Una stupefacente installazione al Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
23 Novembre 2019
Realizzata in tessuto stampato, successivamente tagliato e sospeso su un telaio in alluminio, l'installazione permanente "Over View" è stata progettata dallo studio di architettura FreelandBuck, di base a Los Angeles. Commissionata in occasione del restauro dell'edificio che ospita il Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, questo monumentale intervento reinterpreta, con modalità originali, il ricorso al trompe-l'œil nei soffitti dei palazzi di epoca rinascimentale. L'obiettivo dei progettisti, infatti, è sollecitare la fantasia dei piccoli visitatori del Museum Lab, simulando l'esistenza di altri spazi oltre l'architettura esistente. Già tra il 2017 e il 2018, i progettisti dello studio FreelandBuck avevano iniziato a esplorare il tema delle illusioni prospettiche negli spazi museali: la precedente installazione era stata messa a punto per la Rewnick Gallery, allo Smithsonian Museum of Art.
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Installazione Over View by FreelandBuck, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s. Photography by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh