Venice:
Palazzo Fortuny - Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny. Four are the exhibitions on show
for the Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny, until November 19, in this historic and
evocative palazzo, where each space assumes a specific identity that enhances
the languages and expressive techniques from each contemporary artist. On show
the works of photographers, Franco Vimercati and Beatrice Helg, the works of
artist Maurizio Donzelli and the jewelry and sculptures of Annamria Zanella.
Above: The director
of the Fondazione dei Musei Civici di Venezia, Gabriella Belli and Palazzo
Fortuny’s curator Daniela Ferretti visit the exhibition.
Autumn
at Palazzo Fortuny: Franco Vimercati – Tutte Le Cose Emergono dal Nulla
exhibition. The exhibition curated by Elio
Grazioli and John Eskenazi following a set up project and layout by Daniela Ferretti documents the œuvre of Franco Vimercati (Milan, 1940-2001) through the
presence of over 100 of his works.
An artist of great significance for the direction he took in the field of
contemporary experimentation, Vimercati is still little known to the general
public today.
Autumn
at Palazzo Fortuny: Franco Vimercati. Over
the years, Vimercati concentrated in particular on photographic surveys of everyday objects from his life, giving them an unusual
soul and magic: 36 bottles of water, strips of parquet from the floor, a
can, a vase, a glass… “ten years spent
photographing only a soup tureen…”
Autumn
at Palazzo Fortuny: Franco Vimercati. Concentration and sequences of images are the peculiar aspects of his work, recalling the
form of prayer in which the uninterrupted and almost infinite repetition of the
same word empties it of its primary meaning and transforms it into pure sound,
creating a direct contact between self and the cosmos. In this regard, the
obsessive attention Franco Vimercato pays to some objects is nothing other than
an illustration of his striving towards the purity of the image.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny: Franco
Vimercati. In conjunction with the
exhibition, the first monograph dedicated to Franco Vimercati is published by
both Eskenazi/Skira Editore; it contains his more representative artworks and a
long remarkable interview with Elio Grazioli.
Asian Art expert and publisher of
the Franco Vimercati catalogue John
Eskenazi and his wife Fausta.
Evelina
and Giacomo Eskenazi
Opera
director Christophe Gayral and Carla Alvera.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny: Maurizio Donzelli
- Metamorfosi exhibition. Metamorfosi, curated by Andrea Villani, exhibition project by
Daniela Ferretti, enables visitors to enjoy a full approach to the poetic
elements of Maurizio Donzelli’s work, always focused on some near points of the
artistic operation: the concept of
drawing, the discovery of images, the observer’s unvoidability in the
definition of works of art, in the relation between light and color. In
the foreground, one of the large wool
and silk carpets, knotted in Nepal, which transfer the drawing theme on
a horizontal level and develops the mirror concept (see below) and the issue of
the relation between color and light in the luminescence dimension.
Dealer Massimo
Minini, artist Maurizio Donizelli, dealer and curator Chiara Rusconi and
exhibiton curator Andrea Villani.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny: Maurizio Donzelli. At the same time,together with the silk and wool
carpets, we can admire some of the jacquard
tapestries, made in Flanders, expressly made this project: they put into
action an epiphanic research of images with a surprising grace, a great respect
for the possible contents and a greater maturity compared to the historical
tradition which make them hang out in time.
Maurizio Donzelli installation.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny: Maurizio Donzelli. The exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny shows for the first
time both the Mirros and the
watercolor paintings of the “Disegni
del Quasi” and “Talisman”
cycles.
Dubai-based artist Patricia Millns.
Director Piero Maccarinelli and Ilaria Inghlieri.
Architect and interior decorator Roberto Gerosa and shoe designer Roberta
Rossi.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny:
Annamaria Zanella - Oltre
l’Ornamento. A refined and never
commonplace artist, Annamaria Zanella presents a wide-ranging selection of her
most recent creations at Palazzo Fortuny, curated by Daniela Ferretti. Iron,
copper, steel, glass, wood, porcelain, paper, cement and more are her favorite
materials. The same materials that through memories, emotions, thoughts
and an extraordinary technical ability are transformed into precious forms and
geometries narrating fragments of the artist’s personal life, going beyond the
mere function of ornament.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny:
Annamaria Zanella. With Annamaria Zanella’s jewellery we talk
about a “poor jewel”, a definition, which is also an oxymoron. “Poverty” can be
found in pieces of metal sheet, corroded surfaces, shards of glass, iron scraps
and in combinations of gold and silver, enamel treated with acids in order to
revitalize the intention to undermine the ideology of ostentation as a valuable
thing.
Annamaria Zanella
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Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny:
Béatrice Helg
- Risonanze.
The work of Swiss artist
Béatrice Helg holds a unique place within the tradition of staged and
constructed photography, first developed in the 1980s. Indeed her photographs are a far cry from
hyperrealist or narrative pictures, from artificial reconstructions of scenes
of everyday life; instead, her work features abstract forms and sceneries as
well as luminous worlds. Risonanze is Helg
first exhibition in an Italian museum. It includes a selection of
twenty-four color works, many of them are unreleased photographs, specially
created by the artist for Palazzo Fortuny.
Antonella Magno,
dealer Valerio Tazzetti and artist/photographer Beatrice Helg.
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny:
Béatrice Helg. More than anything
else, light is the real material without
which her work would not exist. Light is the ultimate medium that makes
revelation possible. Using raw, salvaged materials such as corroded metal
sheets, unevenly transparent glass plates, or paper, the artist constructs
unlikely installations in her studio, poised in a fragile equilibrium. These
sculptural and geometric shapes seem to float, suspended out of real time. They
inhabit the space rather than occupying it as inert objects. Beatrice Helg’s
tableaux seem to be haunted by the contradiction between light and darkness,
ultimately giving way to infinity, to a quest for the absolute, or rather to a
boundless search for inner mystery.
Photographs courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny:
Béatrice Helg. With her great
passion for scenography and architecture, influenced by the Russian avant-garde
and constructivism, Helg creates
monumental spaces in which sculpture, painting, environment, staging and most
of all light are constantly interwoven.
Cecila Matteucci
Lavarini
Jewelry designer Barbara
Paganin.
Milanese PR’s
Guendalina Perelli, Francesca Ballini Richards and Fransisca Pancera.
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