M.A.D.S ART GALLERY: International Art Exhibition

“Orizzonti Trasversali” – which literally means “Transverse Horizons” – is the title of
the summer exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery. The aim of the exhibition
is to involve artists in exploring the different facets of things, of people and in
particular of reality. This is possible only by constantly changing one’s perspective
and opening oneself to new horizons.
Everything existing in nature does not possess a single dimension, it does not possess
a single meaning or a single objective truth. An object seen from different angles
changes shape as it changes our perception. The attention then moves from the
subject in question to the observing subject and its location around it.
The emblematic example is offered by the Cubist artists with their works, in
particular those of Pablo Picasso. Visually, the challenge of Cubism was to bring the
three-dimensional vision of the human eye back to a two-dimensional medium like
the canvas. It was a disruptive movement because it overturned the idea that art
should faithfully reproduce nature and put the artist’s perception of reality first.
The subject of perception is also widely discussed by Philosophy, George Berkeley,
for example, regarding the reality argues that “we can say that it is perceived but
not that it exists in itself” while Thomas Reid refutes this argument by distinguishing
perception from sensation.
What is certain is that every human being makes different experiences in similar
situations and this is due to the different perception that every person has of reality,
which is filtered by individual psychic processes and by the physical condition of the
subject.
M.A.D.S. therefore invites artists to explore the world from different angles and to
create works that are the product of this process of filtration of reality, born as a
result of an individual reworking of objects, situations and people, creating a place
where individuality is celebrated, welcoming every point of view.
Because the “true” reality is nothing more than the set of all our perceptions.
ORIZZONTI
TRASVERSALI
Concept edited by Giorgia Massari Art Curator