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| 23 January 2009 – 29 March 2009 |
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| Test Optometrico (Milo De Angelis, José Saramago), 2007 Installation, 3 light box, 100 x 50 x 12 cm each Courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano Photo: Valentina Muscedra |
| Arranged without any intermediate spaces like some kind of endless chain, the letters run in decreasing order of size just like on an optician's eye-test card, hence the name of this work of art. Yet it is not immediately clear to the viewer that the letters actually make up phrases from literary texts by such authors as Milanese poet Milo De Angelis or Portuguese novelist José Saramago, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1989. As is so often the case with her work, Marzia Migliora chooses quotes dealing with existential themes such as fear, death or the memory in a timeless situation. The artist challenges the spectator's capacity for interpretation, forcing him to actively seek out the meaning of the jumble of letters, which are only meaningless at first sight. The spectator needs to move closer in and further out and to reread the letters more than once, in order to compose not only the individual words but also the overall meaning of the fragments of text displayed. The artist aims to break up the traditional parameters of the spectator's perception in order to then prompt him to redefine the dialogue between the body and the mind, between real space and interior space, stimulating an in-depth reflection on the human condition and on the precarious nature of existence itself. |
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| Test Optometrico (Milo De Angelis, José Saramago), 2007 Installation, 3 light box, 100 x 50 x 12 cm each Courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano Photo: Valentina Muscedra |
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