12 September - 16 November 2008
Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 11 am - 8.30 pm. And also by appointment.
Closed on Monday.
Free admission.
Vernissage: Friday 12 September from 6.30 pm.
"Bianco, Nero e Azzurro Cielo" (Black, White, and Sky Blue) is the new exhibit opening at Giudecca795 Art Gallery on 12 September; on occasion of the Biennale of Architecture.
For the first time, this exhibit puts together the artworks of a very special couple: the Italian architect Marcello Morandini, who has become a reference point for designers around the world, and his wife Teresa Barisi, a talented hyperrealistic painter.
One of the most renowned artists in constructivist art, since his early debut at the Venice Biennale in 1968, Morandini has devoted his work to elementary geometric shapes in form of mostly black & white sculptures and objects in plexiglass, porcelain, wood. Sculptures shapes are often developed on the basis of individually constituted mathematical systems. The reduction of color to black and white thereby creates a focus on the shapes and their aesthetic value. The exhibition at the Giudecca 795 Art Gallery presents recent works which are "married" to the paintings by his wife Teresa. Though the two styles look incompatible at first sight, they are not. As in a successful marriage, the two different personalities yet share some elements and look complementary. Teresa Barisi Morandini's work acts as an astonishingly real scenery for the architect's optical sculptures, shown as if they were in their final environment: in fact, Morandini's artworks are often designed to become outdoors sculptures, adding some "order" to reality.
Architect Morandini will be one of the protagonists of the cultural scene of the next months in Venice, with 2 exhibits: besides the mentioned exhibit together with his wife Teresa in his reference gallery, Marcello Morandini is having an important retrospective in Ca' Pesaro (the Museum of Modern Art in Venice).