BODY, BRAIN, IMAGES
LECTURE BY VITTORIO GALLESE
27TH JUNE 2021
CAIO MELISSO CARLA FENDI THEATRE - SPOLETO
Art and Science are not separate worlds. Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology at the University of Parma, a researcher focused on the relationship between the sensorimotor system and cognition, and co-discoverer — together with his colleagues in Parma — of mirror neurons, spoke about this to the audience of Spoleto64 Festival dei Due Mondi in a meeting organized by the Carla Fendi Foundation at Caio Melisso Carla Fendi Theatre.
VITTORIO GALLESE
“Thanks to the empirical approach of neuroscience, we can investigate the mechanisms that enable our interactions with images created by humans, shedding light on the functional processes that allow for aesthetic experience. In doing so, we can approach aesthetics — and what we now designate as art — from a new and complementary perspective”, says Gallese. Science itself therefore demonstrates that the connection between Art and Science is growing ever stronger. “Creative expressive processes, despite their progressive abstraction and detachment from the body, retain intact their corporeal roots,” Gallese continues. “Creative expression is tied to the body not only because the body is the instrument of creation, but also because it is the primary medium that allows us to experience it.”
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