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94 MAY 2018 NORTHSHOREMAG.COM Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade's art installation, part of The Trustees' Art & the Landscape initiative, opens at Castle Hill on the Crane Estate. By Victoria Abbott Riccardi TUNNEL TELLER Art has the power to transform. It can surprise, educate, and move us in profound and unexpected ways and give us new goggles through which to view the world, which is what 38-year-old Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade, / I N D E P T H / COURTESY OF THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS hopes her concrete, metal, and stone piece TunnelTeller will do when it opens on Saturday, May 19, at Castle Hill on the Crane Estate. A budding star in the art world, Polish-born Kwade has shown at such prestigious venues as Art Basel and last year's Venice Biennale. TunnelTeller will be her rst large-scale public artwork commission in the United States. Set in the former location of Castle Hill's hedge maze, TunnelTeller creatively reinter- prets the maze's zig-zag structure with tall concrete slabs. Stainless steel pipes of various dimensions connecting the slabs pay homage to the Crane family's plumbing business and, the openings in the concrete create portals through which visitors can focus on certain views of Castle Hill, including the mansion's, elegant Gilded Age features, the treetops, and the nearby ocean. "Her work is a lot about rethinking conventions, like the metric system and time," Set in the former location of Castle Hill's hedge maze, TunnelTeller creatively reinterprets the maze's zig-zag structure with tall concrete slabs.