Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Feedback release: BODIES+CITIES SKIN | Venice
Venice Art House Gallery & Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi – May 28-29, 2016

BODIES+CITIES SKIN, part of BORDERS, International Art and Architecture Festival, presents the works of important artists and architects from all over the world.

BORDERS festival, curated by Arch. Luca Curci (director of It’s LIQUID Group) and Andrea Chinellato (director of Venice Art House and Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi), is hosted in Venice, at Venice Art House Gallery and at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from May 28 to July 29, 2016.

Supported by
BMW | SHELL | AB Evert Lindelöf | SIGMA | Universidad de Antioquia

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The opening events, on May 28 at Venice Art House Gallery and on May 29 at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, open the curtain on the great selection of architectural projects, video art screenings, photography, painting, installation works. During the openings a huge number of visitors attended the exhibition, with a rich presence of architects, designers and artists involved, live performances and videos’ premiers. The event is daily attended by many national and international visitors in both venues, opened until the end of July.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

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The whole ground floor of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi is occupied by the solo exhibition of the international architectural studio JEMS ARCHITEKCI from Poland with a great selection of their last works like the International Congress Centre in Katowice, the Polish History Museum in Warsaw, and the Extension of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The works exhibited followed all the steps necessary for the realization of architectural projects from the sketches to the three-dimensional scale model, to the final photos of the build edifice. The JEMS ARCHITEKCI solo show is completed by the publication of a catalogue specifically realized in a limited edition for BODIES+CITIES SKIN, part of BORDERS festival.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

The first floor of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi hosts the innovative works of Polish architectural group KAMJZ, leaded by architect Maciej Jakub Zawadzki, that presents a video installation and two models of the project made in collaboration with Shell and Bmw. The group EOVASTUDIO presents many different models of its works realized in different materials according to their research about traditional and innovative materials in architecture.

 Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

At Venice Art House Gallery, the group pS Arkitektur from Sweden and its architect Peter Sahlin, that was in Venice for the opening, present their installation DOORS. According to the architects’ presentation of the work: “in the exhibion the door becomes a symbol of border, but also of finding way through. It materialize the issues we’re facing today, and the possibilities that lies within architecture to include or exclude“.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

The video-installation “Layers of Berlin / Berlin under the skin”, of the German architectural group MASKE+SUHREN ARCHITEKTEN UND DESIGNER, “aims to strip back this concrete veil and reveal the heart and soul of a city in permanent dynamic transformation, a city whose present is a fluid and continuous dialogue between past and future“. In their research, architects “source photographs and fragments of archive films from the last 100 years of history to compose a selection of significant buildings and locations in the city of Berlin“.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

The Czech critically acclaimed artist Daniel Pešta presents three of his video works “Narcissus“, “Scream” and “The Bride“, part of the video selection of BODIES+CITIES SKIN, that include many international successful video artists like Antonia Pia Gordon from UAE that presents her impressive work “In the Labyrinth of my Exhibitionistic Impulses“.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

According to the world of the project coordinator of the festival, architect Domenico Fallacara: “BORDERS contains a theoretical and practical research, something thinkable and tangible. BODIES+CITIES SKIN is the first step of this research, that starts from the borderline par excellence, the SKIN.

In Architecture the skin, buildings’ and cities’ skin, is the way that architectural objects have to face the world. To impress and to be impressed. In Art, the skin is the surface of the artistic objects, the artworks, but also the skin of the artists, the skin of the human beings as an art field.

The skin is the place where each man and each object ends and the world starts.

BODIES+CITIES SKIN is a research on this contact point and on this starting point.
To experience something new“.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

BODIES+CITIES SKIN – Human kind wants to wear his city like a second skin without borders or limits. City’s body is in constant evolution. It changes its skin and shows a renewed body. This mutation follows the direction of human being development and it is a clear and true statement of cities changing time. From borders as individual bodies and souls to boundaries of cities in which we live, each line delimitates a surface and could be the starting point to something new, undiscovered. Limits are everywhere, barriers keep us inside or outside spaces and societies. Their passing creates a crossover of identities and urban environment. The way we move, we relate to anything, to the world make us go beyond boundaries.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

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.

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

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.

 

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Starting from 2001, Luca Curci with International ArtExpo and It’s LIQUID Group, have curated and organized more than 120 contemporary art events, with the participation of about 4.000 international artists from all-over the world (UK, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Portugal, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Poland, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Israel, UAE, Russia, Thailand, etc.) with an average of 45 artworks exhibited in each show (with a maximum of 108 artists involved in the great MORPHOS festival held in Venice during the Architecture Biennale 2014). The organization has international partnerships with art venues in Italy, Turkey, USA, Spain, Argentina, UK, Middle East, etc., and collaborates with museums, galleries and institutions such as MuMo – Museum Montanelli in Prague, Laura Haber Gallery in Buenos Aires, MIXER gallery in Istanbul and MECA art center in Almeria.

 

Exhibition opening at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

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