MUSEUM CA’ PESARO
The project name hosted in Sale Dom Pérignon of Ca’ Pesaro, Sculpture dead language, recalls the famous written work of 1944 by Arturo Martini. The sculptor Martini, by his work, questioned sculpture capacity to express strongly and universally, until openly criticising, denying its chance to be salvific, during the terrible years of the Second World War. Arturo Martini was the founding author of the artists group who during the early nineteenth century had met around the first Cá Pesaro Executive Director Nino Barbantini and represented in the civic collections conserved by the Gallery. From Martini’s considerations, a debate starts
– almost body to body – between Giorgio Andreotta Calò, a Venetian artist included between the most influential voices of Italian art around the world, and the city of Venice, considered in its plasticity and physicality.
A NEW INTERVENTION OF VALORISATION
The exhibition suggests a trip through the most significant artist’s works, including Hourglasses, Noble pen shells, Corings and two amazing Jellyfishes. One of Jellyfish samples, joined the Cá Pesaro civic collection thanks to PAC2021 – Project for Contemporary Art promoted by the General Direction Contemporary Creativity of Culture Ministry will be exhibited in the Museum staircase to welcome visitors of the first floor. Instead, inside the rooms, another sample establishes a first-time connection with the Jellyfish’s Head of Martini, coming from collections of National Contemporary Art Gallery of Cá Pesaro.
THE WORKS
In addition to these works, the materials are displayed and are the first ones to have started artist’s relationship with the Palace on Grand Canal: the second exhibition room emphasises drawings and corings, as a result of surveys done by experts of City of Venice’s Public Works related to Cá Pesaro façade.
The link between the contemporary sculptural production and the city of Venice is represented by Calò’s sensitivity, accompanied by Cá Pesaro sculpture collections and the monumental Palace architecture. This connection is enriched by grandeurs inspired by precious documents coming from Gallery Historical Archive. They are traces of photographic campaigns brought on collections, of changes and considerations concerning the setting up of works, the architecture and façade. They are plots of story linked with Calò production through the cross and dialogic look of collective Ipercubo.
The sculptural production, but also the museography, the architecture and maintenance restoration, the static and scientific studies about the materials and the palace, become all elements of an alive style, showing the uninterrupted relationship between Venice, the protagonists of its glorious past and the interpreters of its articulated present.
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Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Sculpture dead linguage
By Elsabetta Barisoni
When: The exhibition is open to the public from 15th November 2024 to 4th March 2025 with Museum’s visiting hours and tickets.
Where: Cá Pesaro – International Contemporary Art Gallery, Venice
Sale Dom Pérignon