Cloud Illusions is a triptych wall sculpture by the Danish artist and textile designer Astrid Krogh. By means of impregnations and perforations of the thin mirror foil, Astrid Krogh has created a landscape of an ever-changing character reminiscent to the clouds in the sky. The interaction of the work with the surrounding light is both strong and subtle, and the reflections of the softly moving light-shadows are constantly expanding towards the entire room. The soft quality of the material gives the viewer a feeling of a drapery which slightly vibrates in the wind while passing by. The fluidity of the material combined with Krogh’s calligraphic traces and the vertical format might equally recall the spirit of the Chinese wash drawings from the Song Dynasty, in which the idea of capturing the breath of life and nature by means of only one color was essential. Only in Krogh’s work color and life are no longer added, they are reflected.

While working on Cloud Illusions, Astrid Krogh was listening to the soulful piece of music « Spiegel im Spiegel » (« Mirror in Mirror ») by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt over and over again (the button was on « repeat ») in order to control and work with the big reflecting surface of the mirror foil. Just as « Spiegel im Spiegel » this monumental triptych is poetically referring to the infinity of images produced by parallel plane mirrors: the tonic triads are endlessly repeated with small variations as if reflected back and forth.

 

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Cloud Illusions / Triptych
    2014
    Triptych
    Perforated and impregnated mirror folio
    390 x 340 (h) cm
    Unique piece

  • Astrid Krogh is working at the intersection between art, architecture and design. Born in Denmark in 1968, Krogh graduated from the textile faculty at The Danish Design School in 1997 and established her own studio the following year, where she started using optical fibers to create woven textiles, thereby weaving with light itself. Krogh’s point of departure from conventional textile design was not merely her fascination with light but also her at traction to shape-morphing objects and shifting colorways, “I use light as both a material and a technology”, Krogh explains. Few artists speak a refined language as fluently as Astrid Krogh, who uses light to describe aspects of Nature that words simply cannot. Her vocabulary is nuanced by sensory experiences, which are articulated through a lexicon of color and light. Astrid Krogh’s works are included in important museum collections, such as the Designmuseum Danmark and the 21C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation, USA. She has carried out monumental light installations and site-specific commissions for private and public collections, such as the 21C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation, Cincinnati, USA; Longchamp Flagship store, Paris, France; Danish University Center, Beijing, China; Maersk building, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Danish Parliament, Copenhagen, Denmark. Krogh’s works are published in important books about contemporary textiles, architecture and design and the artist has won several prizes, including the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal, the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize, the Annual Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Denmark, the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize and the CODA Award. 

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