Georgia’s capital is certainly earning it’s Hotlanta nickname these days—and not because of the high summer temperatures. During the Atlanta Design Festival, in its 17th year, running from September 28 to October 6, the Atlanta Art Fair debuts for the first time, reflecting the city’s growing status as a major creative destination.
The current piazza exhibition at the High Museum of Art is further proof. Panorama is an ombre-tinted, interactive installation of four glass pillars by Studio Sabine Marcelis, the celebrated Dutch firm that carries on the High’s initiative of showcasing international artists (Tanya Aguiñiga, Jaime Hayon, and Yuri Suzuki are among past contributors); it also represents the first commission by a major U.S. institution for Sabine Marcelis, who toggles between installation, spatial, and product design—and her first kinetic one. The monolithic rectangles not only reflect but also rotate, constantly changing the perspective for anyone who walks around and between them. Like all her work, Panorama continues Marcelis’s use of light and glass to manipulate space, as she is “forever in search of magical moments in materiality and manufacturing processes to create unexpected experiences.”
