Gas sculpture

Fog sculpture in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Artist is Fujiko Nakaya (born 1938 Japan, daughter of Ukichiro Nakaya). The sculpture was made in 1976 and purchased in 1977.

Gas sculpture is a proposal made by Joan Miró in his late writings to make sculptures out of gaseous materials.

There is an example of pure water fog sculpture in the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. A large bank of very small nozzles is arrayed on the edge of a small rush-filled pond, and when the power is switched on a fine mist of fog billows out. The "sculpture" has a continuously changing shape as it is affected by the water, the rushes, and the air currents in the area.

Some kinetic sculptures contain gaseous elements, such as the fog nozzles of Jean-Paul Riopelle's La Joute, which also includes fire jets, a fountain, and bronze sculptural elements.

The idea of a gas sculpture also appeared in the book Gog, by Giovanni Papini (1881–1956).

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is planning a new park with a fog sculpture created by Ned Kahn. Set for completion in 2012, the sculpture will be a 30-by-30-foot grid of stainless steel poles outfitted with fog nozzles. Kahn said of the sculpture, "When the fog is on, it will appear like a 20-foot-diameter sphere of fog spinning inside the poles. The mist will be cooled during the summer and warmed in winter."