Alice Pasquini / Stefano C. Montesi - Under Layers
UNDER LAYERS is an innovative project that unites the street art of Alice Pasquini with the 3D photography of Stefano C. Montesi. This interactive experience with the spectator starts August 3 along the Lungomare Paolo Toscanelli in Ostia, bringing them on a journey into the picture, flying between reality and illusion. Alice Pasquini’s art, with its pictorial representations of the small, everyday moments of the human experience, will be transformed via an optical illusion created with camera of photographer Stefano C. Montesi. The result brings the viewer inside the fantastical world of the artist. Moving beyond the limits of wall painting as a two-dimensional experience, the installations in Ostia, in the niches along Lungomare Paolo Toscanelli (in the vicinity of number 186), will take places in three phases from August 3 until October 3, giving the city the possibility to participate in this unique art installation.
The 3D effect is created by simultaneously photographing the subject, in this case Alice’s artwork painted on different level, with two cameras. Only the “live” image, and not a subsequent conversion from 2D to 3D, assures a proper stereoscopic image for the human eye. The images seem suspended on different planes and gives the spectator the sensation of being an active part of the artwork.
The poster installations are also pleased without glasses, yet when seen with traditional (analog) 3D glasses, Alice’s drawings transform into a world that flies out of the wall, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. The glasses will be left at various drop off points in the area of the wall, including the Teatro del Lido di Ostia (via delle Sirene 22), as a way to have citizens actively participate in the experience.
The project is being promoted in cooperation with Culture and Tourism Assessor of Rome.
From 23 to 25 October, in Rome, the project will culminate in an event a OPENGRA in via Francesco Negri 51/53.
Photo Gloria Viggiani
Alice Pasquini / Stefano C. Montesi - Under Layers
UNDER LAYERS is an innovative project that unites the street art of Alice Pasquini with the 3D photography of Stefano C. Montesi. This interactive experience with the spectator starts August 3 along the Lungomare Paolo Toscanelli in Ostia, bringing them on a journey into the picture, flying between reality and illusion. Alice Pasquini’s art, with its pictorial representations of the small, everyday moments of the human experience, will be transformed via an optical illusion created with camera of photographer Stefano C. Montesi. The result brings the viewer inside the fantastical world of the artist. Moving beyond the limits of wall painting as a two-dimensional experience, the installations in Ostia, in the niches along Lungomare Paolo Toscanelli (in the vicinity of number 186), will take places in three phases from August 3 until October 3, giving the city the possibility to participate in this unique art installation.
The 3D effect is created by simultaneously photographing the subject, in this case Alice’s artwork painted on different level, with two cameras. Only the “live” image, and not a subsequent conversion from 2D to 3D, assures a proper stereoscopic image for the human eye. The images seem suspended on different planes and gives the spectator the sensation of being an active part of the artwork.
The poster installations are also pleased without glasses, yet when seen with traditional (analog) 3D glasses, Alice’s drawings transform into a world that flies out of the wall, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. The glasses will be left at various drop off points in the area of the wall, including the Teatro del Lido di Ostia (via delle Sirene 22), as a way to have citizens actively participate in the experience.
The project is being promoted in cooperation with Culture and Tourism Assessor of Rome.
From 23 to 25 October, in Rome, the project will culminate in an event a OPENGRA in via Francesco Negri 51/53.
Photo Gloria Viggiani