FRANÇOIS MORELLET – VISUAL MAPS
2017-05-29The gallery’s collaboration with the French artist started with Dadamaino Morellet Uecker, its inaugural exhibition in 1994. Over the years, it has led to many solo exhibitions both in Italy and abroad and now, a year since the death of the great master, this exhibition intends to put the spotlight on his unique and highly personal approach to the creation of art, retracing the last decade of his artistic career.
The last works he made in 2016 can be seen in the first room on the upper floor. These formed part of his “3D concertant” series, in which the main broken black lines along different angles permeate the white space of the canvas and lead the eye towards an optical illusion of the third dimension. The combination of systematic precision and an insatiable curiosity for experimentation, which appears throughout Morellet’s art, is also clear to see in the “Desarcticulation” series (2012). Here the surfaces and painted semicircle come together and overlap on two different canvases placed together, concealing reality with geometry and opening up to multiple visual avenues.
By means of a combination of dissimilar visual solutions, of which the titles are a fundamental component, François Morellet creates a sense of continuous disorientation, which leads to ambivalent visions, as in the case of Lunatique neonly 4 quarts n. 11 (2002). Here the neon tubes, the shapes of which suggest four segments of the same circle, intersect on the canvas, which is also circular, and end up in a wry play of visual cross-references and perceptive illusions
Exhibition runs through to July 12th, 2017
A arte Invernizzi
via D. Scarlatti 12
20124 Milan
Italy
