OPENING: CONSCIOUSNESS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL
It’s LIQUID International Art Festival
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi – July 13, 2017

It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with Ca’ Zanardi, is proud to announce the opening of CONSCIOUSNESS, the second appointment of ANIMA MUNDI, International Art Festival.

ANIMA MUNDI festival, curated by Luca Curci and Andrea Chinellato, will be presented in Venice at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and other prestigious venues and historical buildings, in the months between May and November 2017, in the same period of the 57th Venice Art Biennale, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel and organized by La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, hosted at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues.

ANIMA MUNDI consists of 3 main events, RITUALS, CONSCIOUSNESS and VISIONS, and the collateral events ELEMENTS – FROM SHAPE TO SPACE and Venice Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival.

CONSCIOUSNESS will be hosted in Venice, at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from July 13, 2017 to September 03, 2017. The opening of the festival will be on July 13, 2017, starting from 06:00 PM (free entry).

curators: Luca Curci, Andrea Chinellato

project coordinators: Domenico Fallacara, Carmela Loiacono
collaborators: Rosa Buonocore, Gabriella Damascelli,  Francesca De Piccoli, Anita Fonsati, Serena Gollini, Elisa Longo, Matteo Messina, Maddalena Pippa

venue: Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Cannaregio 4132 – 30121 Venice, Italy

dates: July 13 – September 03, 2017
From Monday to Friday – 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM (free entry)
Closed on Saturday and Sunday

Supported by
RT Harris & Son

The festival focuses on the concept of ANIMA MUNDI, that according to several historical cultures, religions and philosophical systems, is an intrinsic connection between all living entities on the planet, which relates to the world in a similar way as the human soul is connected to the human body.

Plato expressed his thought about the ANIMA MUNDI in the Timaeus, “this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence… a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related”.

ANIMA MUNDI is the invisible energy behind all the natural and the artificial elements that allows the planet to live. Thanks to the hidden connections of ANIMA MUNDI, all the ecosystems of the Earth, before and after the appearance of the mankind, found their equilibrium, their ways to live and to develop themselves, to transform and to evolve. All the beings of the planet, plants, minerals, animals are permeated by a secret force that has always stimulated the human thought and research.

The festival aims to discover these multiple forms of hidden connections between the soul and the body, the mankind and the natural elements, the natural spaces and the cities. We invite artists to show their reflections about the various ways in which the ANIMA MUNDI expresses the relationships among all the existing entities and the natural and cultural systems, and to represent by their artistic works the processes of the evolution of the world in which we all live. Artists, designers and architects are invited to talk about ANIMA MUNDI through photo reportage of cities, hidden places, photographic documentaries, personal experiences, presenting their works of photography, painting, sculpture/installation, design and architecture, video-art and live performance.

ANIMA MUNDI 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).

How to reach us:

Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice

Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi 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; the Serenissima. 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 located off the main tourist drag but is still 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.

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_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of RITUALS – ANIMA MUNDI FESTIVAL at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 13, 2017}

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

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

_{Image courtesy of Luca Curci. Exhibition opening of BODIES+CITIES SKIN at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on May 29, 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 Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi on October 06, 2016}

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