Until 19th September 2010
Foundation Emilio and Annabianca Vedova, Zattere

Until 19th September 2010 the Fondazione ‘Emilio e Annabianca Vedova’ inaugurated last year and whose machinery of display has been designed by Renzo Piano, will expand its area by adding to the Magazzino del Sale Emilio Vedova’s renovated Studio, which will become another public space for exhibitions and encounters with art. The opening to the public of the Studio will coincide with the simultaneous staging of two important and original shows, organized by Germano Celant Louise Bourgeois and devoted to previously unexplored aspects of the work of, with the presentation of her “Fabric Drawings“, never exhibited all together before, and of the work of Emilio Vedova, with its powerful interweaving of painting and sculpture, never thoroughly analysed.

Louise Bourgeois. ‘The fabric of drawings’.
In the spectacular space of the Magazzino del Sale, in an architectural setting designed to house drawings and sculptures, will be shown her almost unknown output of works made out of fabric, such as the rich series of her Fabric Drawings, created between 2002 and 2008 or the light presence of her Cells, like Conscious and Unconscious, 2008. Principally montages, collages and assemblages of parts and pieces of her own clothes, these works display an unsettling and surprising energy that stems from their richness of colour and language, as well as from their symbolic and intimate character. Together with the large steel sculpture Crouching Spider, 2003, that opens the exhibition in Venice, they reflect a use of personal textiles, something which she began to do in the Sixties, out of which the artist created drawings and sculptures, making use of her clothing and that of members of her family.TD