Torino, one of Europe's main centres of contemporary art, this years will be again transformed into an open-air museum thanks to a surprising interaction between art and the urban landscape through the use of light.
The twenty-one installations all share the common denominator of using artificial light – a “material non-material” of unquestionable appeal and extraordinary evocative and communicative value. This exiting experience brigs together artists of international renown though of differing generations, cultural backgrounds, approaches and nationalities.
New works for this edition include My Noon, Tobias Reheberger's large-scale luminous reinterpretation of a digital clock which marks the passage of time. The other two new works are Cristalliazzazione sospesa (Suspended Crystallisation) by Carlo Bernardini and Bwindi Light Masks by Richi Ferrero.
Luci d'Artista opens the contemporary art season on 3 November 2010 and concludes on 16 January 2011. The works by Daniel Buren, Marco, Marco Gastini, Rebecca Horn, Joseph Kosuth, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio will then be re-lit between 17 March and late June 2011 to illuminate the city in honour of the celebrations for the 150^th Anniversary of italian Unification.