Venice - Art: Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi
– The Pool NYC – Show on Show exhibition. On the occasion of the 15th
Architecture Biennale, in the XVIII Century Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi, The Pool
NYC presents, until November 27, Stefania Fersini’s site specific solo
exhibition - Show on Show. Inspired by the architectural features and details
of the abandoned palazzo’s walls, terrazzo floor and furniture Fersini has
created an installation requesting the viewer's participation. She
scatters in the halls of the palace ten puzzles laid on recovered furniture.
The visitor, finding empty seats, is invited ‘to play the game’, combining tile
after tile of still unknown images.
Show on Show. Fersini’s
site specific installation could be considered as a tautological gesture for
the inherent desire to reveal on the puzzle what the eye can see during the
composition of the puzzle itself. It involves the viewer’s interaction and in
order to build the puzzle, she does not provide the resulting image, but the
reality itself that is represented in the work.
photograph
courtesy The Pool NYC
‘We
need time to solve problems and it’s our own time that leads us to the
knowledge’.
Stefania Fersini, a member of Nucleo, a collective of artists
and designers, based in Torino, Italy, sits
on a ”puzzle carpet” depicting the actual Eighteenth Century original terrazzo
floor. The
puzzle executions emulate the painting practice, chosen by the artist. Her
cognitive research focuses again on a missing content.
The Pool NYC’s Gigi
Franchin and Viola Romoli
Olivier Lexa
Stefania Fersini – Show
on Show. Show on Show presents
the place in its own place, generating a temporal perceptive and cognitive loop.
It is a silent action to let space and time talk. The subjects are perceived as matter
in its details: colors, portions of the pavement, walls, and wood. The artist
plays with our perception and let us reflect whether reality comes first than
representation. Fersini’s work questions time, which alludes to a becoming, at
times perceived as ‘destroying’, in other as ‘creating’. She expresses her critical relationship with
the destroyed image, and asks the viewer to engage in the creation of the work.
Roberta Rossi
Anna-Maria Pentimalli,
Sabina Bianchini, Barbara Valmarana and Eleonora Porcellato
Azzolina degli Azzoni
Avogadro
The "player" will find a fragmented reality broken
in his hands. It’s a mise en abyme that needs to be defined and confirmed.
