THE HAPTIC EYE

Galleria Allegra Ravizza in collaboration with Diehl Gallery, Berlin, is pleased to present an extensive project titled "THE HAPTIC EYE", curated by Mark Gisbourne.  

 A synergy of virtual and physical spaces: two online events and two gallery exhibitions

1. ONLINE EVENT 

From September 18th the digital international platform ARTCIRCLE presents the first part of the exhibition THE EYES OF THE SKIN 

THE HAPTIC EYE
Part 1 "THE EYES OF THE SKIN"
Curated by Mark Gisbourne
18 September - 30 December 2020
ArtCircle www.art-circle.com

 

2. ONLINE EVENT 

 From October 7th the digital edition of the london fair FRIEZE 2020

FRIEZE LONDON 2020
Online Edition 
Vip days 7-8 October 2020
Public days 9-16 October 2020
www.frieze.com

 

3. TWO EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERIES 

 From October 14th the works are exhibiting at the venues of Galleria Allegra Ravizza

THE HAPTIC EYE
Opening 14 October 2020, 12am to 8.30pm
Galleria Allegra Ravizza 
Lugano | Piazza Cioccaro 7 
Milano | via Gorani 8
www.allegraravizza.com 

 

The entire project will be accompanied by a catalogue offering different multimedial contents edited by the Gallery! 

 

The Haptic Eye is conceived as a series of exhibitions of soft sculptures, objects, and variable materials that focus upon visual assimilations in the context of a multisensory and expanded field of artistic production. In the current post-quarantine context of social distancing and physical separation, it seems imperative to focus anew on those sensory experiences that have been diminished in the immediate pandemic situation. While the exhibitions both online and at the galleries are optically directed, attempts have been made to generate, what Gaston Bachelard referred to “polyphony of the senses,” to acknowledge that visual aesthetic experiences come from the fact that the eye collaborates with the body and the other senses in a state of continuous interaction.

 

The Haptic Eye exhibitions take on a particular orientation shaped by visual sensory experiences, subtlety shifting the emphasis encompassed by the metaphor of haptic vision. Hence they will focus on immediate sensory qualities that are common to the various works presented. Each presentation will shift the emphasis around ideas of malleability, soft materials configured, or uniquely manipulated into given shapes without the effects of rupture breaking or cracking. Also pliability, the use of materials that are flexible, easily bent, elastic, and often open to a variable presentation. The works may be foldable, stackable, or accumulative in presentation, have transportability, and they are easily conveyed from location to installation.   

Artists 

Shaarbek Amankul
Birgit Dieker
Sheila Hicks
Ritzi & Peter Jacobi
Marie Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Aiko Tezuka
Günter Weseler 
Magda (Vitalyos) Ziman