Carmen Heemels at the MIDAC – Meeting with the Mayor of Belforte del Chienti
11 SepCarmen Heemels, accompanied by MIDAC Museum Director Alfonso Caputo, was officially received at the Belforte del Chienti Town Hall by Mayor Alessio Vita.
Carmen Heemels at the MIDAC – Mail-Art project “Self-portrait in BLUE”
9 SepMail-Art project “Self-portrait in BLUE”
About the project
Carmen Heemels conceived this project as a natural extension of her solo exhibition “Fibonacci Hierarchy?” It is a true “Gesamtkunstwerk”, a real global artwork, comprising contributions from 169 artists who responded to the call by submitting 227 self-portraits.
The blue color is the color of the sky and the sky have no borders. So this installation, prepared by her, “Self-Portait in Blue”, with the subtitle “Blue Blanket”, because her feeling is, it’s also about connection, the power of showing ourselves in being together.
A warm blanket that we all need.
1. Horst Tress, Germany
2. Sabela Baña, Spain
3. Amadeu Escórcio, Portugal
4. Reen Sanderse, Netherlands
5. Ed Hanssen, Netherlands
6. Marco Furia, Italy
7. Vlasta Črčinovič, Slovenia
8. François Ruel, Canada
9. Keiichi Nakamura, Japan
10. Jacek Czapczynsky, United Kingdom
11. Agnieszka Wójtowicz, Poland
12. MH//ANTIPODE, Germany
13. Fabrizio Pavolucci, Italy
14. Stephen Tomasko, USA
15. Grzegorz Szmidt, Poland
16. Melanie Bäreis, Germany
17. Ed Giecek, USA
18. John Cumming, United Kingdom
19. Tanja Spenko, Slovenia
20. Ryosoke Cohen, Japan
21. V.E.B. Freie Brandstiftung, Germany
22. Ginny Lloyd, USA
23. Gloria Keh, Singapore
24. Nihal Güres, Turkey
25. Virginia Milici, Italy
26. Carmela Sarcina, Italy
27. Serse Luigetti, Italy
28. Serena Rossi, Italy
29. Giovanni & Renata StraDa Da, Italy
30. Tamara Wyndham, USA
31. Agnieszka Sawicka, Poland
32. Birgitta Volz, Germany
33. Sonia Socorro Cabaña, Portugal
34. Suzanne Mitterwieser, Germany
35. Uwe Höfig, Germany
36. Veronique Pozzi-Painé, Italy
37. Manuel Calvarro Sánchez, Spain
38. Maria-Margarita Dyankova Ivanova-Getova, Bulgaria
39. Peter Abajkovics, Hungary
40. Konstantin Markov, Bulgaria
41. Mzia Valerian, Belgium
42. Akif Nabihan, Malaysia
43. Elena Makova, Bulgaria
44. Zlatko Krstevski, Macedonia
45. Roberto Scala, Italy
46. Derya Avci, Turkey
47. Petra Kremer-Horstes, Germany
48. Miguel Jimenez, Spain
49. Mimi van Bindsbergen, Germany
50. Abdolreza Rabeti, Iran
51. Jole Spaletra, Italy
52. Laçin Hazal Karadağ, Turkey
53. Keiichi Nakamura, Japan
54. Alberto Lamas, Spain
55. Duygu Çetin, Turkey
56. Goethe Kippenberger, Germany
57. Silvano Pertone, Italy
58. Funda Salt, Turkey
59. Zorica Obradović, Serbia
60. Mehrsa Hadavi, Iran
61. Mohammadaref Zabihi, Iran
62. Fazaneh Mahdavi, Iran
63. Artin Hosseinsalimkadi, Iran
64. Mohamad Sadegh, Iran
65. Maryam Rahimi Pour, Iran
66. Soraya Khani, Iran
67. Abdolreza Rabeti, Iran
68. Karen Hatefi, Iran
69. Shaylin Iranifar, Iran
70. Amanda Samadi Torkamani, Iran
71. Farnaz Sinaei Hamed, Iran
72. Mobin Thaghizad Badrian, Iran
73. Jerzy Stepniak, Poland
74. Simone, France
75. THE WASTED ANGEL, Belgium
76. Amir Farid, Iran
77. Maria do Carmo Both, Brasil
78. Ted Polkinghorne, Canada
79. Donna Nona, Canada
80. Anneke Korsters, Netherlands
81. Mahsa Shiekhy, Iran
82. Alessandra Degni & Simona Sarti, Italy
83. Rosalie Gancie, USA
84.Toan Vinh La, Canada
85. Fred van Welie, Netherlands
86. Judith Carlin, USA
87. Simon Warren, UK
88. Rod Summers, UK/Netherlands
89. Brigitte Wallis, Germany
90. Anna Wajda, Poland
91. Maryna Podolska, Poland
92. Adam Czech, Poland
93. Krzusztof Pasztola, Poland
94. Barbara Ohmann, Germany
95. Susan Gold, Canada
96. Aneta Sadowska, Poland
97. Ryosoke Cohen, Japan
98. Simon Warren, UK
99. Claudio Gavina, Italy
100. Diana Magallón, Mexico
101. Paulo Teles, Portugal
102. Laura Lambré, Argentina
103. Albert Herbig, Germany
104. Ilmar Kruusamäe, Estonia
105. Franca Oostveen, Netherlands
106. Joey Patrickt, USA
107. Butch J. (Cathy) Paje Philippines
108. Larry Angelo, USA
109. Carmelia Davidesen, Belgium
110. Fábio Di Ojvara, Brasil
111. Honoria Starbuck, USA
112. Lilla Piszmán, Hungary
113. Paulo Duarte Filipe, England
114. Teresa Pego, Argentina
115. Marzia Maria Braglia, Italy
116. Renata Danicek, Brasil
117. Pedro Bericat, Spain
118. Jerzy Stepniak, Poland
119. Beata-Joanna Przedpetska, Poland
120. Meral Agăr, Turkey
121. Renate, Germany
122. Wolfgang Rostek, Germany
123. Jarka Fox, Slovenia
124. Laura Lambré, Argentina
125. Judy Coppola, USA
126. Stefan Heuer, Germany
127. Lars Schumacher, Germany
128. Stephan Mitterwieser, Germany
129. Susanne Schumacher, Germany
130. Friedrich Schumacher, Germany
131. Asma Ounine, Germany
132. Guroga, Venezuela
133. Edyta Dzierż, Poland
134. Hervé Alexandre, France
135. Pedro Gonzalves García, Spain
136. Eva Konya, Hungary
137. Dave Aka Davmo, USA
138. Lola González, UK
139. Margareth Degeling, Netherlands
140. Floki Gauvry, Argentina
141. Theresie Tholen, Netherlands
142. Sjra Borstboom, Netherlands
143. Sofia Rodriguez, Mexico/Austria
144. Daniela Lewin, Chile
145. Donna Mattila, Canada
146. Monique Willemse, Netherlands
147. van Royen, Netherlands
148. Tony Martin, Canada
149. Astrid Meijer, Netherlands
150. Blanka Noval, Mexico
151. Aaron Flores, Mexico
152. Dr. Jaspalis, India
153. Ai Katerini Deligianni, Spain
154. Nicolas Malevitsis, Greece
155. Daniel C. Boyer, USA
156. Sükran Bulut, Turkey
157. Hugo Pontes, Brasil
158. Alfonso Caputo, Italy
159. Henry Grahn Hermunen, Finland/Sweden
160. Lara Favaro, Italy
161. Bandini Fabrizio, Italy
162. Poul Poclage, Denmark
163. Hanna Bayer, Germany
164. Osvaldo Morales Barraza, Chile
165. Marta C. Viliani, Italy
166. Alfonso Caccavale, Italy
167. Devin Cohen, Mexico
168. Rebecca Martell, Mexico
169. Carmen Heemels, Netherlands
Carmen Heemels at the MIDAC – Alfonso Caputo’s text
4 Sep“The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics…”
(Eugene Paul Wigner – Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963)
If a project begins with a question, objectively, we’re on the right path.
Asking questions and seeking answers is the foundation of every project.
This title, “The Fibonacci Hierarchy?”, is a question, not a typographical error.
With this project, Carmen Heemels has a specific goal: to understand whether the Fibonacci sequence, closely connected to the Golden Ratio as demonstrated by Kepler, and universally considered the basis of perfection in nature, can determine a hierarchy of values.
Can it unconsciously influence human beings, subjectively and collectively, in their aesthetic and moral evaluations and judgments?
Could imperfections and anomalies, that is, everything that falls outside of the supposed perfection, become the basis and pretext for discrimination and for generating a scale of values, thus creating a hierarchy, which in this case would be founded on the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical sequence, understood as objective as such?
A question or series of questions Carmen has posed as a visual artist and a person deeply convinced of the value of art as experimentation and of culture as a fundamental element for human growth.
If this curiosity were applied solely to the concept of beauty in art, it would ultimately be pure philosophical speculation.
However, if a rigid and binding concept of evaluating beauty, and consequently of correctness and justice, were applied to human aesthetics or, even worse, to ethical and moral values, it would be a very tense confrontation between free interpretations of human thought and different lifestyles.
In each of her works, Carmen Heemels inserts so many signs and comparisons that inevitably push the observer to delve into every detail in search of harmonies or disharmonies.
Similarly, asking the question: “Exist a Fibonacci hierarchy?” and, above all, seeking a coherent answer would perhaps mean adopting the right antibodies to avoid uncritically adopting a formula, however mathematically indisputable, as an objective parameter for evaluating beauty.
Alfonso Caputo
Artistic Director, MIDAC Museum
Belforte del Chienti – September 2026
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