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If The Sea Were In Turin, envisaged by the artist for the 12 Richi Ferrero with Carmelo Giammello:
courtyard and the sixteenth century internal façade of The Giant’s Teeth, instalation for
the Winter Olimpic Games 2006
Palazzo valperga Galleani which is a Baroque building in Production: Gran Teatro Urbano
the old town centre of Turin. Photo Marino Ravani - Richi Ferrero photo library
a complex project in which, as in many other pieces,
richi Ferrero uses something natural and recreates it using The thirteen main branches are made from 590 kg of steel
technological artifices like lighting. It is known that tubes with 78 light points served by 180 power supplies.
recreating something natural with something artificial is The tree develops the vertical Baroque Garden concept
highly difficult and complex. that not only includes balconies and terraces up to the
The central element of the project is a huge tree, suspen-
rooftops, but also the illumination of the courtyard’s paving
ded like a giant chandelier that on arrival of evening up to the noble entranceway. a Garden made up of lights
illuminates the redesigned courtyard with luminous and over 200 pots of evergreens lit up with warm and cold
cobblestones. one interesting detail is that for the lights hanging on the balconies that have been enriched by
cobblestones, richi Ferrero created a texture inspired 230 warm miniflux lights.
by original Baroque ones, using blue and beige
cobblestones, in resin, made luminous using 300 metres remaining on the subject of natural illusions, the artist
of luminous tape. created a “fish courtyard” in the secondary yard
characterised by a great glass dome emerging from the
In terms of size and capacity, this luminous sculpture rooms below for the third If The Sea Were In Turin
rose to over six metres in height and up to 5.30 metres in installation, a sort of tropical aquarium with luminous
breadth, supported by a 4.30-metre-long arm. sculpted fish that “swim” among thick vegetation.
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