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.
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.
View Article details
- 16 September 2015
- 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.
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.
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