We are know in 2013 so I wish you a Happy New Year! I hope this year will be for you the year of success, the year of health, the year of peace and love and above all the year of sustainability and that you will complete successfullyall your projects.
For this new year, I'd like to share with you some selected pictures of the exhibitions of my sustainable solar art.
Enjoy Dancing Solar Flowers!
Vertical Garden of Dancing Sunflowers at Cultural Center Le Volume Vern-sur-Seiche
Field of Dancing Sunflowers at Cultural Center Hospice d'Havré - Maison Folie Tourcoing
Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Irises at Tour & Taxis
Brussels
The Sol'Art Flowers Dancing for Joy for Europe: United in Diversity! at the Council of the European Union
Brussels
Vertical Garden of Solar Flowers Dancing for Europe at European Parliament
Brussels
Field of Dancing Solar Flowers at Royal Palace
Brussels
Field of Dancing Solar Flowers at Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
Brussels
For more information, please visit my website http://alexandredang.com or go to the youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/alexandredangmuseum
From 9th till 11th of November 2012, the Sustainable Development Festival was organized at the Wolubilis Cultural Center in Brussels. You may have seen this poster to announce this event:
Poster for the Sustainable Development Festival
On this occasion, an installation of Dancing Solar Flowers has been set up: indeed, in a certain sense, the Dancing Solar Flowers embody an eco-friendly dimension. They function thanks to the light (artificial or natural) and hence raise awareness on the potential of environmental friendly technologies: people's first reaction is to wonder how it works. Here is the installation of solar art, the Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers:
Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers by Alexandre Dang
The Dancing Solar Flowers were moving, even if with the dull weather of the week-end! It was hard work to try and make some nice pictures of the artwork due to the lightning conditions. On the other hand, it allowed good awareness on the potential of solar electricity. Indeed, a lot of people asked how the flowers could move even in the absence of direct sunlight. The answer is very simple to understand: in Belgium, on a dull day, the sun is still in the sky and its light goes through the clouds. That's why the Dancing Solar Flowers dance everyday and why solar electricity is an alternative to traditional electricity. With this picture, you're going to see the sun in the clouds and sustainable development art:
Dancing Solar Flowers and the Sun through the clouds
In parallel with this exhibition of solar art, creative workshop for children were organized. The children have a sample of "Fill in your own pattern" edition in order to create their own Dancing Solar Flower! So, they cut the outline that they have chosen (flower, sun, cat, butterfly, heart), they color it with the pattern they want to realize. Then the pattern can be fixed on the solar engine. It is important to raise awareness of the children, because they are the future of the world and they will have to take the good decisions to tackle global warming.
Creative Workshop: make your own Dancing Solar Flower from the edition "Fill in your own pattern"
The rest of the festival was very interesting too with conferences on sustainable development and global warming, documentaries about renewable energy, electric cars which were used in some adventures to highlight the potential of solar energy.
Finally, I would like to thank the team of the Wolubilis Cultural Center for their help during this week-end. This place is definitely worth visiting. The windows are very original and very nice: see it in the background of the following picture behind the Dancing Solar Flowers:
Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers at Wolubilis Cultural Center
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In this post, I let you discover the exhibition Art Garden where I exhibited one of my installations of my sustainable solar art. Indeed, I set up a Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers on the front of the building of the museum.
Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers by Alexandre Dang
To see my kinetic solar art better, I've got videos of the exhibition! So, let's begin with the first video (don't forget to watch it in HD). This video is very simple and allows you to perfectly see the motion of each Dancing Solar Flower. Hope you'll enjoy!
To continue with this exhibition, let's watch people's reaction. How do they interact with my Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers? The answer is in the next video.
Following those two broad videos about the exhibition and the public, go into details of the interaction between the public and my Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers and you're going to see some specific attitudes
I already told you that each Dancing Solar Flower had a photovoltaïc cell, therefore, the more there was light, the faster it swang/danced. So, let's see what happens when someone hides the solar panel of one of them, even with a tablet computer!
The second attitude is very special in front of an artwork. Indeed, people take pictures in front of the Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers, even though it is generally prohibited in museums! But, of course, don't worry, Dancing Solar Flowers don't fear the light. It's quite the opposite! You can even put the flash on! Let's watch this video.
Last but not least: the attitude in front of the Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers is a game of imitation. And what if you were a Dancing Solar Flower, shaking your head from the left to the right? It seems to be the dream of many people, as you're going to see it in the next video.
The concept of the last video is very simple. It's the best of this exhibition Art Garden with my Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers at the Singapore Art Museum. You'll find the best moments of the previous videos and some special bonuses.
I hope you enjoyed all those videos, you can find them and others videos on my youtube account. See you soon for others Dancing Solar Flowers!
Dancing Solar Flower, Dancing Solar Flower, Dancing Solar Flower... hundreds of Dancing Solar Flowers have pacifically invaded the Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels from May 25th until June 25th 2012.
In the frame of the Exhibition "Hymne à la Vie", organized at the Sablon, every Dancing Solar Flower has been the symbol of every children prematurely died, but also a message of hope for a better future for everyone.
The exhibition aimed at raising awareness on children in distress then promoting the 103, the new French community free help number.
Quite all the shops of the square have welcomed in their windows an installation of solar art with the Dancing Solar Flowers.
Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers at the Sablon
All united for the wellbeing of our children...because children are the future!
Spring is
also time for day trips and pic-nics… we didn’t have a pic-nic but we drove
from Brussels to Spa to install an exhibition at the Galerie Azur.
The exhibition was welcomed enthusiastically by citizens whom, already during the setting-up, where asking for more information about solar art and stopped watching the team at work.
Vertical Garden of Dancing Solar Flowers at SPA
The exhibition was seen by thousands of people during the Francofolies,
one of the most important French Music Festival in Europe!
The EU Sustainable Energy Week 2012 was an interesting time for us with
the organization of both a significant exhibition and a conference about Solar Art.
A Field of Solar Turning
Sunflowers was exhibited at the heart of the European Commission, the
Berlaymont Piazza: this was realized in collaboration with the NGOs Solar
Solidarity International and Europe Third World.
An intervention by the EU Commissioner Piebalgs closed the exhibition: this
was the occasion to highlight key messages about the EU energy policy and about
World Summit “Rio+20”.
Field of Turning Solar Sunflowers
The
conference on Solar Art, organized by Solar Solidarity in collaboration with
Solar Artworks Project, addressed the issue of the integration of sustainable
and clean energy creations inside cities of the future.
The
panel was composed by Nacho Zamora (Solar Artworks),
Eleonora Nicoletti (Loop Ph), Drzach &Suchy and I. A quite large audience followed the conference
with interest, asking questions and participating to the debate.
Do
not forget, EU Sustainable Energy Week is a yearly event J…I look
forward to see you there in 2013!
It is long
time since the last post. What an incredibly busy periods are Spring and
Summer!
Let’s make
a short summary of the last period…are you ready? We will start from the end: the
exhibition at Couleur Café.
Couleur
Café is one of the biggest festivals in Belgium and gathered more than 70.000
people this year. The expo “Cool Art Café” was dedicated to the relationship between Mankind and Nature and to sustainable development: “Nature,
je t’aime, moi non plus” was its title.
Field of Dancing Solar Flowers at Couleur Café Festival
Solar Art contributes to the change towards sustainable development which seems to be necessary to reestablish certain equilibrium between the human exploitation and the ecosystem: a “Field of Dancing Solar Flowers" was rocking full of joy and energy in this colorful atmosphere hence bringing optimism and hope for the future.
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