This year, as they approach 130, Swarovski collaborated with the Mexican-Canadian electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, whose work is posited at an intersection of architecture and performance art. He has opted to create not one Chamber of Wonder, but two - 'Pulse Voronoi' and 'Kristallstimmen'. Each relies on both individual interaction and cumulative effect - a reflection, Lozano-Hemmer says, of the labour behind the crystal. "To make visible, to make tangible ... the thousands of people whose expertise and loyalty and talent is what forms the crystals. I wanted to pay homage to those voices," he stated.
A sonic portrait of Swarovski, 'Kristallstimmen' - which he describes as "a symphony of light and sound". A sonic portrait of Swarovski, 3,000 suspended speakers encased in crystal play the voices of 3,000 employees from around the world.
Idiosyncratic, it has become a huge tourist pull - approximately 600,000 visitors pass under the jowls of the crystal giant each year to discover the works inside. And the artists include figures of the stature of Yayoi Kusama and James Turrell.
Collection
[
|
...
]