To complement the exhibition Art and Perception in the visual works of Alberto Argenton, Gaetano Kanizsa, Manfredo Massironi and in the music of Paolo Bozzi the curators have prepared a concise catalog as a guide to visitors.
Organized by the University of Milan Bicocca, on the occasion of the 23rd GTA (Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications) Conference, the exhibition was housed in the spaces of the FrancoAngeli Academy, in Milan, viale dell’Innovazione 11, from September 24 to October 11, 2024 (https://www.albertoargenton.it/argenton-kanizsa-massironi-e-bozzi-art-and-perception-exibition-in-milan/).
The curators of the exhibition, Tiziano Agostini, Mauro Antonelli, Ivana Bianchi, Laura Messina Argenton, Tamara Prest and Ian Verstegen, briefly outline in the catalog the profile of the four psychologists and artists, exemplifying, also through the reproduction of some of their works, the themes in which the exhibition itself is organized and which correspond to some of the many perceptual phenomena studied in psychology: amodal completion, completion by frame, anomalous figures, perceptual transparency, concavity-convexity, good continuation.
The catalog is supplemented by a first glossary explaining the meaning of the above thematic terms and their use in both science and art, and a second glossary clarifying the terms referred to the main theoretical premises on which the exhibition is based: Gestalt Psychology, Psychology of Art, Phenomenal reality/Phenomenal experience, Perceptual aspects of the artwork, Expressive properties.