Orphan Works: What To Do
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By Gabriele Dalle Luche and Paolo Garfagnini
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By Gabriele Dalle Luche and Paolo Garfagnini
“Beauty is a form of genius. Indeed, it is higher than genius, as it needs no explanation”, declared Oscar Wilde. If the writer, who some say could hold a conversation with five people at once, admitted to being breathless in the face of aesthetic contemplation, then surely we, too, can allow our emotions to flow freely before beauty and leave rational patterns behind.
It is easy to talk about abstraction: numerical proportions alluding to the harmony of the spheres, immutable and intangible Platonic ideas, the I Ching, and Leibniz’s binary system in which he hoped his metaphor of divine creation (one) from nothing (zero) would convince the Chinese of the excellence of the Christian faith; and again, the axiomatic systems of Hilbert and the logical formalists or Turing’s purely mental machine.
“Beyond Form” is the title of the exhibition dedicated to Kan Yasuda (Bibai, 1945), celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Japanese master’s time living and working in the Tuscan town of Pietrasanta.