Acqua – group exhibition – ghetto-etcetera

Acqua (Water) – from February 13th to March 4th, 2022

The group exhibition “Acqua” will be visitable from Sunday, February 13th, 2022 at Ghetto Et Cetera Contemporary Art Gallery in Venice (Campo del Ghetto novo 2919): a group exhibition featuring paintings, sculptures and photographs by 16 foreign and Italian Artists, curated by Arch. Marianna Accerboni. The exhibition will be opened on Feb 13th, 2022 at 12 by the curator. Here you can watch the video.
Exhibiting Artists: Fabio Colussi – Danilo Maggi – Filippo Salvalaggio – Giambattista Longhi – Francesco Possega – Manuela Ulrich – Cristina Meotto – Maria Neola – Roberto Rossi – Giorgio Rocca – Lucia Sarto – Gabriele Sanna – Silvia Ciaccio – H. Caglar Kirti – Fernanda Faggian – Federico Montagner.

The printed catalogue is available at the Gallery, here you can browse the media catalogue.

The exhibition

The exhibition Acqua (Italian word for Water) gathers the interpretation by 16 artists of the main element of nature and the Venetian life, the water. In this occasion, different techniques – painting, sculpture and photography – and different methods create a captivating microcosm, where several contemporary languages arise, which often find their main subject in the Venetian reality.

It is the case, for instance, of Fabio Colussi, highly professional Artist from Trieste who, through skillful color touches expressed according to the guidelines of the ancient pictorial technique, represents a lagoon soaked with light, delicate poetry and thin mistery.

Danilo Maggi, a photograph born in Monza and living in Venice, seizes with grace and care through his photographic lens the liquid light of the Serenissima and the transparencies which often make the city magic and surreal, whose reality becomes its own reflection in this case. Omaggio a Moebius is the title of the photographic print by the Venetian Filippo Salvalaggio, who offers us an elegant interpretation – almost pictoric – of water, reminding the endless fantasizing, often slightly surreal, of the famous French cartoonist and illustrator. Without any postproduction action is the analog black and white print on baryta paper by Gianbattista Longhi, who skillfully tells us, through an almost vintage image, of a Venice during high tide and – between the lines – the typical Venetian philosophic aplomb.

The youngest artist is Francesco Possega, born 1992, who, through a photographic image printed on high-quality paper, represents with deep sensitivity the loneliness of men, symbolized by a solemnly walk in the rain near the Canal Grande in Trieste. Also Manuela Ulrich, photograph and graphic artist born in Munich in a family of artists, entrusts to the black and white her refined and incisive message dedicated to water, which turns out to be highly effective and elegant.

Feminine image and water represent the combo we find in two painters: Cristina Meotto, who, after studying at Candid Arts in London and at the International School of Illustration of Sarmede (Treviso), offers a delicate imagine of a woman symbolically crossed by water, and Maria Neola, a Neapolitan born into art architect, graphic and designer who, through the detail of a feminine nude at the sea, composes with mixed media an elegant praise of “slow time”. The woman figure, depicted from behind while looking at the sea, is the main subject of the oil on canvas painted by Roberto Rossi with a delicate touch and an impressive chromatic combination. But the water is also interpreted through a male figure wearing a recognizible jacket by a distinguished brand painted by Giorgio Rocca, who with classic maestry is able to interpret the art of sailing. Also Lucia Sarto, who studied art in Venice and Turin, represents water through an image of the figurative tradition, where color and light dignify a composition whose perspective cut is nothing but perfect. An intriguing and very original mark characterizes the work by the Sardinian painter Gabriele Sanna who, thanks to a contemporary version of the idea behind pointillisme translated in a partition of the pictorial area, is able to depict the liquid element. Highly sophisticated, the mixed media suspended between informal and abstract art of the Milanese Silvia Ciaccio, born into art too, who works with tissue paper, print papers, corten steel and acrylic colors to compose an alternative reality of exquisitely conceptual taste, which reflects itself into plexiglass. The liquid element is identified as a vivid abstraction and vibrant graphic summary by H. Caglar Kirti, a young Turkish artist living in Bari, who has already been appreciated in prestigious exhibitions for his experimentation about sign, color and shape. In the abstract research works also the Venetian Fernanda Faggian, who exhibits an artwork in which color mixes with sands and objects to convey her “sea scent” through a very interesting and personal contribute. Very personal and refined in details is in the end – last but not least – the low relief by the Friulian sculptor Federico Montagner, who interprets in an original and contemporary way the wave movement through a pure white weave which evokes its rhythm.