Organized by\u00a0Concilio Europeo dell\u2019Arte and Muscarelle Museum of Art<\/strong> The\u00a0Golden Mean<\/strong>\u00a0first debuted in Fall 2012 on the riverfront in Peekskill NY as part of an installation for the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. Earlier that summer, her infamous \u201cSurvival of Serena<\/strong>\u201d, a monumental painted bronze that first debuted in the 2007 Venice Biennale, was featured in Petrosino Square courtesy of New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Solo Exhibition by Carole A. Feuerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concilioeuropeodellarte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Curated by\u00a0Marina Bertoldini, Fabio Marafatto and John T. Spike<\/strong>
On the occasion of the 55a Esposizione Internazionale d\u2019Arte \u2013 La Biennale di Venezia the garden of InParadiso Gallery<\/strong>\u00a0will host the sculpture\u00a0The Golden Mean Divina Proporzione by Carole A. Feuerman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTHE GOLDEN MEAN Divina Proporzione by John T. Spike<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Feuerman\u2019s \u201cGolden Mean Divina Proporzione<\/strong>\u201d is a 10-foot\u00a0stainless steel and epoxy patina sculpture dedicated to Venice<\/strong>, the only city that combines Renaissance art, science and the sea. An avid fan of the Olympics, Feuerman was inspired by and studied the shapes created by swimmers\u2019 bodies as they dove off the high platform, often from handstands. The parabola the body makes for only a moment resonated in her memory. The \u201cGolden Mean Divina Proporzione\u201d, 2013, is based on Feuerman\u2019s 14-foot bronze \u201cGolden Mean\u201d of 2012, which is on permanent exhibition in Riverfront Green Park overlooking the mighty Hudson River at Peekskill, New York (see photograph). The \u201cGolden Mean\u201d is a beautifully simple piece of mathematics apparently discovered by Pythagoras of Samos, and first written down three centuries later in Euclid\u2019s Elements. Euclid called it \u2018extreme and mean proportion\u2019. The golden mean is a ratio between two unequal parts of a quantity, roughly 1:1.6, which means that the smaller part is to the larger part, as the larger part is to the whole. This ratio yields an irrational number with infinite decimal places, 1.618\u2026 (Phi). The golden ratio is integral to the configuration of pentagrams, sacred to Pythagoras, and other geometric forms, including the parabola. In 1509, mathematician Fra Luca Pacioli published in Venice his treatise De divina proportione, with drawings of polyhedra by Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli called the golden mean \u2018divine proportion\u2019. Merging science, art and philosophy in the Renaissance way, Pacioli wrote that the ratio is divine because it is a perfect and unchanging unity. On Pacioli\u2019s influence, the golden mean acquired the fame of being uniquely beautiful, although most artists have preferred to seek their own proportions. When Michelangelo was asked about the measurements of his figures, he said, \u201cone needs to have compasses in the eyes and not the hands, because the hands work, and the eyes judge\u201d. For Aristotle the golden mean was the desirable middle between the extremes of too much and too little. Looking at Feuerman\u2019s diver on the brink of leaving the platform suggests that today\u2019s term might be the \u2018tipping point\u2019. Divers seek perfect form while challenging the limits of physics. Against the watery backdrop of the Venetian laguna, the monumental sculpture towers 12 feet into the sky on six inch wrists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"