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ARTURO DELLE DONNE<\/strong> Opening reception:<\/strong>\u00a0October 5th , 2012 from 6.30 pm to midnight. VisionQuesT gallery is pleased to begin the 2012\/2013 season by presenting \u201cDe Rerum Naturae\u201d by Arturo Delle Donne.<\/strong> The opening reception on Friday 5th October is part of START<\/strong>, the event that marks the beginning of the new season for all the art galleries in Genova.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> In the 1st century b.C Titus Lucretius Carus with the didactic poem\u00a0 \u201cDe Rerum Naturae\u201d (On The Nature of Things) became the spokesman of the theories of Epicurus on the reality of nature and the role of mankind in an atomistic, materialistic and mechanistic universe. Man frees himself from the condition of need through the production of techniques, which in all cases are still a transpositions of nature. He stated that the rational knowledge of nature is underlined by an infinite universe that follows natural laws indifferent to the actions of man,\u00a0 his despotic vision, his excesses and transpositions. The universe is made up of\u00a0 atoms and void and man\u00a0 is also composed of atoms that, once the body dies, scatter themselves in the universe, to be recycled by nature.<\/p>\n Just as Lucretius reminded humanity of their personal responsibility urging them\u00a0 to take on an awareness of reality, a reality where man is the victim of passions, desires often difficult to understand and manage, Arturo Delle Donne in the latter part of the trilogy \"The Last Breath on Earth\" which explores the imagination through the past, present and future of humanity, brings on the same transposition of nature by emphasizing the relationship between food and culture, between science and art with an almost pictorial symbolism of the images \u2013\u00a0 one has the feeling of\u00a0 being in front of comparative anatomy plates where through the discipline of synthesis and the comparison between the anatomical structures of the different groups of vertebrates, one tries to identify and analyze the causes of their form, their structural organization and their adaptations -.<\/p>\n The extreme simplicity of presentation (as in the other two sections of the trilogy) with a white background, devoid of any surroundings or disturbing elements, serves to focus the attention on the subject and to accentuate the position of the animal in a deterministic way within the life cycle made of interactions, in a continuous process of causes and effects. The animal becomes the prey, the inanimate being, a symbol of culture, food, basic need, an expression of life, condemned to death by necessity, in a continuous, ancestral relationship of love and hate, life and death.<\/p>\n This is an ambitious project that seeks to visually compose a synthesis between art and science, to reflect on the cultural and biological interactions that belong to our planet: photography in this case,\u00a0 but the artistic expression in general, have a value only in that they provide a pleasant\u00a0 and accessible version of the major mysteries of science to the mind?\u00a0 Lucretius rendered this idea fully through the image of the sick child to whom a drink of bitter medicine is given by moistening with honey the rim of the glass.<\/p>\n In the thirteen photographs that compose \"De Rerum Naturae\" as well as in the entire trilogy, there is not an actual denunciation\u00a0 but rather an exhortation to reflect on how important a raising of consciousness and responsibility is for the resources\u2019 use and management and\u00a0 the risk of a loss of diversity.\u00a0 On the mistaken statement that the responsibility for these events belongs to entities beyond our reach; nothing comes from nothing just as things, our actions cannot vanish into nothing.<\/p>\n Clelia Belgrado<\/p>\n
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Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0October 6th - November 17th, 2012
Location:<\/strong> VISIONQUEST gallery\u00a0Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy
Tel.:<\/strong> +39 010 2468771 +39 339 7534993
Opening Hrs.:<\/strong> Wednesday, to Saturday 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm or by appointment tel. +39 3397534993
Website:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Email information:<\/strong> info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\nPress Release<\/h3>\n