contessanally: Venice: Spring at Palazzo Fortuny - Part II - Anne-Karin Furunes

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Spring at Palazzo Fortuny – Part II – Anne-Karin Furunes – Shadows. Anne-Karin Furunes – Shadows exhibition, until July 14, at Palazzo Fortuny is curated by Elena Povellato with an exhibition display by Daniela Ferretti. The Norwegian artist’s large-scale portraits drawn from historic photographic archives are created by perforating canvas. At Palazzo Fortuny she had the opportunity to see the photo archives, getting closer to the world of Mariano Fortuny through the photographic documentation of his work, his life in the laboratory and the trips that took him to distant lands where he looked for new ideas for his research. The subjects used, were selected from the photographic portraits that Mariano had done of the people who populated the everyday life in Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, offering a contemporary light to the silent shadows evoked from the last century.

Above. Anne-Karin Furunes – Crystal Images VIII, 2013, Archivio Fortuny1903, painted and perforated canvas.

The Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furnues and curator Elena Povellato, in the background Anne-Karin Furunes – Crystal Images V, 2013, Archivio Fortuny 1895c, painted and perforated canvas.

Anne-Karin Furunes – Shadows. Every art work by the Norwegian artist lives through the light that touches it; a beam of light can illuminate but also darken the image that then is slowly set before our eyes as light moves through the thousands of holes that cover every canvas.

Above. Anne-Karin Furunes – Crystal Images III, 2013, Archivio Fortuny 1895c., painted and perforated canvas.

Kalle Eriksson

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From the Fortuny Museum archives ladies busts in various materials.

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Spring at Palazzo Fortuny – Part II – The Amazons of Photography from the Collection of Mario Trevisan. The Amazons of Photography from the Collection of Mario Trevisan, until July 14, is curated by Italo Zannier. The exhibition presents a significant anthology of photographs, taken by women, from the late 19th century to the present day, offering a particular historic and linguistic overview of the medium thanks to the passion and careful research of collector Mario Trevisan.

Above. Collector Mario Trevisan.

The Amazons of Photography from the Collection of Mario Trevisan.The selection opens with two portraits by Julia M. Cameron, and continues between the 1920s and 1940s with the work of two Austrian photographers, Trude Fleischmann and Madame D’Ora, of the American Margeret Bourke White, the Hungarian Ghitta Carell, the English Eva Barrett and two Germans, Ruth Bernhard and Leni Riefenstahl, the Italians Silvia Camporesi, Sabrina Mezzaqui and Giusy Calia.

Above. Silvia Camporesi – Studio per Ofelia – 2004/2010 – diptych, lambda print.

The Amazons of Photography from the Collection of Mario Trevisan. Also on display are photographs by Dora Maar and Lisette Model, an Austrian of Jewish extraction who moved to the United States at the outbreak of the Second World War, where she opened a famous school of photography.

Above. Piergiorgio Coin next to a photograph by Lisette Model - Running Legs, N.Y.C., 1940, gelatin silver print.