Luci d'artista - 1 by Mikebond
Luci d'artista is a group of modern art works based on light and illumination. It's a temporary exhibition that takes place every year. When I visited Torino with my mother, there were a lot of them in the most crowded corners of the city, i.e. squares and monuments, and I enjoyed taking pictures of them. I don't know the names of the artists and the titles of the works, just look at the pictures!I don't remember in which square the light works in the first three pictures were installed. The two last photos are not real light art works, but a kind of movies about snails or other little animals. They were located in Piazza San Carlo, the most famous square of the city, which was undergoing major works for the construction of an underground parking. Emanuele Filiberto's equestrian statue was removed and the whole square looked awful.
Local people were very angry with the mayor because many squares and beautiful streets had been (temporarily) destroyed to build parkings and argued that the screen with the snails had been put there to distract people from the works that had spoiled the square.
