Set to close out our Sun/Shade program this October, this debut international collaboration will dazzle visitors with an immersive night-time solar experience.
The Bentway is proud to announce a landmark partnership with Videocittà, Rome’s celebrated festival dedicated to video and digital culture, through the co-commissioning of a major new artwork by Italian artist Quayola. SOLAR will premiere this weekend as the headlining artwork of Videocittà’s 2025 program before making its way to Toronto in October.
Like The Bentway in Toronto, Videocittà re-imagines a former site of industry into a uniquely-urban destination – transforming the dis-used Gazometro in Rome, once used to store the capital’s gas supply, for an annual celebration of the moving image. Together with these new partners, The Bentway continues to support bold, boundary-pushing work that reimagines public space.
Quayola is an Italian artist whose practice uses technology to explore the tensions between the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the ancient and the contemporary. Through immersive installations and generative systems, he reinterprets classical subjects such as landscape painting, sculpture, and iconography using software and robotics. His work has been featured at leading institutions and festivals around the world, including the V&A Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Ars Electronica, and the Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, he received the prestigious Golden Nica at Ars Electronica, one of the highest honours in digital art.
In 2024, Quayola was invited to create a new immersive work in New York for the Times Square Midnight Moment.
More details about the Toronto installation will be shared in the coming months.
