Nan°art: The book

Title: Nan°art
Subtitle: Seeing the Invisible
Author: Raimondi Stefano
bilingual edition (italian/english) 21 x 28 cm,
176 pages
Published by: Skira


In the book Nan°art: seeing the invisible there is for the first time the will to look into nan°art with an artistic approach. The 176 pages contain the essays of Antonello Negri, Piero Bianucci, Mauro Carbone, Frances Geesin, Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, Jennifer Palumbo, Fabrizio Pirri, Ottilia Saxl, Kai Simons, Renzo Tomellini,Ugo Volli and Alessandro Scali e Robin Goode

In particular the essay "Nan°art: never trust in artists" written by artists Alessandro Scali e Robin Goode underline one the charachteristich of Nan°art: the pact between artists and spectators.
If the artworks are not show with the support of a microscope who can assure us that they really exist?
Nanoart removes the direct view of the image, and cancels the acquired superiority
of sight. This is both a paradox and a provocation, as there has been in every revolutionary
artistic movement. The paradox, of course, is that for a visual art we are offered a “nonvision”.
With nanotechnology the work is inscribed on a silicon wafer but it cannot be seen completely, but is only suggested. And here lies the radical nature of the idea: the spectator is expected to contribute personally to the creation of the work. With the help of a title, to give some help and establish a context, he has to finally use his “interior eye” and reawaken his imagination, hithertoblocked and handicapped by so many, too many invasive external images.