Aisthesis. The Art of the Senses. The Senses in Art

The sensorial experiences of the body are the foundation of our relationship with the world: they allow us not only to perceive the matter with its quality and consistency in space, but also to relate it by activating the intelligence, emotions, feelings.
And the artist is the very one that combines these learning experiences with his tendency to sublimate the everyday life in a creative synthesis and poetic original, while maintaining awareness of the context in which they live.
The "tactile" certainly plays an important part in this aesthetic relationship between human reality and because of its nature as an "analytical sense," able to trace the shapes and therefore lead to an awareness of themselves, of their symbolic and conceptual, to the essence of the matter.
Already Bernard Berenson wrote. "..in art .. what matters is to stimulate the consciousness of tactile values, so that the work is worth at least the object represented in the ability to stimulate the tactile image .." and pointed out that the painter should be ".. able to stimulate the tactile feeling .. " to build the third dimension.
Participating in this exhibition 34 artists working in Piedmont, each of which is expressed on the proposed topic with two new works, with complete freedom of choice both in terms of the style that the operational techniques: therefore shall see painting, sculpture, photography, music or installations of Corrado Alderucci, Ametista Arnaldi, Enzo Bersezio, Ines Daniela Bertolino,  Carla Bresciano, Gianni Busso, Giustino Caposciutti, Clotilde Ceriana Mayneri, Mara Chemini, Simona Chiefari, Marco Corongi, Mario D’Amato, Denise De Rocco, Gerry Di Fonzo, Alberto Drogo, Alessandro Fioraso, Gigi Galli, Massimo Gea, Massimo Ghiotti, Stefano Greco, Emilio Ingenito, Olga Maggiora, Paola Malato, Giovanni Penone, Massimo Picheca, Petra Probst, Rosa Quaglieri, Andrea Quaglino, Mirco Saletti, Egle Scroppo, Mario Surbone, Maria Troglia, Giovanni Vardiero, Elisabetta Viarengo Miniotti.
In line with the positive experiences of previous artistic designed and promoted by Total Art, "Aisthesis" will trigger a series of educational interdisciplinary primary schools of the area of Settimo Torinese, designed to stimulate research and artistic creativity of young students .