LAC Lugano Art and Culture

Among the rich program of events that opened the new cultural center dedicated to visual arts, music and performing arts there are also Zimoun and Anthony McCall’s solo shows.

Anthony McCall, <i>Meeting You Halfway (II)</i>, 2009, computer, QuickTime movie file, videoproiettore, macchina per foschia artificiale, ciclo di 15 minuti
Inaugurated on September 12 and designed by Ivano Gianola, LAC Lugano Arte Cultura hosts the Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano formed by the merging between the Museo Cantonale d’Arte and the Museo d’Arte Lugano.
Located over three floors, the gallery will hold a permanent exhibition containing the collections of the City of Lugano and Cantone Ticino, temporary exhibitions and site specific installations. The LAC is also home to music, theatre and dance, thanks to its new 1,000 seats concert and theatre hall, entirely wood-panelled and fitted with a special modular and removable acoustic shell. The LAC is the main location for the LuganoInScena and LuganoMusica seasons as well as a home for the Compagnia Finzi Pasca and the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and it is also involved with seasonal concerts planned by Radiotelevisione Svizzera.
 LAC Lugano Arte Cultura. L’edificio visto dall’esterno. © LAC 2015 – Foto Studio Pagi
Top: Anthony McCall, Meeting You Halfway (II), 2009, computer, QuickTime movie file, projector, artificial fog machine, cycle of 15 minutes. View of the exhibition at MASILugano, Lugano 2015. Foto Stefania Beretta, Verscio Above: LAC Lugano Arte Cultura. View of the building from the square. © LAC 2015 – Foto Studio Pagi
For the opening, the large hall on the second floor, which from January 2016 will be home to the collections, plays host to an exhibition of Anthony McCall (1943), a British-born American artist who has designed, especially for these new spaces, four light-sculptures. The luminous shapes’ strong visual and sensorial impact creates a subtle and fascinating connection with the theatrical space, and therefore with the activity of the theatre department of the new cultural centre.
Zimoun, <i>171 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, ardboard boxes 60x20x20cm</i>, 2015. © Zimoun Foto LAC
Zimoun, 171 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, ardboard boxes 60x20x20cm, 2015. © Zimoun Foto LAC
The installation designed for the entrance hall to LAC’s second floor, by Zimoun, a young artist from Bern pays tribute to the music department: it is a work strongly defined by rhythm and sounds, modularity and motion, composed of some 171 elements, and which underlines MASILugano’s
interest for emerging art. Indeed, these same spaces are shortly set to host the next Prix Manor competition, the most prestigious prize for contemporary Swiss art.

until January 10, 2016

Zimoun
171 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 60x20x20cm

curated by Guido Comis

Anthony McCall
Solid Light Works

curated by Bettina Della Casa

LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
piazza Luini 6, Lugano

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