MICROBIOMA | Pesaro Film Festival 2015 | The Very Eye of Night by Giacomo Ravesi | 2015
The Very Eye Of Night A night of contemporary Italian video art by Giacomo Ravesi The Very Eye of Night features video art works made by Italian artists in the last five years that share the icono- graphic motif of the night as explored through different generational perspectives and aesthetic, technological and cultural models. Rich with metaphorical, conceptual and figurative references, the theme of the night retains a centuries-old, heterogeneous and fascinating symbolism that is transported into a contemporary artistic and mediatic scenario through the redefinition of traditional concepts of space, corporeality and identity. Centered on the icons of landscape and body, the program examines representations of darkness and invisibility and probes their paradoxes and perceptual limits. Manes and Flatform devise illusions of time and space to explore night’s structural dimension while Fini, Ama- ducci and Manca introduce a performative charac...