Given last week’s lecture about color and reflectivity, I wanted to share an artwork that I experienced while studying abroad in Denmark in the fall of 2013. Situated on top of a cube-shaped museum, called the ARoS in Aarhus, DK, “Your Rainbow Panorama” is an interactive exhibit in which visitors can walk through a raised platform with constantly metamorphosing colored panels. Elevated 3.5 meters above the museum’s roof, the exhibit provides a new experience and way of seeing all of Aarhus, both in height and in color.
The most amazing part of this exhibit is that it can really be catered to anyone’s needs or desires–anyone may stop and stay looking through a particular colored panel, or you can circumnavigate the panorama quickly, allowing the quickly changing colors blur into a tunnel of rainbow. Interestingly, the variety of colors cause ranges of emotion and mood, which I’d be very interested in learning more about.
Another interesting aspect of this exhibition is how it goes with the theme of the museum. Based off of Dante’s Inferno, each level of the museum (organized similarly to the Guggenheim in New York, with slanted levels circling up) corresponds to a level of Hell, Earth, or Heaven. The lowest level of the museum houses dark, melancholy art, while the top level features work about deities and the ephemeral. It is very appropriate for this exhibition to be located on the top of the building, as it extends Dante’s metaphor literally outside of the structure.
You can read about the exhibit here.
This looks like such as cool exhibit! I’d be interested to see this piece during different times of day. For example, I wonder what the differences between sunrise and sunset would be, since as the reading mentioned, they can look similar but are actually different because at sunrise, the sun is entering a dark sky and at sunset a dark sky is moving over the sun.