An intriguing exhibition opened in Barga this week and almost passed “under the radar” as there does not seem to have been an official inauguration or the traditional speeches being made or ribbon being cut at the entrance to the exhibition for the opening.
Nevertheless visitors to the Palazzo Pancrazi this week are in for a visual treat with a lively exhibition by the artist known as Hector & Hector.
A name which would seem to refer more to the corporate world than the artistic but do not be fooled, this is no group of lawyers, accountants or consultants but is instead the name used by a well travelled artist now living in Pisa and showing his work for the first time in this area.
Along with the strong images now hanging in the 500-year-old palazzo visitors would be well advised to read the following manifesto from Hector &Hector where he states quite plainly that artists are certainly not born to furnish homes but to communicate just like actors, poets, men of letters and philosophers. Citing Anaximander*, the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy and his boundless theory as the starting point for his artist voyage which then continued right through the ages to the hegemony of Hollywood and its burgeoning stars.
The exhibition is open everyday and will remain on view until 4 September.
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It is a shame that there is no guestbook inside the exhibition space so that people could leave their comments on what is, without a doubt, an exhibition worth commenting on.
As an artist he began to think of a manifesto, a public declaration to make art free from serial sameness, that artists should not be recognised by their images but by their signature, complete freedom of research, new languages, raw materials, geometric or alphanumeric shapes, none of which are linked to the mechanical gesture of filling surfaces. Artists are certainly not born to furnish homes but to communicate just like actors, poets, men of letters and philosophers. They should be the main characters in a new kind of emotive engineering. – Hector & Hector
*Anaximander was the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy. He speculated and argued about “the Boundless” as the origin of all that is. He also worked on the fields of what we now call geography and biology. Moreover, Anaximander was the first speculative astronomer. He originated the world-picture of the open universe, which replaced the closed universe of the celestial vault.
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E’ passata forse un po’ inosservata in questi giorni l’apertura di un’altra interessante esposizione nell’atrio di palazzo Pancrazi, sede del comune di Barga. Luogo che pare davvero deputato ad ospitare interessanti, intelligenti e preziose installazioni d’arte.
Qui dal 21 di agosto fino al 4 settembre permarrà “Oraw” (dal greco, vedere) che propone una ricerca dell’artista francese molto eccentrico e creativo, Hector&Hector. Le opere di sono apprezzate sia in Italia che all’estero, le quotazioni continuano a salire ed oggi abbiamo la possibilità di ammirare una sua personale ricerca proprio a Barga grazie a Comune di Barga, Studio D’Arte Ecletika e Mondolibro editore.
Come recita la presentazione della mostra, una ricerca che partendo dai principi della cosmogonia di Anassimandro di Mileto (l’origine e poi la struttura dell’universo) arriva al divismo di Hollywood per cercare di scoprire e mettere in evidenza il mito ed i miti attraverso segni, colori, numeri, cifre, volti cancellati, colature. Dove l’arte viene utilizzata come ponte per far raggiungere agli umani la strada che porta al desiderio di immortalità.