Venice: Palazzo Fortuny - Mirco Marchelli – Silent Scene for Low Clouds exhibition. The “Fortuny and Wagner” exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny examines the influence of Wagner’s music and art on the visual arts in Italy. Mariano Fortuny in primis was an exponent of “wagnerism“, but the exhibition also boasts the contribution of an Italian contemporary artist, Mirco Marchelli. He presents for this occasion a musical installation and a series of paintings and sculptures entitled “Silent Scene for Low Clouds“, curated by Paolo Bolpagni and Elena Povellato, until April 8.
Musician and artist Mirco Marchelli
with Mezza Bellezza 2013.
Mirco
Marchelli – Silent Scene for low Clouds exhibition. The exhibition is
held principally on the third floor of Palazzo Fortuny,
in what is generally known as the Palazzo’s “attic”. This is the part of a “home”
in which memories of past lives traditionally collect. The same holds true for the home and studio of Mariano
Fortuny which was selected by Marchelli to exhibit his works,
alongside Fortunys: torn sheets of paper with faded writing,
dusty fabrics, boxes and photographs shaped and recomposed with an order of
musical balance into new forms.
Mirco
Marchelli - In Cauti Suoni, 2013, alongside an anonymous funeral mask of Ludwig
van Beethoven and Augusto Benvenuti’s Richard Wagner’s funeral mask, 1883.
Palazzo
Fortuny’s director Daniela Ferretti and the curators of the exhibition Elena
Povellato and Paolo Bolpagni.
Mirco
Marchelli – Bombardino, 2001.
Mirco
Marchelli – Silent Scene for low Clouds exhibition. Alongside Mariano Fortuny’s works and
the velvet works and boxes of the Wagnerian cycle, a
number of small wax and canvas items “timidly” make their
appearance. They are joined by stools with mysterious packages tied in string, slender
ceramics with luminous transparencies that go to create the link rounding off
the exhibition’s inquiry into the influence of Wagnerism, in which all artistic
forms, music above all, strive towards the same goal: the “total
work of art”.
Above: Mirco Marchelli - In Cauti Suoni, 2013, hung
amongst Mariano Fortuny Y Madrazo’s Wagnerian cycle paintings.
Jewelery
designer Caterina Mancuso wearing her ceramic earrings.
Mirco
Marchelli – Silent Scene for low Clouds exhibition. Mirco Marchelli’s Mezza Bellezza, 2012
with a model for a labyrinth in the Villa Pisani at Stra by Santo Benato and
Giovanni Gloria from a drawing by Gerolamo Frigimelica circa 1720 and two
bonzes, Mostro Marino and Ninfa.
Mirco Marchelli – Silent Scene for low Clouds exhibition. Two Mirco Marchelli 2013 works, both called Vale un Pero.