Points of View Illusions and Perceptions

With Points of View – Illusions and Perceptions, curated by Mauro Silani, the Oxford Collective confirms its vocation as an artistic and curatorial laboratory capable of transforming the viewer's perception into an active protagonist of the creative p

POINTS OF VIEW – Illusions and Perceptions

Exhibition by the Oxford Collective

Curated by Mauro Silani

On the occasion of Rome Art Week 2025

 Exhibition space Q'4RT – Hotel Oxford, Via Boncompagni 89, Rome

 20–25 October 2025

 Vernissage: 20 October 2025, 6 p.m.

“Close your eyes, listen carefully, and from the lightest breath to the wildest noise, from the most basic sound to the most complex chord, from the most vehement and passionate cry to the mildest words of reason, it will always be nature that speaks, revealing its presence, its strength, its life and its connections, so that a blind person, denied the infinitely visible, can grasp the infinitely living in what is audible."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-

This reflection opens the exhibition ‘Points of View - Illusions and Perceptions’ by the Oxford Collective, part of the Roma Art Week 2025 programme.

Art, like the nature evoked by Goethe, never reveals itself in a pure and absolute form, but offers itself to the viewer in a continuous dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between the object represented and the subjective perception of the observer. Thus, the boundary between reality and illusion becomes subtle and elusive: the works are transformed into fields of interpretative possibilities, in which the gaze is not simply reception, but an integral part of the creative process.

On the occasion of Rome Art Week 2025, the Oxford Collective presents the exhibition “Points of View - Illusions and Perceptions”, hosted at the Q'4RT exhibition space of the Oxford Hotel in Rome, from 20 to 25 October 2025.

The exhibition project, curated by Mauro Silani, invites the viewer to question their own way of looking: we never see “nature” itself, but the reflection of our own gaze upon it. The works thus become mirrors of different perspectives, points of view that multiply and intertwine, staging the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic experience. 

Goethe's quote becomes the key to understanding the exhibition. Just as the sounds evoked by the German poet reveal the vitality of nature even to those who cannot see it, so the works on display open up the possibility of an experience of art that transcends the merely visual, never manifesting itself in a single, definitive form. It is always the result of an encounter, a resonance between what the artist proposes and what the viewer recomposes in their act of observation. In this exchange, each work offers itself as an unstable threshold between the real object and subjective perception, generating illusions, interpretative short circuits and shifts in meaning.

The paradox is that, despite starting from different points of view, the viewer and the artist, and more generally the various observers, often end up converging towards common perceptions. It is as if there were a hidden fabric that holds experiences together, beyond differences in perspective. At this level, reflection meets science: quantum entanglement shows us how two particles, even when far apart in space, remain mysteriously connected, sharing the same state.

This image becomes a powerful metaphor for the aesthetic experience: art, like the quantum universe, is never isolated or self-sufficient, but exists in relation, in the invisible connection that links subject and object, artist and viewer, starting point and destination. A work of art is not only what the artist has created, but also what the gaze of the other pours into it, continuously transforming it into a living field of possibilities.

Art is never presented in its original purity, but manifests itself in an interpretative regime, always mediated by the gaze of the observer. It is precisely in this relationship — between the real object and the subject who perceives it — that a field of tension made up of illusions and perceptions takes shape. The work therefore lives not only in the material that constitutes it, but also in the process of resonance it activates in the viewer.

The exhibition invites us to recognise that we never see “nature” itself, but rather the reflection of our way of looking at it. Thus, every painting, sculpture, engraving or mosaic becomes a mirror of a sensory experience in which the truth of art is never univocal, but plural, subjective and open. 

It is precisely in this dialogue – between differences that seek each other out and consonances that emerge – that the most authentic nature of art manifests itself: not as objective truth, but as a shared space of perception, where even what appears distant is discovered to be surprisingly and perhaps illusorily close.

 

With this exhibition, the Oxford Collective reaffirms its vocation to investigate contemporaneity as a space for shared research, where every point of view becomes essential and every perception becomes an opportunity for reflection.

Artists on display

Painters:

Anita Pilat – Antonella Quartaroli – Carlo Solazzi – Luigi Ambrosetti – Luigi Cartella – Mauro Silani – Monica Garroni – Romano Pietrangeli – Sandro Cipolletti – Silvia Rinaldi – Stefano De Santis – Tonino Calotta – Umberto Pozzi

Sculptors, engravers, ceramists and mosaicists:

Paolo Paleotti – Remo Lenci

With “Punti di Vista – Illusioni e Percezioni” (Points of View – Illusions and Perceptions), curated by Mauro Silani, the Oxford Collective confirms its vocation as an artistic and curatorial laboratory capable of transforming the viewer's perception into an active protagonist of the creative process, bringing into play this dynamic of resonances and contrasts: a mosaic of languages, sensibilities and styles which, despite their diversity, ultimately reveal a common horizon.

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Exhibition: Points of View – Illusions and Perceptions

Oxford Collective

Curated by Mauro Silani Spazio Q'4RT – Hotel Oxford, Via Boncompagni 89, Rome

 20 – 25 October 2025 Vernissage: 20 October 2025, 6 p.m.

Event included in the official programme of Roma Art Week 2025

Press office and texts: Mauro Silani

Contact: mauro.silani@gmail.com

 www.collettivo-oxford.com

 

 

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