Wednesday, January 17, 2024
emmanuelle moureaux's colorful installation veils visitors amidst a myriad of butterflies
www.designboom.com: Emmanuelle Moureaux’s ‘100 colors butterflies’ takes center stage at Lancôme’s The Art of Absolue exhibition in Shanghai, themed Perpetual, Beyond Time. No.48 in Moureaux’s ongoing 100 colors series, which started in 2013, the installation aims to evoke emotions through vibrant hues.
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This is such a stunning installation. I usually am not drawn to such colorful art pieces, but this is so artfully done. It feels almost ethereal and a little bit fairytale-like, but in a sophisticated way. I love how the white butterflies lead to this almost unexpected surprise of a colorful rainbow of colors blending together. It is such an interesting idea to use a simple shape like a butterfly that everyone recognizes and transform it into something other-wordly by using color and repetition. It really does take you into a whole new world. After reading where her inspiration came from, I can totally see what led her to create this installation. I have had the incredible opportunity of visiting Tokyo and I too was quite shocked by all of the colors. Like this installation, it did feel like entering a brand new colorful world. Her 100 colors series, that this installation is a part of, reminds me of what I’m beginning to learn in my Sensing Colors design class. In the class, we are learning to become more aware of the colors around us, and I think that this installation does that.
I think I would actually sob violently if I saw this in real life. If I were to walk into this installation dressed in all white like the person in the pictures, and stand there alone in silence as I just observe these beautiful butterflies. I genuinely think I could get lost for hours. This installation is kind of conflicting for me, because the colors and butterflies and the way they are presented are so organic and loving and free. Then you look around the environment there and it is a sterile Room. Now this may be there in order to give the butterflies the proper contrast and pop they deserve. seeing as we have no other option to but to view it as how it is I think it is gorgeous. I am curious though what it would look like surrounded by something else or in a different color, or in a different environment. I also am super curious as to how this was installed and made. like genuinely what is this even made out of? also how do you get everything to be that perfect, I think that level of finish is incredibly impressive.
This is such a cool installation, and I can only imagine what it might be like walking through it, surrounded by the colors of all the butterflies! The immersiveness of it is so intriguing, and I wonder how the artist picked where she would place each section of colors, and how wide the walking space would be. All the details of an installation are so precise it’s fascinating to consider all the options, and what the artist chose to do with the space. I especially love how towards the bottom of the installation it is entirely vibrant yellows, I think it really emphasizes the warmth and joy that this piece evokes. I also love the color yellow in general, as I feel it is so happy and positive in many perspectives, and brightens up a space when used well. It’s so cool as well that the piece is based on Tokyo and Japan as a whole. The piece is abstract, but it clearly shows life and colorful vibrancy that I’m sure Moureaux saw and felt in Japan while living there. I would love to go there and see the beauty that Moureaux’s work evokes in person, walking along the streets of Tokyo. It would be so amazing to see.
This installation is genuinely gorgeous. The photos seem to have a scale and a vastness that is just mesmerizing. Reading about Moureaux’s inspirations of the overflowing and omnipresent colors of the streets of Tokyo and how she translated that heavy urban environment into these light displays of butterflies climbing up and up in an ombre of color was very interesting to me. Immersive installations are some of my favorite types of art and it’s always so cool to stumble upon another artist’s creative use of space. Overall, this installation really reminds me of some of the work TeamLab and other artistic collective making immersive installations have done, really filling and using the space that they have to create a type of installation that really draws in the eye, and mesmerizes it. I would love to see this installation one day and with the fact that it might travel, maybe I will - it’d be a very cool experience to see one day.
This is a truly incredible piece of art, and I know for a fact that standing in the room containing it would be both a very intense and calming experience. I find it fascinating that Emmanuelle Moureaux based this piece on her first visit to Tokyo. While I have never been to Tokyo, I know that it is a very large city, and looking at pictures of the city, I don't think I would have the same feelings as she did. ‘100 colors butterflies’ seems to suggest a sense of calmness, which I tend not to find in large cities. I often find large amounts of conflicting colors chaotic and very uncomfortable, but I think it is very impressive that Moureaux was able to see the city like this. One thing I think she captured very well was the scale. Just from looking at pictures, a human looks miniature compared to the walls of the butterflies, which is often how I feel around towering buildings.
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