Sunset with the artist – Umberto Ciceri
Umberto Ciceri at Treville Positano – 9th September 2021
On September 9th, Umberto Ciceri will be the protagonist of the last appointment of Sunset with the artist, in the amazing location of Treville Positano.
After 25 years dedicated to exploring the visual arts, the biology of sight, the neurophysiology of perception, and the chemistry of colour, pattern, and texture, Umberto Ciceri began creating his own artworks in 2007. His Hypertrait artworks are built around the concept of perpetual motion like celestial mechanics, where both movement and immobility are an illusion.
The optical and kinetic process of these works creates a translatory motion: the movement of the observer causes the image to move, and the movement of the image causes, in turn, the observer to move. There results an immersive motion within the depths of the perception.
Each Hypertrait experience is unique and dependent upon the precise relationship between the work and the observer, including the of number of revolutions and cycle reiterations. This relationship will always be as unique as each observer’s ability to break down and reconstruct the material presented in the work.
Ciceri has participated in a number exhibitions, his works were also shown at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in the Italian Pavilion and at the ancient Reggia di Caserta, with a solo exhibition titled “Human Fights Rights Lights”. Moreover, his works took part in many important and international Art Fairs.
His works will be the perfect conclusion of this series of event, in which the sunset has never been so enjoyable and artistic.
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.
