Berndnaut Smilde
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Berndnaut Smilde (Groningen, 1978) is a Dutch visual artist.
Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in Groningen.[1] In 2005,[citation needed] 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]
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]
In a collaboration with the photographer Simon Procter Smilde signature manufactured cloudscapes with fashion luminaries Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace and Alber Elbaz. The pictures appeared in feature in the September 2013 issue "ICONOCLOUDS" of Harper's Bazaar U.S. [9][10]
