Felice Varini
Buchmann Galerie, Lugano
Through 31 December 2021
Buchmann Lugano presents new works by FELICE VARINI (Locarno *1952), internationally renowned artist from Ticino.
On display are large lacquered steel sculpture made for the occasion and a pictorial intervention in situ. The latter is displayed as it was conceived only from a certain point of view. The visitor is able to have unlimited decomposed and unforeseen versions of it simply by moving his gaze.
Felice Varini "invades" the space directly involving the spectator, called to trigger in first person the mechanisms of perspective and spatial deformation prepared by the artist.
Felice Varini's public works distinguish entire landscapes and architectures among them are: La Seine Musicale, Ile Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (2020), Galeries la Fayette Mall, Shanghai (2019), Shanghai Yang Pu Waterfront (2019), Château et Remparts de la Cité de Carcassonne (2018), Yerevan Central Railway Station, Yerevan, Armenia (2017), Kunsthalle in Osnabrück (2017), MAMO, Cité Radieuse, Marseille (2016). In the space of MASI - Palazzo Reali there is one of his mural paintings. Three works made for the LAC parking garage in 2012 became the first acquisitions for the opening of the new cultural center of Lugano. A large pictorial intervention of his has been realized, moreover, in the headquarters of the Banca Stato del Canton Ticino in Bellinzona. The artist has already been collaborating with the Buchmann gallery for many years. In 2013 with the work Zig Zag of triangles for the pillar has inaugurated the space Buchmann Lugano.
BUCHMANN LUGANO
Via della Posta 2, CH-6900 Lugano
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