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Spicy, musky petals

Posted by Robin on 18 February 2020 2 Comments

For A Marvellous Entanglement, filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien worked with perfumer Yann Vasnier and the Galerie Folie shop to create a scent inspired by Julien’s 2019 work by the same name. Consisting of performance, film, and photography, the piece is an expansive meditation on the work on the Italian-born, Brazilian-based multidisciplinary architect Lina Bo Bardi. [...] As Vasnier said, ‘I tried to articulate the sensuous movements of the dance sequences on the concrete floor with spicy, musky petals seducing the waxy, musky cement.’

— Read more in Contemporary artists are creating conceptual perfumes at Wallpaper.

Anicka Yi Biography ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 9 October 2019 13 Comments

Artist Anicka Yi will launch Biography, a trio of fragrances, in November. Shigenobu Twilight, Radical Hopelessness and Beyond Skin were inspired by radical female figures and developed in collaboration with perfumer Barnabé Fillion…

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Somewhere between fresh flower petals and putrid, overripe vegetation

Posted by Robin on 9 July 2019 2 Comments

Visitors move through Fructaplex©, a fruity, plasticky smell reminiscent of artificial car air-fresheners, to Sylvoxime©, which has a comforting sylvan note of a walk through the forest, before hitting the intense and complex smell called Hyperflor©, which Raspet describes as somewhere between fresh flower petals and putrid, overripe vegetation.

— Conceptual artist Sean Raspet of Detroit has an exhibit at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong; read more at Conceptual art goes molecular with works you can smell but can’t see, and one that ‘sees’ you at South China Morning Post.

Every inhalation a new surprise

Posted by Robin on 6 February 2019 2 Comments

According to other artists in the smell art community, the Smeller does what no one else in the intervening time period has ever managed to do: it pumps a series of defined, distinct smells into the room, one after the next. The scents dissipate just as the next one arrives: horse, then cinnamon, and then something that reminded me of an underground car park. Different types of berry, in vibrato, one after the other. No sound, no visuals, just a scent, and then another, every inhalation a new surprise.

— Artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf's Smeller 2.0, at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius Bau museum last summer. Read more at Welcome to the Cinema of Smells, where movies are a different kind of cheesy at The Outline. (Further reading: A Symphony of Smells: An Interview with Wolfgang Georgsdorf at BerlinArtLink.)

Human perfume project

Posted by Robin on 30 May 2018 Leave a Comment

Transdisciplinary designer Ani Liu bottles her husband. You can read more about Ani Liu, and her experiences at the MIT Media Lab, here.

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