Guided Tour in Museum Palazzo del Monte di Pietà

"The Art of Deceiving Sight"

Illusion of movement, color games, perspective deceptions, deforming mirrors, optical effects.. Like a roller coaster, The Eye at Play, an exhibition combining painting, sculpture, photography, science and technology, will take you up and down, back and forth in time, between the Middle Ages and the contemporary, Picasso and the Lumière brothers, Kandinskji and Balla, Man Ray and Klee and Boccioni and Duchamp, to discover the many fascinating devices, artifices, stratagems and sleight of hand by which man has managed to deceive the eyes.

A kaleidoscopic journey on the boundary between art and science, in a city, Padua, in which these two worlds have always intertwined, from Galileo to the school of the psychology of perception and the birth of Gruppo N, an artistic-cultural collective from Padua at the forefront of optic-kinetic art to which the monograph is dedicated and which concludes an exhibition that, in this way, joins the celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the University of Padua.