- Felice Varini
Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001
Marcel Duchamp Prize , known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa."Felice paints on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets. The paintings are characterised by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while from other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes. Felice argues that the work exists as a whole - with its complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.” [ [http://www.poeticmind.co.uk/2_Questions/Interview_Felice_Varini.shtm Interview with Felice Varini (Poetic Mind, 2008, paragraph 12.)] ]
* 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland, lives in Paris
References
External links
* [http://www.varini.org/ Home page] (French):* [http://www.varini.org/03dem/adem01.html Artist's rationale] (English)
* [http://institut.fsu.fr/nvxregards/16/felice_varini.htm Critique by Joël Koskas] (French; [http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://institut.fsu.fr/nvxregards/16/felice_varini.htm&prev=/language_tools translate to English] )
* [http://jwz.livejournal.com/598294.html Selection of perspective space paintings]
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