BERGAMO
Leap into the void. Art Beyond Matter.

Simulation - Room 8

The last section of the exhibition is dedicated to the topic of simulating reality, a field of artistic research that, especially during recent years, has undergone significant development thanks to the availability of new digital tools and sophisticated applications. However, the idea that art could concur to creating simulated realities had already been suggested before technology allowed artists to resort to virtual reality and artificial intelligence to design new dematerialized words. Several significant movements in the second half of the Twentieth century embraced this possibility, particularly American hyperrealism, here recalled by the presence of two artworks by Richard Estes and Duane Hanson. This section opens with a selection of artworks from different eras, united by a common thought. Despite coming from an apparent attempt to fully adhere to objectiveness, they represent a simulated and ambiguous vision of reality, recounting the void that separates material reality from its intellectual and visual representation.