Horacio Garcia Rossi and GRAV. The Geometry of Imaginary Space
16 May – 14 September 2008
Halls 339 – 342 of the Winter Palace

This project is a continuation of the Italian Kinetic Movement exhibition, which took place in the State Hermitage Museum in 2006. The new exhibition includes 40 production from artists of the GRAV group collected from museum and private collections and encompassing half a century of their creativity. In the centre are 21 productions by the leader of the group, Argentinean Horacio Garcia Rossi. The artists of the GRAV group have experimented in the field of optical and kinesthetic art. Their manifesto proclaims their orientation exclusively on the human eye as the organ of perception, whose reactions to optical illusions are responsive and exclude conscious interpretation. The interaction of the works by the GRAV group with visitors is psychological and sometimes even physical, and ‘live’, direct communication with the public is extremely important which will occur for the first time for visitors of the State Hermitage Museum.

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