Berndnaut Smilde

Berndnaut Smilde (Groningen, 1978) is a Dutch visual artist.

Early life

Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in Groningen.[1] In 2005, Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the Frank Mohr Institute of Hanze University in Groningen.[1][2]

Career

Smilde's best known works include the series Conditioner; sculptures that spread an antiseptic scent throughout several rooms,[3] and Unflattened, which shows an inverted rainbow.[4]

I see them as temporary sculptures of almost nothing — the edge of materiality. It looks like you can dive into them or grab them, but they just fall apart. There's a duality there that I really like, where you're trying to achieve this ideal thing that then just collapses moments later.[5]

Smilde in an interview with IGNANT

In 2012 he created a series of self-made clouds, of which Nimbus II, 2012, first performed in the Lady Chapel of Hoorn, was included in London's Saatchi Gallery.[6] He chooses locations that are old, damp, that have no air circulation.[5] Time magazine called this technique one of the fifty best inventions of 2012.[7][8]

Exhibitions

Group shows

Awards

Smilde won a stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts.[1]

Sources
  1. Malinsky, Richard (22 June 2017). "An Interview with Berndnaut Smilde". The Woven Tale Press. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. Punj, Rajesh (24 May 2014). "Berndnaut Smilde interview". Out of Nothing. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. Image of one of the sculptures
  4. "Unflattened" accompanied by images of the rainbow, '5uur' blog post.
  5. Flanagan, Rosie (1 June 2018). "Berndnaut Smilde, The Man Who Creates Clouds". IGNANT. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  6. "Selected Works by Berndnaut Smilde". Saatchi Gallery.
  7. "Best Inventions of the Year 2012 - Indoor Clouds". Time. 1 November 2012.
  8. Artist creates clouds indoors. Named one of Time magazine's 'Best Inventions of the Year 2012' Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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