Entrare nell’opera (Entering the work), 19 Feb 2016 — 02 Apr 2016
Exhibitions

Entrare nell’opera (Entering the work)

Galleria Massimodeluca presents its first exhibition of 2016, a group exhibition which brings together six young artists whose work focuses on getting close to the observer. 

The exhibition, curated by Daniele Capra and based on an idea by Marina Bastianello, artistic director of the Massimodeluca, comes from “the desire to bring together artists whose research focuses on getting close both emotionally and conceptually to the observer, well aware that artistic practice is a continuous and inexhaustible inquisition of other people’s observation” explains Capra.

The exhibition – featuring a dozen works ranging from painting to video, photography, sculpture and installation of the artists Paola Angelini, Stefano Cozzi, Marie Denis, Dominique Figarella, Graziano Folata and Stefano Moras, takes its inspiration from the work of Giovanni Anselmo “Entrare nell’opera”, a particularly intense examination of the visual relationship with the spectator and the dynamics of psychic involvement in the work.

In 1971 Anselmo mounted a camera on a tripod and aimed the objective at a meadow in front of him, setting it on delayed shutter release. Then he pressed the button and started running with his back to the camera. The resulting photo portrays the artist from the back, as he is moving.

The exhibition Entrare nell’opera at the Galleria Massimodeluca examines how striving for psychic but also perceptive and spatial involvement is one of the most important strategies of art, and not only art today (many Flemish artists from as early as the fifteenth century, for instance, used mirrors or reflections of the light to represent small snippets of the world which were not directly in front of the artist but behind him). 

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