Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni: Venice in Venice – Glow and Reflection – Venice California Art from 1960 to Present. Until July 31 at Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni the fabulous exhibition Venice in Venice – Glow and Reflection – Venice California Art from 1960 to Present curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. More than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California collaborated together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene, by mounting Venice in Venice, transporting a group of revolutionary artists from the 1960s in Venice California, to the city of Venice, Italy. These artists travel significant metaphoric waters from their roots squatting in an abandoned amusement park, which housed many of their studios as they first began their phenomenological experiments in the mid 1960s, to the opulent Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni on the Grand Canal. As the Academia Bridge unites the two banks of the Grand Canal, a fleet of psychedelic gondolas designed by Billy Al Bengston unites Venice in Venice to Palazzo Grassi, creating a space-time continuum of Venetian tradition with the 1960s culture. Psychedelic paintings, neon lights, and sounds merge in a surprising way with the Gothic architecture of the palazzo.
Venice in Venice: Ed Moses, Hed-Owt #1, 2011, acrylic on fabric, five individual panels.
Venice in Venice: Vija Celmins, Eraser, 1967, acrylic on balsa wood.
Venice in Venice: Billy Al Bengston, Godzilla Saddle, 1962, lacquer and oil on masonite.
Venice in Venice: Larry Bell, Untitled, 1969, vacuum-plated glass with metal binding.
Venice in Venice: In the foreground: Robert Graham, untitled, 1969, mixed media sculpture in acrylic box. On the wall: Tony Berlant, Christ in New York, 1983, found metal collage with brass over plywood.
Venice in Venice: Peter Alexander, Poppy, 2011, polyester resin. two panels.
photograph by manfredi bellati
Venice in Venice: Robert Irwin, Green River, 2010-2011, 27 flourescent tubes.
photograph by manfredi bellati
Venice in Venice: Co-curator of Venice in Venice, Jacqueline Miro.
photograph by manfredi bellati
Venice in Venice: Co-curator of Venice in Venice, Tim Nye.
photograph by Manfredi Bellati
Venice in Venice: John McCracken, Sangre, 2001, Polyester resin and lacquer epoxy on fiberglass and plywood.