Lilla Tabasso, Rumore / Noise at Vino Vero Venice
Vino Vero continues its collaboration with Lightbox, a new series of events related to contemporary art curated by Mara Sartore. On a quarterly basis, international artists who work with nature are invited to present site-specific works in the window of the wine club adjacent to the bar.
Lilla Tabasso (Milan, 1973), biologist and designer, lives and works in Milan. After studying Biology at the University of Milan, she began working with Murano glass, discovering the ancient and noble art of lampworking. Her artistic experimentation focuses on her passion for nature, combined with great technical skill. The artist’s work therefore focuses on floral themes. Her works are characterised by an incredible realism that draws from nature an infinite palette of colours, clear shades and also – fundamental for the artist – mutations and imperfections: dry branches, wilted flowers and withered leaves. These mainly refer to the concept of ‘Vanitas’, which has always been used in Art History to symbolise the transience of earthly life and the inexorable passing of time.
Lilla Tabasso for Vino Vero presents “Rumore / Noise”, a site-specific work in collaboration with the venetian Galleria Caterina Tognon. Lilla Tabasso’s VETRINA #5 is among the projects in the city included in the official programme of Venice Glass Week.
The VETRINA project began on 25th September 2021 with the French artist Marie Denis, represented by the Galleria Alberta Pane Venezia – Paris, who created “Spathes” for Vetrina #1, an aluminum sculpture that takes inspiration from research on botany, made in collaboration with the Giovanardi textile company. For Vetrina #2, the artist Elham M. Aghili, an Italian-born artist with Persian roots who is finishing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, presented “Hybrids”, an immersive installation recalling an ideal garden, a metaphor of our inner world, a microcosm of nature and humanity. Vetrina#3 hosted Matilde Sambo’s site-specific work, called “Subtle Instability”. Her artistic research explores the complicated relationship between the natural world and the human being. For Vetrina#4 Ignazio Mortellaro presented “Umfangsbestimmung”, a site-specific project that reproduces a wunderkammer of objects from the artist’s studio.
The next edition will see a new installation from Lupo Borgonovo.
With the series of exhibitions VETRINA, artists are invited to reflect on the theme of nature, a key element in the philosophy of Vino Vero, and to create a site-specific installation capable of communicating with a context distinctive far from the usual exhibition spaces in the city of Venice.
