Black Balloons by Lithuanian artist and architect Tadao Cern is a floating black balloon installations. The opposition created by very simple and playful objects brought a unique childlike sense of discovery.
“For an extensive amount of time I had an idea to connect two balloons. I found a free minute between the other currently run projects, bought two balloons, and got overwhelmed by the result. It was so unpretentious and so magical at the same time!
This experience uncovers a lot and the more one looks at it, the more it becomes true: “simplicity is genius“. For the first test I only used two balloons and two different gasses: helium and sulfur hexafluoride – the light and the heavy ones. Later on I worked out how to make the balloons float in the middle of a glass tank without connecting them to anything.”
Now Tadao Cern is building these sculptures one by one. Knowing that these particular installations last for a considerably short period of time, they are really alive. Furthermore, they interact with the spectator in so many ways – one can only imagine how a sculpture made out of 400 balloons would react to a wind that one creates just by walking by.
Images courtesy of Tadao Cern
Discover: www.tadaocern.com
