Photographs - Delfino Sisto
Legnani and Marco Cappelletti – courtesy V-A-C- Foundation - Venice
Not Only Biennale - Outdoor Installation
Palazzo delle Zattere - V-A-C- Foundation
Laguna Viva
Laguna Viva
[Living Lagoon] is the first stage of a long-term strategy to enable Palazzo delle Zattere to engage with
the complexities of everyday life in Venice.
V-A-C Foundation commissioned London based collective Assemble, who work across the fields of
architecture, design and art, to develop a long-term project for the garden and
indoor area where the Foundation’s new bar and restaurant, Sudest 1401, is located. Assemble’s aim was to create an
environment that would both explore
and actively involve the city and they
immediately turned to the organization We
Are Here Venice to work with them on the project. We Are Here Venice is an
independent organization that addresses Venice's challenges as a living city
through research and collaboration with the local authorities as well as public
and private institutions connected to the city.
Photographs - Delfino Sisto
Legnani and Marco Cappelletti – courtesy V-A-C- Foundation - Venice
Laguna Viva
The new, permanent outdoor
installation enhances the ongoing conversation about the intimate and mutually
dependent relationship between Venice and
its context. The typical lagoon salt marsh habitat is arranged according to
botanical associations and functional morphology and housed in two large tanks,
which at the end of the year will be covered in individual tiles taking the
project into its final stage. The 12,000 tiles produced for the V-A-C project are currently being
presented by Assemble at the Architectural Biennale in the Central Pavilion at the Giardini and entitled The Factory Floor.
“These tanks represent
the “salt marsh” environment, low lying islands that emerge gently from the
water and illustrate the most typical natural habitat of the lagoon.”
Lorenzo Bonometto
Horticulturalists, Lorenzo Bonometto and
Filippo De Sero with
We are Here Venice’s
Jane da Mosto
Photographs - Delfino Sisto
Legnani and Marco Cappelletti – courtesy V-A-C- Foundation - Venice
Laguna Viva
The
Lagoon tanks build on the successful experiment by Jane da Mosto with muf architecture / art for the British Pavilion at the 12th Architecture Biennale. The
installation will be accessible to visitors to the foundation, artists and local
residents. These microcosms of the lagoon will be offered as a resource for
research and teaching on ecological resilience and the natural systems that
underpin the survival of the city.
Assemble’s Giles Smith
“The plants are carefully transferred here, following
specific guidelines of the authority responsible for the safeguarding the
lagoon, along with underwater vegetation, fish and crustaceans.”
Lorenzo Bonometto
Lorenzo Bonometto
Sudest 1401 restaurant located in the V-A-C- Foundation
Not Only Biennale - Art
Palazzo
delle Zattere - V-A-C- Foundation
The Explorers, Part One – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and
James Richards
The Explorers, Part One – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and
James Richards
At The V-A-C Foundation, until October 22, The Explorers Part One:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and
James Richards. Curated by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick, the exhibition
revisits and expands four displays from the V-A-C collection, first seen at the Whitechapel Gallery from 2014 to
2015.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye –
Diplomacy II - 2009
The
Explorers, Part One – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and
James Richards
James Richards
The Explorers who have brought together remarkable
finds from the collection, ranging from ancient African figures to iconic masterpieces of the 20th century, are
contemporary artists. Each is a leading exponent of one medium – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter and James Richards is a moving image
artist; Mike Nelson is a sculptor; Fiona Banner is a creator of text based
images and installations They have embarked on a journey through the V-A-C collection and present their
discoveries in solo displays. Through their unorthodox installations, each
artist also transforms each collection display into a new work of art.
Enrico David – Right of Spring – 2012
James Richards – To Replace a Minute’s Silence with a
Minute’s Applause – 2015
Francis Bacon – Study for a Portrait – 1953
Francis Bacon – Study for a Portrait – 1953
David Hockney – 30 Sunflowers – 1996
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – Crowds of Autumn – 2016
Alberto Giacometti – Figure Grise – Tete en Gris – 1957
Matteo Corvino and the director of V-A-C,
Teresa Mavica
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Femme Nue Couchee, Gabrielle – 1903
The V-A-C Foundation - Rio del Ognissanti
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