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| Wesley Willis, 'Untitled (Imagined Building)', ca. 1982. ball point pen on photo copy, 28 x 23 cm. Courtesy Delmes & Zander. |
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| George Widener, 'untitled', 2016. mixed media on paper, 55.5 x 36 cm. Courtesy Delmes & Zander. |
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| Jesuys Crystiano, 'untitled', 2012. pencil on paper, 42 x 59 cm. Courtesy Delmes & Zander. |
The Golden Ratio Laws - Works from the Treger/Saint Silvestre Collection at Oliva Creative Factory
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R. da Fundição, 3700-119
São João da Madeira, Portugal
29th April 2017 - 1st October 2017
Curated by Antonia Gaeta
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"In the Codex Atlanticus, the largest set of drawings and manuscripts by Leonardo Da Vinci, 1119 sheets that comprise the author’s intellectual production between 1478 and 1519, one can find several allusions to the secret arts, the occult sciences and, more specifically, the golden number.
This irrational number, also known as golden proportion, golden ratio, golden section, extreme reason, Phidias constant, harmony of the spheres and divine proportion, seems to be the measure of perfection, of grace, of harmony, and it is considered the most perfect of forms. Of the myriad of artistic fields you can cross in the Treger/Saint Silvestre Collection, among those occupied by mystics, psychics, self-proclaimed metaphysicians who tried to use art as a tool to access seemingly hidden realms, we cut out the aspect of the eccentrics, the makers and the visionaries, in an effort to reveal, through a parallel with the almost magical properties of gold, artists whose work pursued the perfection of the most sublime architectonic achievements.
In the categorization and choice of works and architectural typology, we tried to showcase the intelligible diversity of drawings, either monologues, contemplations or solitary reasoning, with the purpose of making the understanding of the relation between natural and entropic components, beauty canons, diversity and organization more fluid. Ideal projects, architectures on paper, works that describe mental images and delusions associated with the desire to achieve ideal and perfect worlds, the dreamed home or city, in order to recreate a space or a form where they feel truly welcome.
In the exhibition, the visionary is an ideal; the impracticable a utopian perfection, a mental image dissociated from the physical nature of the real world, the occasion to rebuild the world as each artist believes it should be or, in any case, an invitation to discover and build their own narrative." (...)
Exhibiting Artists Include:
A. ARUMUGAM
A. C. M
ADOLF WÖLFLI
ALEXANDRO GARCIA
BEVERLY BAKER
CARLO FRANCO STELLA
CARTER TODD
DAMIAN VALDES DILLA
DANIEL GONCALVES
DWIGHT MACKINTOSH
EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN
GASTON MOULY
GEORGE WIDENER
GIANNI ANTONELLI
HASSAN
JAIME
JESUYS CRYSTIANO
JOHN DEVLIN
JOSE TEOFILO RESENDE
JOSEF HOFER
KOSTIA BOTKINE
LEONARD FINK
LEOPOLD STROBL
MADGE GILL
MAMADOU CISSE
MARTIN RAMIREZ
MICHAEL HALL
OGNJEN JEREMIC
PIERRE PETIT ET RAYMONDE
PROPHET ROYAL ROBERTSON
ROY WENZEL
SCOTTIE WILSON
SEBASTIAN FERREIRA
TADASHI MORIYAMA
TITOV
VASILIJ ROMANENKOV
WELMON SHARLHORNE
WESLEY WILLIS
ZBNEK SEMERAK
ZORAN TANASIC
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