Green Air, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis CAM, Missouri Gallery, Exhibition USA
Green Air, Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis
Kinetic Living Sculpture in Missouri, USA – design by Nomad Studio
22 Aug 2016
Green Air installation at Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis
Design: Nomad Studio, landscape architecture
Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis. Summer 2016
Green Air, a kinetic living sculpture
Designed by landscape architecture firm Nomad Studio, Green Air is the second installation of a play in two acts at the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis. Green Air is a sculptural aerial garden that creates a dialogue in form, material, time, and space with the previous intervention, Green Varnish.
Conceived as a living, kinetic sculpture nested within the courtyard of the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis, Green Air proposes an immersive space, a hanging garden that floats above a tapestry of ever changing shadows.
photograph : Alise O’Brien Photography
Green Air is the second act of a broad exploration that started in 2015 with Green Varnish, a monumental green fabric composed of thousands of succulent plants that symbolically covered all the inconvenient facts of our lifestyle. The installation was carefully deconstructed last fall and its components were reutilized to build Green Air, creating a continuity and dialogue between the two pieces and the people who experience them.
For the second act, the space was modeled as the inverse of Gree...