La psicologia e le arti hanno questo in comune: entrambe coprono l'intero ambito della mente umana (Rudolf Arnheim)
Springer has just published the book “Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story. In Memory of Alberto Argenton”, written by Laura Messina Argenton, Tiziano Agostini, Tamara Prest and Ian Verstegen.
This book develops a study designed by Alberto Argenton to investigate the perceptual-representational strategies used by artists
The exhibition “L’occhio in gioco” (Trick of the Eye), open until 26 February 2023 in the Palazzo Monte di Pietà, Padua, is curated, in its first, historical part of a historical nature, by Luca Massimo Barbero and, in its second part, focused on the Paduan reality, by Guido Bartorelli, Giovanni Galfano, Andrea Bobbio and Massimo Grassi.
The exhibition is organised by themes and documents different perceptual-representational devices used by the artists in their pictorial research, relating them to scientific research on vision
Open until 26 February 2023 in the Palazzo Monte di Pietà in Padua, the exhibition “L’occhio in gioco” (Trick of the Eye) explores the boundaries between art and science, documenting them with important artistic works and scientific studies on vision.
The exhibition is accompanied by two volumes, which bear the same title and which, analogously to the two parts of the exhibition, are dedicated, one, to “Perception, impressions and illusions in art”, curated by L. M. Barbero, and the other
In 2021, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the Trieste members of the GTA (Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications) offered a series of online, monthly “excursions”, held in Italian, on the “question of the language” in its various aspects: linguistic, psychological, philosophical and historic-cultural. The tenth excursion was led by Laura Messina-Argenton, Senior Scholar of the University of Padua, on the topic: “The versifying of Dante and its ‘perceptual meaning’ (in the terms of Alberto Argenton)”.
Arte e espressione, studi e ricerche di psicologia dell’arte, published by Alberto Argenton in 2008, for the types of the publisher Il Poligrafo, was translated into English and published by the publisher Routledge, in 2019, under the title Art and Expression: Studies in the Psychology of Art. The English edition was edited by Ian Verstegen
Ian Verstegen published a new book, which further deepen the knowledge of the media theory developed by Arnheim.
VSAC 2018 (The Visual Science of Art Conference) was held in Trieste from 24 to 26 August, organizedby Rossana Actis-Grosso and Daniele Zavagno, as a satellite conference of ECVP 2018 (European Conference on Visual Perception), coordinated by Tiziano Agostini, that took place from 26 to 30 August, also in Trieste.
VSAC 2018 – The Visual Science of Art Conference – dedicates a Symposium in memory of Alberto Argenton, entitled Art and Expression.
The name of the symposium is the same as a book written by Argenton in 2008, which will be published by Routledge in the coming months: Art and Expression. Studies in the Psychology of Art.
Pictorial continuous narratives: Perceptual-representational strategies is the title of the research by Ian Verstegen, Tamara Prest, Laura Messina Argenton, and Alberto Argenton (†) that will be presented at the symposium Representation of events and dynamic content in the visual arts, chaired by Rossana Actis-Grosso
The last article written by Alberto Argenton – Is Arnheim just a formalist? – was published posthumously in Gestalt Theory, issue 3/2015.
