Mimesis

Immagine Forma

Martina Franca

HoperAperta, in collaboration with Fondazione Paolo Grassi, presents the exhibition “Mimesis” in Martina Franca, in the beautiful noble halls of Palazzo Ducale.

Mimesis. Paraphrasing Plato's Republic, it could be argued that any object designed, imagined or created, however reproduced in an image with different potential uses, presupposes three different degrees of approximation: a point of relation, a point of transformation, and a point of representation. An ideal form, completely independent of its functions, constitutes the first point of Mimesis.

Mimesis therefore indicates a process of identification, a symbiotic action between two image forms of different natures. For example, Mimesis can be generated in the space-time relationship of an object, rather than in the relationship between light and movement or, finally, in the relationship that is created between the object-image and its ideal staging, through different forms of theatricality. The staging of the object, the idea of theater produced through an active imagination, transcending its practical function, is transformed into a work of art, a work conceived as the dramatization of an idea, a process of synthesis that we could define as form/image.                   

The New York Institute of Technology presents seven projects created by a group of graduating students from the Fabrication and Robotics course, under the supervision of Fadhil Fadhil and Alessandro Melis.

The artists featured in the exhibition are Maurizio Barberis, Armando Bruno, Dorian X, Fadhil Fadhil with the New York Institute of Technology, Alfonso Femia, Duccio Grassi, Federica Marangoni, Alessandro Melis, Daniele Menichini and Nicolas Turchi, Steve Piccolo, Odilia Prisco, Elena Salmistraro, Federico Spagnulo, Alberto Vannetti, and Carmelo Zappulla.

 Mimesis collaborates with:

Cromonichel, De Castelli, iGuzzini, Gonzato, Julia Marmi, Marmi Faedo, Óxido Studio, Panzeri, Sprech, Zeus, companies that represent excellence in lighting technology, in the processing and finishing of materials such as metal, stone, and marble, and that operate with a sustainable approach to enhancing the environment in which they operate.

Below: A story of Light and Matter by External Reference, Silentiae Lunae and Sotto il cielo di Mercurio by Maurizio Barberis, Depacha by Cristina Fiorenza, Memoria in movimento by Studio Spagnulo and Partners, iMiti by Elena Salmistraro