Porte Celesti

Porte Celesti

There are too many things around us that we do not consider during our life: the Air, which sustain birds in flight; Thoughts, which occupy minutes and originate ideas; Light, which is life, beauty, shadow, chiaroscuro, knowledge, sight and a thousand other actions. What Valerio Festi tries to do is to stop ourselves in front of the Light, It is perfect, necessary, useful: to observe Light as an enormous, aesthetic phenomenon.

25 gates in the centre and 1 gate at Eindhoven Airport

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What are the gates telling us?

INGRESSO AI SOGNI - INGANG TOT DROMEN
PORTICO DELLA GLORIA - PORCH OF GLORY
GEMELLI - TWEELINGEN
PASSAGGIO DEL GIOCO - PASSAGE VAN HET SPEL
CIELI STELLATI - STERRENHEMEL
LUCI D’INVERNO - WINTERLICHT
OMAGGIO ALLA BELLEZZA - HULDE AAN SCHOONHEID
LA CORNICE DELLE STELLE - HET FRAME VAN DE STERREN
LA TORRE DELLA MUSICA - DE MUZIEKTOREN
L’ARCO DEI SORRISI - DE BOOG VAN DE GLIMLACH
RINASCITA - WEDERGEBOORTE
LA TORRE DEI DESIDERI - DE TOREN VAN VERLANGEN
L’ARCO DEL RICORDO - DE BOOG VAN ONTHOUDING
CUPOLE - KOEPELS
VARCO IMPERIALE - KEIZERPOORT
CUSTODI DI LUCE - BEWAARDERS VAN LICHT
UNA FESTA - EEN FEESTJE
CARILLON - BEIAARD
RICAMI - BORDUURWERK
IL POSTO DEI SEGRETI - DE PLAATS VAN GEHEIMEN
CAPRICCIO ITALIANO - ITALIAANSE CAPRICCIO
LE PORTE DEL PARADISO - DE DEUREN VAN HET PARADIJS
RICORDI DEL CASTELLO - HERINNERINGEN AAN HET KASTEEL

About the artist

Studio Festi, Valerio Festi

Porte Celesti is a project by Valerio Festi for Festi Group. His passion for open-air theatre was fostered in the confined space of libraries where accounts of elaborate renaissance festivities and ingenious baroque theatricals are stored. Festive space became the frame for his experiments and the theatre a daily spectacle. For forty years Valerio Festi has been steeped in the design and production of this art: with the support of highly talented craftsmen, technicians and artists give marvelous and undreamed-of shape to open-air celebrations: a Concert for fireworks brings music and pyrotechnics into perfect harmony, fabulous floats and machinery create unimagined scenes and architectural illuminations redefine the map of the city, revealing it hidden secrets.

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