Since time immemorial, art and illusion have followed two parallel paths connected by many bridges. Can the work be the cause or the result of an illusion – and what would its reality then be? Artists throughout the centuries have pondered this question. With the invention of perspective, increasingly competitive realist currents, automation devices and optical effects, virtual worlds and the digital vertigo they induce, the question of illusion inevitably arises – and prompts us to probe the nature of our perception.
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