Lithuanian artist and photographer Tadao Cern created a striking installation, which is composed of more than 400 balloons, strictly and geometrically arranged in many lines. Titled 'Black Balloons', this particular composition is coming from Tadao Cern's curiosity and experience on 'connecting two balloons' and making new composition one by one, which gave the artist a creative process like a 'childhood game' and then turned into an experiential process creating new kind of art. 

Tadao Cern uses different gases sulfur hexafluoride and helium, because helium is lighter than sulfur hexafluoride to hold the balloons in the air. Each balloon is connected to each other with metal string in space where the balloons float geometrically and serially. The artist only uses metal, rubber, sulfur hexafluoride and helium to create this hypnotic composition.

''I'm building these sculptures one by one, keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that soon enough everyone will have a chance to see them alive'' says Tadao Cern. Knowing that these particular installations last for a considerably short period of time, they are really alive.

''Furthermore, they interact with the spectator in so many ways - one can only imagine how a sculpture made out of 400 balloons would react to a wind that one creates just by walking by'' he adds. Tadao Cern is not only using a room to suspend or to blow away balloons in the air. He also uses a glass tank to install Black Balloons without connecting them to anything. "Simplicity is genius" adds Cern. 

Tadao Cern's Black Balloons composition is completely a new one, out of the fashion which tries to catch new palettes and sculptures with minimum effort. The difference is that, all the balloon compositions were referring to freedom, flexibility, playfulness and colour, but Cern's rigid and strictly arranged installation rediscover the properties of material and space on how it can be shaped and presented in different ways. 

Tadao Cern is a Lithuanian artist, who, in 2010, decided to stop being an architect and try something new - photography. This led to his series of wind- swept portraits, ‘Blow Job’, a new interpretation of Van Gogh's self-portrait and a documentary photo project of beach sunbathers called ‘Comfort Zone’ - all of which have gone viral all over the world and won numerous international art and photography competitions. 

He has exhibited throughout United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Romania and Lithuania. At a present time artist is focusing on contemporary art installations and contemporary painting.

Art obsessions can follow Tadao Cern's works on his Facebook and Instagram page, which present a diverse palette of his new installations. 

All images © Tadao Cern, 2016

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