Jorrit Tornquist, origine della luce, 1961
THE VIBRATIONS OF COLOUR, CLAUDIO ROTTA LORIA, JORRIT TORNQUIST
Two masters of colour, Rotta Loria and Torquist, are the protagonists of a double solo exhibition entitled “The vibrations of color”.
An exhibition that describes the research path involving visual perception, the influence of light and shadows on the artistic support and the importance of the study and design phase for each individual element generated by the creative process.
The vibrations of colour
Claudio Rotta Loria, Superficie a interferenza luminosa R 1×16 f,g,h,e, 1983, acrilico, fluorescente, cartoncino su tavola, 85x85x1,5cm (diagonale); 60x60cm (lato)
THE I.N.A.C., Istituto Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, in collaboration with the Municipality of Casale Monferrato and Studio d’Arte GR of Pordenone, promotes and realizes the double solo exhibition of Claudio Rotta Loria (Turin, 1949) and Jorrit Tornquist (Graz, Austria, 1938), “Le vibrazioni del colore”, curated by Giovanni Granzotto and Anselmo Villata and set up in the historical and suggestive Castello del Monferrato of Casale (AL) from December 4, 2021 to January 31, 2022.
The exhibition consists of about fifty works by two masters who, although geographically distant in terms of origin and training, but also in terms of age, present strong affinities in their research and aesthetic, formal, chromatic and luministic results.
The works of Claudio Rotta Loria
The exhibition focuses above all on “Luminous Interference Surfaces”, research that began in the late 1960s and has continued, albeit with some digressions and explorations in other fields, up to the present day. The constant in Rotta Loria’s work is to unearth the dynamics and possibilities of surfaces struck and crossed by a grazing light that, rather than identifying forms, magically succeeds in animating them through imperceptible vibrations and subtle, impalpable tremors of light.
The works of Jorrit Tornquist.
The exhibition is a long ride that starts from the first “Opus”, a never interrupted research that in the 60s and 70s finds a particular deepening of the problems of light in relation to chromatic perception. Tornquist then continued to deepen his perceptive discourse, increasingly emphasising the qualities and characteristics of pigment, used both with different types of pigment thickening and in a continuous change of supports in which it can be recognised (canvas, rags, gauze, wood, etc.).
The comparison between full and empty spaces, between the total and the partial of the work, continues to stimulate Tornquist’s studies on chromatic possibilities, and finally, almost returning to the origins, he discovers how colour declares itself and hides in the work itself.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Opening hours
Saturday – Sunday 10-13 14-18
Other days by appointment
Entrance: free
Catalogue: Verso l’Arte Editions
Castello del Monferrato
P.zza Castello
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