Felice Varini was born in 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland and is now based in Paris. His extensive work explores the illusions of geometry through eye-deceiving photographic techniques together with the tradition of pictorial representation. His spatial installations make use of urban settings, walls, and rooms as screens for abstract graphical projections which he paints, draws or adhere with tape. Seen from an ideal vantage point, they appear as unexpected two-dimensional patterns against their three- dimensional architectural background. When the viewer then leaves this vantage point and moves through the space, he sees the work as a perpetual metamorphosis of shifting, evolving complex forms.
His work is part of numerous private and public collections and it is documented in monographic editions such as Place by Place or Point of View by Lars Muller. It has been nominated to the Marcel Duchamp Prize and widely exhibited, amongst other venues, at the rooftop of LeCorbusier’s iconic Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Niigata Water and Land Art Festival in Japan.
His work is part of numerous private and public collections and it is documented in monographic editions such as Place by Place or Point of View by Lars Muller. It has been nominated to the Marcel Duchamp Prize and widely exhibited, amongst other venues, at the rooftop of LeCorbusier’s iconic Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Niigata Water and Land Art Festival in Japan.
