马克·特里
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Wijnegem
Pictures of the exhibition
马克·特里
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Wijnegem
Story of the exhibition
For all bodies are, like rivers, in a perpetual flux, and parts are entering into them and departing from them continually. […] These tiny perceptions, then, are more effective in their results than has been recognized. They constitute that ‘je ne sais quoi’, those flavours, those images of sensible qualities, vivid in the aggregate but confused as to the parts; those impressions that are made on us by the bodies around us and that involve the infinite; that connection that each being has with all the rest of the universe.
In line with Leibniz’s philosophy, one can read Tirelli “oeuvres” like looking out of a dark window, where the infinite is possible. It is a landscape of perception that suggests a way of standing before the idea of infinity. The viewer is in balance between two ways of being possible: to remain static in this place and assume that the world is only invisible, or to open themselves to the infinite way of the possible.
Tirelli’s geometries mirror the shadow of light on a dark background, an infinite column of cubes, a cosmology of spheres. They are threshold objects: they appear from the dark and in the darkness accompany us, like epiphanies of darkness, visual trampolines that allow the gaze to dive into the mystery of the infinite. Tirelli believes that art can act as a vehicle into a world behind reality, transporting the viewer away from the concrete into a highly “poetic” other world. You can say that the objects he paints are only a pretext to investigate the unfathomable, to bring his journey to the limits of time, the true protagonist of many of his paintings.
A striking parallel can be made with cinema where sequences in which things, objects, and people — momentarily out of range — could enter the scene. Likewise, things, objects, and people within the sequence must make us perceive their absence. All this is the sense of time and allow Tirelli to paint the possible.
This original text was written by Prof. Massimo Carboni. This text above was translated from the longer, original Italian version into English, with edits for content and space. For the original Italian version, please see the publication: Marco Tirelli, exh. cat., Todi, Sala delle Pietre, Palazzi Comunali, 2017.
The world is everything that happens on the boundary between light and shade, everything that is and might be in my consciousness.