VIEW IT AS THE ARTIST DID
Augusto Oppo would narrow his eyes both while painting and when looking at a finished work, softening detail to bring out form, light, contrast and the rhythm of the composition.
This experience digitally interprets that gesture. It does not reconstruct exactly what he saw, but invites us to imagine how the work might have appeared to his gaze.
Press and hold to view it as the artist did.
ASO-0426 · 1981
Atlas of Making
DATA AND SOURCES
Subjects and visual language
Twenty-four compartments compose an atlas of making, where every trial preserves a different light. Each cell contains a different combination of black ground, glints of yellow, pink and white, taut lines, waves, points, circles or banded weaves; a coloured strip at the base distinguishes many modules. Broad pale divisions impose constant order, but no inner image repeats exactly and some seem to continue beyond their boundaries. The whole functions as a repertoire of luminous variations, where reading moves continually from individual fragment to the matrix’s overall rhythm.
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