Paolo Scirpa - Untitled

The 1960s and 1970s saw the emergence of various movements that investigated and stimulated visual perception, both through the traditional methods of painting and sculpture, but also through innovative mechanical means that allowed for serial reproduction. Paolo Scirpa's research draws on this context, with an eye on the poetics of Spatialism and Optical Art, reshaping space and perception through the use of neon and mirrors.

In this graphic work, Paolo Scirpa develops this research on a two-dimensional medium, maintaining the consistency of his style. From this perspective, the primary reference is the historical avant-garde of Abstraction, with its study of pure forms and pure colors. Think of Kandinsky's abstractions or Mondrian's Neoplasticism. With the introduction of mechanical media into the visual arts, this research also embraces the seriality and randomness brought about by printing. In this graphic work by Paolo Scirpa, perception is reshaped through a pronounced mechanomorphism that introduces, in the round, an interplay of modularity and refractions certainly consistent with the light installations that made the artist famous.

Paolo Scirpa was born in Syracuse in 1934. In 1965 and the 1970s, he moved from a two-dimensional iconography to the modularity of an object-based space that light and mirrors transformed into a poly-objective space. His research oriented itself toward a dimension in which light and space take center stage. In 1972, Scirpa began creating his Ludoscopes, three-dimensional works that, through a system of combined neon lights and mirrors, suggest the perception of fictitious depths, true hyperspaces of light in which the boundary between the real and the illusory is abolished. Scirpa's works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and are included in important private and museum collections such as: Salon Grands et Jeunes d'aujourd'hui in Paris; Rome Quadrennial, Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara), ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), Neue Galerie (Graz), MART (Rovereto), GNAM (Rome), al MACRO (Rome), al Museum Ritter (Waldenbuch), VAF-Stiftung (Frankfurt), Museo del Novecento (Milan).

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