VISIONS OF THE EARTH - Seismographic and volcanological art and visual culture, the exhibition organized by the Neuma Collective in collaboration with the National Institute of of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
The inauguration will be preceded by a preview by the Neuma Collective in collaboration with the INGV, scheduled for Thursday 11 October at 20.30 pm at the Cinema Rouge et Noir in Palermo, which will be followed by the screening of the film "The sense of beauty" by the director Roman Valerio Jalongo, present in the room and at the opening ceremony.
The exhibition deals with the theme of viewing and safeguarding the Earth, in the Art/Science relationship, through observation technologies used in seismology and volcanology. Although earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have fueled myths and legends throughout history, research using ever more technologically advanced instruments is relatively young and the iconography linked to this essential technology is even more so.
Visitors will be able to observe survey instruments, such as land and sea seismographs, plastic models with systems for measuring volcanic gases and reduced-scale reproductions of volcanoes, supplied for the occasion by the INGV of Catania, Palermo and Gibilmanna.
VISIONS OF THE EARTH promotes and disseminates an extended awareness of the scientific and artistic imagination, where the tools for studying, safeguarding and visualizing the earth become media that interact, informing and inspiring the works of the artists of the Neuma Collective who have made use of these scientific perspectives as well as their objects of study (land, sea, volcanoes, atmosphere) to carry out their works. The seismographic and volcanological art, depicting an unprecedented aesthetic vision of terrestrial and marine motions and of the volcanic world, allows a reflection on the multi-perspective value of the human gaze which is never and only limited to recording reality by placing it in watertight compartments, but it exceeds the flow of images which, in the osmosis of contemporary media, are now of science, now of art.
The exhibition will be open from 12 October to 14 December, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 to 19.00. Closed on Mondays, free entry.