Category: Works

May 8 – July 28, 2019
GAD – Giudecca Art District, Isola della Giudecca, Venice

The Studio la Città gallery presents two exhibition projects on the Giudecca Island, concurrently with the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale: “Recursions and Mutations” presents works by artists Vincenzo Castella, Lynn Davis, Jacob Hashimoto and Roberto Pugliese. The exhibition examines the process of reiteration and change in the poetics of the four artists as analytical device for examining the reality around us. “After J.M. W. Turner 1834 – 2019” is a series of variously sized light-boxes by Hiroyuki Masuyama. The artist draws inspiration from the works produced by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner to document his journeys to Italy.

Official Collateral Event of the 56. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 
6 May – 22 Nov, 2015
Campo Sant’Antonin, Castello, Venice

At the Sant’Antonin church’s hall, Recycle Group presents a large-scale installation — the ruins of the churches of 21st century with semi-derelict sculptures of the “saints”, the preachers of the new technologies disseminated by the interfaces of popular gadgets; on the central bas-relief there are crowds by figures trying to get onto the web with they mobile devices. The atmosphere of religious worship of technologies is enhanced by the frames of advertising billboards depicting instructions — the commandments for the use of the main programmes and servers. The video of production and overview of the project production and idea are included into the show. The video also includes interviews with the artists, leading international curators and gallerists discussing the essence of Recycle Group’s project and oeuvre.

Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
3 May – 17 Nov, 2015
Magazzini del Sale, Magazzino #5 / VITRARIA Glass +A Museum, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Venice

“Inverso Mundus” by AES+F is 7-channel HD video installation displayed in two venues: Magazzini del Sale, Magazzino #5, Dorsoduro 262 (Fondamenta Zattere Ai Saloni) – the main venue, and Vitraria Glass +A Museum, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro 960 (Fondamenta Nani).

The series of historical engravings “Inverso Mundus” (The World Upside Down), known since the 16th century, depict a pig gutting the butcher, a child punishing his teacher, a man carrying a donkey on his back, men and women exchanging roles and costumes, and a beggar in rags majestically giving alms to a rich man. In these engravings there are demons, chimeras, fish flying through the sky, and death itself, depicted variously with a scythe, or behind the mask of Doctor Plague.

In this interpretation of “Inverso Mundus”, a multichannel video installation, absurd scenes from the historical carnival appear as episodes of contemporary life. Characters are acting out scenes of absurd social utopias, changing their masks, morphing from beggars to rich men, from policemen to thieves. Metrosexual cleaners shower the city with debris. Female inquisitors torture men on IKEA-style devices. Children and seniors are locked in a kick-boxing match. “Inverso Mundus” is a world where chimeras are pets and the Apocalypse is entertainment.

Curated by Dr. Giorgia Calò 
11 Oct – 31 Dec, 2018
Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome 

Over a year has passed since “Evocative Surfaces”, a large exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani during the most recent Venice Art Biennale. In response to an invitation from the Polo Museale del Lazio and the Office for Culture of the Embassy of Israel in Italy, Beverly’s deep bond with Italy finds new expression in “After the Tribes” a site specific installation curated by Dr. Giorgia Calò with the support of the Nomas Foundation. The exhibition at the Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, is an evocative, mutable journey from deep roots in the Old Testament and the origins of the Jewish people to the contemporary era.

A project by Margherita Moscardini
 
Exhibition curated by Marcello Smarrelli 
12 Jul – 24 Nov, 2018 
Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma

Curated by Marcello Smarrelli and supported by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere “Inventory. The Fountains of Za’atari” by Margherita Moscardini is the fruit of work developed inside Camp Za’atari in Jordan; the central nucleus of the exhibition are the book and the sculpture destined for the collection of the Madre – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples. Camp Za’atari was opened in 2012 in Jordan to welcome Syrians escaping from the civil war. In 2015 the population there reached 150,000 people, becoming the fourth greatest city in Jordan. Currently there are 80,000 Syrian residents. Within five years the camp has been turned first into a tent city and then into a city with its own economic system; working in the field since 2017 and struck by the fast process of city formation, artist Margherita Moscardini started to wonder if these cities can be thought of not simply in terms of the result of a humanitarian emergency, but in the long term, as virtuous systems to which the best minds have devoted their skills so that they become juridical, economic and social models to be exported, perhaps even able to replace the concept of nation state..

In the exhibition The Mystical Body, at Bulgari Boutique São Paulo, the artist showcases a selection of recent works dedicated to the figure of the Venus. The female figures is represented both fragility and strength, the beauty is both eternal and ephemera. Timeless images are juxtaposed to the Bulgari jewels, and the artist has created a site specific work to celebrate preciousness and unicity.

Official Collateral Event of the 54. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
3 Jun – 30 Nov, 2011
Magazzini del Sale, Zattere, Venice

The Future of a Promise is the largest Pan-Arab show of contemporary art at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. From Tunisia all the way to Saudi Arabia, this landmark exhibition brings together over twenty-five recent works by some of the foremost artists from the Arab world. Presenting important works that range from installation, performance and photography, to video, sculpture and painting, the exhibition is curated by Lina Lazaar, produced by Edge of Arabia and supported by Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives and Abraaj Capital, three newly partnered organisations whose commitment to contemporary art practice in the Middle East is at the heart of a current artistic renaissance in the region.

Edge of Arabia, Saudi Artist Exhibition
5 Jun – 2 Aug, 2009
Palazzo Polignac, Venice

For the first time Saudi Artists present their work during the 53th International Art Exhibition. In 2009 a new generation of Saudi Artists shed light on the largely unknown contemporary art culture of Saudi Arabia. “Edge Of Arabia” in Venice features the work of 10 Saudi contemporary artists, male and female. Their work explores the complex and diverse reality of 21st century life in Saudi Arabia, combining installation, performance and a variety of other media with a multi-disciplinary approach to artistic practice – one artist is a GP, another an army Major. In its outlook and range the work is as much personal or domestic as it is geopolitical.

Official Collateral Event of the 55. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
30 May – 24 Sep, 2013
Magazzini del Sale, Zattere, Venice

Curated by London-based art critic and independent curator, Sara Raza, and Saudi-based poet, curator and artist, Ashraf Fayadh. Produced by Edge of Arabia.
Many of the artists are creating new works specifically for the exhibition. A special structure was especially designed and built within the exhibition by The Amen Art Foundation, a new Riyadh based platform set up by Edge of Arabia co-founder, Abdulnasser Gharem. This platform has staged several art works and projects which function as an extended metaphor for non-linear identities and generational collaborations which Rhizoma promotes.

Official Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
29 May – 24 Nov, 2013
Palazzo Falier, San Marco

“a remote whisper” is an extraordinary piece by world renowned Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis, specifically produced for the occasion of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. The artist installed in the 700 sqm piano nobile of Palazzo Falier a monumental work that occupies the walls and floors of the exhibition site, inviting the viewer to engage in a path of random trajectories through the space, thus building an intricate perception of the piece. The exhibition, curated by Sabrina van der Ley, Director for Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, displays a semi-precarious, hand-made, construction that combines aluminum, glass, and fluorescent fixtures, drawings, paintings, and photos.