Art Installation
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Scent of Museums
The scent of a museum is generally considered quiet, idealized and hermetic. Institutions try hard to create sterile moments for the visual and non-touchable to speak aesthetically without the intrusion of other senses (no touching! no smells! no voices please!). Regardless of old or new art, museums often smell like their audiences (often stale le…
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Leonardo & Perfume Rennaissance Recipes
(Image 16th-century censers, Blois Cathedral © Léonard de Serres) In a museum which was once the living and dying chambers of Leonardo De Vinci, Château du Clos Lucé in central France, there is an exhibition exploring scent during the time of this Rennaissance man and parenthetically his mother “Catarina’s” life. The exhibition press materials share that his…
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South Asian words for stimulating the nose, brain and palate.
Image: Left: A Prince Having Audience, 17th century Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Height x width: 28.5 × 20.8 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/16 in.); India, Credit Line: Denman Waldo Ross Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Accession Number: 22.685 Right: Narcissus tazetta, grown and photographed by Nicolas Roth in his garden in…
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Image of Horizons Olfactif exhibition courtesy François Talairach I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sandra Barré curator of olfactory art and writer who just completed an ambitious olfactory art exhibition in France Horizons Olfactif (below!). There were over 40 olfactory art projects and artists featured in the exhibition that just closed March 18, 2023. Knowing fully…
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Words for Scent & Architecture
Photo: Courtesy of An Ode to Smell Project OLFACTORY MAPPING Definition: 1. (Science) Olfactory mapping is the chemical and physical process of how we interpret a large number of odor stimuli. 2. (Sociology/Art) Olfactory mapping is the process of matching coordinates of physical space(s) to a specific odor. In order to honor the natural smells…
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