Photograph
– copyright courtesy Palazzo Grassi – Orsenigo Chemollo
Venice:
Palazzo Grassi - The Illusion of Light Exhibition. The exhibition “The Illusion of Light” at
Palazzo Grassi, until December 31, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, explores the
physical, aesthetic, symbolic, philosophical and political stakes of an
essential dimension of human experience that has also been, since (at least)
the Renaissance, a fundamental element of art: light.
Above:
Latifa Echakhch - Fantome (Jasmin) - 2012
/ A Chaque Stencil une Revolution, 2007.
Courtesy the artist and Kamel Mennour, Paris
Pinault Collection
installation on view at Palazzo Grassi 2014.
Venice:
Palazzo Grassi - The Illusion of Light Exhibition. It is the light that makes the invisible
dimension become visible. The blazing light that, at its maximum intensity,
nullifies the ability to actually see. The light of revelation, of illumination,
which brings us beyond the visible… The exhibition is built on these extremes
and, through the works of eighteen artists from the 1960s to today, evokes the
profound ambivalence of light, its numerous meanings and values.
Above:
Doug Wheeler – D – N SF 12 PG VI – 2012.
Paola
Manfredi and Martin Bethenod
Palazzo
Grassi - The Illusion of Light: Vidya Gastaldon
- Escalator (Rainbow Rain) – 2007
Yaya
and Vittorio Coin
Cecilia
Rossi Colussi, Franco and Vitti Zoppas
Palazzo
Grassi - The Illusion of Light: Bruce Conner – Crossroads – 1976
Marco
Loredan and Manuela Luca Dazio
Melanie
Van Ogtrop, Paola Caovilla and Paola Gradi
Palazzo
Grassi - The Illusion of Light. The visitor can discover “Light” as if going through all the synonyms
of the verbs “to light up”, “bring to light”, “come to light”, “shed light on”
provided by languages: appear, bring to notice, clarify, comment on, detect,
dig up, disclose, elucidate, emerge, enlighten, explain, expose, identify, lay
bare, manifest, materialize, reveal, set alight, set on fire, shine, show up,
transpire, turn up, uncover, unearth, unveil…
Above:
Claire Tabouret – Les Veilleurs - 2014.
Daniela
Ferretti
Ketty
Alvera, Luca and Isabella Castagna
Palazzo
Grassi - The Illusion of Light: Danh Vo – Autoerotic Asphyxiation - installation
– 2010
Paola
Goppion
Veronica
and Luca Marzotto
Palazzo
Grassi - The Illusion of Light. The exhibition
does not exhaust the vast field of questions posed by contemporary artists on
the concept of Light. However, it encourages the visitors to invent, in
absolute freedom and in light of their own intelligence and sensibility, their
path between the opposite polarities of black and white, day and night, reality
and illusion.
Above:
Philippe Parreno – Marquee – 2013.
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