Before and After- Gregangelo imagining and designing the Aura and Odyssey installations for SMoCA Gallery 4
When our senses are set free, unexplainable phenomena occur…
After last year’s sold-out sensation “Night Circus,” created
by Velocity Circus, and cast by our Arizona collaborators, CSA, The
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts invited Gregangelo &
Velocity/CSA back again to create AURA for their annual high profile
fund-raising gala.
Under the
intense artistic direction of Gregangelo, the installation took a team
of 13 skilled Velocity artists 6 months to complete and 3 days to
install. Over 25 performers animated and performed within the
installation, bringing the story-book setting to life…
The Aura & Odyssey Ensemble
The
AURA concept was inspired by SMoCA’s exhibition The Five Senses, with
special focus on a seminal work included in the show by acclaimed
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson
which amplifies the experience of standing amidst water and a beautiful
spectrum of fractured light. Gregangelo & Velocity crafted themes
for AURA that channel weather, the alchemy of the ephemeral, and the
kaleidoscopic wonder conjured by nature’s shifting, changing elements.
Guests were treated to ongoing performances of song, dance, and variety acts throughout the evening.
Winter Songstress
In
addition, this year we added a secondary experience, ODYSSEY, a family
and youth day sponsored in part by Gregangelo & Velocity
Entertainment and our partners Circus Scool of Arizona , which allowed
the museum to be opened for free to a brand new public!
The children’s oracle of the Labyrinth
Explore
the Museum’s fantastic new enchanting realms where each of SMoCA’s
galleries had a different colorful and imaginative environment inspired
by weather and flora & fauna of the natural world.
Scottsdale
Museum of Contemporary Art invited families to take a magical journey to
see the museum completely transformed into a kaleidoscopic wonderland.
Prismatic light and special FX projections, animated installations and
altered environs took the Museum by storm to create an unforgettable
experience…
Snow storm in the Winter Solstice Installation
Midnight in the Spring equinox garden
Explore
each dazzling room’s unique arts & crafts activities where you might
help create glowing fireflies or chase after shifting rainbows! A
spectrum of lively characters, playful acrobats and aerialists,
mysterious magicians and spritely creatures welcome you throughout your
Odyssey experience.
The
afternoon also featured tasty treats which could be taken directly from
the 3D living still life displays which taught the youth of good health
and good eating:
Still life with cabbage
Still life with pineapple
Admiring a living statue in the Autumnal gallery
Velocity’s “Ms GG Bridges” welcomes with a rainbow
