Palazzo
Fortuny
Intuition
Intuition
is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious
reasoning: a feeling that guides a person to act in a certain way without fully
understanding why
To
coincide with the 2017 Venice Art Biennale, the Fondazione Musei Civici di
Venezia and the Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation presented their sixth, and final,
exhibition: Intuition, until November 27, at Palazzo Fortuny. Curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela
Ferretti, Director of the Palazzo Fortuny, the exhibition explores how
intuition has, in some form, shaped art across geographies, cultures and
generations. It brings together historic, modern and contemporary works related
to the concept of intuition, dreams, telepathy, paranormal fantasy, meditation,
creative power, hypnosis and inspiration.
Neolithic
Menhirs - carved standing stones
from
ancient European civilizations
Axel
and May Vervoordt
Copyright
Jean-Pierre Gabriel – courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Neolithic
Menhirs
Jean-Michel
Basquiat – Venus Medici - 1982
Antony
Gormley – Gut X - 2013
Anish
kapoor – White Dark VIII - 2000
Saint
Anne and the Virgin Mary
El
Anatsui – The Beggininng and The End - 2015
Masaomi
Raku – Transmigration “Thunderbolt” – 2016
Director
of Palazzo Fortuny, Daniela Ferretti and Audrey Azoulay, French Minister of
Culture
Photograph
- courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Palazzo Fortuny
The
Second Floor
Photograph
- courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Cy
Twombly – Untitled – 2008
Performance
Matteo
Nasini – Sparkling Matter – 2017
Nasini registered and analyzed
the sleep-pattern of a sleep-performer, transforming this into ceramic volumes
with a 3D-printer.
Matteo Nasini
Performance
Yasmine
Hugonnet choreographed a group of 4 dancers, who moved in circles in an ongoing
silent dialogue.
Giorgio
Vigna – Cosmografia – 1985
Giorgio
Vigna
Participatory
site-specific installation
Kimsooja
– Archive of Mind - 2017
The
top floor of Palazzo Fortuny houses an impressive installation by Kimsooja, who
encouraged the audience to mold balls from lumps of clay while surrounded by a
sound performance. Each personal meditative or spiritual moment will be cast in
the finished clay balls.
Kimsooja
Copyright
Claudio Franzini, Venezia – courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Tancredi
Parmeggiani - Untitled- 1955
Performance
Marcos
Lutyens – Straatman
Marcos
Lutyens presented a hypnosis performance, inducing the audience to participate
by designing their unconscious thoughts on two clay tablets positioned on
either side of a chair; in his improvisation “Straatman”.
Marcos
Lutyens
