honorable mention
Andrea RICCI belgium
title
The Sense of Order
“The most fundamental aspect of the aesthetic experience”, says Gombrich, “is that pleasure is located somewhere between boredom and confusion”. Much of what surrounds us offers a constant solution of continuity, and in Gombrich sense, it’s far from being beautiful, it does not respect a good decorative scheme.
Unless we choose to look otherwise and start noticing.
Paying attention to detail, moving closer to things allows sometimes to detect unsuspected and intriguing patterns which invite the eye to travel around a meaningful shape or to observe, at a glance, some of nature's most perfect examples of visual symmetries and rhythms.
In the almost perfect geometry that assembles a sea-urchin there is a link between the construction simplicity of its forms and the simplicity of our perception of them.
If Art is about describing, painting, photographing the invisible, that - a sense of order - is a form of 'invisible' artists can make 'visible'.
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entry description
Gombrich's The Sense of order inquiry over the nature of ornament and the history of decorative art has been dubbed "a massive, erudite, brilliant, and magisterial tome" into the relation between culture, arts and cognitive psychology, particularly Gestalt theory.“The most fundamental aspect of the aesthetic experience”, says Gombrich, “is that pleasure is located somewhere between boredom and confusion”. Much of what surrounds us offers a constant solution of continuity, and in Gombrich sense, it’s far from being beautiful, it does not respect a good decorative scheme.
Unless we choose to look otherwise and start noticing.
Paying attention to detail, moving closer to things allows sometimes to detect unsuspected and intriguing patterns which invite the eye to travel around a meaningful shape or to observe, at a glance, some of nature's most perfect examples of visual symmetries and rhythms.
In the almost perfect geometry that assembles a sea-urchin there is a link between the construction simplicity of its forms and the simplicity of our perception of them.
If Art is about describing, painting, photographing the invisible, that - a sense of order - is a form of 'invisible' artists can make 'visible'.
about the photographer
Andrea RICCI is Italian, but lives and works in Brussels. He is a journalist and former contributor to La Repubblica; he has a PhD in Communication and Information Sciences, and a personal history which anchors him to Florence and Rome, to Art History, to Renaissance and Baroque in particular. Participant observer when working on photojournalism projects, Andrea has a keen interest in documentary and conceptual photography. His current photographic projects focus on countries in crisis, symbolic urban locations, the expression of popular religiosity and the notion of aesthetic order. Influenced by 6x6 Medium Format photography, his pictures are mostly square (1:1) or panoramic (1:2,75 - 1:3).back to gallery