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On the occasion of the reopening of the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Opera Laboratori presents “Julio Le Parc. The discovery of perception”.
From September 13 to March 16, the Palazzo delle Papesse will host the first and most important solo exhibition of the great Argentine artist ever held in Italy. After purchasing the building from the Bank of Italy, Opera Laboratori is staging its first exhibition in the building with over 80 works of art produced by Le Parc in a career that began over 60 years ago.
Curated by Marcella Beccaria in an ongoing dialogue with Julio Le Parc and the artistic director of his studio Yamil Le Parc, the exhibition is produced by Opera Laboratori with the support of Galleria Continua. The merchandising and catalogue are produced by Sillabe.
The exhibition is a perfect marriage between past and present based on the dialogue between the colours, lights and movement of Julio Le Parc's works and the splendid frescoes on the ceilings of the Palazzo delle Papesse. Le Parc works on the notion of detachment, of distance between the artist and his work. He has a predilection for the use of existing geometric forms, in an attempt to visually activate the surface of his work and to involve the observer directly. “The primary requirement,” he writes, “(is) to increase the distance between the artist and the work of art, eliminating not only any trace of manual labor (“the artist’s painterly touch”) but also any trace of subjective composition.” With most of the works on display coming directly from his studio in Cachan, France and his personal archive, the Argentine artist offers visitors a direct encounter with the universe he has created from 1958 to the present. Avoiding a rigidly chronological approach, the exhibition is built around thematic series that punctuate the artist’s work, and opens by welcoming visitors with his Sphere verte (2016). Positioned at the entrance of the Palazzo delle Papesse, this recent work is a large suspended body. Its unstable geometry, composed of a multitude of green plexiglass mosaic tiles that reflect light, alters the surrounding space.
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