In visual perception, a color is almost never seen as it really is—as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
—Josef Albers
Color takes center stage in this exhibition, which brings together Italian and international artists from the early twentieth century to the contemporary period. From Josef Albers to Lee Sung-Kuen, and including Piero Dorazio and Carla Accardi, all have made color their preferred medium, freely unleashing its immanent potential.
Whether for its symbolic value or for its impact on the body and the mind, color continues to be a subject of fascination, experimentation, and study. At the intersection of science and aesthetic, it questions as much our way of seeing as our way of feeling the world. An essential characteristic of painting among traditional media, it naturally becomes, in the twentieth century, one of the main concerns of many modernist artists. They isolate and analyze it in order to gradually free it from its descriptive function and deploy it as an autonomous medium, capable of generating both sensory and emotional effects.