Emmanuelle Moureaux’s Color Wheel Crazy ‘Forest of Numbers’ InstallThe National Ar
Emmanuelle Moureaux’s Color Wheel Crazy ‘Forest of Numbers’ InstallThe National Art Center, in Tokyo commemorated its 10th Anniversary in January by commissioning a large installation from architect, Emmanuelle Moureaux, “Forest of Numbers” – a visualized symbolization of their future from 2017 to 2026. Their 2000 square meter exhibition room was presented with partition walls for the first time, filled with “100 colors – more than 60,000 pieces of suspended numeral figures – ceiling to floor inspirations and emotions, for vistors to wander through. This installation was created with the help of 300 volunteers, and drew over 20,000 visitors in 10 days.Emmanuelle Moureaux does layers and color like no other. She’s not simply playing around with the color wheel, but assigning meaning and hopeful desires to her three-dimensional layered numerology. This practice she attributes to the first time she visited Tokyo, where she now works and lives.“I was immediately impressed by the colorful store signs and vending machines…these elements gave depth to the space and appeared beautifully like a painting. The emotion I felt was the inspiration to my design concept of shikiri, which means dividing space with color.” *images © daisuke shimaThe More You Know:Watch a video of the installation, Forest of Numbers going up here on Emmanuelle’s Vimeo.via [design boom] [Emmanuelle Moureaux website] -- source link
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