Around Venice
Art Galleries Opening Weekend - Highlights
On heavenly sunny and warm days, the three-day lively weekend full of museum and gallery openings and cultural events took place around Venice. Here are some highlights.
Photograph courtesy Alma Zevi
Alma Zevi
Alain Baczynsky - Hatufim
At Alma Zevi, Alain Baczynsky’s Hatufim, which means kidnapped or abductee in Hebrew, until April 20, is a series of eight photographic diptychs, each of which presents a portrait of a person, either composed from archival documents or taken in the artist’ studio, alongside a self-portrait by the artist.
Costa N. – His gaze, a century’s encyclopedia
Alma Zevi
Alain Baczynsky - Hatufim
Whether archival images or recent works, the different portraits in the series were all carefully composed following the strict parameters commonly associated with deadpan passport or official identity photographs, showing a sitter facing the camera front-on with a neutral expression.
Omer - Barely emerging, this gaze, a blank page, on which the marvels and horrors of the world will be written
Alma Zevi and Alain Baczynsky
Alma Zevi
Alain Baczynsky - Hatufim
The recurring image of the self-portrait has been subjected to the same manipulation eight times: Baczynsky (digitally) cut the eyes, and in some cases the eyebrows, of the facing portrait and pasted them onto his own. His eyes never appear.
Aba Baczynsky – In Judaism hell does not exist. God did not know Auschwitz.
Rudolf Hass – Aquas alibusc luscit labo. Mus ducimo blab inullup tatibus ea diorum as et fugit etur?
Savory and Sweet Middle-European Pastries
Galleria Michela Rizzo
Saverio Rampin – Pensai il Colore – Guardai il Sole
Pensai il colore, guardai il sole - I thought of color, I looked at the sun - curated by Davide Ferri, until May 1, is the title of the first exhibit that the Galleria Michela Rizzo dedicates to Saverio Rampin shedding light on the works of one of the most important Venetian artists of the second half of the twentieth century. The gallery does this by looking into the interstices, the turning points, and through an original juxtaposition of works from different periods of the artist’s career.
Saverio Rampin
Saverio Rampin – Pensai il Colore – Guardai il Sole
Davide Ferri curator
Michela Rizzo
Galleria Michela Rizzo – Highlight Project
Matthew Attard – Equivocality
Matthew Attard’s Equivocality exhibition, until May 1, includes two types of works: 6 drawings, made on an Ipad and printed on aluminum, and 2 high reliefs, above, in aluminum wire fixed directly to the wall. The two sculptures Bravissimo! and Tu que no puedes, derive, also in the titles, from the Caprichos series by Goya. These works are the starting point for the realization of the drawings on iPad: here the animalistic metamorphosis and the satirical atmosphere are taken up. The drawings are the result of the superimposition of various images (people, animals, food) borrowed from the web and recombined in an arbitrary manner until reaching an image that is now something new - the girls-cocacola, the man-donkey, the woman-frog
Matthew Attard
The Garden at the Galleria Michela Rizzo
Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space and Gallery
NewFaustianWorld – A Book – A Movie – An Exhibition
At Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space and Gallery, the exhibition NewFaustianWorld, A Book, A Movie, An Exhibition, until April 23, the project includes the book, featured above published by 24 Ore Cultura – Gruppo 24 Ore, a movie directed by Piero Passaro and produced by Theater 7/2 Productions and a group art exhibition. In a world where the destiny of man seems resigned to have disappeared, curator Raffaele Quattrone involves 17 internationals artists with a Faustian Factor: a strong and recognizable artistic identity and an exasperated virtuosity that allows them to compete with the infinite possibilities of the computer, with the precision of photographic evidence, with the reactions and relationships of video and performances. NewFaustianWorld is the world of people like Goethe’s Faust, emblem of modern man, who has inner tensions that push him not to settle for the norm but to make his own philosophy about how life is extraordinary, to go further, to achieve new goals, to accept new challenges…
Beatrice Burati Anderson
Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space and Gallery
The Movie – NewFaustianWorld - 2018
The film-documentary, NewFaustianWorld, directed by Piero Passaro and produced by Theater 7/2 Productions has already been shown at various international film festivals. NewFaustianWorld, last December was awarded Best Documentary 6, Nebraska International Film Competition, Cape Town. The audiovisual project tells Raffaele Quattrone’s curatorial project of with a hybrid of visual language between documentary and film fiction.
Jan Worst
Josep Tornero - Maurizio Cannavacciuolo
Kepa Garraza
Alberto Di Fabio
Andrea Chiesi
Mauro Pipani
Galleria Alberta Pane
Recent Works – Group Show
Christian Fogarolli and Michele Spanghero
A fine sensibility, an essential aesthetics and a conceptual nature characterize the artworks by two Italian artists, Christian Fogarolli and Michele Spanghero exhibited in Recent Works at the Alberta Pane Gallery, until April 20. For both of them, the production of recent years represents the full realization of a ten-year artistic path that has led them to enter the contemporary art scene, in a consistent, mature and focused way, not only in Italy. It is through a transversal approach to research with refined, singularly fragmented and perceptively stimulating results that Christian Fogarolli and Michele Spanghero work on artistic creation, a combination of art and scientific disciplines for one, between sound and visual art for the other.
Michele Spanghero – Ad Lib.- 2017-2018
Galleria Alberta Pane
Recent Works - Michele Spanghero
The sound substance, with its imperceptible
variations, its silences and its acoustic resonances in space and matter, is a
key element in the practice of Michele Spanghero (1979), whose works
combine sound and visual arts with in-depth conceptual research; his approach
to artistic creation is transversal. Essential and rigorous, the aesthetics of
his works reveals fragments, marginal elements of architecture and geometries
of light that the artist captures in search of a new semantic system, that is
to say, far from pre-established supra-structures and information. In his
practice Michele Spanghero proceeds by subtraction: in response to the large
amount of data that surrounds us, the artist feels compelled to isolate and
re-elaborate the pre-existing material. This sonorous-visual analysis concerns
the relationship between space and perception: photography, sculpture and sound
silently involve the viewer and aim to delicately alter his perceptions.
Michele Spanghero – Studies of Density of White - 2010-2018
Michele Spanghero
Michele Spanghero – Monologue – 2014-2017
Alberta Pane
Galleria Alberta Pane
Recent Works – Christian Fogarolli
Christian Fogarolli (1983) investigates how art, theories and scientific disciplines have always been intertwined and how science has unconsciously used the creative medium to progress. His works - environmental installations, photographs, sculptures, and videos - contain this duplicity of tensions. Through a para-scientific working method and archival research, the artist combines the use of objets trouves with refined contemporary materials, such as ultraviolet lamps, steel, mirrors and titanium. His works, with a precise and accurate formal outcome, are poetic and sensitive. The links between normality and deviance and the relationships between different species, categorized as public and private heritage, are silently investigated. His latest works in the exhibition highlight how the perception of the image and the object are an essential trait of the artist's poetics.
Christian Fogarolli – Come uno Straccio
Christian Fogarolli
Michele Spanghero – Monologue – 2014-2017
V-A-C- Zattere
Fiona Banner – aka – The Vanity Press
Phantom – Video Work - Exclusive Screening
Exclusive screenings of Phantom,
a video work by acclaimed British artist Fiona Banner aka The
Vanity Press which was recently acquired for the V-A-C Collection
was shown during Venice
Art Weekend. Next year artists Fiona Banner and Mike Nelson
will be curating the exhibition, The Explorers – Part
Two, May-October 2020, at V-A-C Zattere.
Each is a leading exponent of one medium: Mike Nelson is a sculptor; Fiona
Banner a creator of text-based images and installations; each will embark on a
journey through the V-A-C Collection and their selections will break with
traditional art historical groupings to reveal unexpected affinities between
works of art created at different historical moments and within distinct
geographies.
Fiona Banner – aka – The Vanity Press
Fiona Banner Aka The Vanity Press, Phantom, 2015, video
installation.
Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.
Fiona Banner – aka – The Vanity Press
Phantom – video still
In Phantom a drone
camera simultaneously observes and harries the artist’s illustrated reprint of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness, like a hawk chasing down its prey. As the drone
attempts to focus on the text and images, the downdraught from its blades blow
the pages back and forth in an endless fluttering dance.
Photo: Mischa Haller. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner – aka – The Vanity Press
Phantom – video still
The text of Phantom is paired with images of Europe’s financial center, the City of London, which Banner commissioned from Magnum conflict photographer Paolo Pellegrin alongside Banner’s drawings depicting close-ups of pinstripes, a play on the historic livery and camouflage of the Financial Industry.
Zattere – Canale della Giudecca