Edoardo Tresoldi’s Installation Opera Encourages Visitors To Contemplate Their Surroundings

The artist has installed an open mesh-wire structure consisting of a colonnade of 46 pillars measuring eight meters high, within a 2500-square meter park overlooking the Strait of Messina in Italy. Designed to be a place of contemplation and to enhance and frame views of Sicily across the sea, ‘Opera’ is a monument through which the place “further defines itself,” reads a statement from Tresoldi. Blending with the natural landscape, the almost transparent pillars evoke an organic connection with the surrounding trees, generating a dialog between the installation and its location. “Fully crossable, the installation opens up relationships in several directions within an already materially open space,” the statement continues.