VERTIGO, from the Latin vertere, to turn or transform, here refers to the blurred perception of a shifting visual field when our sensory compass spins wildly within the infinite, roiling space of nature or a work of art.
Far from being a simple reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s film, the exhibition offers a sweeping overview of the vertiginous sensations created by the exalted experience of nature, between disorientation, floating and wonder. It is organised into sixsections, each devoted to a visual register connected with landscape – water, cosmogony, air, infinity, land and abyss.
With its slowly moving mobiles, interplays of shadow and light and large-format panoramic paintings, the exhibition is an invitation to plunge into the vertigo of the gaze. It includes the colour vibrations in the works of Yves Klein, James Turrell and Jesús Rafael Soto, the cosmic voyages in the works of Olafur Eliasson, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung, dissolution in the disturbing environments of Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter, Frank Bowling and Flora Moscovici, the optical phenomena of Ann Veronica Janssens, Francisco Sobrino and Carlos Cruz-Diez, and the infinite skies of Otto Piene and Caroline Corbasson.
