On August 29, the exhibition STATO D'IMPREVISTO opens at 6 p.m. with works by Valerio D'Angelo, Antonio Della Guardia, Daniele Di Girolamo, Greta Maria Gerosa, Mozzarella Light and Wang Yuxiang on the three floors of the Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista in Bragora in Campo Bandiera e Moro in Venice.
During the opening, Di Girolamo's Lime performance will be held at 7:30 pm.
The exhibition will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. until September 13, 2024.

During the month of August, the artists take turns in the set-up, going on to progressively compose the exhibition. Anyone who passes through the Campo and finds the door open is invited to enter the building to witness the work-in-progress phase, which is entirely open to the public.

The project is ideated and realized by Flaminia Ciuferri and Niccolò Giacomazzi, in collaboration with Culturit Venezia, VBRA venezia and Fondazione Pepe.

STATO D'IMPREVISTO exhibits the works by six artists under 35 who, from several Italian regions, are emerging on the national and international scene. Their research is connected by an initial phase of analysis of reality and careful identification of its main pillars. It is from this common starting point that each one of them declines the encroachments that subvert the predeterminacy of themes such as existence, experience, relationship, gesture and identity. For this reason, the exhibition investigates the concept of the unexpected with the intention of offering a glimpse of artistic attitudes of reaction towards the breaking of pre-established orders, leaving room for all the unexpected possibilities that arise. The key to the interpretation of the works is linked to imagining new paths of knowledge structured within relational dynamics and the construction of identity.

The exhibition opens with installations by Antonio Della Guardia and Greta Maria Gerosa in which the imagination is able to both subvert symbols of power and trigger a deviation of meaning, overturning what one would normally expect from the real world. On the first floor of the Palazzo, works by Daniele Di Girolamo and Wang Yuxiang deal with the unpredictability of encountering and coming into contact with the unexplored. The installations by Valerio D'Angelo and Mozzarella Light, on the second and third levels, analyse the history and structure of the place that hosts them and work on rethinking identity and making a latent and potential unpredictability visible.... read the rest of the article»

Flaminia Ciuferri and Niccolò Giacomazzi, creators of the exhibition and co-founders of FUGU PROJECT, invited the above-mentioned artists to reflect on the unpredictable and explore all its possibilities, because today more than ever it's necessary to welcome the unexpected as a tool to critically reflect on our time.

The opening will feature Di Girolamo's performance Lime, which consists of a sound journey between ambient and experimental music. The samples, edited and collected during the artist's travels, include field recordings of protests, collaborations with artists during a residency in Paris, sounds of Canadian hydroelectric power and many more. During the exhibition period, VBRA venezia will organise a musical event embracing the concept of the unexpected. At the end of the project, a catalogue designed by DITO Studio will be presented with insights into the artworks presented and the experience on the island of Venice.

BIO ARTISTS  

Valerio D'Angelo (Rome, 1993) trained in art restoration and specialised in Baroque decorative techniques such as gold leaf gilding and lacquering at the Nazzareno Fontana Restauri laboratory in Rome. He began his artistic practice in 2021, expressing himself mainly through sculpture, site-specific installation and material experimentation. A fundamental element of his latest research involves the light, the projections derived from it and its material aspect. The artist focuses in particular on the spatial dimension, understood in both architectural and scientific form. The lexicon of the installations is aligned with science fiction imagery, inspired by post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction, where the perception of everything is turned upside down and the linearity of our existence is broken.

The research of Antonio Della Guardia (Salerno,1990) has for years focused on the conditioning imposed by contemporary work on the body, the cognitive processes and the most intimate spheres of private life. A research aimed at detecting signs and at the same time elaborating contrasting forms and imaginative processes. His work has been presented in various institutions both in Italy and abroad, including: MEC (Córdoba Argentina), MAXXI (Rome), MUNTREF (Buenos Aires), Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome), MACRO (Rome), Triennale (Milan), Centrul De Interes (Cluj-Napoca), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Izolyatsia Foundation (Kiev), Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como), La Caja (Caracas), Italian Embassy (Berne), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Cracow and Warsaw).

Greta Maria Gerosa (Lecco, 1997) lives and works in Venice, where she is part of the artist-run space zolforosso. In 2022 she graduated in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA in Milan, after obtaining a Diploma in Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. She was a finalist in the Collettiva Giovani Artisti at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (2020 and 2023) and presented her solo exhibition Estetiche del Controllo at Terzospazio (2023). She presented the video IS IT A BIRD, WATCHING? in the exhibition Ballad of species at The Others Fair (2023) and at PACTA dei Teatri Salone, Abbiategrasso, on the occasion of the exhibition Abbiatissima curated by Alessia Baranello with Massimo Bartolini, Riccardo Benassi and Luca Trevisani (2022). She is resident at Dolomiti Contemporanee and participates in TROMAMOTEL, Openstudio in Progettoborca, curated by Gianluca D'Incà Levis (2023).

Mozzarella Light is the artistic duo composed of Giulia Ciappi (Poggibonsi, 1997) and Marco Frassinelli (Rome, 1992). They trained at the Academies of Fine Arts in Florence and Rome, where they obtained a diploma in Sculpture, and at the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, doing workshops and residencies in the USA, Greece and Israel. The name chosen to designate the artistic partnership focuses on disorientation and an apparent anti-artism. Light is the essential element of their expressive language. Their most recent exhibitions include: Onironautico, Contemporary Cluster, Rome (2024); Puramente immaginabile, Supernova, Rome (2023); Cassandra, Spazio Volta, Bergamo (2023); SUB, squatting project, Ciao, Rome (2023); Margine dentato, Spazio Artiglieria, Florence (2022); Domovoi, Casa Vuota, Rome (2022).

Wang Yuxiang's (Anhui CN, 1997) research focuses on the fusion of Mediterranean culture with his Eastern culture of origin: time, history and memory are the conceptual leitmotifs that guide his work. The artist distances himself from the place in which he intervenes to analyse its particularities, restoring them through a site-specific visual architecture. Influenced by deconstructionism, he starts a preliminary research and study on the context in order to intervene on it later. His training, which began in his home town and was implemented during his stays and long journeys, allows him to combine his research with a reflection on cultural diversity and Western centrism in the context of globalisation. In 2023, he won the Premio Insulare at The Others Fair and the best emerging artist award at the Arte in Nuvola fair in Rome.