Meadow is a fibre optic wall sculpture from 2013 by Danish artist and textile designer Astrid Krogh. The fibre optics are connected to light monitors infusing coloured light directly into the fibres by means of a little colour wheel designed by the artist. As the title indicates, the source of inspiration is a pastoral field of flowers and with the protruding fibres slightly vibrating and the ever changing flow of colors in a slow and meditative pace, there is indeed a natural and poetic feeling to this work. Meadow is Krogh’s latest piece in a series of luminous sculptures questioning the impact of colored light on our perception. The soft and tactile quality that Krogh manages to give light by means of the fibre optics and the subtle colour transitions is offering the beholder a sensorial color experience unlike any other.

Renowned as a leading innovator in the intersecting fields of textile design, technology, and architectural intervention, Astrid Krogh anchors her art to new technologies by weaving optic strands into iridescent tapestries and creating optic fiber and LED sculptures that glow and illuminate in a rainbow of colors. Astrid Krogh started already by the end of the 1990s with monumental optical fiber weavings for various museum exhibitions and site-specific commissions such as the Maersk building, the Danish Parliament and the 21 C Museum in Cincinnati. In 2006, 2009 and 2011 she received the Danish Art Foundation Prize. She won the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal in 2008 and in 2013 she received the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize.

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • Meadow
    Closeup
    2013
    Optic fibres, aluminium
    150 x 150 x 30 cm
    Limited edition of 8
    (+ 2 AP + 2 Prototypes)

  • 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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