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The eye at stake, the deception of movement and color

2022-09-26T07:34:44.375Z


In Padua, an exhibition on perception and illusions in art. Group N (ANSA)


PADUA - The image created by photographer Vernon Dewhurst for the cover of David Bowie's album "Space Oddity", released on 11 July 1969, nine days before the landing of man on the Moon, closes the historical section, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero, of the exhibition "The eye in play.

Perception, impressions and illusions in art ", at Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, in Padua, until February 26, 2023. The singer's face is superimposed on a work by Victor Vasarely, one of the fathers of Optical Art. an image that creates a sensation of visual estrangement, which engages the gaze, which questions the possible optical deception. It is the final image - yet central to the theme of perception, of the subtle limit between what is true and what could be and it is not - of the exhibition itinerary of the historical, but not chronological section, of an exhibition that ideally starts from a rare manuscript by Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, from the second half of the fourteenth century, and arrives at a hall of mirrors , to "Reflex Perceptions"(among all a work by Anish Kapoor) so current in the age of selfies.

"The exhibition - notes Barbero - is dedicated to artistic research which over time has focused on color, optics, movement, perception, ranging from the 13th to the 20th century".

Around these cornerstones, in an exhibition dimension that proceeds by "stumbling" over time, to use a saying dear to the curator, we pass, for example in the first section "Color as cosmos", from a 13th century miniature to a watercolor by Kandinskij, from a Syrian or Egyptian celestial globe of about 1225 to a work by Tomas Saraceno.

In the 11 historical sections there is a continuous game of visual surprises that speak of art and science, of optics and theory of color, of technique and photography, through references and combinations that find strength in the works of scholars and artists they have faced, each with a different figures, the themes of perception, the work in motion, the distortion of reality, perspective and visual deception.

It passes, just to name a few, from Serault to Severini, Muybridge, Picasso, Duchamp, Balla, Frank Stella, Calder, Munari, Ontani, Soto, Grazia Varisco, Vasarely, Dadamaino (the only protagonist of the section "The movement of things") .

Andrea Bobbio and Massimo Grassi of the University of Padua - personalities such as Alberto Biasi, Ennio Chiggio, Toni Costa, Edoardo Landi, Manfredo Massironi and Marina Apollonio, through works, documents and images.

Together with the exhibition at Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, the exhibition offer is enriched by five installations distributed throughout the city: from the courtyard of the University to the Botanical Garden, to the Museum of the History of Medicine.

On the occasion of the project on "The eye in play", two volumes have been published (one for the historical part and the other for Group N) by Silvana Editoriale.

Together with the exhibition at Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, the exhibition offer is enriched by five installations distributed throughout the city: from the courtyard of the University to the Botanical Garden, to the Museum of the History of Medicine.

On the occasion of the project on "The eye in play", two volumes have been published (one for the historical part and the other for Group N) by Silvana Editoriale.

Together with the exhibition at Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, the exhibition offer is enriched by five installations distributed throughout the city: from the courtyard of the University to the Botanical Garden, to the Museum of the History of Medicine.

On the occasion of the project on "The eye in play", two volumes have been published (one for the historical part and the other for Group N) by Silvana Editoriale.

Source: ansa

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