CERN’s Main Auditorium – a new
look for the amphitheater
CERN wanted a high-quality and unique look for
the one of its main public spaces. The Main Auditorium has been the
venue of keynote speeches by winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics as
well as lectures and presentations by distinguished physicists,
attended by students and top scientists from around the world.
The Main Auditorium built in the late 1950s at CERN, located in Geneva
on the French and Swiss border, was completely renovated. Rista’s solid
birch installation complements nicely the Norwegian designed
furnishings also made of light-coloured wood.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is located in
Geneva on the Swiss and French border. Its research is focused on
fundamental components of matter and the forces that hold them
together. CERN is famous for building the world's largest particle
accelerator, located underground at a depth of approximately 100
metres. Finnish researchers have participated in CERN projects since
1964, and Finland has been a member of the organization since 1991.
CERN
European Organization for Nuclear
Research
A large wooden relief designed by the Artist Ilona Rista was completed
in the summer of 2011 in the newly renovated Main Auditorium of CERN,
the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located in Geneva.
The
work called Collision has been inspired by CERN’s role in particle
research and the resulting findings. Rista’s artwork pays tribute to
the spirit of the auditorium by depicting a particle collision in
CERN’s accelerator. The collision is depicted by a circular shape
radiating energy and data from the front to the side walls of the
auditorium. Rista has highlighted the subject of the artwork, particle
energy, by placing lamps and mirrors behind the birch panels, which
bring out the lights and shadows.
COLLISION
Birch, 2011, 100 m2
Pictures
Helmut Wenzel
