Felice Frankel
dal 17/1/2006 al 16/2/2006
Segnalato da
17/1/2006
Felice Frankel
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', New York
''These photographs are intended to communicate ideas: they are a visual representation of physical phenomena (...) I do not consider myself an artist because an artist has a very personal and particular point of view, and communicates that part of herself that he wants the world to see. Scientific images can be very beautiful and probably artistic, but they are not art, and art is not science''. Felice Frankel.
Visions of Science
An extraordinary exhibition by photographer Felice Frankel, previously shown in Italy in a tour including Genoa, Rome, Naples, Perugia, and Milano, supported by Bracco.
Felice Frankel, is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this exhibit she displays with creativity and imagination some 30 extraordinary images of research in material science, nanoscience, biomaterials, and chemistry.
Frankel’s lens yields astonishing interpretations of the world of scientific research and highlights the extraordinary beauty of hidden details in the laboratory, creating images which capture the essence of science. What emerges is a truly original connection between science and imagination.
In science, words and mathematical formulae are usually considered more authoritative than images. Clearly opposing this tradition, Felice Frankel’s photographs present a new and mesmerizing approach for the general public to the “universe of science."
“Like equations in mathematics and structural formula in chemistry", the photographer comments, “these photographs are intended to communicate ideas. They are a visual representation of physical phenomena."
“I do not consider myself an artist," says Felice Frankel, “because an artist has a very personal and particular point of view, and communicates that part of herself that he wants the world to see. Scientific images can be very beautiful and probably artistic, but they are not art, and art is not science."
In this exhibition, the Bracco Group, a world leader in global solutions for medical diagnostics and actively engaged in promoting culture, the arts and scientific research, saw an immediate affinity to its own business: showing through diagnostic investigation what the naked eye cannot see, with the aim of studying increasingly cutting-edge technologies that reveal “the life from within." Felice Frankel’s photographic exhibition offers therefore opportunity for the convergence and integration of science, culture, and the world about us.
The exhibit is free to the public.
Opening: January 18th
New York University’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'
24 West 12th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Hours: Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm