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20. Fujiko Nakaya

"Cloud Installation #07240 Standing Cloud"

published at 22/11/2018
Sculpture de brume, installation de Fujiko Nakaya pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander

Fujiko Nakaya’s contribution to Chaumont-sur-Loire is a fog sculpture poetically placed near a silver birch grove.

Showing the inside of a cloud and reproducing the sensation of the droplets making it up on the skin are the aim of this inspired creator of imaginary fogs. “I create a stage for nature to express itself freely,” she explains. “I am a fog sculptor, but I do not try to shape it. The atmosphere is the mould and the wind is the chisel.” 

For all that the artist’s installations are poetic, they only come about after many hours of engineering and a subtle collaboration with water, air and even time. Nakaya models the elements, playing with shadow and light in the way that a videographer might.

She makes use of high-pressure drinking water sprays that release tiny little droplets in fine volatile mists. She then calculates the appearance and cut-off of water, adjusts the direction of the nozzles and uses fans to accelerate the movement or lighting to warm the atmosphere and generate vertical currents of mist.

Onlookers whom she seeks to involve physically and sensorially also have a role to play. As “kilos of joules”, they alter the evaporation process.

A trailblazer in technological art, Fujiko Nakaya expresses her fascination for the natural phenomena that are constantly forming and deforming through her ephemeral creations, and endeavours to rekindle dialogue between the public and nature.

Biographical notes

Fujiko NAKAYA
JAPAN
 
 

Born in 1933 in Sapporo, Fujiko Nakaya is a Japanese artist renowned for her fog sculptures.  A graduate of artistic studies from the Northwestern University of Evanston in the United States, Nakaya has lived in France, the United States and Spain, and clouds were something she started out painting before moving on to creating them. She made the world’s first ever “fog sculpture” at the Osaka Universal Exhibition in 1970 by cloaking the Pepsi Pavilion in an immense fog veil. In the 1980s and ‘90s she became a world-famous artist-film-maker and advocate of alternative arts but continued to create ambitious fog sculptures and installations in Japan, Australia, the United States and Europe. Temporary or permanent, her works include installations using the space around us as well as participations in artistic performances. In particular, she has worked with the US choreographer Trisha Brown and film-maker Bill Viola.

AWARDS

1976
Australian Cultural Award  -Fog Sculpture #94768 "Earth Talk"
 
1983
Finalist, The First International Water Sculpture Competition -Fog Performance "Louisiana Dump"
 
1990
Laser d'Or, Locarno Video Festival -Contribution of SCAN
 
1992
Minister of Construction Award -"Foggy Forest"
 
1993
Yoshida Isoya Special Award -"Foggy Forest"
 
2001
Minister of Communication Award -Artistic contribution to HDTV Programming
 
2006
Descartes Science Communication Prize, nominee, EU Commission -Curation of a science and art exhibition "Conversations with snow and ice" in Latvia
 
2008
Media Arts Festival, Special Achievement Prize -Contribution to Media Arts
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INSTALLATIONS

2013
Fog Bridge #72494, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA
 
2011
Fog Garden #07172, Vent des forêts, department of Meuse, France
Cloud Parking, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
Stone. Fog, avec Ojārs Feldbergs, Open-Air Art Museum, Pedvāle, Latvia
 
2010
Cloud Sculpture pour l'œuvre Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503, directed by Trisha Brown
Cloud Forest Patio A et Cloud Forest Patio B, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan
Festival FutureEverything, 2010
 
2008
Yokohama Triennale
Singapore Biennale
 
2005
Fog Chamber-Riga #26422, Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lettonie, Riga, Latvia
 
2004
Fog Sculpture #28634: Dialogue, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden
 
2001
1st Biennale of Valencia, Spain
 
1998
Fog Sculpture #08025 (F.O.G), Musée Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
 
1996
Mindscape Museum d'Okazaki, Japan
South Park d'Obihiro, Japan
 
1994
Greenland Glacial Moraine Garden, Museum of Snow and Ice de Kaga, Japan
 
1993
Spiral Fog, Construction Art Pavilion, Shinshu Expo de Matsumoto, Japan
 
1992
Foggy Forest, Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo, Japan
Misty Night Cherry Blossom, Foga Park de Tokyo, Japan
Taikoyama Observation Tower, Toyama, Japan
 
1988
Skyline, Jardin de l'Eau, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
 
1982
Fog Sculpture #94925: Foggy Wake in a Desert: An Ecosphere, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
 
1981
Miyagi Art Museum, Sendai, Japan
 
1980
Fog Sculpture: Kawaji, Festival of Light, Sound and Fog, Tochigi, Japan (collaboration with Bill Viola)
Cloud Installation: #72503 Opal Loop, New York, USA (collaboration with the Trisha Brown Dance Company)
 
1976
Fog Sculpture #94768: Earth Talk, 2nd Biennial of Sydney, Australia
 
1974
Statics of an Egg, Tokyo Biennial, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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Sculpture de brume, installation de Fujiko Nakaya pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander
Sculpture de brume, installation de Fujiko Nakaya pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander
Sculpture de brume, installation de Fujiko Nakaya pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander
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