Chain Reactor

Architectonic installation for the 3rd Biennale of Montreal, Canada, 2002.

6 x6 x 6 metres cubic steel frame supporting walls of steel chain in the heart of the Montreal information technology area in the Old City.


Inside the structure is a qhite gravel floor in the middle of which 4 benches and a fireplace out of stone.


People enter to gather around the fire and return to their offices with the smell of smoke in their clothes.

Casagrande & Rintala

Installation 1:2001

The installation 1:2001 is a circular wall of religious, ideological and philosophical books from all over the world. The diameter of the circle is 6,37 metres (diameter of Earth 1:2001000 according to Neil Heimler's Principles of Science) adn the height of the wall is 6,37:2. The books are used as bricks, title-backs outwards.


There will be one entrance to the interior of the installation, which will be a white wall to the contrast of the various title-backs seen on the outside. The viewer inside the installtion will be in focus.


Casagrande & Rintala
Architectural installation for the Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea di Firenze

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