This monograph presents Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde’s ethereal and awe-inspiring 'Nimbus' series for the first time. Smilde combines the heritage of traditional Dutch interior paintings with contemporary media and conceptual techniques. In his 'Nimbus' series, Smilde creates a “real” cloud in interior spaces, depicting a moment of fragility in evocative locations. Smilde creates his clouds by carefully regulating the temperature and humidity of a room and then, using a smoke machine, lighting, and moisture, captures the brief moment when a fleeting “cloud” is created. He carefully selects the locations for their visual as well as historical relevance. Smilde’s choice of location often contains visual evidence of the building’s purpose, further emphasizing the temporality of both the cloud and its surroundings. 'Builded Remnants' explores never before seen “backstage” images of Smilde making the 'Nimbus' artworks and also documents his wider practice and further artistic investigations into nature, science, and the uncanny.

Berndnaut Smilde was born in Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1978. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally in institutions worldwide, including the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Saatchi Gallery, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the 21st Century Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, among many others. In 2012, Time magazine selected the artist’s indoor clouds as one of its Best Inventions of the Year. Smilde lives and works in Amsterdam.

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