THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND YOU Opens at Wood Street Galleries

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces The World Revolves Around You, an exhibition featuring installations by Norwegian artist HC Gilje. The multimedia installations open Friday, April 24, 2015, during the Trust's quarterly Gallery Crawl and are on view through June 21, 2015, at Wood Street Galleries in the Cultural District.

In the artist's second solo show at Wood Street Galleries, Gilje presents the North American premieres of the installations Revolver and Spin, as well as the world-premiere of flimmer.

flimmer-a Norwegian word meaning "flicker" or "flutter"-is a mixed-media installation using animation, sound, and air to invoke three senses.

"I work with creating movement through spaces, objects, and bodies, often using ephemeral media like light, projection, and sound to achieve this," says Gilje. "For flimmer, I combine light animations, drums, and wind to create a restless play of light and shadow in a forest of black strips."

Revolver was originally commissioned by Sonic Acts and developed for The Dark Universe exhibition at New Art Space Amsterdam in 2013. This structure of light animations uses three circles of colored LED-lights, moving in circles at different speeds to create a blending of colors. Complex patterns of light and shadow are produced, and they project on the walls of the exhibition space. Meticulously adapted to the space, Revolver uses not only the shadows cast by the circles of LED-lights, but also those of the visitors in the space.

Spin premiered in 2009 and consists of a circle suspended from the ceiling with lights spinning shadows of anything in the space-including visitors to the installation-onto the floor and walls.

HC Gilje has worked with installation, experimental video, live performance, and set design since graduating from the Intermedia Department of The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway, in 1999. After a one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2000, Gilje began working in live cinema, touring extensively throughout the world, while also creating experimental videos. Also active in theater and dance, he and choreographer Eva Cecilie Richardsen established Kreutzerkompani, which presented a yearly production from 2000 to 2006. In 2006 began working on Conversations with Spaces, a project that explores-mainly through large-scale installations-perception of change and transformation in the meeting between the ephemeral media of light, projection, sound, and motion with physical structures. This has resulted in a series of installations labeled Projected Light Spaces and Projected Light Objects, as well as outdoor sound installations and more recently light-motion installations like in transit, revolver, and trace.

Wood Street Galleries
Wood Street Galleries is located at 601 Wood Street. Gallery hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. Wood Street Galleries is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit TrustArts.org.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh's most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country's largest land masses "curated" by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh's quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.