La forma del ritmo
Umberto Ciceri at Museo Maga | October 8 – December 4 2022
Alongside the rearrangement of the collection, the MA * GA presents the personal exhibition of Umberto Ciceri. The exhibition project focuses on the artist’s abstract-analytical production, which takes its inspiration from the Realist Manifesto (1920) by Naum Gabo and explores the chromatic experiments characterized by the authorial and innovative use of lenticular surfaces. The artist writes about the exhibition: “the visitors will move continuously, they will produce the necessary associations by themselves, they will make their own rhythm: the articles of the Declaration of Human Rights that follow one another, the bodies that stir, the songs regulated by codes geometric, colors on the threshold of invisibility, inlaid works composed according to contrapuntal rules, everything will resonate, proposing a contemplative and suspended perceptive atmosphere ”.
The exhibition itinerary is completed with the section set up inside the ViaMilanoLounge rooms at Milan Malpensa T1 airport. The project is realized thanks to the support of Movie Skin and Liquid art system.
Umberto Ciceri is one of the leading artists of the new kinetic art at international level, a kind of art which is based, on the one hand, on the 1970s historical theorizations and, on the other hand, on the most recent studies on optics and on the most up-to-date technology related to these studies. The latest production by Umberto Ciceri – defined “kinetic nano-impressionism” – focuses on the abstract-analytical part, by delving into the chromatic experimentations characterised by the authorial and unique use of lenticular surfaces; the outcome is beautiful and has a great effect, artworks that wonder about the “perception” in general, but investigate the operation and limits of our eye in particular. Equally powerful is the most figurative part that Ciceri has continued to explore during his long career, by achieving the rarefication of the movements of the characters activated in his works, figures that only exist in the little space of the lenticular surface: ballerinas mostly, who dance in a state of absolute grace, whose pirouette is triggered by the viewers who, before the artwork, are forced to repeat their movements over and over again to enjoy the view.
