Emmanuelle Moureaux Honors the Bulgari Serpenti With “100 Colors”

Tokyo-based French architect, artist, and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux is known for her 100 Colors installations that return visitors connected a sensorial ocular journey. After her first task successful 2013, Moureaux went connected to creation 49 much iterations for nan bid (including The National Art Center successful Tokyo), pinch her latest installation created for Italian luxury marque Bulgari. Celebrating nan 75th day of its iconic symbol, nan Serpenti, Bulgari collaborated pinch modern artists from astir nan world to commemorate nan occasion. Moureaux is 1 of nan artists selected for nan Tokyo collaborations.

For her 50th installation of 100 Colors, Moureaux created an immersive abstraction that explores nan conception of infinite colors, a motion to nan Serpenti and a awesome of eternity. Visitors locomotion done a agelong and constrictive way wherever 100 cascading hues seemingly proceed connected forever.

The installation is made of 347,100 Roman numerals printed connected 100 ample transparent acrylic panels that are spaced astir 16 centimeters isolated from 1 another. The first furniture starts pinch nan Roman numeral I and increases pinch nan further symbols of V, X, L, and C, arsenic visitors make their measurement done nan space. As nan colors visually gradate, truthful do nan numbers. With each step, nan look of nan creation changes to evoke nan awestruck wonderment of an infinite journey, 1 that reflects Bulgari’s early successful nan years to come.

Photography by Daisuke Shima.