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Villa di Maser - Villa Barbaro
Casa di
Vita – Armonia del Tempo – Contemporary Art Exhibition
For the first time, in one of the greatest masterpieces
of Andrea Palladio, frescoed by Paolo Veronese, until September 15, the Villa di Maser – Villa Barbaro, opens its door and gardens to the contemporary art
exhibition, Casa di Vita – Armonia del
Tempo, titled from a definition by
Palladio. Curated by Simonetta Gorreri Casini in collaboration with Giovanna Poggi Marchesi and
Villa di Maser, it brings together twenty national and
international artists who interpret the Palladian
miracle in contemporary art form. The site-specific exhibition also
highlights the relationship between architecture and territory, in synergy with
a study/research conducted by the IUAV Faculty
of Architecture in Venice.
Petra
Liebl-Osborne - Germany
... Acqua Fluente
... Acqua Fluente
The
theme of containment of virtual water comes from the spring water that flows
downwards behind the villa following the route of Palladio’s water way.
The Opening Ceremony
curator – dignitaries -
artists - cut the tricolor ribbon
Giovanna Poggi
Marchesi, Vittorio Dalle Ore, Simonetta Gorreri Casini, Claudia Benedos and Cristiano Corazzari
Center
The Artists
Julia
Artico - Austin Camilleri - Waltraut Cooper - Candida Ferrari - Nicoletta Freti
- Doron Gazit - Daniela Lazzari - Petra Liebl-Osborne - Mannocci - Perrone - Chicco
Margaroli – Marisa Merlin - Cristiana Moldi Ravenna - Silvio Monti - Riccardo
Murelli - Maria Grazia Rosin - Giovanni Sala - Lorella Salvagni - Livio Seguso -
Paolo Stefani - Barbara Toffano
Simonetta
Gorreri Casini, Claudia Benedos,
Giovanna Poggi
Marchesi and
Vittorio Dalle Ore
Sala a Crociera
Livio Seguso – Ripartizione Organica - 2017
Livio Seguso – Ripartizione Organica - 2017
Venice - Italy
Giorgiana and Lalo Bianchini d'Alberigo
Petra Liebl-Osborne
Artist – Artwork - Acqua Fluente - above
Alberto and Barbara Passi de Preposulo
Sala a Crociera
Chicco Margaroli – La Natura
del Presente
Aosta – Italy
Small transparent chests that recall antique glass,
made of protein jelly - box the leaves that fell last winter from the walnut trees
planted in the back of the Villa.
Carlo Marchesi
Waltrault Cooper –
Palladio Nella Luce
Artist – Austria
Eight columns to the right and left of the central
body – barchesse - of the villa are enhanced by light to emphasize the
Palladian symmetries.
Private Wing –
Count Enrico Luling Buschetti’s Studio
Fresco –
Paolo Veronese – self portrait
Maria Grazia Rosin – D’Arzento
Landscape – Riflessione Riflessa
Venice – Italy
The strength and the
quality of the illusionistic space in the frescos of Paolo Veronese pave the
way to the imaginary landscapes of make-believe inhabitants and architecture
that somehow seem to blend as one with the real scenery outside the windows.
Stanza del Cane
Silvio
Monti – Giano di Fronte
Varese – Italy
Two large faces size up each other while words
and signs appear to add movement. Play
on mirrored symmetry between myth and fable, chaos and enigma.
Private Wing – Countess Marina Volpi’s Room
Fresco – Paolo Veronese - Wife – Elena Caliari
Gianni Mannocci
and Caterina Perrone – Giochi Visivi
In the spirit of
Palladio's design that creates continuity between interiors and exteriors with
the use of frescoes and trompe l'oeil, the work is connected to Water Art,
building an image of water through an anamorphic process.
Gianni Mannocci
Caterina
Perrone
Maria Lai
and Simonetta Gorreri – Libri D’Artista
Sala a Crociera
Nicoletta
Freti – Moving Life
Bergamo – Italy
The operation uses
a Fresnel lens which intercepts the image of the Nymphaeum garden and projects
it onto a screen of paper hanging near the main entrance, in the Sala a
Crociera.
Nymphaeum Pool
Austin Camilleri
– Carte Galleggianti
Malta
The geometry of the
villa is a fascinating system of communication.
Everything: stone, garden, water and lawn stimulates the eye further.
Nymphaeum Pool
Lorella Salvagni - Germogli
di Geometria - above
Mantova – Italy
The labyrinth begins when the path to follow starts to
breakup into many different routes and unfolds into myriad opportunities for
choice.
Alessandra Collalto and Alessandro Kechler
Barbara Foscari
Stanza del Tribunale d’Amore
Daniela Lazzari –
Grandi Libri – D’Arte
Mogliano Veneto – Italy
The theme is the history of the Villa Barbaro in Maser -
selected characteristics of 16th Century architecture and the
language used to describe the villa in Palladio’s four books on the subject.
Gabriella and Vettor Sammartini
Irina Ivancich Marchesi
Checco Lopez and Francesca Franchin
Alberto Damian and Franca Goppion
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Sala a Crociera
Cristiana Moldi Ravenna – Mateldi
Venice - Italy
The title takes its cue from a
fresco in which Paolo Veronese painted Matelda. The episode refers to song 28
of Dante’s Purgatory where we read about him meeting Matelda.
Susanna Ciani Bassetti, Maruzza Bianchi Michiel and
Giuliana Collalto
Manuel Carrion
Pamela
Berry, Alessandro Tussett and Victoria Diaz
de Santillana
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Doron Gazit – Red Line
Israel
The site-specific work is carried out based on a design that can be modulated
with the materials chosen by the artist across the landscape, attracting the attention of the observer
without obscuring it.
Giovanni
Sala – La Grande Fragilita
Parma – Italy
This sculpture suggests the fragility of art. The butterfly, in all its beauty and
fragility risks extinction because of man’s indifference.
Julia
Artico – Vita Nova
Udine – Italy
This pentad – the fruit of a chance encounter with a
conference by Rudolf Steiner on bees – generated the shape of Vita Nova.
Barbara
Toffano – Ali di Libellula
Venice – Italy
A question mark that imposes itself on the interaction between man and
nature and the predominance of the one over the rhythms of the other. Where is the point of balance?
Candida
Ferrari – Abbraccio
Parma - Italy
Parma - Italy
The
symmetry of the two cylinders that contrast each other in a symbolic embrace
participates in the geometry of the Italian garden.
Riccardo Murelli –
Ellittica
Perugia - Italy
The elliptical
shell of the sculpture recalls the trajectory of the planets in the solar
system, and, unlike the circle that involves only one center, the ellipse has
two centers.
Giovanna
Poggi Marchesi and Vittorio Dalle Ore
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The Kooikerhondje
Spaniels of Villa Barbaro