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Time and details

During the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the project “Time and details” opens up to the public some of the exemplary and unique locations designed by Carlo Scarpa.

The project gathers a selection of some of the most significant personalities in the contemporary art scene and invite them to respond to the history, structures and locations of Carlo Scarpa.

The result is a visual journey suspended in time and space, where past and present run parallel, a testament to the intellectual and emotional energy underlying the collaboration between Scarpa and his artisans with whom he designed every architectural detail: Augusto and Carlo Capovilla; Paolo and Francesco Zanon. The exhibition’s journey includes one of the most significant spaces designed by the Venetian architect – The Mario Baratto Lecture Hall at the University of Ca’ Foscari. Students of the Graduate School of the University of Ca' Foscari will be invited to interact and respond to the artistic installations.

The result of this experience in which the called authors will have the chance to relate to the context that host them, establishes the object of the exhibition itinerary evoked by the different Venetian environments of Carlo Scarpa, integrating and communicating with them. The comparison between the artists and spaces is repeated in the generational confrontation of the two curators Chiara Bertola and Geraldine Blais, an open dialogue described by the selection and meta-exhibition approach.

The project opens up to the public some of the exemplary and unique locations designed by Carlo Scarpa in Venice. Many of these places are inaccessible to the general pubic today and remain unexamined and undervalued. Cultural sites which are not cared for nor sustained have a clear need to be re-visited and explored through the eyes of contemporary artists and the public of the Architecture Biennale. This project obliges a revaluation and affirmation of its sites in the exegesis of Carlo Scarpa.

25 May – 1 June 2016
Time and details
Artists | Artisans | Carlo Scarpa
curated by Chiara Bertola and Geraldine Blais
supported by Scuola dottorale interateneo in Storia delle arti – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia; MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti XXI secolo, Roma; Collezioni MAXXI Architettura; Archivio Carlo Scarpa, Centro Carlo Scarpa, Treviso; Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia

Officina Zanon
Cannaregio 3213, Venezia

Falegnameria Capovilla
Santa Croce 853/A, Venezia

Aula Mario Baratto
Università Ca’ Foscari
Dorsoduro 3246,
Calle Larga Foscari, Venezia

Info: rsvp.carloscarpa@mail.com phone +39 340 6602704

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Time and details

During the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the project “Time and details” opens up to the public some of the exemplary and unique locations designed by Carlo Scarpa.

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