In Corridori in Fuga, artist Gino Saccone explores the relationship between dimensions in textiles based on the autostereogram, a technology that creates the visual illusion of a 3D scene from a two-dimensional image.
Saccone is fascinated by the creation of three-dimensionality in a two-dimensional medium. He arranges colour and texture into form, often referencing numbers. He takes his inspiration from the autostereogram, an optical illusion that hides a three-dimensional image that is only revealed with the right viewing technique.
For the tapestry, the watercolour design was 3D scanned to build up a virtual image. The image was then translated into a woven cloth that sought to retain the illusion of three-dimensionality.
Saccone (Jersey, Channel Islands, 1979) works in a variety of media, with the aim of disrupting the conditioned and entrenched viewing experience of the viewer. He earned his master’s degree in sculpture in 2008 from the Royal College of Art in London, and in 2009 and 2010 he was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. His work has been shown at the Supplement Gallery in London, Tate Britain, Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam and Implant UBS Bank in New York. He lives and works in London.
