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Skychrome
von • by Maxim Kashin, Moskau
www.maximkashin.com
The Skychrome room installation was created for this year’s
Arch Moscow international exhibition of architecture and de-
sign held in Moscow. The basic idea was to confront the visitors
with an abstract room without any objects and intended to be
free of functional and semantic implications. For this purpose,
the architect Maxim Kashin drew on ideas and concepts from
the art of the Russian supremacist movement at the beginning
th
of the 20 century. The installation thus played on the superi-
ority of colour over form! To achieve this, Kashin designed in a
monochrome way and only used a soft colour gradient with
dark purple slowly dissolving into bright white towards the top.
The geometrical forms used mainly consisted of acute-angled
volumes that looked like broken and interlocked ice floes. The
visitors were invited to interact with the installation. They were
able to walk around it or sit down on the geometric volumes.
A mirrored floor, for its part, intensified the immersive effect of
the spatial design and, at the same time, overrode the relative
smallness of the installation with a base area that measured a
mere 16 square metres.
