out of thin air. During the few seconds that it lingers before vanishing, he captures it in a photograph. He’s performed this ritual in museum halls, churches, and abandoned buildings with tiled floors.

"What people seem to be touched by is that the clouds are, in effect, real at the moment they are captured."  Smilde enjoys the juxtaposition created when the nebulous phenomenon is placed in a man-made structure. He also likes that clouds can represent everything from impending dreariness to dreams and imagination.

"I enjoy how they exist in a perpetual state of flux; temporary sculptures, made of almost nothing, balancing on the edge of materiality," Smilde said. "I like their ungraspable nature, which is perhaps the reason why people have projected so many different meanings on to clouds for centuries." A cloud, he says, "contains both the ideal and perishable."

[magastrom]

Pond, Holland, March 2017

[thelaughbooth]

Marieke erg bedankt voor de review! "The Laughbooth was een erg leuke toevoeging aan het verjaardagsfeest. De gasten kregen de kans om een leuke foto in het gastenboek achter te laten en natuurlijk een paar mee naar huis te nemen. Een leuke herinnering aan een fantastische dag. Leuk detail was dat het kader om de foto’s zelf gekozen was en gepersonaliseerd. Een aanrader voor elke feest of bijeenkomst. " #thelaughbooth #photobooth #jarig #jubileum #smilde #feest #verjaardag (bij Smilde) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTrzfJXML69/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thelaughbooth]

Hiep hiep hoera René is 40jaar. Van harte gefeliciteerd en maak er een mooi feest van. #thelaughbooth #photobooth #jarig #jubileum #smilde #feest #verjaardag https://www.instagram.com/p/CToyBYyMZau/?utm_medium=tumblr

[teramaners]

#nimbus #berndnaut #smilde #berndnautsmilde #groningen #netherlands #works #amsterdam #exhibitions #contemporary #art #space #gallery #visual #arts #design (presso Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSR7kzgRCy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13tq5ipwiznts

[teramaners]

#nimbus #berndnaut #smilde #berndnautsmilde #groningen #netherlands #works #amsterdam #exhibitions #contemporary #art #space #gallery #visual #arts #design (presso Amsterdam, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoxE1FRiqkO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16dc77vkzx83t

[teramaners]

#nimbus #berndnaut #smilde #berndnautsmilde #groningen #netherlands #works #amsterdam #exhibitions #contemporary #art #space #gallery #visual #arts #design (presso Amsterdam, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/BohYooXC2GV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d77lvc5rw5vg