Benedetto Bufalino transforms a former apartment into a tennis court
French artist Benedetto Bufalino has created a tennis court over two rooms of a gallery in Dijon, complete with fake grass, white lines and a net across the doorway (+ slideshow).
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Benedetto Bufalino's installation at the Interface Gallery, intended to "rethink indoor tennis", encourages visitors to the gallery to participate in an unconventional game.
Interface is housed in a former apartment in the French city of Dijon. It retains the original layout of small rooms and features including fireplaces, cornicing and mouldings.
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Within this setting, Bufalino has carpeted two adjoining spaces with artificial grass and strung a net between the white-painted walls either side of the doorway that connects the two spaces.
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White fault lines and service boxes are marked out on the floor, creating an oddly shaped court for two people to play a restricted game of tennis on.
"Visitors are invited to pick up a racket and strike up a match with an opponent occupying space on the other end of a door frame," said Bufalino.
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Walls protruding into the space, domestic fittings and architectural features all provide extra obstacles on top of the restricted net width.
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"Players must find a way to carefully manipulate themselves and the tennis ball throughout the space, paying special attention to domestic objects strewn about, like radiators and windows," said the Lyon-based artist, who has previously turned a Seat Ibiza car into a Jacuzzi and a British K6 telephone box into a fish tank.
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The installation is open until 31 October at the Interface Gallery, which was set up in 1995 on Dijon's Rue Chancelier de l'Hôpital as an experimental arts space.