April 4, 2013

Felice Varini's Visual Deceptions

From Atlantic Cities:
Four circles within a square hang in the air like a segment of a Connect Four set, suspended between the spiral parking garage and the viewer.
Varini 1

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Local phlebotomist Secor Upson, drawn in by the shifting perspectives, says that walking down this alley is “like being born.”

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Upson’s physical reaction — he moves side to side, forward and backward, trying to size up what he sees — is typical of a viewer approaching Varini’s pieces, watching the artist’s colored arcs and distorted quadralaterals slide into coherent shapes. Walking on, they drift apart again. It’s best to savor the golden moment of coherence when you’ve seen it emerge.

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"Huit carrŽs" "Huit carrŽs"

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