British multimedia artist Esther Rolinson has recently chosen Eclause to be the home of her new studio. To celebrate this current phase in her career path, she welcomes 2023 with the exhibition 'Rivoluzione/Revolution' at Cantina Alpina Gallery. In this show, she revitalises her installation Revolve as Rivoluzione/Revolution giving it new contours: making their outlines in an intense dialogue with the surrounding landscape and architecture.

The artist specially constructed it to fill the roof space of this ancient building. Like billowing clouds or smoke bursting from the old house, finding it’s escape via the upstairs door.

'Rivoluzione/Revolution' is a meditation on the physical sense of release, transitioning from thunderous noise to silence. A visualisation of a quiet voice powerfully punctuates the silence. We might imagine it splits apart a leaden tomb of energy and releases all that is held inside. Ricocheting through the air, it fills every part of the space, climbing layer upon layer until it is exhausted in the atmosphere. In essence, it is the pure sensation of the build-up and dissipation of energy. This action is a fundamental property of growth systems we might experience daily. Rivoluzione/Revolution is a hand-built structure derived directly from her drawings.

Esther Rolinson explores the universal language of sensation in works that combine physical structure and light movements derived from computational making processes. Initially, she articulates her own physical experience in instinctive and rule-based drawings.

Alongside the generative light installation Rolinson is also showing her latest series of drawings titled 'There is No Space Between Us'. She created these in 2020 and 2021 during the impact of global health measures and political matters related to her country. The exhibition at the 15th-century historic building also features drawings from the series Gravitate.

Drawings related to this series have been acquired by the Computer Arts Society and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Esther Rolinson’s 'Rivoluzione/Revolution' is curated by guest curator Caroline Menezes and is one of the cultural events that Cantina Alpina is hosting in 2023.