Coliseum on Fire
17/09/10 17:29 Coliseum on Fire
Burning the Roots of Western Culture
Rome, September 17-18-19 2010
A Video installation by Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz
Curated by Gianni Mercurio, Christina Clausen
Rossella Rea, Piero Meogrossi - Special Department for Rome's Archaeological Heritage
Coliseum on Fire
In September the Coliseum will burn down! Coliseum on Fire is the title for this seductive and spectacular artistic gesture that involves the world's most famous ancient monument: the Coliseum.
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Rome, September 17-18-19 2010
A Video installation by Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz
Curated by Gianni Mercurio, Christina Clausen
Rossella Rea, Piero Meogrossi - Special Department for Rome's Archaeological Heritage
Coliseum on Fire
In September the Coliseum will burn down! Coliseum on Fire is the title for this seductive and spectacular artistic gesture that involves the world's most famous ancient monument: the Coliseum.
Morevideos:https://www.youtube.com/user/PIOdiaz1 Read More...
Text By Gianni Mercurio
21/08/10 18:03 Coliseum By Gianni Mercurio
As long as the Coliseum exists, Rome will exist; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will also fall; but when Rome falls the world will fall too. - The Venerable Bede, early 8th century
In the first decades of the twentieth century the historic avant-garde movements realized that it was possible to replace representations of objects with a straightforward presentation of them. But whoever would have believed that, in time, nature itself would then be added to them? It was in the 1960s above all that a series of genial ideas led to the use of the four natural elements: air, earth, fire, and water. Read More...
In the first decades of the twentieth century the historic avant-garde movements realized that it was possible to replace representations of objects with a straightforward presentation of them. But whoever would have believed that, in time, nature itself would then be added to them? It was in the 1960s above all that a series of genial ideas led to the use of the four natural elements: air, earth, fire, and water. Read More...
Paintings text by Lisbeth Bonde
21/07/10 21:33 Metamorfoser by Lisbeth Bonde Print
Kunstnerduoen Thyra Hilden & Pio Diaz er først og fremmest kendt for deres videooptagelser af ild, som de projicerer på bygninger i en 1:1 live illusion, der er så virkelighedsnær, at intetanende, der nærmer sig det virtuelle flammehav, kommer i alarmberedskab, fordi de fejlagtige antager, at det er en faretruende brand. Som skabere af ’City on Fire’ har de sat virtuel ild til AroS i Aarhus og til Domkirken i København – og til et antal bygninger og momumenter i udlandet i Rom, Berlin, Seoul, Gdansk, Ukraine og Frankfurt, og i efteråret 2010 udfører de en storladen, virtuel ’afbrænding’ af en af verdens syv vidundere: Colosseum i Rom.
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