Name: It Takes Two - Video Works from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Collection - Frank Hesse
Start: 2025-12-05T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Via Rafenstein 19, 39100

It Takes Two - Video Works from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Collection - Frank Hesse

On Friday, December 5, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation is pleased to present the second event of It Takes Two, a series of video works from the Antonio Dalle Nogare private collection, curated by Eva Brioschi.
The title is an ironic reminder that the creation of a work of art requires not only the artist’s effort but also the participation of the viewer, who completes the creative process through perception. In the darkness of a video room, the artist-viewer relationship becomes even more intimate. Like a confessional of the mind, the gaze surrenders to the images, losing spatial and temporal references and welcoming the possibility of multisensory transmission and an unpredictable epiphany.
During each inaugural evening, there will be a moment of in depth discussion and interactive reading of the exhibited work, led by the Foundation’s artistic director, Eva Brioschi, in dialogue with the artist or art professionals.
The second event of It Takes Two is dedicated to Frank Hesse, an artist, designer, and yoga teacher living in Zurich, and presents a video made in 2006: Florence: From St. Croce to the Institute of Art History.
In this work, shot with a handheld camera, the artist retraces the path between the Basilica of Santa Croce — where Stendhal experienced the episode later defined as “Stendhal syndrome”— and the Kunsthistorisches Institut, founded in 1897 and supported by Aby Warburg, in Florence.
The images, increasingly slowed down, jerky, and blurred, combined with the artist’s breathing and ambient sounds, create a fragmented and unsettling perception. The words scrolling across the screen describe two different approaches to art: one filled with pathos and aesthetic rapture—Stendhal’s—and the other rooted in the rationality of modern art scholarship—Warburg’s.
The dissonance between the footage and the text mirrors the tension between Aby Warburg’s theoretical practice and his personal story, marked by psychological disorders.
The walk between the two buildings in the city seems like a mental exercise aimed at synthesizing a broader definition of art, where perception, thought, and emotion add up, blending in unpredictable ways.
Following the screening, Frank Hesse will be in a conversation with Eva Brioschi and Nasim Weiler, project manager at Stadtkuratorin Hamburg, whose research focuses on conceptual art and performance practices, exploring the themes and processes behind this video work.