Nuno Brandão Costa . Ryoji Ikeda . photos: © Francisco Ascensão
This project for a temporary pavilion at the Serralves Park is part of a continuous practice of inviting artists to conceive and install works in the natural patrimony of the Park. The invitation made to Ryoji Ikeda to build a temporary pavilion also involves other partners, namely a Porto-based architect Nuno Brandão Costa.
Ikeda intends to provide an intense cinematic experience, creating an immersive environment
that combines architecture, installation, and music, comparable to that of a symphony. The
artist refers to this project as the culmination of 18 years of work.
The exterior face of the structure is flawless, like an amorphous sculpture without meaning. A
“black monolith” that seeks simplicity in the perfection of form, this object tries to convey the
experience of the whole, with a complementary complicity between exterior and interior. Like
metaphysics or esotericism, which may or may not have a meaning, its goal is visual purity.
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01. Project name MICRO | MACRO
02. Location Located in: Parque de Serralves (Parque e Jardim da Fundação Serralves) Complete address: rua Dom João de Castro 210, 4150-417, Porto, Portugal
03. Year of end of construction 2022
04. Authorship of the project Ryoji Ikeda (concept and composition) Nuno Brandão Costa (architecture)
05. Collaborations Francisco Ascensão, Luís Filipe Carreno (collaborators) Pedro Costa Pereira |a3r| (structural engineer) Rui Ribeiro |amplitude acoustics| (acoustic engineer) Miguel Vale |abprojectos | (hydraulic engineer) Maria da Luz Santiago |rs associados| (electrical engineer) Raul Bessa |get| (mechanical engineer)
06. Authorship of photographs Francisco Ascensão
