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Museum exhibition sets out to tackle the universal theme of the portrait and the self-portrait

BELLINZONA.- Following the exhibition Reflections Off Water Soften Impressions, whose topic coagulated around the concept of history and historical awareness, of travel, of wandering and of the diaspora as an indispensable osmotic evolution, Portraits: Reflected Vision now sets out to tackle the universal theme of the portrait and the self-portrait: not through a strictly traditional, historical interpretation, but through one of analysis. The artists showing are Jon Campbell (D, 1982), Pier Giorgio De Pinto (CH, 1968) and Andrea La Rocca (I, 1983). Tackling the topic of the portrait is out of the question today without considering the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose concept of avant-garde rendered not only art itself subjective, but also necessarily how we look at and see an image. While what philosophy recognises in a portrait is a mere representation of reality, for early twentieth-century psychoanalysis the iconological approach to the image became more