These three Neoclassical- and Baroque-inspired buildings are made only of wire mesh, ranging in size from 36 to 54 to 72 feet tall. Lit from within, they follow a gradual change of scale that Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi says is linked to a "perceptive effect which amplifies or reduces the sky as you move from one sculpture to the other." It is an encounter between festivalgoers and the atmosphere above and around them, developed over five months of planning and construction.
"During the day, it will breathe through the wind and the clouds, [enlightened] by the atmospheric factors that contribute to the interpretation of the spaces under different moods," Tresoldi explained via email. "At night, artificial lightings will make the installation even more ethereal and suspended, a majestic but intimate and delicate space."
The effect is entrancing, as your surroundings become a dizzying dichotomy of small samplings within the wires and the structure as a whole. "Transparency allows me to draw in the air, weaving into the space what I call the Absent Matter: the denial of matter, and therefore the abstraction of reality," Tresoldi said. "Its language has a subtractive aesthetic through dematerialization and lightness, it absorbs the landscape and accommodates man, generating a dreamlike dimension. It is really an experiential reality born from an empathic relationship between the viewers, the artwork and the surrounding environment."
