De Unie Hasselt-Genk: Felice Varini
Channel: Z33be
Date: 2014-07-24

For De Unie Hasselt-Genk, Felice Varini realises a painting on the roofs and facades of 99 buildings in the city centre of Hasselt: 'Trois ellipses ouvertes en désordre'. The composition can only be seen in its entirety from one particular vantage point, the Sky Lounge of the Radisson Blu Hotel. Following the route of De Unie across town, however, visitors will be confronted with a number of fragments of Varini’s work. Every fragment is an attraction in itself.

Visits possible from 21st June to 5th October 2014

About Felice Varini

°1952 in Locarno (CH), lives and works in Paris (FR)

Swiss-French artist Felice Varini always sets out to create interventions in the existing architecture of the urban and industrial landscape. The open space is the canvas upon which the artist applies his geometric colour planes. From a carefully chosen position, Varini ‘projects’ his perspectival figures across the sprawling city. He is, however, particularly interested in what happens in the areas outside of that one vantage point, where only fragments of the artwork can be seen and all sense of coherence is gone.

www.varini.org

Sky Lounge

Felice Varini’s 'Trois ellipses ouvertes en désordre' can only be seen in its entirety from the Sky Lounge of the Radisson Blu Hotel. The Sky Lounge is located on the 19th and top floor of the hotel. Once past the entrance of the hotel, visitors should take the elevator to the 18th floor and then take the stairs to the top floor. Here, visitors can take in the view of both the work of Varini and the panorama over the city, and enjoy a snack or a drink.

www.radissonblu.be/hotel-hasselt

Radisson Blu Hotel Hasselt - logo

Inspiration point: Tweetorenwijk (Two Tower district) Hasselt

The Tweetorenwijk in Hasselt is a relatively recent area situated between the Maastrichterstraat, the Guffenslaan, the St. Jozefstraat and the Grote Capucienenstraat, densely built with large-scale, high-rise architecture. The approval of the plan for the renewal of the area in the early ‘70s was surrounded with controversy. One of the oldest city quarters "De Beek", named after the Helbeek brook that flowed through it, with houses in Meuse and classical style, was sacrificed to the construction of the new district. Today, the TT-district is a busy area with shops and restaurants. Although the district still seems disproportionate to the rest of the city, the view from the two towers over Hasselt and Genk is quite unique.

http://www.uniehasseltgenk.be/en/felice-varini/