BORDERS | VENICE MAY-NOV 2016
It’s LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival

It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with Ca’ Zanardi and Venice Art House, is pleased to announce the open call for BORDERS 2016, the International Art and Architecture Festival.

BORDERS festival, curated by Luca Curci and Andrea Chinellato, will be presented in Venice at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice Art House, and other prestigious venues and historical buildings, in the months between May and November 2016, in the same period of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.

The openings of BORDERS festival will be on May 28, 2016 at Venice Art House Gallery in Venice, starting from 06:00 PM (free entry); on May 29, 2016 at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi in Venice, starting from 06:00 PM (free entry).

On May 28, 2016 there will be a private preview of the exhibition, from 03.00 PM to 05.00 PM. RSVP lucacurci@lucacurci.com or +39.3387574098

 

BORDERS consists of 3 main events, BODIES+CITIES SKIN, FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES, FUTURE LANDSCAPES, the Experimental Festival Exhibitions and the Venice Architecture Academy.

For more informations about BORDERS FESTIVAL contact us: lucacurci@lucacurci.com

 

Each event of BORDERS festival is focused on different themes: “BODIES+CITIES SKIN” (May 28 – July 28, 2016); “FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES” (August 04 – September 29, 2016) and “FUTURE LANDSCAPES” (October 06 – November 27, 2016). During these main events, will be presented works of architecture, photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art.

The Experimental Festival Exhibitions is a section of BORDERS festival composed by monthly different appointments about video art, performances, paintings, sculpture/installations and photographs.

 

 

The Venice Architecture Academy is an intensive experience that offers different prospective on the whole world of Architecture. The Academy is composed by the VAAD – Venice Art + Architecture Days, with a rich program of talks, workshops and meetings during the opening days of BORDERS festival, and the Summer Architecture Academy, with courses on Architectural main themes, from Interior Design to Urban Planning.

 

The festival focuses on the concept of “borders“, between the soul and the body, the man and the city, the city and the ground. The festival analyzes the idea of human and urban borders, how people live them and how they are modified in contemporary society. Every human being lives in a world in which the limits, the borders, shape their attitudes and behaviors, limiting the freedom and creating a sense of alienation. The man reacts breaking the limits and finding a new way of life. We imagine a world of “liquid cities“, where differences create new possibilities and exchange possibilities, instead of being social barriers.

The festival also aims to discover the interpretations of borders between built and unbuilt geographical contexts, the complex spatial mechanisms within contemporary cities and territories. The festival aims to understand these underlying cultural philosophical, political and aesthetic value systems that influence the production of architectural form. The investigation concerns not just territories’ borders: the festival focuses on the design and the construction strategies applied to the contemporary “skin and bones” architecture, on the thin surface that divides and connects the inner places with the outer spaces, from the single buildings to the huge metropolis’ borderline.

 

BORDERS festival is organized and curated by Luca Curci (architect, professor of Urban Planning and Interior Design at the Bahcesehir University (BAU) in the department of Rome, founder and director of LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS and It’s LIQUID Group) and Andrea Chinellato (director of Ca’ Zanardi and Venice Art House).

 

Extended deadline for applications is July 08, 2016 (11.59 PM of your local time).

For more informations about BORDERS FESTIVAL contact us: lucacurci@lucacurci.com

 

 

In our last experiences, MORPHOS festival 2014, during the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, and SELF festival 2015, during the 56th Venice Art Biennale, we involved international artists as Glynis Ackermann (Switzerlan), Antonia Pia Gordon (UAE), Clare Haxby (Singapore), Simon Maarouf (UAE), Iveta Tomanová (Slovakia), Khulood Thani (UAE), and Daniel Pešta (Czech Republic), presented by the Museum Montanelli (Prague), and architectural firms as ADEPT (Denmark), Ross Barney Architects (USA), Leth & Gori (Denmark), MAD Architects (China), and MVRDV (The Netherlands), Daniel Toso (Italy).

Artists, photographers and video/film makers are invited to present their works on the theme of borders, which develop and change people’s attitudes and actions for a better life.

Architects and designers are invited to present their works on the theme of society’s and cities’ borders, for the sustainable development that minimizes the environment impact, making cities more smart, and generating a sense of possible lives and future on our planet.

 

 

THE FESTIVAL: SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL
Artists, photographers, video/film makers, architects, designers, galleries, museums, institutions, universities and art professionals are invited to submit their project proposals on the festival themes for the exhibitions in Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice Art House, and other prestigious venues and historical buildings during the festival.

Feel free to participate in one or more events and in the whole BORDERS festival for about 7 months. Submit all artworks (painting, sculpture, video art, photography, installation, performance) and design/architecture projects you desire, according to the main themes of the festival. Please send more details about artworks/architecture projects or photographs you want to submit, dimensions, technical equipments needed and some pictures.

 

Services provided by the organization: artworks’ receiving and installation; technical equipment for your exhibition (digital projector, DVD player, computer and audio system, mounting tools); global and local press office before and during the event; creation, printing and diffusion of invitation cards and promotional materials; realization of the event page and event dedicated article; opening organization and ceremony; invitation of collectors, institutions, art critics and interested public to the show; hostess service and collaborators during the opening and for the whole duration of the show; dismounting service and packaging of the artworks ready for the shipping back.

Additional services such as realization of catalogue, private preview, etc., are available on request.

The festival will be presented by It’s LIQUID international press office service that will spread the news all around the world. For the organization of the event will be printed 5.000 branded bags, 50.000 invitation cards, posters and many different promotional totem placed all around the city of Venice.

During and after the exhibitions’ openings, artists, photographers, video/film makers, architects, designers and galleries’, museums’, institutions’, universities’ and art professionals’ representatives will be interviewed and published on our official press office website It’s LIQUID (www.itsliquid.com), with more than 200,000 readers and subscribers, and on our social networks.

 

Extended deadline for applications is July 08, 2016 (11.59 PM of your local time).

For more details contact us at lucacurci@lucacurci.com

 

 

ABOUT US

International ArtExpo is a independent group of artists. Its object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, to connect the conceptual points of contact of artists working in every part of the world, all united in the thick plot of the world net. From painting to sculpture, from photography to digital art, all the way to video art the work is all manifestation of one will: to communicate through art, a language that transcends the boundaries of language and all political and geographical barriers and unites all religions and all people.

Founded in 2001 by Luca Curci, director of the group, International ArtExpo is an international organization dedicated to contemporary art and video art that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries.  Since its beginning, the group has organized more than 120 events all around the world. Most of the last events have been realized in museums (CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Spain, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, etc.), galleries and private foundations. More than 4.000 artists are part of the Group. ArtExpo is grateful to all institutions, corporations, and individuals that support its efforts. More details at www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

 

It’s LIQUID Group is a web based information platform dedicated to worldwide distribution of information about calls for entries, exhibitions and events at some of the world’s leading art galleries, museums and foundations selected. Founded in 2005, It’s LIQUID has already built a readership of more than 200,000 qualified subscribers. Among them architects, designers, artists, collectors, art critics, curators, dealers, and other personalities of the International art, architecture and design world.

It’s LIQUID Group is based on fluidity, motion, connection and accessibility. Making things easy to do. Welcome. More details at www.itsliquid.com

 

Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi (Cannaregio 4132, Venice) is a residential palace dating back to the 16th century which, over the centuries, has been added on to by various noble Venetian families and is one of the most evocative and beautiful palaces in the city of Venice. Sumptuous and possessing particular charm, Ca’ Zanardi is located in a most peaceful setting and has its own delightful private garden as well as a magnificent terrace full of sun and colour. Ca’ Zanardi is located close to the Ca’ D’Oro, the splendid 15th century gothic palace along the Grand Canal.  It is easily reachable by foot, after a two minute walk from the Ca’ D’Oro water bus stop, or by boat using the palazzo’s private pier positioned along the fetching Santa Caterina canal. The refined elegance of the palazzo’s halls and common areas and the delicacy of its original 16th century furnishings create a fascinating setting.

 

Venice Art House gallery is an art gallery located in Venice (Cannaregio 1863C), with a dimension of 250 sqm and two water entrances. Starting from the opening of the space, It’s LIQUID Group, under the direction of Luca Curci, in collaboration with the director of the gallery, Andrea Chinellato, has organized several exhibitions monthly.

 

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Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice

 

Venice Art House gallery, Venice

 

Venice Art House gallery, Venice

 

Venice Art House gallery, Venice

 

Venice Art House gallery, Venice