The presentation of the pervious system has developed an important plastic work within the world of art and science. Both disciplines pave confluence roads when testing how some scientist highlight the aesthetic and creative sense of their achievements through unprecedented images from the microscope. By their side, artists, seduced by the resultant treated from researches, recreate the medical world from different foundations.

 

The exhibition “In the Garden of Neurobiology” by Rossana Zaera provide us with a better understanding of the scientific knowledge as an existential part. Inspired by the Treatise of Human Anatomy by Leo Testut 1902, the first part of the project gathers the memories and feelings of the artist when reencountering with those books that she had observed so many times as a child in the shelf of her parents’ office. The fascination started from the recreation of nerve cells painted on both sides of the sheet, until reaching a further developing of sequences and the morphology of the central nerve system.  The collection of drawings traced from the combination of gouache, graphite, Chinese ink and collage bring us closer to a universe, in whose way the author seeks answers knowing that the most important will be her own walk. Accompanied by readings of those volumes, original books preceding from the historic-medical library Vicente Peset Llorca of the UV are exhibited, this library is located inside the Palacio de Cerveró.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From a second section, Rossana Zaera narrates a personal experience condensed in the facilities  Habitación 450 (Room 450). The channelling of that memory is melted in drawings of different sections of the spinal cord, and ends in a portrait of the room. The exhibition is, besides, composed of small sculptures created from the subtleness of shapes and natural materials, and of images screened, recalling the magic and hope of life processes.