Art+Design
5vie event
physical event
Umbrellas found on the street, unsewn and reordered in the space. This is the essence of the installation by the architect and artist Daniel Gonzalez Sandoval; a translucent structure made of 190 triangles that are 4 meters high suspended in a narrow pedestrian street of Milan Old Town. This idea was inspired by rubbish, in a town where a number of umbrellas are abandoned each time it rains. Each octagonal cloth is made up of 8 isosceles triangles, which are then diagonally positioned on a high structure. Colors play a fundamental role. By passing by, the spectator manages to appreciate the sequence of warm and cold counterposed tones. Sunlight enhances lively colors at the top and strong shadows at the bottom. The point is that one can obtain a lot from scratch, provided that there is a close and sincere dialogue with matter and energy around us.