Constanta residents and tourists who want to have a unique experience should mark August 21st on their calendar. The famous Vila Șuțu, spectacularly located on the coast, right next to Modern Beach, will open its doors to the public. It is a unique opportunity to visit the house, but also to admire the new media art installations created by the RIZI studio as part of the One Night Gallery event.
Founded in 2013 by an architect and a communication and multimedia specialist, RIZI is a design studio at the intersection of architecture, technology and communication, exploring various ways to convey emotion through technology. With a focus on experience design, the studio brings together the public and technology through cross-media projects in both the physical and digital environments through projects such as the BIOS digital art exhibition, the multi-media design for the Romanian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, the digital archive of the Romanian Peasant Museum , light installations for festivals in Romania and France.
Constanța marks the second destination of this traveling exhibition, the first taking place in Bucharest , in the TVR Garden, the first headquarters of Romanian television, on the occasion of which it also celebrated 65 years since the first transmission. Vila Șuțu, host of the 17th edition, was built in 1899, belonged to Prince Mihail Șuțu and was built by architect Grigore Cerchez. A building with a rich history of 122 years of existence, which has fulfilled various roles, from the private residence of Prince Șuțu and his family, to an observation point during World War II, to the consulate of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Court of Appeal. In 2011, the house returned to the family, and in 2018 it was purchased by Theodor Lucian Ichim (Unigrains Trading) who made it available to One Night Gallery so that the public could rediscover it. The gardens will host the exhibition, and the ground floor will be available for visits, with guided tours. Located above the sea, the villa retains a historical air that will complement the creations of the RIZI studio in a unique way.
The theme of the One Night Gallery Love RIZI exhibition is ELEMENTS and presents how design meets nature; the four primordial elements of nature – earth, fire, water and air – communicate with the four essential elements of design – point, line, plane and form. Light and space are the common elements that connect the two worlds, the natural and the artificial, and are thus transposed into the 9 architectural installations. Tourists and locals will admire a kinetic architectural installation, another with water vapor that plays with color, one with light that changes according to the movements made by visitors, a visual reinterpretation of fire through an architectural construction, an interactive installation that will allow the public to play with the idea of the communion of water with fire and others that compose a multisensory experience through light, sound and movement.
