Giovanni Anselmo  Senza titolo, invisibile, le stelle si avvici­nano di una spanna in più, oltremare appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza     

May 10th – September 24th 2017    

curated by Chiara Bertola   

In conjunction with the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale  

On the occasion of the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale,  Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Krizia promoted the solo show of Giovanni Anselmo Senza titolo, invisibile, le stelle si avvici­nano di una spanna in più, oltremare appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza...    

Curated by Chiara Bertola, the exhibition was held in the Area Scarpa and in the eighteenth-century house-museum and was a reflection on concepts such as transience and the passing of time that is always geological, slow and constant for Anselmo.    

As is often the case with Giovanni Anselmo’s work, the long title – Senza tito­lo, invisibile, dove le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più, mentre oltremare appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza... – is like a formula, almost a short story, which describes installations that could be considered land­scapes to observe.     

Anselmo has envisaged a project for the Carlo Scarpa space inspired by the pre­cision and essential rigour that the place itself suggested to him. For this exhibition the route he has created unwinds through four elements-works: one work for each space, to give direction and create a tension towards the exterior. The space Carlo Scarpa created for exhibitions is a closed one and is full of his details. Anselmo’s work manages to push it further and detach it from its iconic form.    

Anselmo’s exhibition route continues on the second floor with a unique work placed in the Fondazione’s museum space: Particolare, 1972-2017.    

The exhibition Anselmo has devised for the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a route of trajectories and directions, weights and energies which represent five moments in which a meaning is implied: the visitors become par­ticipants. It is a work in progress because it is lived and lives through the viewer. The viewer also creates a new trajectory while walking through the exhibition.    

Images of the exhibition