Photograph and copyright Manfredi Bellati
Palazzo
Michiel – Venice Design 2019
Suzanne Tick - Reclaimable Woven Neon Artist’s Proof
with Mary Wallis – Richard Roepnack
with Mary Wallis – Richard Roepnack
At
Venice Design in the magnificent
rooms of Palazzo Michiel, until November
24, Suzanne Tick’s Reclaimable Woven Neon Artist’s Proof, in
collaboration with Mary Wallis, neon
and lighting designer and Richard Roepnack of Roughhouse GV LLC, who brought his expertise in frame building and
construction. This versatile piece is an artist’s proof for a two-story
atrium in a corporate office. As an artist and textile weaver, Suzanne Tick was
enlisted to create a woven sculpture for the lobby. This adaptive reuse project
represents the method behind Woven Neon; symbolizing technology and
connectivity. The materials inspired a sculpture based on weaving light and
crafting visual wonder at the building’s core. All aspects can be recycled,
reconfigured and resized.
photograph courtesy
Suzanne Tick Studio
Suzanne Tick - Reclaimable Woven
Neon Artist’s Proof
Sketch
Original process rendering shows the initial sketch for installation, and to the right are the elevations for Woven Neon.
Sketch
Original process rendering shows the initial sketch for installation, and to the right are the elevations for Woven Neon.
Mary Wallis, Richard Roepnack and Suzanne Tick
Neon Weaving Diametric View
color striae prototype 1
color striae prototype 1
Suzanne Tick - Reclaimable Woven Neon Artist’s Proof
with Mary Wallis – Richard Roepnack
detail
with Mary Wallis – Richard Roepnack
detail
Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia
Philippe Parreno – Elsewhen
Philippe Parreno – Elsewhen
At the Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, until
November 24, the new installation, Elsewhen
by French artist Philippe Parreno.
Produced in the framework of the Fondation
Louis Vuitton Hors-les-murs program which showcases previously unseen
holdings of the Fondation's collection in the multiple Louis Vuitton Espaces around
the world. This polyphonic installation uses
languages of different media: cinema, IT, music, design, sculpture and
animation, choreographed into an all-encompassing sensory experience using
elements including Christmas trees, balloons, robots, music, sound and images.
Philippe Parreno creates an experience where the memory of the past combines
with the present and the future. The usual rules of perception are questioned
and replaced with new ways of understanding that challenge rationality and the
established order.
Philippe Parreno – Elsewhen
The walls are covered
with a phosphorescent yellow wallpaper patterned with black irises. A grand
luminous marquee, a recreation and reinvention of those that once stood on top
of cinema entrances, floats above a large vertical mechanical mirrored shutter.
photograph - Andrea Rossetti – copyright
and courtesy Phillipe Parreno Pilar Corrias – London – Gladstone Gallery – NY and
Brussels – Esther Schipper – Berlin
Philippe Parreno – Elsewhen
Martin Gropius Bau – Berlin – 2018
Exhibition View
Photograph courtesy
Alma Zevi
Alma
Zevi Projects Venice
Charlap Hyman and Herrero - Ouvrez Moi
Charlap Hyman and Herrero - Ouvrez Moi
In a in a defunct
mirror workshop, just a few steps from her gallery, until July 6, Alma Zevi presents Ouvrez-moi, Charlap Hyman and Herrero’s (CHH) first solo exhibition, is organised by Clara Zevi. This site-specific
installation of new work made in Murano
immerses visitors into a bedroom composed of fragmented mirrors, candles, and
flora and fauna from the nearby lagoons. Each piece explores perceptual
illusions constructed by duplications and translucencies.
Photograph courtesy
Alma Zevi
Charlap Hyman and
Herrero - Ouvrez Moi
Jean Cocteau - The
Blood of a Poet – 1932
stills
stills
Surrealist, Renaissance and entirely innovative in
its construction, the exhibition was borne from a scene in Jean Cocteau’s 1932 film, The
Blood of a Poet. In the film, a living statue transforms the door of an
artist’s studio into a looking glass. Ouvrez-moi
- open up, the artist commands, but the statue tells him that the
only way out of the room is through the mirror. At first the artist hesitates
in disbelief, but then he dives into the mirror, the surface of which has taken
on liquid properties. Cocteau’s split-second cinematographic trickery persuaded
CHH to push past the decorative
characteristics of mirror and investigate the poetics of the material.
Charlap Hyman and Herrero - Ouvrez
Moi
Each piece of furniture in CHH’s installation incorporates a sheet of two-way mirror in
front of a sheet of one-way mirror. Candles and flora and fauna from nearby
lagoons live between the two panes. When a candle is lit, its flame
activates the translucency of the two-way mirror and creates infinite
reflections of the contained ecosystem. When the candle goes out, the viewer is
faced with their reflection. Glass becomes mirror and the illusion vanishes.
Photograph courtesy
Alma Zevi
Alma Zevi, Clara Zevi, Andre
Herrero and Adam Charlap Hyman
Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design in furniture design and art
history (Charlap Hyman) and architecture (Herrero). The American duo, both 29 years old, live
and work between New York and Los Angeles.
Photograph courtesy
Alma Zevi
Charlap Hyman and Herrero - Ouvrez
Moi
installation
installation
Alma Zevi
Frank Auerbach – From Drawing to Painting
Frank Auerbach – From Drawing to Painting
At the Alma Zevi gallery, until August 3 Frank Auerbach's first solo exhibition in Italy in over 30 years. Frank Auerbach: From Drawing to Painting takes
London and the evolution of the city's urban landscape as its subject.
The works in the exhibition date from the 1970s until 2018, with many
drawings going on public display for the first time since leaving the
artist's studio. Widely regarded as Britain’s greatest living painter, Auerbach
(b. 1931, Berlin) was last shown in Italy when he represented Great Britain in
the 42nd Venice Biennale of 1986, winning the prestigious
Golden Lion prize.
Frank Auerbach – From Drawing
to Painting
Study for - From the Studio - 2018
Study for - From the Studio - 2018
On show ten new works on paper, all entitled Study for - From the Studio - which
were completed at the end of 2018, showing the immediate vicinity of the artist’s
studio. These drawings illustrate Auerbach’s
distinctive mark-making, where individual lines build into dynamic and complex
compositions. These gestures, which extend beyond the edges of the paper, have
a colour palette of extraordinary range and vibrancy. Whilst his painting
technique is a series of additions and subtractions, with the artist scraping
down and reapplying layers of paint, the drawings have a consistent tension of
building up these layers, culminating in highly expressive and resolved works.
Frank Auerbach – From Drawing
to Painting
Tower Blocks: Hampstead Road – 2007-2008
Tower Blocks: Hampstead Road – 2007-2008
The exhibition includes an oil painting, above, which has never
been publicly displayed in Italy before, as well as drawings, many of which
have left the artist’s studio for the first time. It focuses on an
international contextualisation for a group of artists living in Post-War London. Auerbach was one of the key figures of this highly influential and
radical group, together with his colleagues and friends including Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, Lucian
Freud, R.B Kitaj and Leon Kossoff.
Alma Zevi