Painting Air

While going through my email this morning, I saw an email about an exhibition opening at RISD by the artist Spencer Finch. The image above immediately caught my attention (without it, I probably would have deleted the email without reading it all). But I had to find out more about this piece! The press release explains Finch's installation in detail:

"The work of Impressionist painter Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) serves as the aesthetic touchstone for both parts of the exhibition, and even informed its title. Painting Air comes from a statement Monet made in 1895: “I want to paint the air… and that is nothing short of impossible.” Finch’s new installation, Painting Air (2012), created for the exhibition, seeks to capture the movement and reflection the artist observed in a recent visit to Monet’s water garden in Giverny. For both Finch (RISD MFA ’89) and Monet, the pond at Giverny served as a laboratory in which they merge the experience of nature with the art-making process. Finch evokes his experience by suspending more than 100 transparent and highly reflective glass panels, surrounded by an expansive, 150-linear-foot mural comprised of 34 colors. Light and color shift across the surfaces of the gently swaying panels, reflecting the painting and the movements of visitors, and transforming viewers’ perspectives from one moment to the next."
Inspired by Monet and the pond at Giverny?! Capturing the shifts in light and color on huge hanging panels?! So cool. I'm in love.