Through MONOCHROMES, Fabrizio Ruggiero invites viuwers to engage with the essence of painting and the mysteries of perception

<Through MONOCHROMES, Fabrizio Ruggiero invites viuwers to engage with the essence of painting and the mysteries of perception

The Transformative Power of Art and Ideas

Duchamp versus Kandinsky

An Installation with two Fresco Portraits by Fabrizio Ruggiero

Limonaia di Villa La Pietra, New York University, Florence

26 April – 15 June 2017

Duchamp turned art into a philosophical provocation; Kandinsky transformed it into a spiritual revelation.

Marcel Duchamp dismantled the traditional notion of art as craftsmanship and beauty by introducing the readymade, transforming ordinary objects into conceptual provocations.

Wassily Kandinsky, by contrast, believed art to be a spiritual language, capable of directly addressing the soul through color, form, and inner necessity.

The project Ideas, People, Change was coordinated by Davide Lombardo, NYU Florence.