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«The intention of this exhibition (Museo cantonale d’arte, Lugano 2012) is to analyse the motif of the window in western art, understood as an iconographic subject, a perspective device and, finally, as a metaphor: a manifold meta phor starting out from the image of the eye. Between the end of the Nineteenth and the start of the Twentieth Century some artists such as Odilon Redon, Gustave Caillebotte and Edouard Vuillard thematised the “internal-external” relationship by way of a viewpoint that was no longer frontal but oblique, almost as if contemporaneously including a two-fold reality inside the pictorial space. From being a visual and conceptual instrument, an element of metarepresentation, it became the threshold, boundary of a space, of a real and illusory place at one and the same time. It was with the works by Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard, however, that the window became the principal instrument by way of which to abolish the border between the inner and the outer space.»
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