Time, an immaterial and in many ways subjective dimension, is difficult to conceptualize, but even more difficult to visualize. It is no coincidence that it has long been believed that the fine arts, traditionally considered the arts of space, could not access the temporal dimension. Yet, the theme of time, its ineluctable flow, its memory, are constantly present in the history of art from ancient to contemporary art; not only as symbols, allegories, myths or narrations, but also as stylistic choices or as communicative strategies. Talking about an invisible perspective means recognizing the existence of another perspective, the temporal one: a more nuanced and elusive system that becomes part of the works of art and innervates them from the inside.
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