Venice - Art: Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi – The Pool NYC – Show on Show exhibition

Venice - Art: Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi – The Pool NYC – Show on Show exhibition. On the occasion of the 15th Architecture Biennale, in the XVIII Century Palazzo Cesari-Marchesi, The Pool NYC presents, until November 27, Stefania Fersini’s site specific solo exhibition - Show on Show. Inspired by the architectural features and details of the abandoned palazzo’s walls, terrazzo floor and furniture Fersini has created an installation requesting the viewer's participation. She scatters in the halls of the palace ten puzzles laid on recovered furniture. The visitor, finding empty seats, is invited ‘to play the game’, combining tile after tile of still unknown images.

www.thepoolnewyorkcity.com

 

Show on Show. Fersini’s site specific installation could be considered as a tautological gesture for the inherent desire to reveal on the puzzle what the eye can see during the composition of the puzzle itself. It involves the viewer’s interaction and in order to build the puzzle, she does not provide the resulting image, but the reality itself that is represented in the work. 

  photograph courtesy The Pool NYC

‘We need time to solve problems and it’s our own time that leads us to the knowledge’.

Stefania Fersini, a member of Nucleo, a collective of artists and designers, based in Torino, Italy, sits on a ”puzzle carpet” depicting the actual Eighteenth Century original terrazzo floor. The puzzle executions emulate the painting practice, chosen by the artist. Her cognitive research focuses again on a missing content. 

 

The Pool NYC’s Gigi Franchin and Viola Romoli

 

Olivier Lexa

 

Stefania Fersini – Show on Show. Show on Show presents the place in its own place, generating a temporal perceptive and cognitive loop. It is a silent action to let space and time talk.  The subjects are perceived as matter in its details: colors, portions of the pavement, walls, and wood. The artist plays with our perception and let us reflect whether reality comes first than representation. Fersini’s work questions time, which alludes to a becoming, at times perceived as ‘destroying’, in other as ‘creating’.  She expresses her critical relationship with the destroyed image, and asks the viewer to engage in the creation of the work.

 

Roberta Rossi

 

Anna-Maria Pentimalli, Sabina Bianchini, Barbara Valmarana and Eleonora Porcellato

 

Azzolina degli Azzoni Avogadro

The "player" will find a fragmented reality broken in his hands. It’s a mise en abyme that needs to be defined and confirmed.

 

 

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Venice: The 15th International Architecture Biennale di Venezia

Logo courtesy – La Biennale di Venezia

The Awards
15th International Architecture Biennale

Reporting From the Front

Curated - Alejandro Aravena

Chaired -  Paolo Baratta

“In his trip to South America Bruce Chatwin encountered an old lady walking the desert carrying an aluminum ladder on her shoulder. It was German archeologist Maria Reiche studying the Nazca lines. Standing on the ground, the stones did not make any sense; they were just random gravel. But from the height of the stair those stones became a bird, a jaguar, a tree or a flower. We would like the 15th International Architecture Exhibition to offer a new point of view like the one Maria Reiche has on the ladder”.

Curator - Alejandro Aravena

Venice: The 15th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition, titled Reporting from the Front, until November 27, is curated by Alejandro Aravena and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta.  The exhibition is at the Giardini and at the Arsenale.

The Awards – The Jury: President - Hashim Sarkis - Lebanon, USA - Pippo Ciorra – Italy - Sergio Fajardo – Colombia - Marisa Moreira Salles – Brazil - Karen Stein – USA. 

http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/

  Photograph Giorgio Zucchiatti - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

15th Golden Lion - Lifetime Achievement

Paulo Mendes da Rocha – Brazil

 

The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement upon recommendation of curator Alejandro Aravena to architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha – Brazil. Amongst other points, the motivations note that;

“…the most striking attribute of his architecture is its Timelessness. Many decades after being built, each of his projects have resisted the test of time, both stylistically and physically. This astonishing consistency may be the consequence of his ideological integrity and his structural genius. He is a nonconformist challenger and simultaneously a passionate realist. His fields of interest are beyond architecture, in political, social, geographical, historical and technical realms. The role model he played for many generations of architects in Brazil, Latin America and everywhere is that of a person able to join shared and collective efforts as well as someone able to attract others to the cause of a better built environment."

Alejandro Aravena, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Paolo Baratta

  Photograph Giorgio Zucchiatti - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

The Awards - 15^th International Architecture Biennale di Venezia

 Golden Lion – Best National Participation

Spain – Unfinished

for a concisely curated selection of emerging architects whose work shows how creativity and commitment can transcend material constraints

Commissioners and curators - Inaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintans

Unfinished -  “The exhibition gathers together examples of architecture produced during the past few years, born out of the renunciation and economy of means, designed to evolve and adapt to future necessities and trusting in the beauty conferred by the passage of time.  These projects have understood the lessons of the recent past and consider architecture to be something unfinished, in a constant state of evolution and truly in the service of humanity.  The current moment of uncertainty in our profession makes its consideration here especially relevant.”

   

Spanish Pavilion – Unfinished 

Perimeter Building and Urban Space Surrounding the Temple of Diana Single Family House in Tebra

  photograph by Francesco Galli – Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Special Mention National Participation

Japan – Art of Nexus

for bringing the poetry of compactness to alternative forms of collective living in a dense urban setting

photograph by Andrea Avezzu – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Special Mention National Participation

Peru – Our Amazon Frontline

for bringing architecture to a remote corner of the world, making it both a venue for learning as well as a means for preserving the culture of the Amazon

 

Photograph Giorgio Zucchiatti - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Dario Franchescini with Solano Benitez and team

Best Participant Reporting From the Front

Gabinete de Arquitectura 

Solano Benitez; Gloria Cabral; Solanito Benitez – Paraguay

 for harnessing simple materials, structural ingenuity and unskilled labour to bring architecture to underserved communities

 Photograph Giorgio Zucchiatti - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Nle Kunle Adeyemi and team with Paolo Baratta

photograph by Italo Rondinella – Courtesy la Biennale di Venezia

 

  photograph by Manfredi Bellati

Silver Lion - Promising Young Participant

Nle Kunle Adeyemi – The Netherlands

for a powerful demonstration, be it in Lagos or in Venice, that architecture, at once iconic and pragmatic, can amplify the importance of education

 Photograph Giorgio Zucchiatti - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

 Alejandro Aravena, Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo and Paolo Baratta

 

 

Special mention  - Reporting From the Front

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo – Italy

for her perseverance in using the rigours of her discipline to elevate the everyday into timeless works of architecture

 

The Work of Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo in Sicily as Resistance Against the Banality and Mediocrity of the Built Environment

Small Scale, The Reservoir of the Lost Honor of Architecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

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