Argenton, Kanizsa, Massironi e Bozzi:
Art and Perception, exibition in Milan

Organized by the University of Milan Bicocca, on the occasion of the 23rd GTA (Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications) Conference, the exhibition Art and Perception in the visual works of Alberto Argenton, Gaetano Kanizsa, Manfredo Massironi and in the music of Paolo Bozzi is housed in the spaces of the FrancoAngeli Academy, in Milan, viale dell’Innovazione 11, and can be visited from September 24 to October 11, 2024.

In their scientific research, the four scholars investigated in depth perceptual aspects of human experience and behavior, following an approach that can be traced back to Gestalt Psychology (one of the cornerstones of Italian psychology in the second half of the twentieth century) and to the Psychology of Art of a Gestalt matrix.

The four scholars have also cultivated artistic research systematically, albeit with individual differences, in the visual arts (Argenton, Kanizsa and Massironi) and music (Bozzi), and they shared their creations through exhibition activities or concerts.

The exhibition is structured by themes, corresponding to some of the many perceptual phenomena studied in psychology – amodal completion, completion by frame, anomalous figures, perceptual transparency, concavity-convexity, good continuation – that can be also found in the artworks of the aforementioned psychologist artists, with the freedom of artistic invention.

 

Here below a photo gallery on the exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below three photographs by Antonio Calabrò

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here the link to the Video realized by the Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Area Servizi Culturali e Documentali (SCuDo) – Settore Servizi Culturali per il territorio, montage by Marco Livecchi. Music of Paolo Bozzi, Camargue per violino solo
https://youtu.be/ifLAnQZie6I?si=Oy66lGwyr4hVlHVH