On Thursday 15th November at 7pm the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome is hosting an opening of the first solo exhibition in Italy by the French duo Berger&Berger – curated by Marcello Smarrelli – comprising a series of original works created especially for the occasion: four site-specific works of different sizes through which engage the spaces of the Foundation.
The exhibition, entitled The Density of the Spectre, is a reflection on the material reality of colour (pigment, printing ink, industrial varnish, and so on) as counterposed to the immaterial nature of the constitutive elements of light waves like photons. Colour is in the different works on display interpreted according to the classificatory scheme created in the 19th century by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who developed a physiological approach to the subject that rejected pre-existing categories (created by Robert Fludd, Claude Boutet, Isaac Newton), but contrasted to what was to be developed a century later by Johannes Itten (which has determined the contemporary way of perceiving colour).
The Fondazione’s courtyard will also host the exhibition Mystères, the poster that the artist Laurent P. Berger and the architect Cyrille Berger have devised for Postcard from….
