Arte e Scienza

Robert Downey jr. and Indio on the set of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, by Steven Shainberg, 2006

Ho ideato questo progetto iconografico basato sulle corrispondenze tra scienza e arte per il festival Giorno per Giorno, Dieci giorni di curiosità infinita. Arte, scienza e culture contemporanee, a cura di Gianluigi Ricuperati, Torino 2012.

E’ stato trasformato in video da Roberta Tedesco e Gabriele Falletto ed è stata creata una colonna sonora da O/ONE CIRCLE in collaborazione con XPLOSIVA.
Herbert List, The unknown female from the Danube, Vienna 1944 © Herbert List Estate / Magnum Photos

Sections and captions

Between cosmology and geometry

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale. La fine di Dio, 1963

Vanessa Beecroft, VB53, 2004, performance, Tepidarium, Giardino dell’Orticoltura, Firenze

Dubita che di fuoco sian le stelle e che il Sole si muova, William Shakespeare, Amleto, Atto II, Scena II

The Van der Graaff Accelerator, one of the firs atom smashing machines, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1937.

Scientists Studying Moon Phases on Models in Preparation For US Flight to Moon. Photo by Fritz Goro

Olafur Eliasson, Your Spiral View, 2002, Fondation Bayeler

Wang Yuyang, Artificial moon, 2006

Orrery, 1794

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (solar set), 1956-58,

Washington D. C., The Robert Lehrman Art Trust Limbourg

Daniel Spoerri, Assemblage on Encyclopédie de Diderot et d’Alembert, Chirurgie, PL.XVI, 1994

Doug Wheeler, RM 669, 1969

Ermetic Androgino from medieval alchemical treatise Aurora Consurgens, XV Century

Vintage couple tattoo

Corrispondenze tra l’Uomo e il Cosmo, Fratelli Limbourg, Très riches heures du duc de Berry, 1416 ca

Thomas Ruff, Who prints NASA negatives

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room Filled with the Brilliance of Life, Tate Modern

Yves Klein. Re, do-do-do, 1960

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room Filled with the Brilliance of Life, Tate Modern /2

Cristo Architetto costruisce il Cosmo, Vienna Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2554, miniatura francese della metà del secolo XIII, c. 1v

Section of moon rock viewed in a petrographic microscope under polarized light, Nasa Space Center, Huston 1969. Photo by Fritz Goro

Olafur Eliasson, Double sunset, 1999

Olafur Eliasson, Prismi/1

Man Ray, Juliet and the Non-Eucilidian Object, 1945

Joseph Cornell, Mathematics in Nature, 1964

Dosso Dossi, Circe e i suoi amanti in un paesaggio, 1512 ca, Washington, Nat. Gallery

Olafur Eliasson, Prismi/2

Bubble Geometry, Goro Studio, New York, 1976

Antoine Pevsner (1886-1962)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Design Class 1964. Photo by Fritz Goro

Fritz Goro, (1901-1986)  pioneer of science/technological photography

Polarized light reveals invisible patterns in a Gothic cathedral, Princeton, 1969.

Photo by Fritz Goro

Monet, La Cattedrale di Rouen, 1892-1894, Paris, Musée Marmottan

Mother nature

Olafur Eliasson, Green River, 1998-2001

Marcel Duchamp,  étant donnés, 1946-66, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Carol Rama, La mucca pazza, 1998

Alexander von Humboldt’s Scientific Representation of the Chimborazo, 1802

Anish Kapoor, Mountains, 1995

Wunderkammer Mountain, XVIII secolo, Innsbruck, Castello di Ambras

Adalgisa Lugli (1946-1995), Art historian, author of Wunderkammern, Naturalia et Mirabilia and XLII Biennale Arte e Scienza, photo by Paolo Mussat Sartor

Ernst Haeckel, Kunstform der natur, Mycetozoa, 1899-1904

Ruth Asawa, The living room ceiling at the Asawa-Lanier home, 1990s

Laboratories and operating rooms

Piero Manzoni, Uova, 1960

Justine Cooper, Saved by Science, 2004. Photo series of stored collections in the Museum of Natural History, NY

Marta de Menezes, Coltivare cultura, Torino, PAV workshop 2011

Stargazer Lily Mandala

Eduardo Kac, Edunia, fiore transgenico realizzato con il DNA dell’artista espresso nelle venature rosse dei petali

Man Ray, Hibiscus Blossom, Los Angeles, Getty Museum

Jannis Kounellis, Senza titolo, 1967, Collezione Mario Pieroni Roma

Sacrificial lamb readied for Nuclear Exposure, Bikini Atoll, 1946. Photo by Fritz Goro

Francisco de Zurbaran, Agnus Dei, 1640, San Diego Museum of Art

Dr. Yu-Chih Hsu preparing a sample for artificial fertilization, Baltimore, 1979. Photo by Fritz Goro

Angela Strassheim, Cat dissection, 2007

Artist as entomologist

Hubert Duprat, I tricotteri si costruiscono i propri astucci protettivi con le pietre preziose fornite dell’artista

Hubert Duprat, Corallo e mollica di pane, Collection Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Squame di un’ala di farfalla, macrofotografia

Paul Klee, Coming to bloom, 1934, Galerie Beyeler

Body/Robot

Paul Richer, Phénakisticope The Runner, 1895, Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Etienne-Jules Marey, Marche avec balancement du bras droit, c. 1890

Fritz Lang, Metropolis, 1927

Nam June Paik, Ecce Homo, 1989, Private collection

Enrico Baj, Meccano, 1965, Collezione Roberta Cerini Baj

 Visual music

Morgan Russel, Cosmic Synchromy, 1914

Claude Boutet, Color wheel known as The disk of Isaac Newton, in Traite de la Peinture en Mignature, 1708

The Joshua Light Show with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Long Island 1967

Georgia O’Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1921

George Gershwin with his portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, 1937

Artist as antropoligist

Fiber optics on skull, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey 1969. Photo by Fritz Goro

Matthew Day Jackson, The World Last Mysteries, 2009

Chart of a head containing images symbolising the phrenological faculties, 1845

Matthew Day Jackson, The Way We Were, 2010

Paul Richer, Ritratto ricavato dal teschio e dalla maschera mortuaria di Cartesio, Parigi, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1913

Paul Richer, Cartesio Portrait, Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1913

Lorenzo Tenchini, Maschera-ritratto di un ladro, cera, 1885-1890, Parma, Museo del Dipartimento di Anatomia Umana e Scienze Medico Forensi

Gambuh-Theatre Mask, Bali

Photo by artist Joanna Ebenstein for the traveling exhibition project Anatomical Theatre

Wax model of the eye apparatus and related structures, Bologna

Gina Pane, Azione Morte Controllo, 1974-75

Life mask of William Blake, London, National Portrait Gallery

Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake),  1955, London, Tate Modern

Matthew Day Jackson, Me dead at 35, 2009

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Napoleone, London, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum

Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), Pharmacist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and collector

Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed Maori heads, 1895

Navajio war god, Photography by Adward S. Curtis, 1904

Aby Warburg (1866-1929), art historian, wearing native indian Hamis Kachina mask, 1895-96

Psychiatrist with Emotionally Disturbed Student in Front of Paintings by others at Special School, Life Magazine, 1957. Photo by Fritz Goro

Darwin and the visual art

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gorillas, Diorama, 2004

Tim Burton and Paul Giamatti on the set of Planet of the Apes, 2001

Reginal Southey and Skeleton photographed by Lewis Carroll  1857

Cartoon of Charles Darwin as an ape published in 1871

The models of Zulus at the Crystal Palace, 1863

The Hottentot Venus Saartjie Baartman, form Venus noire by Abdel Kechiche, 2010

The Mother of ‘Krao’ as the Farini’s Missing Link

Robert Downey jr. and Indio on the set of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Steven Shainberg, 2006

Wild Goose Chase, Concerning Wings, Collage, 2009

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ornithologiae, Bologna, 1599-1603

John Hancock, Struggle with the Quarry, 1851, taxidermy, The Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Neanderthal, Dioarama 1996

Ryan McGinely, Amanda (Hawk), 2011

Artist as archeologist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Iconographiam Campi Martii antiquae urbis, 1762

Carl Cheng, Santa Monica Art Tool, 1988

Mark Dion, Tate Thames Dig, Site I, 1999

Mark Dion, “Loot 2”, Raiding Neptune’s Vault, 1997/98

Artemide di Efeso, Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Louis Bourgeois in her Chelsea home

Teatro delle cere in
Teatro dei Prodigi di Marina Gasparini, Serena Piccinini e Silvia Urbini
Museo di Palazzo Poggi /Bologna gennaio 2015/Arte Fiera