ECLISSE – Nino Alfieri

NINO ALFIERI – Eclisse, 2010
Aluminum parabole unit, 200 cm diameter, photosensitive paints, dynamic device with UV and incandescent lights.
Technical sponsor: Pollice Illuminazione.

“Eclisse” (eclipse) is a parabole as wide as a viewer’s open arms, a reference to Renaissance concepts, when man was considered the unit of measure. The aluminium parabola is painted with specific light sensitive colours and an electronic gear creating the light effects is shielded behind the central disc. The pigments react to UV and incandescent light revealing shapes that cyclically come and go from the surface. The slow light variations remind the daytime cycle, as a relation between light and time.