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10 Richi Ferrero:
figurative art and then only later move on to light
Lucedotto, installation designed for Luci
d’Artista in 2000 with incandescent lamps, as a form of expression.

here in the restyled version with LEDs. In all his works, both temporary and permanent, the
Photo Marino Ravani - Richi Ferrero photo
library common feature is the relationship between colour, light

and space. Turin, for instance, his home and working
11 Richi Ferrero:
city, represents the urban fabric where he has made
The big suspended tree of Palazzo Valperga
Galleani’s court, Turin some of his most important installations.

Photo Marino Ravani - Richi Ferrero photo
library

Pioneering the use of LED, for the first edition of the

annual Luci d’Artista in 2000, he created the massive

Lucedotto installation using 80,000 incandescent another hugely successful piece is the multime-

lightbulbs which in the following year’s version saw dia Bwindi Light Masks installation, with the Luces

them replaced by LED lights. In 2004, we found LED exhibition in mind that I curated for Luminale 2010 in

lights in the plans for the atrium halls, with which he Frankfurt, with a specially-designed piece that the

created subtle vertical lines of light which rhythmicallartist reused in other occasions.

came together and broke up. However, it is in 2006

on the occasion of the winter olympics that richi The permanent installation this year, then, was

Ferrero created one of his most popular installations: realised in a project made up of three different

The Giant’s Teeth. installations: Vertical Garden, Baroque Garden and

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