Photograph
and copyright Manfredi Bellati
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Venice Biennale - Around Town
Collateral
Events - Museo Correr
Shirin
Neshat – The Home of My Eyes
At
the Museo Correr, until November 26, Shirin Neshat’s, The Home of My Eyes exhibition,
curated by Thomas Kellein with the scientific direction of Gabriella Belli. It
is the visual portrait of a culture, which comprises of 55 portraits, as well
as, and Neshat’s new video Roja - 2016 - which is based on the artist’s personal
dreams and memories, exploring an Iranian woman’s nostalgia for connection.
“A portrait of a country that for so long has been a
crossroads of many different ethnicities, religions, and languages.”
Shirin Neshat
Museo
Correr
Shirin
Neshat – The Home of My Eyes
Neshat’s
photographic and filmic portraits investigate the psychological and emotional
states of her subjects, a series portraying the diverse people of Azerbaijan.
While
the subjects range in age and ethnicity, Neshat unites them formally by staging
them in similar clothing and poses, against a dark background. The specific
hand gestures reference Christian religious paintings, most notably those of El
Greco.
The
View
Piazza
San Marco
Fondazione
Querini Stampalia
Elisabetta
Di Maggio - Almost Transparent Nature
At
the Fondazione Querini Stapalia, until September 24, Elisabetta Di Maggio’s
site-specific exhibition, Almost Transparent Nature, is curated by Chiara
Bertola. The artist’s work is spread
throughout the museum and invades the space creating a relationship with past
and present times, placing the viewer inside a visual alienation.
Above.
Giovanni Bellini – Presentation of the Temple – Elisabetta Di Maggio – Untitled
– 2016 – white porcelain hand-cut with scapel.
“I
have based my research on the concept of time inflected in all its forms, to
the extent that I have made time itself the real substance of my work.”
Elisabetta
Di Maggio
Cabbage
2011
– Brassica Oleracea leaves
eighteenth–century
root table.
Fondazione
Querini Stampalia
Elisabetta
Di Maggio – Ivy
2017
– Ivy branches
marble
bust – Michele Fabris detto l’Ongaro
Elisabetta
Di Maggio – Archive
2017
– installation
mixed
materials and media
Fondazione
Querini Stampalia
Elisabetta
Di Maggio – Untitled
2001-2010
–tissue paper
Fondazione
Querini Stampalia
Giovanni
Anselmo - Senza titolo, invisibile, le stelle si avvicinano di una
spanna in più, oltremare appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza...
Senza
titolo, invisibile, le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più, oltremare
appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza...
As is often the case with Giovanni Anselmo’s work, the long title is
like a formula, almost a short story, which describes installations that could
be considered landscapes to observe while “looking out of the window of our
imagination”. At the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, until September 24, the installations
are curated by Chiara Bertola. Anselmo’s
work is like a paradigm that is constantly being recreated and which orients
itself differently every time it encounters a new space and dimension: in this
case the Carlo Scarpa space, inspired by the precision and essential rigor that
the place suggested itself to the artist. The exhibition unwinds through four
elements-works: one work for each space, to give direction and create a tension
towards the exterior. It is a route of trajectories and directions, weights and
energies, which represent five moments in which a meaning is implied: the
visitors become participants.
Giovanni
Anselmo - Mentre Oltremare appare verso Sud-Est
1967-1979-2016
Giovanni
Anselmo – Dove le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in piu
2001-2016
Fondazione
Querini Stampalia
Giovanni
Anselmo – Invisibile
1970-1998-2007