As we wait…
I used to make sculptures from sugar. That’s when I started to incorporate scents made by wonderful perfumers like Jean-Pierre Bethouart and Thierry Wasser in my art.
In 1999, I used 5 tons of sugar and 50 kilograms of fragrance oil for an installation in Japan. Everyday during the exhibition, 2 kilos of scent created by Thierry Wasser was sprayed on the floor. The visitors to the exhibition left with the scent on their clothes and shoes. As a result, an old downtown neighborhood in Tokyo was scented for a several block radius during the exhibition, and the scent remained for more than a year in the former rice market which housed the installation. Surprisingly, there wasn’t even a complaint, and I was still receiving messages from people who wanted the scent a year after the exhibition.
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March
This was fascinating. I have questions. Did I miss it, or in there somewhere did you mention what the fragrance was like? Did you use the fragrance oil in the sculpture itself? And what happened to the sculpture after the exhibition?
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March
Nobi — that’s so … beautiful. I was trying to imagine a fitting end. Having them gradually disappear from a barn in the country seems sort of perfect.
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kuri
Heh, I was going to ask if there were any complaints. My mind boggles at 50 kg of fragrance oil. You could swim in that! Or sink, I suppose. My browsers don’t like Quicktime, but the exhibit sounds wonderful. Must have been fun obtaining the sugar!