Sound work references: Collection: Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Location: Piazza di Castello. Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 2 meters; 8 x 4 x 2 meters
Image Courtesy: Museo Castello di Rivoli
Untitled, 1995, a work created by Max Neuhaus specifically for the Castello di Rivoli collection, occupies an archway in the outdoor space in front of the museum, which was originally intended to be the large entrance hall to the Savoy residence. The artist modified the structures of the architectural complex, designed by Filippo Juvarra and never completed, which today connects the interior spaces of the Castle with those of the Manica Lunga wing, becoming a place of passage and waiting. The artist placed sound transmitters inside two of the three arches in the southeast archway, leaving the central one empty. The sounds have two different tones, indicating two different intensities that the artist describes with the analogy of wine: one tone recalls a cold, sharp, and dry white wine, the other a full-bodied red.
The sound sources are camouflaged in the architecture and are not visible; their placement in a space outside the museum creates the conditions for the encounter with visitors to occur casually, like the unexpected occurrence of a perceptual experience.