Report from Venice:
Genius Loci : Deanna Sirlin's "Percorso" [ Path ]
Detail of Deanna Sirlin's Percorso. Photos by Daniele Frison
Genius Loci: An exhibition organized by five Venetian curators to exhibit the work of thirty artists in six private gardens.
Deanna Sirlin's "Percorso", installed at the Casino del Spiriti Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo (Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza [Small House of the Divine Providence ] - Cottolengo), a convent catering to infirm and aged women.
"The importance to me of being in this show was not just
to have a work in Venice during the Biennale, when so many visitors are in town,
but to create a work of art to be used by the Sisters of the convent whose garden
it is. When the curators told me that my work would be installed in a convent
in the Cannaregio section of Venice, I was not sure how the Sisters would respond
to it. During the installation, the Mother Superior, a woman of my own age, spoke
to me. She delighted in the prospect of my altering the garden's path with my
art. Although many of the sisters are in their 90s, this was a new experience
for them, particularly the idea of walking on art. They quickly accepted the
concept, however, and found the experience to be contemplative and beautiful
- it provided an enriched experience of their garden. Many of the Sisters enjoyed
walking the path or being pushed along it in wheelchairs. I personally love the
idea of people walking, working, praying on my path. All around in the garden
are tomatoes, figs, roses, and the scent of the sea. The Casino del Spiriti has
been an inspiring site for my work."
GENIUS LOCI - THE SECRET GARDENS OF VENICE
Exhibition of contemporary art for curious tourists and distracted residents
Artists:
Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Annalu, Marco Benetazzo, Ilaria Boldrin, Giovanni Casellato, Mei Chen Yuan, Marilia Dimopoulou, Crima Elemou, Giorgia Fincato, Giuseppe Gavazza, Antonio Giancaterino, Marguerite Karhl, Brunno Jahara, Cristina Lombardo, Daniela Manzolli, Caterina Margherita, Orietta Masin, Gianna Moise, Laura Montorio, Adriano Nasuti Wood, Barbara Pelizzon, Johannes Pfeiffer, Rossana Picinin, Renzo Possenelli, Tobia Rava, Oreste Sabadin, Gianluca Sanvido, Deanna Sirlin, Mario Tome, Giulia Tosato, Sebastiano Zanetti, Stefano Zaratin
Opening: Friday 22 June 2007 at 5.00 pm. at Soranzo Cappello Palace in Santa Croce (office of the Headquarter of the Architectonic Goods and the Landscape of the Oriental Region of Venice)
Information on line: http://www.geniuslocivenezia.blogspot.com
Information on curators and press office: gruppo_dieci@libero.it
23rd June - 15th July 2007
GENIUS LOCI - The secret gardens of Venice, the city is rediscovered renewing herself. From the 23rd of June to the 15th of July an extraordinary selection of the most wonderful private gardens of the city will be opened to tourists and residents. Also, with the in the temporary exhibition of a selected series of art works, sculptures and sight-specific installations, realized by many Italian and International artists, the visit of these marvellous Venetian sights is enriched in an audacious and sensitive whole full of excitement.
With the purpose of suggesting a touching cultural path, this project, cured and realized by: Ughetta Molin Fop, Cristina Montagner, Elena Santagiustina, Monica Trevisan, Massimiliano Zane, with the collaboration of the Wigwam Club Association - Historic Gardens of Venice, aims to put in evidence the advanced researches of contemporary art with the very rich artistic and historic inheritance of Venice and her green spaces.
For four week-ends, the gardens of Soranzo Cappello Palace at Santa Croce (office of the Headquarter of the Architectonic Goods and the Landscape of the Oriental Region of Venice) of the Gradenigo Palace just beside, of the Vendramin and Foscari Palaces at the Carmini, of the Contarin dal Zaffo Palace (Casa Cardinal Piazza and Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza Cottolengo) at the Misericordia, the Rizzo Patarol-Boscolo Palace which today is the Dogi Grand Hotel, become a marvellous and unusual frame for art, interpreting the very complex relation between the artist and nature, a primary relation of meeting, relation and creation. Introduced in the natural context, in order to blend and camouflage inside him, the works exposed in the show will amplify at the maximum our expressive and emotional threshold opening the way to a new relation and dialogue with the space that surrounds them.
With the support of the Region of Venice and numerous collaborations, as the District of Venice, the Councillorship of Tourism and Pro-loco, APT and IAT, the Common of Venice, Councillorship of Cultural Goods and Productions, the Academy of Art of Venice, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and the A+A Gallery - Public Slovenian Exhibition Centre - of Venice, the project GENIUS LOCI - The Secret Gardens of Venice conceived by Elena Santagiustina, blends in an active way a very meticulous work that unties between: the fine research of the new ways of expression in the art background and the binding historic and urban research that subtends the choice of the green spaces that frame the works installed inside them.
GENIUS LOCI - The Secret Gardens of Venice
From the 23rd of June to the 15th of July 2007 Venice
Opening hours:.10.00am/12.45am - 16.00pm/18.45pm
Only Saturdays and Sunday
Free entrance on reservation (each demand of reservation is personal and must indicate: name, surname, telephone number, garden and visiting hour. The treatment of personal information is bounded by the "Law on privacy" 196-art. 675 of 1996). It is best to come on the place of the visit a quarter of an hour earlier.
The organization will guarantee the entrance until a maximum of 40 persons each visit. In case of bad weather the programmed visits will be cancelled.
A small contribute to the project is welcome.
Reservations on line: geniuslocivenezia@libero.it
Information on line: http://www.geniuslocivenezia.blogspot.com
Information on curators and press office: gruppo_dieci@libero.it
Opening (only on invitation) Friday 22 June 2007 at 5.00 pm. at Soranzo Cappello Palace in Santa Croce (office of the Headquarter of the Architectonic Goods and the Landscape of the Oriental Region of Venice)
INFORMATION:
Gardens:
1. Soranzo Cappello Palace ( office of the Headquarter of the Architetonic Goods and the Landscape of the Oriental Region of Venice) - (Rio Marin)
2. Gradenigo Palace - (Rio Marin)
3. Rizzo Patarol-Boscolo Palace, Grand Hotel dei Dogi - (f.ta della Misericordia)
4. Contarini dal Zaffo Palace (Casa Cardinal Piazza) - (f.ta della Misericordia)
5. Contarini dal Zaffo Palace (Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza - Cottolengo) - (f.ta della Misericordia)
6. Vendramin and Foscarini Palaces - (c.po dei Carmini)
Program:
Visiting hours (only Saturdays and Sundays - entrance on reservation)
morning 10 - 10:45
11 - 11:45
12 - 12:45
afternoon 16 - 16:45
17 - 17:45
18 - 18:45
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