Felice Varini, Swiss artist, male. Born in 1952, I think. See, I don’t read Swiss or French or whatever the heck language his website is in. But what an artist!

Forget Christo and his miles of hanging laundry. Felice Varni creates – or rather, exposes – otherwise invisible planes in space. This is a neat trick, at the very least, but Varni does it in grand, dramatic, amazing and amusing ways.

At first glance, photos of Varni’s art may look trite and simplistic. They are line drawings, usually in just one color, identifying planes in space and exposing hidden structures. Depth is rarely depicted or perceived – and there lies the true art.

Varni works from a single vantage point, usually a common walk-by from where an observer might accidentally see the artificial plane realized. He then goes about painting seemingly random and skewed line art onto the many – sometimes hundreds – of natural and man-made surfaces.

He paints this… Skewed... [caption id="attachment_2501" align="aligncenter" width="177" caption="Splattered..."][/caption]

and Rat-a-Tattered

And you see this… One Point of View

“Reality is never altered, erased or modified, it interests and seduces me in all its complexity. I work ‘here and now’.”
~ Felice Varini

It’s as much about you as the art, because YOU have to be in the exact right place to appreciate the effect. Better yet, you should be in the wrong place first, and then position yourself in the correct viewing position. You’ll truly appreciate what Varni has done. Like so…

Check out his gallery.

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