Windswept installation by Charles Sowers. Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers' kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco (+ movie).
The installation, titled Windswept, consists of 612 rotating aluminium weather vanes mounted on an outside wall. As gusts of wind hit the wall, the aluminium blades spin not as one but independently, indicating the localised flow of the wind and the way it interacts with the building. "Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon," said Sowers. Document sans nom. Etienne Gros. French artist and sculptor Etienne Gros makes these cute little female nudes from sponges.
They made me smile. Urs Fischer. Antony Gormley.