{"id":10986,"date":"2025-12-04T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/a-pool-of-perfection-in-paris-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:51:35","slug":"a-pool-of-perfection-in-paris-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/a-pool-of-perfection-in-paris-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pool of Perfection in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Profound. That was my experience with the French visual artist C\u00e9leste Boursier-Mougenot<\/a>‘s clinamen<\/em> (V.10), a monumental installation of color, sound, and motion. Since last May, the work has drawn visitors to the rotunda at the Bourse de Commerce\u2014Pinault Collection art space<\/a> located in Paris\u2019 18th-century stock exchange.<\/p>\n

Clinamen<\/a><\/em> is a 60-foot-diameter, shallow pool containing 365 floating, white porcelain bowls of various sizes and shapes. This armada of vessels is in brilliant contrast with the pool\u2019s blue liner, where they follow a hemispherical current created by a submerged jet of water. When the bowls gently collide, they produce a subtle bell sound, reminiscent of a wind chime. The unpredictability of the movement and the random choreography of contact between bowls of different dimensions create an echoing polyphonic experience under the massive skylit dome. The artist employed hydrophysics to ensure the optimum sonic effect by precisely controlling the water temperature to maximize the ring from each bowl.<\/p>\n

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