Ludwig Wilding

Witness of the epochal transition from the industrial society to the information one, Ludwig Wilding [Grünstadt, 1927 – Buchholz in der Nordheide, 2010] started producing his Programmierte Strukturbilder at the beginning of the sixties, thus developing a logical-sensorial art based on virtual motion. Ambiguity, indefiniteness and instability were the distinctive characteristics of the researches of that instant of the century; artists as Ludwig Wilding particularly went deep into the debate about apparent movement and stereoscopic vision (made possible by our binocular system which registers two different images and combine them into one, producing the experience of a third dimension).

In this way Wilding's works should be considered as a natural evolution of the traditional relationship between background and foreground. Binocular vision allows, in fact, to achieve the sense of depth thanks to the union of the different images generated in our right and left eyes. During the sixties Wilding managed to develop interference in the form of lines overlapping in the space. The lines were organized in two levels, separate but complementary: the fore part of the work and its background, which end up combined together in the retina. Practically the perceptive synthesis of the frontal level and of the one behind could generate an apparent movement.

Despite the fact that “seeing is knowledge” sometimes senses can deceive us, stimulating illusions or even hallucinations. Wilding's granular elaborations specifically act on optical illusion, proving the fact that art is a wonderful trick. The perceptive oscillation of these works is created by interspaced lines, orthogonal weaves, concave/convex surfaces, transparencies and retreats that analyse the inter-dependence between the artist/researcher and the spectator/receiver, as well as that between the perceiving subject and the perceived object. Because of this relationship, the work does not exist until it's seen; vice verse it stops existing when no more directly perceived.

Moreover it is necessary to have a direct experience of these works because the only way to really appreciate them is alive. It is impossible to understand the immediate passage from a “still form” to a “moving form”, which is the moment when the work of art assume a life of its own, activated by the spectator and induced to mutation by the variation of his own vision.

Considering that kinetic-visual investigations can be divided into two different categories, those concerning deduction and those recurring to induction, the structural gradients of Ludwig Wilding, without doubts, belong to the second case: they are intellectual provocations that act on our retina's photo-receptors.

Art exhibition  at Lissone Museum of Contemporary Art

Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces

International architecture, video art, experimental cinema, photography, installation and performance art festival
Opening: August 23, 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi


It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo, is proud to announce the opening of Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces, international architecture, video art, experimental cinema, photography, installation and performance art festival. The exhibition, under the patronage of the city of Venice, will be held in Venice in 2 prestigious palaces: Palazzo Albrizzi, from August 23 to September 07 2014, will showcase photography, installation, video-art and architecture works; and Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from August 31 to September 02 2014, will host the Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival (more info at: http://www.itsliquid.com/opening-venice-cinema-performance-festival.html).


Palazzo Albrizzi will also hosted the international exhibition of photography, video art, installation, architecture and performance art Social Cities - Self Identities, Common Places (August 23 - September 07, 2014) and the solo show Lead with passion of Lebanese artist Viva Eid (August 23 - 30, 2014).

The openings of the events will be on Saturday 23 of August 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi, starting from 06.00 PM (free entry); and on Sunday 31 of August 2014 at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, starting from 06.00 PM (free entry).


organizers: It’s LIQUID & International ArtExpo
curator: Luca Curci
project coordinator: Maria Caterina Denora
press office: It’s LIQUID


venues:
- Palazzo Albrizzi, Fondamenta Sant’Andrea Cannaregio 4118, 30121 Venice, Italy
- Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Cannaregio 4132, 30121 Venice, Italy

The events are curated by Arch. Luca Curci (Founder of LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS, International ArtExpo and It’s LIQUID Group). The festival’s program includes exhibitions, video art screenings, movies’ projections, live performances and meetings with artists involved.


Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces festival is focused on the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time. People, backgrounds, societies, progress, cities and all their inputs create hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world. The festival aims to conduct a research and to offer to artists and audience a 360° experience about the body, conceived not only as a material organic system connected to space, but also as an evolving organism with peculiar sensations, feelings and characteristics. Future Identities will present an exhibition of photography, installation, video-art and architecture works, with a special opening on August 23, 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi; and the Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival, with meeting with artists, at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from August 31 to September 02, 2014.

SOCIAL CITIES – Self Identities, Common Places analyzes the change of social relationship’s dynamics and the new need of real and face-to-face public rapports among people in our contemporary, high-tech and alienating lives. Today new technologies are integrated in our life and permit us to create endless networks of contacts with people from all-over the world, that we will probably never meet in real life. This infinite connections has enriched our lives and our personal identities, but from the other hands has completely modified the way in which we create human connections, creating more distance between them and us. Nowadays contemporary metropolis follow the new need of increasing our opportunities to connect with other people; meanwhile people try to create solid identities and individual personalities out of the sea of social networks.


Palazzo Albrizzi is one of the Venetian aristocracy’s palaces, situated in Cannaregio 4118, near Ca’ D’Oro. Constructed by the famous Capello family, in the 18th century the Palazzo passed into the hands of the Albrizzi family. The palace is the headquarter of ACIT Venezia, one of the most important Italian-German cultural association in collaboration with Goethe Institut, and since 2003 it has collaborated with Biennale in Venice, offering its spaces for National Pavilions or Collateral Events.
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi is a residential palace dating back to the 16th century which, over the centuries, has been added on to by various noble Venetian families and is one of the most evocative and beautiful palaces in the city of Venice; the Serenissima. Sumptuous and possessing particular charm, Ca’ Zanardi is located in a most peaceful setting and has its own delightful private garden as well as a magnificent terrace full of sun and colour. Ca’ Zanardi is located close to the Ca’ D’Oro, the splendid 15th century gothic palace along the Grand Canal. It is located off the main tourist drag but is still easily reachable by foot, after a two minute walk from the Ca’ D’Oro water bus stop, or by boat using the palazzo’s private pier positioned along the fetching Santa Caterina canal. The refined elegance of the palazzo’s halls and common areas and the delicacy of its original 16th century furnishings create a fascinating setting.

Visitors information: invite your friends and art lovers to the show. MORPHOS Festival is FREE ENTRY.



dates:
- Palazzo Albrizzi, from August 23 to September 07, 2014, from 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM and from 03.00 PM to 06.00 PM
- Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from August 31 to September 02, 2014, from 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM and from 03.00 PM to 06.00 PM

Future Identities will be the third event of the festival MORPHOS – Sustainable Empires, organized in Venice in the months between June and November 2014, in the same period of Architecture Biennale.

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Friuli Venezia Giulia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute.
The capital is Trieste. It has an area of 7,858 km² and about 1.2 million inhabitants. A natural opening to the sea for many Central European countries, the region is traversed by the major transport routes between the east and west of southern Europe.
It encompasses the historical-geographical region of Friuli and a small portion of the historical region of Venezia Giulia (known in English also as Julian March), each with its own distinct history, traditions and identity.