Canaletto, Bellotto, Richter. The artists who dedicated their work to Venice are too many to mention. Still and everlasting, the city of water has been interpreted by artists of all times and all places, for centuries. “Venice! Is there a city that is more admired, more celebrated, more sung by poets, more desired by lovers, more visited and more illustrious? Venice!” French author Guy de Maupassant was certainly not the only artist to long for Venice so passionately. Wandering around calli and campi, taking in the variety of domes, belltowers, bridges, and architectures, that in a somewhat unruly manner spell out the shape of this city is one of life’s greatest pleasures.
Artists, poets, authors have described it, painted it and many times altered it to fit their capricious or fictional flights of fancy. Everyone knows Venice, everyone wants to visit Venice. From 9 June at Galleria Poggiali, the public will have the chance to visit the Venice of today. The gallery’s Milanese venue in Foro Buonaparte will showcase a selection of paintings reflecting the contemporary pictorial research being conducted in Venice today. Three young artists from very different backgrounds, Barbara De Vivi, Giuseppe Di Liberto and Rémi Deymier, each one with their personal approach drawing from the very luminous and chromatic atmospheres of the laguna, develop their artistic research based on colour in keeping with the best Venetian tradition. Hence “Regarding Venice”, an international title taking on different meanings and nuances depending on the language: as in French regarder “to look” and as in English “in reference to”. This project is a contribution supporting young artistic production in one of the capitals of Italian art interpreting and cultivating the beauty and the aesthetic value of the laguna. Galleria Poggiali continues its research-oriented offer supportive of young Italian and international artists especially in its Milanese space, a quintessential white cube that can be reinvented every time.
Opening image: Barbara De Vivi, Untitled (Pool party 3), mixed techniques on canvas, 28x20,5 cm, 2020. Courtesy Galleria Poggiali