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Title	Permeable Spaces
Member	ca.bernardini
Date	2002
Price	15
Description :	CARLO BERNARDINI PERMEABLE SPACES 2002 Environmental light installations in optical fibers (1,5–2–10,2 mm of diameter) and electro-luminescent surface (1 mm thick) dimensions variable in accordance with site, feet h 27x39x33; Milan, Triennial Palace, Triennial of Milan. PERMEABLE SPACE Design combines construction of the image with the thought that gives it origin. A perimetric design brings unity to the inner void and tends to concentrate the greatest force within it. However, this force in turn generates ambivalence, breaking into the margins of the space within the form. Thus, on the basis of this ambivalence - this transformation of one reality into another - the concept of transmutation of an environmental, traversable space poises the viewpoint between two hypothetical positions, one internal, the other external; between one form of objectivity viewed from outside and another perceived from within. The optical superimposition of lines traversing a space and lines running along the planes of the same space, viewed from a certain position, can produce two-dimensional visual conditions; as soon as the viewpoint shifts volumetric changes come about, generating mirror-image forms. Thus such changes can generate properties able to permeate a place. A so-called "permeable" space can therefore be a virtual space tending to exert force on the limit of physical space. Alternatively, it will tend to enclose a real environment within an illusory volume. One seeks to break through the interior of the other. Here the perception of the eye may itself feel called into question, seeking the escape route from the limits of a form. Thus the idea of a permeable space becomes design on the transformation of the coordinates of physical space. If the line delimiting it apparently concentrates both volume and void, it can itself reverse those coordinates, the former giving way to the latter and vice-versa. It is as if volume were annihilated in a flat dimension while void acted as fulcrum to an illusory dimension. Thus we have a sort of space within space. There are two things alone that have in themselves a visible but immaterial property to approach this concept, namely light and shade. Shade can take shape on the surfaces of a physical space, or can fill the entire volume with darkness, but it cannot traverse it. Thus only light remains. Rome, 2000 Carlo Bernardini CARLO BERNARDINI was born in Viterbo in 1966 and obtained his diploma at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1987. In 1997 he wrote the theoretical essay on "The division of visual unity", which was published by Stampa Alternativa. In 2000 and 2005 he received a grant "Overseas Grantee" from the Pollock - Krasner Foundation of New York, and in 2002 the prize Targetti Art Light Collection “White Sculpture”. He has created and installed permanent public sculptures in stainless steel and optic fibres in various Italian cities. His is a form of creativity that works on the basis of a code of modifications in space reflecting variants produced by light. So much is confirmed by the present research of Carlo Bernardini, who handles light and shade like materials and substances, using electro-luminescent surfaces and optical fibers with internal lighting in a context of total darkness. In these works with interior and exterior environmental light installations, the optical superimposition of lines traversing a space and lines running along the planes of the same space, viewed from a certain position, can produce two-dimensional visual conditions. Closing one eye, transforming it into a single lens, the image becomes two-dimensional; as soon as the viewpoint shifts volumetric changes come about, generating mirror image-forms. The first impression is not of the optical fibers themselves, but rather of transparent plates of glass lit up along the sides. The optical fibers only reveal the empty space they enclose in a subsequent phase of perception. The observer can enter into a sort of illusory space, experiencing the installation from within and without. He currently teaches at the Fine Arts Academy of “Brera” in Milan. He lives and works both in Rome and Milan. Among Bernardini's major exhibits of the past ten years, let us mention: Solo exhibitions: 1998 Galleria Nazionale della Pilotta, Parma; 1999 Galleria Spaziotemporaneo, Milan; Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea Università "La Sapienza" Rome; "Light" Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok (Poland); 2000 Galleria L'Isola, Trento; 2001 Galleria Fioretto, Padova; 2003 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan; Galleria Spaziotemporaneo, Milan; 2004 Museo Paso Imperial, Rio De Janeiro; Galleria Milano, Milan; Galleria Bruna Soletti, Milan; Galleria Spazia, Bologna; 2005, Galleria Les Chances de l’Art, Bolzano; Il Sole Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Velan Centro Arte Contemporanea, Turin; 2006 Galleria Milly Pozzi, Como; 2007 Swing Space LMCC, New York; Galleria Milly Pozzi, Como, C.Bernardini-B.DePonti; 2008 Galleria Bruna Soletti, Milano. Environmental light installations in outside of big dimensions: 1999 Reggio Emilia, S.Domenico Cloisters, “Permeable Space”; Reggio Emilia, Tower of Civic Museum, “Permeable Space”. 2000 Padova, Palace of Reason - via Fiume, “Light Accords”. 2001 Mojàcar, Almerìa, Fundaciòn Valparaìso, “Permeable Space”; Ancona, Cavour Square, “Ancona Lights”. 2003 Rome, Campidoglio Square, “Line of Light”. Group exhibitions: 1996 and 2003 XII and XIV National Quadriennial of Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome and Palazzo Reale, Naples; 1997 "Arte a Roma" Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; 1998 "Nuove Contaminazioni" Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Udine; 1999 "Translacje" Collection De La Fin Du Siecle, Piotrkow Trybunalsky (Poland); 2000 "2000 Anni Luce" Galleria Parmiggiani, Reggio Emilia; "Thai - Italian Art Space 2000" Art Gallery Silpakorn University, Bangkok; 2001"Oriente d'Occidente" Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome; "Glimmers" Inner Spaces Multimedia, Poznan (Poland); “InPressione” Bovisa, Officine del gas AEM, Milan; 2002 Sculpture Space, Utica, New York; “Light Accords-East of West” Nacional Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bangkok; XX Triennial of Milan, “Le città In/visibili”, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan; 2003 “Targetti Art Light Collection” Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Varsavia, Chelsea Art Museum, New York; 2004 Barbara Behan Gallery, London; 2005 “FiloLuce” Museo della Permanente, Milan; Sculpture Now, “Sculpture in the Public Arena 2005/06”, Main Street, Great Barrington, (Massachusetts USA); 2006 “Filophilo”, Hotel de ville de Montrouge, Paris; “Targetti Art Light Collection”, “White Sculpture”, MUAR, Museo Nazionale di Architettura Schusev, Moscow; “Light On”, Artiscope, Bruxelles; 2007 “Come Along to the Future”, Vychodoslovenská Galéria, Kosice (Slovakia); “International Light Workshop”, Gallery A22, Budapest; 2008 “Digital Media”, LA NAU - Universidad de Valencia, Valencia; “Drawing all over – the power of the line", Kunstverein KISS Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen Temporares Museum, Abtsgmünd Untergröningen (Stuttgart); Bienal Internacional da Luz, "Waterfront", Lisbona.

Carlo Bernardini, Permeable Spaces 2002. Environmental light installations in optical fibers (1,5–2–10,2 mm of diameter) and electro-luminescent surface (1 mm thick) dimensions variable in accordance with site, feet h 27x39x33; Milan, Triennial Palace, T	Carlo Bernardini, Permeable Space 2008. Installation in optical fibers (2 mm of diameter) feet h 43x10x10. Museo della Nau, Universidad, Valencia.	Carlo Bernardini, Light Catalyst 2006. Optic fibers, Olf surface, alluminium, feet h 3,5x3,5x1.	Carlo Bernardini, Permeable Spaces 2002. Sculptures in plexiglas and optical fibers (1,5 mm of diameter) feet h 7x2x2.
CARLO BERNARDINI, LIGHT LINE 2003. Sculptures in stainless steel and optical fibers (15mm of diameter) feet h 12x6x4,5 – h 12x4,5x3 – h 9x4,5x3. Roma, Piazza del Campidoglio, Semestre di Presidenza Italiana nell’UE.	CARLO BERNARDINI, LIGHT LINE 2003. Sculptures in stainless steel and optical fibers (15mm of diameter) feet h 12x6x4,5 – h 12x4,5x3 – h 9x4,5x3. Roma, Piazza del Campidoglio, Semestre di Presidenza Italiana nell’UE.	CARLO BERNARDINI, PERMEABLE SPACE 2003. Environmental light installations in optical fibers (2 mm of diameter) and electro-luminescent surface (1 mm thick), dimensions variable in accordance with site, feet h 9x13,5x12. Napoli, Palazzo Reale, XIV Quadrien	CARLO BERNARDINI, EVENT HORIZON 2007. Environmental installation, optic fibers, tribal wood spheres. Como, Allarmi 3, Caserma De Cristoforis.
CARLO BERNARDINI, EVENT HORIZON 2007. Environmental installation, optic fibers, steel spheres. New York, Swing Space Program, LMCC.	Carlo Bernardini, Light Catalysts 2005. Stainless steel, optic fibers, feet h 11x25x7 and h 11x16x6. Rome, S.Luca Academy.