Reflections and Realities - ScalaMata, Venice

ScalaMata Exhibition Space, in collaboration with Cecilia Tirelli, is pleased to announce

Thursday, 18th March 2010, 6.00 pm

Reflections and Realities by Rita Visonà, with Elodie Barattucci, Nicola Buzzolan, Sara Cavallin, Mauro Corti, Cesare Diana/Ester Marano, Pietro Mingotti, Enrico Sambenini, Eugenia Torelli.

ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS - VENICE - Painting and Multimedia Laboratory by Luigi Viola and Anna Sostero.

The title stands for the relationship between Art and the reality itself, a re-emerging issue in the current debate with original features. A fundamental relation as we approach the experience of Art.

Today, these artists are here to deal with the perception of a general "malaise" that seems to restrain today's society. The difficulty is to be able to weave the disparate threads that cross a technologically advanced society, globalized and dominated by a virtual reality; fragmented and divided by contradictories. A society that carries fashions and social phenomena, religious beliefs in a amazing melting pot of media and consumerism that completely surrounds us, making it almost impossible to reach a true knowledge of reality able to go beyond the ambiguous propensity of the image. A mirror, a  reflection of this narcissism voted to defeat, if not to dissolve in the excesses. These artists are here today to state the substantial failure of our system, pointing out the difficulty to arrive through this path to a convincing world view.

We are'nt claiming to find naive solutions to the today state of general crisis, but we have indeed the desire to contribute - at least in part – to that "return of the image" in the mirror, as a form of a brand new landscape and synapses of possible worlds. Trying to affirm that Art is no different to science in unravelling the mistery, unlocking anthropological perspectives and livable models in wich modern man can identify himself.

With the contribution of: Assessorato Politiche Giovanili e Pace, Venice.
Support by: Azienda Servizi Mobilità S.p.A, Venice - Associazione culturale Brillo Parlante, Venice - Trattoria Ca' D'Oro, Venice.

From 19th March, until 12th April 2010

Contact: Rita Visonà, ritaviso@gmail.com

Opening hours: Sunday - Monday 10:00 to 13:00, 16.30 - 18.30, Friday 10.00 - 13.00, Saturday closed

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ScalaMata
exhibition space
Ghetto Vecchio 1236 - Cannaregio 30121
Venezia - Italia
www.scalamata.com - scalamata@gmail.com