Processing a Mirage

Dal martedì 24 novembre 2009
al domenica 07 febbraio 2010

Orari:
Wed - Sun | 11am - 6pm

CURATOR | Emanuela Nobile Mino

Marshall McLuhan was one of the first who pointed out the connection between the media and the human sensorial system, formulating the theory of a “media aesthetic”. He considered the media not just neutral instruments to vehicle a message, but a symptom of the mutation of our way of feeling and thinking, becoming themselves the real content of the message.

Art, as representation, gave back the chance to free the human instinct of exploring the sphere that stands between the given and objective reality and the absolute reality, the spiritual one, the unknown.

To be assumed as a shared territory able to embody individual, oneiric and mental visions.

By concentrating on the unfixing and surprising effect of the representation process, “Processing a Mirage” reflects upon the tricky nature of the interactive relationship that automatically gets created in the interrelation between vision and perception, eye and mind, artwork and audience, reality and dream, substance and ghost.

The project, which involves artists of different nationality, age and formation, analyzes the idea of Mirage as a way of interpreting reality through the manipulation of existing data and considering, as aim of the work, the attempt to provoke an over-turn in the perception process, changing terms, components and the usual dictat of the vision.

Relating to the west's obsession with the individual ego and individual consciousness and with the phenomenological and existential approaches to reality, that makes the human mind the final arbiter of all knowledge and sense data, the project aims to reflect about the possibility of art to trick the human mind (and eye) without the help of sophisticated technologies.

Looking at the international scene, a number of artists seems adopting, in all different manners, this particular way of expression and art process, searching for a direct interaction between their own work and the audience (such as James Turrell, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Leandro Erlich, Thomas Demand, Urs Fisher, Fischli&Weiss, James Casebere, etc.), conceiving catchy eye-twisting and, at the same time, realistic iconographical set ups in order to give the present time another possible way of expansion - absolutely plausible - in a parallel meta-reality.

In all different ways, the involved artists’ working process, reflects about this idea of using an art medium (photography, video, installation, sculpture) to create a sort of mirage.

The reading of a given reality assumes, in the works presented in the exhibition, a different process as well as it gives a diverse sensory perception. The audience finds itself in front of visual illusions (video, photographical, sound, sculptural) able to give the impression of looking at, or participating in, a fact that seems actually substituting the real (or the more logical) one. To discover, right after, to have given an additional and personal contribution to the reading of the work.

Art expression becomes a powerful mean to change the “perception at first glance” of reality and the issues of representation; dialectically illuminating the complex relationships between the virtual and the real, and creating a coalition of appearance and objective, overcoming all the contradictories that naturally come out of this comparison.

ARTISTS:
Wolfgang Berkowski | Salzkotten (Germany) 1960
Igor Eskinja | Rijeka (Croatia) 1975
Alberto Garutti | Galbiate, LC (Italy) 1948
Kristof Kintera | Prague (CZ) 1973
Tracey Moffatt | Brisbane (Australia) 1960
Adrian Paci | Shkoder (Albania) 1969
Antonio Rovaldi | Parma (Italy) 1975
Marinella Senatore | Cava de’ Tirreni, SA (Italy) 1977

Opening reception: November 24th 2009 at 6pm

Until: FEBRUARY 7TH 2010

Acknowledgements:
Galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan; Galleria Paolo Maria Deanesi, Rovereto; Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome; Z2O Galleria | Sara Zanin, Rome; Galleria Monitor, Rome; Jiří Švestka Gallery, Prague

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