Italian artist Filippo Minelli began his celebrated series "Silence/Shapes" in 2009, using vividly colored smoke bombs deployed in untouched nature to create ethereal, dramatic images. Minelli was inspired to use smoke bombs artistically due to his history with political activism, though the camera allows his transient smoke creations to endure. The series takes the smoke bomb typically associated with protest and transforms it into something beautiful and expressive.

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Silence / Shapes
Silence/Shapes is the celebrated series by Italian artist
Filippo Minelli.
His vividly coloured columns of smoke are landed like
aliens in wildest and undisturbed nature, creating
ethereal and dramatic imagery. The smoke bomb, for
so long associated within our minds with protest and
chaos becomes beautiful, expressive, eloquent.

19. Minelli began his series Silence/Shapes in 2009. The
use of the smoke bomb as an artistic device arose
from his own political activism. Social and political
issues have always stood at the heart of Minelli’s
ouvre, and he is inspired by ideas of demonstration
and protest. A natural step from his graffiti and street
art, the camera allowed Minelli to make the smoke
bomb, a wholly transient form of protest, endure.