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Cabinet de Curiosité
Shiro Kuramata Japanese
Not on view
Kuramata stated that his ideal was to see objects floating in air. Named for the Wunderkammern owned by Renaissance princes that displayed natural and man-made curiosities, Cabinet de Curiosité offers the magical impression of suspending its contents in midair. Kuramata explored the phenomenological effects of acrylic—light and lightness, invisibility and reflectivity, weight and weightlessness—and the material has become the poetic signature of his work. He used the term neiro, or "sound-color," to describe the synesthetic effect acrylic has in both its physical presence and the spectral color-shadows it casts as light passes through it.
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