Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Castello di Rivoli, Turin – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
A film by SHIMURAbros.
SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking sibling duo Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Their work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the National Arts Center, Tokyo; the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Museums Quartier, Vienna.
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For the exhibition, Eliasson constructed six immersive wedge-shaped chambers inside the long gallery wing of Castello di Rivoli. Entering into these optical device–like artworks, the viewer encountered 360-degree panoramic spaces that seemed far larger than physically possible – an optical illusion created through abutting mirrors. The mirrors also reflected ripples of light projected off the surfaces of water onto screens, creating complex patterns that unfolded around the viewers in fluid motion.
Eliasson says of the artworks: ‘Standing inside these kaleidoramas, you may feel as if you were watching time unfold. It is an opportunity to reconsider your sense of scale and time, like when you study images from a deep-space telescope, which come from the very limits of our imagination.’
SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking sibling duo of Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Their work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the National Arts Center, Tokyo; the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Museums Quartier, Vienna.
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Six optical-device-like artworks populated the long gallery of Castello Rivoli known as the Manica Lunga. Eliasson calls these works, which were inspired by scientific instruments and cabinets of curiosity, kaleidoramas, a portmanteau of the words kaleidoscope and panorama. The interiors of the wedge-shaped structures seemed larger than physically possible – the result of an optical illusion created through abutting mirrors. Visitors entered from below the constructions or faced straight on to watch as projections of illuminated lines, forms, and patterns unfolded in fluid motion upon panoramic screens. The light shows were generated in real time using spotlights reflected off an adjacent basin of water or shone through a system of lenses. The visual compositions swelled and subsided according to the behaviour of the water or the properties of the optical instruments – some in gentle waves, others in violent trembling.
| Exhibition details | |
Duration |
November 3, 2022 - July 2, 2023 |
Location |
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy |