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Release Date: March 2015
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: Full color
Hardcover
256 Pages
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-561-5
Catalog Price: €39.90 / $55.00 / £35.00
 
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LIQUID SPACES

-Scenography, Installations and Spatial Experiences

Sofia Borges, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten

Scenography, Installations and Spatial Experiences
Surprising spatial experiences for all senses: This book features art, interior design, architecture, and striking scenography that leave lasting impressions.
 
The foundation of a meaningful relationship between artist and audience, museum and visitor, or brand and customer is based on an unforgettable experience. Yet these groups of people are more discerning than ever before: They want a personalized moment, to be informed and entertained, and above all, to be inspired. 
 
Liquid Spaces features a wide spectrum of unconventional environments ranging from experimental installations to complex productions. Each one of these spaces plays with the boundaries of human perception, triggering sensual encounters that activate the senses in surprising ways.
 
Artists, scenographers, and architects, as well as interior and exhibition designers, create these extraordinary situations. Liquid Spaces presents the most innovative concepts, most radical designers, and most demanding clients.
 
It is not a paradox that today—in the era of digitalization and e-commerce—the creation of tangible spaces is gaining in importance. A personal encounter triggers profound thoughts, strong feelings, and memories that last. In other words, the foundation of a meaningful relationship between artist and audience, museum and visitor, shop and customer, or brands and their communities is based upon an unforgettable experience. Yet all these groups are more discerning than ever before: They want a personalized moment, want to be informed and entertained, pampered, surprised, and inspired.
 
Liquid Spaces shows the many different ways in which this desired effect can be achieved. Galleries, museums, temporary events, pop-up shops, and flagship stores provide the settings for a wide spectrum of unconventional architecture and interior design, where playfully experimental installations or complex productions can be presented. Surprising materials, ­colors, shapes, and surfaces provide the props, which alongside innovative smells, sounds, and lighting concepts come together in expansive, stage-like gestures with sculptural details. High-end cars are presented like works of art. Art is displayed in laboratories. Workshops become sacred sites of authenticity. The line between art and commerce is fluid; the quality of the experience is all that matters.
 
Artists, scenographers, and architects, as well as interior and exhibition designers create these extraordinary situations. Liquid Spaces presents the most innovative concepts, most radical designers, and most demanding clients. Those who manage to create incomparable event spaces with local and international appeal, and those responsible for adding the next destinations of must-see locations to the map.

Posted 25 April 2015

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Wow! What a book! This well made book is awfully interesting for designers, artists, scenographers, and architects, as well as interior and exhibition designers and students as they aught to understand the important image aspects as space, light, structure, material and movement to create these extraordinary situations.

Liquid Spaces presents the most innovative concepts, most radical designers, and most demanding clients. In the book the role of happenings is described, the role of the active observer, the interacting visitor as participant, the changing environment, the ever-changing installation, moving materials, light and sound and artificial landscapes are passing the revue. With textiles, plastics, mirroring materials, screens, structures, lamps and lights ephemeral spaces, forms and props, floors and walls are showing how visitors interact.

In the chapter Theatrical Spaces describes how mazes, peep shows, runways, haunted houses and theater sets used  illusions where drama, mystique, surprise and wonder with the atmospherically qualities at play. Immersive Spaces explains the interactive-space installation with interactive cocoons, nests and other enticing universes that invite the visitors to play, to move and to use the spatial sculptures. With great page-full photos the reader learns all about spatial experiences and the artists/designers and the stories of the works.
Angela van der Burght

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