Aer( )sculpture: the enigmatic beauty of aerogel’s non-entity in a pilot art & science project
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Abstract Aer( )sculpture is an innovative – worldwide pioneering – Art & Science project and its aim is the creation of weightless, ethereal works of art using silica aerogel as the sculptural medium. The pieces discussed in this paper demonstrate the way this exotic material becomes immediately interesting for the visual arts. I. It has a blue and orange natural color for the same reasons that sky has those colors. II. Paradoxically lightweight but strong, this matter matches with our immaterial communication era. III. This foam of glass has no definite geometrical form – it is like a 3-D X-ray. These three properties of silica aerogels will be discussed in this paper. Close collaborations with scientists will facilitate the creation of original weightless sculptures that hover in the air.
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OpenAlex topics: Aerogels and thermal insulation · Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
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