BORDERS festival 2016
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi & Venice Art House Gallery, Venice
May 28 – November 27, 2016

BORDERS festival, curated by Arch. Luca Curci (director of It’s LIQUID Group) and Andrea Chinellato (director of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi), has been hosted in Venice at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and Venice Art House Gallery and it is composed by three main events BODIES+CITIES SKIN, FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES, FUTURE LANDSCAPES, the Experimental Festival Exhibitions and the Venice Architecture Academy.

The festival has been a gathering of international artworks of architecture, design, video art, painting, photography, installation/sculpture and performance art, presenting a great selection of more than 500 art and architecture works realized by 180 artists and architects, coming from 36 countries. 

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016}

BORDERS festival has been organized during the same period of the 15th Venice Architeture Biennale 2016, titled REPORTING FROM THE FRONT, curated by Alejandro Aravena and organized by La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, and opened to the public from May 28 to November 27, 2016 at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues.

The six months of the Architecture Biennale is considered one of the most important period in whole city of Venice, hosting international investors, architects, designers, collateral art events, conferences and summits, and we have given a great opportunity to artists and architects to share their art, experiences, ideas, expressions, thoughts, based on the concept of “borders“.  During the six months of BORDERS, the festival has been visited by an audience of hundreds of people, artists, curators, art collectors and art and architecture worlds’ professionals and personalities.

At the end of BORDERS, it has been published the catalogue of  the festival, that consists in 260 full color pages with English texts, enriched with impressive pictures, regarding the 180 international architects and artists that took part in the festival, selected with their works of architecture, design, painting, photography, installation/sculpture, video art and performance art.

 _{Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016}

BORDERS has begun on May 28-29, 2016 with BODIES+CITIES SKIN event in both venetian venues: Venice Art House Gallery and Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, with a great selection of architectural projects, video art screenings, photography, painting, installation works, opened until July 29, 2016.

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

The whole ground floor of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi has been occupied by the solo exhibition of the international architectural studio JEMS ARCHITEKCI from Poland with a 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 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 of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

The first floor of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi has hosted 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 presented many different models of its works realized in different materials according to their research about traditional and innovative materials in architecture.

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 of BODIES+CITIES SKIN 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“.

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

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 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 of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016}

For more information about BODIES+CITIES SKIN event click here

 

FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES (August 04 – Semptember 29, 2016), the second appointment of BORDERS festival, has introduced the artworks of relevant architects and artists from more than 20 nations.

Supported by
BMW | SHELL | AB Evert Lindelöf | Amin Investment Bank | Galeria NINA MENOCAL | Hauch Gallery

Christian Klute, a German artist best known for his detailed portrait art with a marginally twisted dark touch, presented Gaahl and Ulmer Münster. His biggest inspirations are elderly human faces which radiate some kind of depth and fragmentation.

Behrooz Daresh, artist from Iran, exhibited his work Entitled consisted of hundreds small hanged bicycles, and it was a happening, that shows us the aesthetic of descending and Toppling.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

The artist Jiří Matějů, presented by the Hauch Gallery (Prague), is considered a solitary figure on the Czech scene, working quietly and intently on developing his own unique artistic style. During the event FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES he showed the works: Sky Blue III and Black Surface.

MASKE+SUHREN present the installation BERLIN NEW WEST – “Berlin revives for ever“, the second stage of development of the subject that constituted their first intervention in Borders. According to the architects works, this work is “making a conceptual shift, from an emotional-experiential view to a more assortative and structural approach“.

Us is more has been the architectural project of Paulo Merlini Arquitetos from Portugal. Their main concern is to create spaces that give people the right stimuli, positively influencing their homeostatic levels.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

The first floor of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi hosted the paintings of RexChouk, emerged artist from USA and presented by the Arts & Culture Coordinator Delia Flanagan. His art is a contemporary commentary of our system: characters and expressions imbued with icons and slang from global pop culture.

Canadian-German artist Sharon Ventura presented her acrylics paintings on canvas: Cherry Blossom, Down by the “C” and Heart of the matter. Her affinity for the works of Henri Matisse, Toulouse Lautrec, and Andy Warhol speak to her vision and direction.

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Venice Art House Gallery on August 04, 2016}

Atelier Morales, the duo of French architects and artists, composed by Teresa Ayuso and Juan Luis Morales, exhibited 2 selected works of their series Arqueologia – Heritage drifting: Arqueologia n.19 and Arqueologia n.20.

American artist Catherine Widgery, in collaboration and coordination with the German glass fabricator Glasmalerei Peters, proposed the artworks Lux Lucis and Plié.

The artist Yelizavyeta Ovdiyenko from Germany presented Blue Light and Colibri. Her artworks reflect the various styles, developping graphical work, nude painting and expressive abstract representation.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES – Human identities are both separated and related one to another into a big mosaic that complete the existence and the world culture. All the identities can be considered as fragmented pieces of human being, ready to be unique and shareable in a universe with physical limits. In art people are mixed together in a melting pot of sensation and fluctuating emotions. The challenge is to see all those fragmented identities, recognize and use them to see things through many different points of view and imagination in order to broke all barriers and boundaries of every day’s life and to create the relationship between man and space, including man-built and natural spaces. There is not a unique perspective on our unconscious beings and identities, showing how things are rarely whole or perfect.

 _{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Venice Art House Gallery on August 04, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

For more information about FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES event click here

 

The last main exhibition of BORDERS festival has been FUTURE LANDSCAPES, opened on October 06, 2016 at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and on October 07, 2016 at Venice Art House Gallery, until November 27, 2016.

Supported by
BMW | SHELL | Amin Investment Bank | Bisazza | Massey University – University of New Zeland | Cronz | PGG Wrightson | Holzdruck Dinkela

At Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi the artist Linda Hollier from UAE presented her brilliant artworks on wood: “Possibilities“,  “The Meeting“, “Networked Awarenss“, “New Dimensions“, “Mobile Tecnology” and “Tokyo2Dubai“. Her artistic research expands into realms which allow her to work with and explore the concepts of the simultaneous occurrence of rootedness and movement, of emptiness and fullness and the essence of presence.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

Venezuelan artist, Génesis González exhibited the selected photo’s works: “Collection #2“, “Single #1” and “Single #3“, in which explores photographic relationships between light and color while creating an abstract and interactive experience for the audience. Her photographic processes are conducted on the city streets at night while capturing moments and spaces, providing a new perspective to familiar environments.

Andrea Domenech Revesz, artist coming from Spain, showed her project “Shadows“, that observes what experience leaves in the body and remains there while it participates in building our identities through time and from a hidden place.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Venice Art House Gallery on October 07, 2016}

During the event Sandra Heffernan, associate professor of textile design at Massey University (New Zealand), presented a carpet work “Sunlimewineberry“. The fabrication in this research explores the development of advanced bio-materials using waste stream crop fibres and wool.

At Venice Art House Gallery Jotho, represented by Thomas Gevaert and Jozefien Van Poucke, attended the opening in Venice, exhibiting the project “Changes“, made out of stretch fabrics. The installation “Changes” presented the view to the future, giving to the people the new ideas about changes in future landscapes.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

MASKE+SUHREN ARCHITEKTEN UND DESIGNER, architects based in Berlin, in collaboration with the prestigious company BISAZZA, dedicated their project to the water, as their main subject, considering its importance, as an indispensable element for the development of life, cities and the future of humanity.

The acclaimed artist Silas Schletterer, represented by Jaski Gallery and Kallenbach gallery shows his great oil painting: “The Great Desolation“.

Charlie Wayne, French photographer and self-taught artist, exhibits: “Little Norma Jeane“, a Marilyn Monroe’s portrait as a “reinterpretation” of Pop art.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Venice Art House Gallery on October 07, 2016}

FUTURE LANDSCAPES – Human creativity always spreads all over the world. For thousands of years we have applied our imagination and inventiveness to shape our landscapes. Cities are leading to a new aesthetic change that aims to rebalance the combination of humans and nature, not only to restore natural systems and ecological integrity but also to deliver beautiful, engaging and remarkable landscape experiences. Today we face many challenges that require a big effort in mixing new frontiers to create new extraordinary places and spaces. We aim to generate future landcapes without mental and physical borders, in which the human being is completely free.

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

For more information about FUTURE LANDSCAPES event click here

 

For the full version of BORDERS festival 2016 video click here

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 28, 2016

_{Exhibition opening at Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016}

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Venice Art House Gallery on May 28, 2016

Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 2016}

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Venice Art House Gallery on August 04, 2016}

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Venice Art House Gallery on August 04, 2016}

_{Exhibition opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on August 04, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Venice Art House Gallery on October 07, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Venice Art House Gallery on October 07, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of FUTURE LANDSCAPES at Venice Art House Gallery on October 07, 2016}

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