Scent has rarely been given much space in the contexts we usually associate with art, even though scent is at least as important as what we see with our eyes. But now the exhibition “Scents & Senses” opens at Galleri Sebastian Schildt on Strandvägen. The exhibition is based on an exciting encounter between master perfumer Pierre Wulff, star photographer Gilles Bensimon and silversmith Sebastian Schildt.
Art is about enriching and exploring our senses. In the “Scents & Senses” exhibition, Pierre Wulff has created new fragrances inspired by Gilles Bensimon’s poetic photographs from the “Flowers in Water” series. The fragrances are housed in Sebastian Schildt’s flacons in blown and multicolored glass.
Photographer Gilles Bensimon, whose background in the celebrity fashion industry includes countless covers for top magazines, is fascinated by the natural beauty of flowers, which he captures with his camera in and through water.
As a perfumer, Pierre Wulff works like an artist or a director from an idea. The starting point is his developed ability to translate abstract concepts and moods into new fragrance creations. Photography and scent have many similarities, says Pierre Wulff, who explains that the idea of a photograph is comparable to that of a specific scent. Behind a photograph of artistic height and an appealing scent, there is thought and intuitive feeling. In addition to the eight unique fragrances, Pierre Wulff has also developed a fragrance that is available in a larger edition.
Since the gallery was founded, Sebastian Schildt has had a vision of exhibiting fragrance and after a long-awaited meeting with Pierre Wulff in New York, the dream would become a reality. Schildt has worked in glass for the first time, designing perfume flacons in which the fragrances are stored.
The three artists Pierre Wulff, Gilles Bensimon and Sebastian Schildt come together in a sensual cross-fertilization and the result is the innovative exhibition “Scents & Senses” where the experience of smell is at the center.
The ‘Scents & Senses’ exhibition opens on September 24 and runs until October 15.
