New-York based, Italian-born artist Nico Vascellari returns to the Whitworth a year after his showcase performance at the reopening of the gallery. Vascellari will create two installations in the Landscape Gallery: Bus de la Lum (Hole of Light), derived from a forest in northern Italy, said to have hidden powers, and Dravasa (Door to Hell), a burning crater in the desert of Turkmenistan, to be accompanied by a soundtrack created in collaboration with Turkish-born musician Ghédalia Tazartès. Visitors to the show will become a part of Vascellari’s own transformative imagery, recreating the enthralling capacity of nature and the artist’s’ own childhood memories.
Thu 25 Feb – Sun 18 Sep, Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER. Tel: 0161 275 7450. Mon – Wed, Fri – Sun 10am – 5pm, late night opening Thu (until 9pm), FREE, www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk
- Words:
- Daisy Kidd
- Published on:
- Mon 23 May 2016
