And Viktor & Rolf’s “Alternative No. 1″ turns perfume into performance art: a darkened room, an advertising image, a fragmented perfume bottle made from pieces of other vessels, and a fragrance that is both scent and stench invite viewers to participate and evoke reactions like intrigue and disgust, the way the best conceptual art and fashion always ought to do.
— From The Moment blog at the New York Times…
Cabinet Magazine, “an award-winning quarterly magazine of art and culture”, is hosting a smell installation, “Recent addition to the permanent collection”, at their space at 300 Nevins Street in Brooklyn:
Cabinet is pleased to announce the opening of Recent addition to the permanent collection, an invisible modification of the Cabinet event space by Nadia Wagner that invokes change, decay, and prestige via the use of a signature of the scent of oak moss…
The loudest ovation went to the faintly sulfurous, aptly named Funky Green Imposter.
— From Opera to Sniff at: A Score Offers Uncommon Scents at the New York Times, a review of Christophe Laudamiel's Green Aria ScentOpera.
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has created anthropodino, an “immense interactive installation” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City:
Park Avenue Armory launches its first commissioned art installation with anthropodino, a large-scale, interactive work by world-renowned artist, Ernesto Neto. Using hundreds of yards of translucent material, Neto suspends a gigantic canopy from the drill hall’s latticework truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long. Magnificent, aromatic “fabric stalactites” descend 60 feet to embrace a vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms…
The Guggenheim will present Green Aria, a ScentOpera, on May 31st and June 1st:
The ScentOpera introduces a new art form created by Stewart Matthew based only on smell and sound. Matthew collaborates with renowned fragrance designer Christophe Laudamiel and composers Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurdsson. Original scents and music will be performed in the dark via a customized scent organ for a world premiere unlike any other…