Paesaggi aumentati: poetica e geometria nelle trascrizioni anamorfiche di Felice Varini

Augmented Landscapes: Poetry and Geometry in the Anamorphic Transcriptions of Felice Varini . In an era where more and more often and in a manner at times, exasperated, artists are trying to produce virtual images able to allude to a three-dimensionality that does not exist, Felice Varini (1952 Locarno, Switzerland) operating in three-dimensional environments, plays an interesting contamination, working with the two-dimensionality of basic geometric shapes transcribed in fragments of a landscape, obviously three-dimensional, in order to represent the images produced by his artistic genius as if he worked in the two-dimensionality of a simple drawing paper, but prospectively deforming his signs along the surfaces of a plastic real space. And architecture does not longer manifest itself to celebrate his presence, but fades into the background, it becomes suggestion to say something more complex, a substrate, a canvas to paint but already containing some ideas under which set the whole work of art. His anamorphic deformations are designed so that the signs will perfectly recompose the image represented only from the vantage of view (at the height of the eye of the artist himself), who assumes the role of the center of the whole projective and perspective system. But the “perfect vision” is not the only aim, but perhaps only the starting point for a new experience of investigation through the endless points of view with which, guided by those new and temporary signs, you can watch the world with a new sense of surprise. And now back to the third dimension, and we could also say the fourth one, which allows viewers to move to understand the deep sense of those lines or circles.