The 27th edition of Luci d’Artista lit up on Friday 25 October, transforming Turin into an open-air light museum.
This year, Luci d’Artista was enriched with two new light installations, Scia’Mano and VR Man, signed by great artists selected by the Luci d’Artista Scientific Committee and Luci d’Artista curator Antonio Grulli.
In particular, the work VR Man by Andreas Angelidakis was created on the occasion of and with the support of Torino 2025 FISU Games Winter, and is taken from the classical iconography of Greek and Roman sculpture, an imagery the artist has been working on for many years. The new work refers to athletics as the foundation of the Olympic Games but also as a discipline inseparable from intellectual and spiritual activity, as it was seen during the classical Greek period.
This work consolidates the legacy, not only sporting but also cultural, that the Games will leave to the City and the territory, in the future memory of a great international event such as the Torino 2025 FISU World University Games Winter. Andreas Angelidakis (Athens, 1968) lives and works in Athens. He defines himself as an architect who does not build, but contemplates architecture as a practice to investigate the psychology of a place and the elements that constitute and inhabit it, examining the idea of ruin, both in ancient and contemporary societies. His works investigate the space where art and architecture overlap and where new technologies influence architecture and the way of life, creating works that reflect on the sociology and history of modernism in architecture, urban culture and digital media. In his work, he presents reconsiderations of Greek ruins in the form of digital video, soft sculptures, and furniture, creating a playful interpretation that offers a direct physical experience to the visitor.
