VISIONS – CANVAS ART FAIR 2024
November 08 – 22, 2024

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice

ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the opening of VISIONS, the third appointment of CANVAS INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2024, that will take place in Venice at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello from November 08 to November 22, 2024, during the 60th Venice Biennale of Art.

CANVAS is an international Art Fair that will showcase collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 2024 edition will represent a forum for the direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography, installations, video art and live performance.

The word “canvas” was used for the first time in Italy in the 14th century and it has become the most common support medium for oil painting, replacing wooden panels. Over the centuries, the canvas’ meaning has changed, starting from paintings, through photographic and cinematographic film, exploring the human body, to the digital world. Canvas is the creatives’ common ground, on which they can express themselves. We invite all the artists to share their personal artistic research through any kind of media, from painting to sculptures and installation, from photography to video art and live performance.

VISIONS aims to explore all different facets of the social, physical and cultural identities of our contemporary society. Every day we deal with a multitude of different identities and roles: we face public life creating and adapting our social identities, our body and aesthetic tastes modify and are modified by our physical and sexual identities, our whole being evolves as well as contemporary cultures and modern cities do in order to create new compound and exchange possibilities for new “liquid identities” in “liquid cities“.

Truly visionary is the work by Austrian digital artist Katharina Gross; her work, “Seascaper Simphony”, bridges the gap between fashion and digital artistry inviting the viewer to ponder over the fluidity of beauty and elegance in today’s contemporary world. It is a deep celebration of form, light, and the graceful interaction of materials that appear suspended in time and space. If Gross relates to the figurative dimension, Günther Bächler’s piece is bound to tell its story by means of abstract stains spreading out all over a surface. Coming from Switzerland, the artist deploys a mix of textures to convey the sense of something cracking out of a multifaceted surface. The title “There is a crack in everything” serves as a point of reference from which observers can draw a myriad of new and unexpected visions on their own.

Within the outstanding location provided by Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, another colorful vision is the one proposed by Dutch artist Martijn Walet: “Thermal Pink” is not just a picture, rather it is an explosion of color stimulating one’s sight. A passion for abandoned places drives Martin’s attempt to flare up the dust of what once was. Such a perspective on physical spaces is evidently counterbalanced by Andy Fung’s point of view as expressed in the work “Exit”. The London-based artist from Honk Kong reverses the exhibition’s main concept as it has been explored so far in order to open a new door on the search for each and every individual’s own self. Colors and shades, therefore, become darker and deeper as far as viewers approach their inner world.

Spontaneity and intuition are the prolific fields from which Ingeborg Ludwig’s vision arises. The German painter has selected two pieces characterized by dynamic and gestural textures. Her art is driven by a desire to explore the complexities of human experience, aiming to engage visitors on a personal level as well as lead them to find their own interpretations within abstract forms. Similar yet truly unexpected is Frank Gérad’s proposal: not only does the French artist carry out experiments with videos, but he deploys AI to offer a unique visual and emotional exploration. “Random Visions” immerses viewers in a surreal world of morphing, where images and concepts transform fluidly and unpredictably, defying the limits of the human imagination.

The exhibition showcases the expressionist yet figurative work by Leonard Gabriel from Germany: his painting manages to evoke a sense of intimacy though, once again, bright colors stand out as the main protagonists of the depicted scene. “Night Travelers” tells the story of one among many solitary moments individuals go through during a journey. The expressionist use of colors allows the painter to expand the scene beyond the physical limits of the canvas to encompass not just visual elements but also sensations, feelings, and the sense of time. On the other hand, surrealism is the key to interpreting Craig Hepburn’s work: by combining traditional art principles with contemporary media, “Nude geometry” bridges the physical and digital worlds, crafting tense as well as atmospheric works with a distinctive sense of aesthetic. A single hue is explored through the play between deepest darks and mostly saturated hues: the overall effect is a sense of warm embrace but also balance and suspension.

Another sophisticated use of color and light can be found in New York-based fashion photographer and director Emiliano Santapaola “After the Storm”. Renowned for his sensitive approach to photography, Santapaola’s work is a strikingly straightforward composition dominated by brightness and neatness. Clearly, for him to envision something is to directly address it, yet by means of a confident experimental composition. Finally, Arthur Henry stands out with his “Sounds of Venice”: dominated by music, Henry’s work originates from multitudes of sound snippets from which he artfully creates striking collages to show once again that music connects and brings people together, making an enormous whole out of smaller parts.

The exhibition will be further enriched by a curated selection of video artists who have approached the concept of VISIONS through their favorite tools: motion, sequences of images and storytelling, all resulting in an ongoing sense of multiple and overlapping visions of humans and their reality (see link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1muTPWMA75xbLMWTA6rSJdl7nXZgskjYm/view?usp=drive_link).

OPENING

November 08, 2024 | 06:00 PM

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello

Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (ACIT), Cannaregio 4118, Venice

Opening hours | Monday – Friday . 09.30 AM – 05.30 PM

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