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Reggio Calabria, inaugurated on the “Opera” seafront: the new permanent art installation created by Edoardo Tresoldi
This afternoon “Opera” was inaugurated, the new permanent installation created by Edoardo Tresoldi on the seafront of Reggio Calabria. It is a kind of stylized Greek temple with 46 columns that reach 8 meters in height, made with wire mesh and located in a magical corner of vegetation overlooking the Strait of Messina, right at the rotunda of the viewpoint known to the world for a long time. decades. mainly thanks to the historic and glorious StrettoWeb webcam, from where you can see very well the entire work of art seen from above (possibly zooming at will and approaching virtually). The monument can be crossed on foot and is fully accessible to citizens and visitors. The installation is part of one of the largest European public spaces and is proposed as a new landmark of the territory.
Reggio Calabria, the images of the Opera by Edoardo Tresoldi during the inauguration on the Lungomare [VIDEO]
That of Tresoldi It is a visual and open archaeological park of 2,500 square meters, which refers to the ancient history of the city: Tresoldi It is not new in this type of installation, in fact with the same technique it has already created the Paleochristian Basilica in the Archaeological Park of Siponto in Puglia, the “Air domes” of the Coachella festival in California, the giant of Sapri and finally, in Gharfa, a work in the desert of Riyadh.
Reggio Calabria, the artist Edoardo Tresoldi: “very happy with the result of the work” [VIDEO]
A monument to contemplation: the “Opera” technical sheet
The opera is a monument to contemplation through which the place defines itself more. Tresoldi plays with the grammar of classical architecture and transparency to search for new visual poetics in dialogue with the surrounding landscape and the visitors. The columns, founding archetypes of Western cultural heritage, make up a stately framework that gives the park another key to understanding.
The installation describes a mental agora that transports visitors to a changing perceptual dimension through games of height and depth with the park. Opera opens relationships in multiple directions within an already materially open space: the corridors of perspective run towards the landscape while the transparent columns define an architecture that welcomes, accompanies and marks the experience of the place, establishing a direct relationship between the earth and the sky. . .
The references between the columns and the trees create relationships of light and shadow according to airy but rhythmic balances in an organic correspondence between transparency and the surrounding space. The contours of the work lose definition to merge with the context in relation to the impossibility of the sculpture to “stop the shadow that remains in any case, like the echo for the sound”, quoting Arturo Martini.
The opera also shapes Tresoldi’s reflections on architectural composition and decomposition: the dialogue between the installation and the place is manifested in the distributive logic of the colonnade that does not fully adapt to that of the park. Similar to the counterpoint in music, its superposition works as two different melodies that are heard at the same time while crossing the park, the visitor finds harmonies and disharmonies between the two architectural systems.
In its role as a public work, Opera makes explicit the relationship between reality and representation, entrusting to the transparency of Absent Matter the main role of spatio-temporal suspension. The installation integrates relationships between the visible and the invisible, the individual and the community, delving into the stratification of ancestral horizons and daily practices, on the edge of a physical and mental terrain and in balance between art, architecture and landscape.
Opera is Tresoldi’s second installation in Calabria after Il Collezionista di Venti in Pizzo in 2013 and the second major permanent public work in Italy after the Basilica of Siponto in Puglia, commissioned by MiBACT in 2016.
Who is Edoardo Tresoldi?
Edoardo Tresoldi investigates the poetics of the dialogue between man and landscape using the language of architecture as an expressive tool and a key to interpreting the place. The Italian artist plays with the transparency of the metallic mesh and with industrial materials to transcend the space-time dimension and narrate a dialogue between Art and the World, a visual synthesis that is revealed in the dissolution of physical limits. Since 2013 he has been carrying out environmental installations, focusing his research on the study of landscape languages. He has presented his works in public spaces, archaeological contexts, art parks, festivals and exhibitions around the world. In 2016 he carried out the restoration of the early Christian Basilica of Siponto in Italy, awarded the 2018 Gold Medal for Italian Architecture – Special Client Award, the most prestigious Italian architecture award established by the Milan Triennial. In 2018 he created Etherea for the Coachella Festival in the United States, one of the most important and anticipated musical events in the world.
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