Builded Remnants by Berndnaut Smilde

Nimbus II, 2012

Nimbus Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aspremont, Festival Images, Vevey, 2016

Nimbus Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aspremont, 2012

Nimbus Munnekeholm, 2012

Nimbus Minerva, 2012

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ICONOCLOUDS, 2013

ICONOCLOUDS set up

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Nimbus Sankt Peter, 2014 23

Nimbus Sankt Peter set up

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Builded Remnants by Berndnaut Smilde

Published on May 23, 2017

Damiani

This monograph presents Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde’s ethereal and awe-inspiring 'Nimbus' series for the first time. Smilde combines the heritage of traditional Dutch interior paintings with contemporary media and conceptual techniques. In his 'Nimbus' series, Smilde creates a “real” cloud in interior spaces, depicting a moment of fragility in evocative locations. Smilde creates his clouds by carefully regulating the temperature and humidity of a room and then, using a smoke machine, lighting, and moisture, captures the brief moment when a fleeting “cloud” is created. He carefully selects the locations for their visual as well as historical relevance. Smilde’s choice of location often contains visual evidence of the building’s purpose, further emphasizing the temporality of both the cloud and its surroundings.

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