Anyone who's recently been to Rome won't have missed the giant moon floating above the river Tiber, repeatedly simulating a lunar eclipse. A sequence of images projected onto a five-metre-diameter balloon makes up the new installation by Angela Bulloch. The Canadian-born artist collected footage from different observatories around the globe of the same eclipse for ‘Repeat Refrain’ which takes place at the Ara Pacis Museum. Directly underneath it sits the ninth-century BC sacrificial altar after which the museum is named.
Continuing with an astronomical theme for her installation at the Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin, Bulloch takes the hovering balloon and projector combination this time to simulate a view of the earth from space. ‘Are you coming or going, around?’ also consists of 12 printed perspectives of the sun and earth taken from an approximated vantage point of Mercury. And on the ceiling of an adjoining space, she creates another stellar expanse of solar system. The otherworldly nature of the experience is capped with a funk remix of a piece by Johann Strauss.
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INFORMATION
Repeat Refrain is showing from 11th to 25th May
Are you coming or going, around? is showing from 27th April to 23rd June
Websites
www.ara-pacis-museum.com
www.estherschipper.com
