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Spanish Dancer
Kanazawa, Japan
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Spanish Dancer
Kanazawa, Japan
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YEAR
2004
Spanish Dancer was designed in 2004 by Kivi & Tuuli Sotamaa.
The Spanish Dancer is a seducer, an exotic creature. Its turbulent dance
and deep sounds lure people into the folds of its blood red skin. It
draws them into its embrace, wrapping around their bodies, pulling them
towards the interior where a sensation awaits. A white pearl reef. Clear
crystalline voices and dunes of glowing white particles where the
bodies of people can immerse themselves in.
Spanish Dancer is made of curved aluminum tubes, pleated polycarbonate
fabric, small white balls filled with micro beads and LED lights. The
pleated fabric is translucent and has a rice-paper like texture. Its
forms are generated through the natural material behavior, the same way
the folds and curves of a Pleats Please Miyake dress would find their
form. The construction team was not given elaborate drawings but a
simple notations, the lengths of the tubes, the templates of the fabrics
and control points in space. The complex form is a result of a simple
choreography of materials in space. The seductive mood at the exterior
of the pavilion is heightened with red light and deep ?organic? base
sounds generated by synthetic pulse. The synthetic pulse causes the
sound to live, as it was the result of something organic, as opposed to a
product of a machine. In the central area of the installation lies a
white pool where sounds are suddenly clear, fresh and angelic and
lighting bright white daylight. The ?pearl reef? is created by covering
the floor with 40 cm layer of small soft white balls filled with micro
beads and LED lights. People can immerse themselves in this modern day
Zen garden in order to rest, play or meditate.
The Spanish Dancer is commissioned from Kivi Sotamaa and Tuuli Sotamaa
by the new 21st century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa for its
inaugural exhibition. The chief curator is Yuko Hasegawa.
The Spanish Dancer is a seducer, an exotic creature. Its turbulent dance
and deep sounds lure people into the folds of its blood red skin. It
draws them into its embrace, wrapping around their bodies, pulling them
towards the interior where a sensation awaits. A white pearl reef. Clear
crystalline voices and dunes of glowing white particles where the
bodies of people can immerse themselves in.
Spanish Dancer is made of curved aluminum tubes, pleated polycarbonate
fabric, small white balls filled with micro beads and LED lights. The
pleated fabric is translucent and has a rice-paper like texture. Its
forms are generated through the natural material behavior, the same way
the folds and curves of a Pleats Please Miyake dress would find their
form. The construction team was not given elaborate drawings but a
simple notations, the lengths of the tubes, the templates of the fabrics
and control points in space. The complex form is a result of a simple
choreography of materials in space. The seductive mood at the exterior
of the pavilion is heightened with red light and deep ?organic? base
sounds generated by synthetic pulse. The synthetic pulse causes the
sound to live, as it was the result of something organic, as opposed to a
product of a machine. In the central area of the installation lies a
white pool where sounds are suddenly clear, fresh and angelic and
lighting bright white daylight. The ?pearl reef? is created by covering
the floor with 40 cm layer of small soft white balls filled with micro
beads and LED lights. People can immerse themselves in this modern day
Zen garden in order to rest, play or meditate.
The Spanish Dancer is commissioned from Kivi Sotamaa and Tuuli Sotamaa
by the new 21st century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa for its
inaugural exhibition. The chief curator is Yuko Hasegawa.
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