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Artistic Intervention in Kunshan Grand Theater
Artistic Intervention in Kunshan Grand Theater
Kunshan, Suzhou, China
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Artistic Intervention in Kunshan Grand Theater
Kunshan, Suzhou, China
The reconstruction of the former Kunshan Theater located in the civic center of Kunshan, China, was in charge of the renowned architect Cui Kai. For this project, the artist Alain Bony was summoned to intervene the foyer of the concert hall, the ceiling and the public space of the plaza. Inspired by two of the most representative elements of concert halls, the organ and the red curtain, he was able to gather all his years of experience in opera houses to create a sculptural intervention. The large tubular structure of organs that transmits sound and reflects light in a unique way played a central role in the theme of the project.
Alain Bony’s design for the theater organizes the space as the red curtain organizes the time of a play. It hides certain magic behind a performance and creates illusion to the spectators by separating the stage and covering the changes of scenery, lights and sounds from backstage. The velvet red curtain is not static and neither is the intervention in the Kunshan Grand Theater. It gives the foyer the sensation of movement and places the focus of the user on the opera hall generating curiosity.
Another part of the intervention is the textured ceiling that covers the plaza which aims to unify the whole building. It was built with metallic stainless steel plates with three different patterns according to the amount of light that the artist wanted to capture. The choice of a reflective material and the use of color is essential to reinforce the immersion of the user into an infinite perspective.
His design on this project includes not only the architecture itself but also the composition of certain elements of urban furniture as the unique lamps in the plaza which continue with the same concept of the ceiling but condensed in an object that can be replicated along the city to illuminate it in a theatrical way. The device of lights can vary its colors according to the different scenarios to be represented, same as the scenography in a theater shifts to acclimate a scene.
The inspiration of Alain Bony is not unintentional. The centrality of the organ within a concert hall has a certain similarity to the central focus that his works represent within the building. The presence of his interventions becomes iconic in each project. As an organ gives character to an opera house, his work makes the building a unique piece of art.
Alain Bony’s design for the theater organizes the space as the red curtain organizes the time of a play. It hides certain magic behind a performance and creates illusion to the spectators by separating the stage and covering the changes of scenery, lights and sounds from backstage. The velvet red curtain is not static and neither is the intervention in the Kunshan Grand Theater. It gives the foyer the sensation of movement and places the focus of the user on the opera hall generating curiosity.
Another part of the intervention is the textured ceiling that covers the plaza which aims to unify the whole building. It was built with metallic stainless steel plates with three different patterns according to the amount of light that the artist wanted to capture. The choice of a reflective material and the use of color is essential to reinforce the immersion of the user into an infinite perspective.
His design on this project includes not only the architecture itself but also the composition of certain elements of urban furniture as the unique lamps in the plaza which continue with the same concept of the ceiling but condensed in an object that can be replicated along the city to illuminate it in a theatrical way. The device of lights can vary its colors according to the different scenarios to be represented, same as the scenography in a theater shifts to acclimate a scene.
The inspiration of Alain Bony is not unintentional. The centrality of the organ within a concert hall has a certain similarity to the central focus that his works represent within the building. The presence of his interventions becomes iconic in each project. As an organ gives character to an opera house, his work makes the building a unique piece of art.
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