"Mirage', the mirror house built in the Californian desert

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It is called Doug Aitken and is an artist and visual filmmaker who, in the magnificent Californian landscape, has built a house totally covered in mirrors. His work explores every medium from sculpture, film and architectural installation. The singular project that is attracting tourists from all over the world is called Mirage and was made in the desert valley of Coachella, in southern California.

The house

Mirage

It is a spectacular structure, capable of entirely reflecting what lies within it, arousing unique sensations, considering the breathtaking panorama that surrounds it: mountains, expanses of valleys, a starry sky far from the lights of the city. Mirage extracts the common suburban house in the essence of its lines, reflecting and at the same time disappearing into the vast panorama of the 'west'. Its familiar architectural form takes on a new frame, reflecting the dream of nature and its uninhabited state, and at the same time the desire for its conquest.

The exhibition Desert X

The house is a sort of upside-down kaleidoscope, created for an open-air exhibition called Desert X .

Mirage
In the exhibition, 15 artists are given the opportunity to display their creations. The themes of the creations range from tourism, tribal culture, climate change, immigration and play. Visitors can admire the valley free of charge and reflect on serious and playful issues through the lens of the participating professionals' creativity.
Desert X is the blank canvas on which contemporary artists - such as writers, architects, musicians - are invited to project their vision of the world and express it through an extraordinary creation.
A unique event, taking the landscape as an exhibition space and exploring both the familiar and the unknown, through one's own eyes and those of others.

If the desert were truly God without man, Desert X is art without constraints
The festival, which started on 25 February, will run until 30 April 2017.

 

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