The mirrored house, 1000 mts height...
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30/01/20 - Doug Aitken (USA, 1968) made an installation completely covered in mirrors on a remote location between Schönried and Gruben, in Switzerland. Mirage Gstaad, the name of the artwork, mimics the snowy landscape that surrounds it, producing a strange vision: it absorbes and reflects the outside.
Mirage Gstaad, by Doug Aitken (2019)
“Land art” was born, among other reasons, as a critic to those artists that were part of museums and art galleries ("the business of art"), so its supporters chose the outdoors to display their artworks. But in other cases, land art proved to be the most effective way to raise awareness about ecology and the protection of the environment. Almost all the artists of these “earthworks” place them in unusual locations, like in the case of Mirage Gstaad, for which we had to go across a distance of 2 km of snow, after taking a train from the closest tourist location.
Mirage Gstaad creates a tension between subject and object, but also between inside and outside. The continuous change happening in its surface due to the reflection of the mirrors can be perceived also inside the installation, where mirrors confuse the inside with the outside. Everything happens simultaneously, creating a continuous change or, better still, a constant exchange.
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