Between trees, plants and flowers, some of them unique in their kind, the statues come to life. Colorful butterflies and fireflies come out of the darkness to guard the path to a hidden treasure that will leave anyone who discovers it open-mouthed.
“Secret Garden” (Secret Garden) is an open-air light exhibition, the first of its kind in Latin America, which proposes an ingenious night tour of the Botanical Garden of the Argentine capital, an oasis of nature between two busy avenues and guarded by towers of apartments.
“The garden opens its doors during the day and on this occasion it opens its heart at night for this exhibition”explained Julieta Fazio, executive director of the local production company 6 Pasos, in charge of the project. “See a magical game of lights and colors and sounds that bring you closer to a mystical world and take you through different sensations.”
As soon as the threshold is crossed, subdued music muffles the noise pollution from car and bus horns to begin a conceptual journey through 17 spaces in which nature, music, the stars, art, love and reflection are mixed. .
A blue light reflector recreates a seabed on a rocky ground at the station Aqua which starts the tour. Further on, a dozen artificial butterflies illuminate a fountain with aquatic species with LED lights.
The path leads into darkness until a radiant moon emerges from the bowels of the earth. Small lights that turn on and off simulate shooting stars. The replica of the star is the greatest attraction of the “Secret Garden” and therefore favorite focus for self-portraits with mobile phones.
The original show started in London as a way to attract visitors to Kew Garden during the cold European winter and was later replicated in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt and Barcelona, among other cities.
The idea moved to the Botanical Garden of Buenos Aires -designed 125 years ago by the French architect and landscape architect Carlos Thays- just at the beginning of winter in South America. It will last for a month.
On the way, feelings emerge with a giant heart that beats and lights up the bushes that surround it in red. Phrases alluding to love appear written with neon signs of different colors and nailed to the grass, which are the attraction of the youngest to post on their networks.
The exhibition invites us to reflect on existence with a replica of the work “The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin made with an inflatable doll without a face that radiates a strong light. And then she delights visitors with a dance of statues, made with light effects, to the beat of Beethoven’s symphony.
The spell of “Secret Garden” it breaks after going through a tunnel of vines. On the other side, the horns and lights of the city welcome the other reality.
Source: AP
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