The Presence of the Visible. Multisensory Experience in Art and Architecture

Abstract

Reality, what we see-or we think we are seeing-is not measured by its visible presence, but by the multitude of representations, expressions, in which the object breaks down. Experience, then, is not exclusively a visual matter, but tactile, auditory or olfactory. All our senses intertwine with each other in a "tangled experience". 'Unión Libre', by León Ferrari, is presented here as a clear exponent of how this perception, complex in its understanding but much richer in its meaning, is activated through the senses, memory and imagination. And it aims to demonstrate how architecture, through the readings and references from other fields of art, can be able to develop a full and vital experience of life through multisensory experience. An invitation that implies the desire to see, to touch, to smell. Perhaps no other discipline directly involves as many phenomena and experiences as architecture does.