Scenography For the Love of the Master, 25 artists fascinated by Piranesi. Opening 17 June 2022
![Piranesi 1](https://carolinevoet.be/assets/images/_1200x839_crop_center-center_100_line/piranesi-1.jpg)
ENG For this exhibition, with its mesmerising pieces from vessels to historical books, we created a dialogue between the contemporary artists and their fascination for Piranesi as a creator and an inventor. Piranesi has a way of superimposing decay with eternity, thus inducing a kind of hyperreality, transcending death and time. From this ‘speculative archaeology’, we developed our ideas for a new scenography.
The two locations where the exhibition takes place presented a challenge: creating a scenography to suit both a white cube and a historical building. The Coach House Galleries in Dublin Castle, provided us with two neutral ‘white boxes’, while the beautiful Casino at Marino with its 18th-century interiors is composed of series of smaller rooms, full of details charged with historic layers. In order to anchor the concept of the latent landscape, we superimposed the cross-shaped plan of the Casino and its piano nobile on the Kane Room in the Coach House. The works are placed like temporary inhabitants, gradually being discovered – in the same way that the visitor discovers the rooms. We created another series of new ‘residents’: small wooden benches, old-pink and in the shape of love seats which have been tailor-made for the Casino. The rooms of the casino in different ways play with the proportions of the square and the golden ratio. In plan, they follow a successive order from 1 : 1 to 2 : 3, 3 : 4, 1 : 2. Reflecting these proportions in every detail, the benches quietly take position.
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- Scenography: Voet en De Brabandere
- Team: Caroline Voet, Leen De Brabandere, Thomas Dreezen, Stella De Reuver, Laura Steenbeke
- In collaboration with: curator Hélène Bremer, Mary Heffernan and the OPW
- Production: Meubelatelier n°12
- Location: Dublin Castle and Casino Marino, Ireland
- Opening: 17 June 2022
![Piranese cover](https://carolinevoet.be/assets/images/_768x1089_crop_center-center_100_line/Piranese_cover.jpg)
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![Piranesi preview 2](https://carolinevoet.be/assets/images/_1200x1664_crop_center-center_100_line/piranesi-preview-2.jpg)
![Detail pink 1](https://carolinevoet.be/assets/images/_1200x1600_crop_center-center_100_line/detail-pink-1.jpg)
![Piranesi Casino At Marino high res](https://carolinevoet.be/assets/images/_1200x1697_crop_center-center_100_line/Piranesi-Casino-At-Marino-high-res.jpg)
![200217 easel interior](https://carolinevoet.be/assets/images/_1200x1086_crop_center-center_100_line/200217_easel-interior.jpg)