from october, 18 to november, 21, 2007

The BLM Foundation carries on and renovates its attention to young artists, which is part of its mission; for this reason, for a hundred years it has been assigning ateliers to the most eligible ones.
Since few years the ateliers are located at the Giudecca, at the Santi Cosma e Damiano compound, waiting for the restoration of Palazzo Carminati.
This year, for the first time, the artists selected in 2007 have the possibility to exhibit their works inside the Gallery of Piazza San Marco, within an exhibition conceived precisely for them.
Curated by Milovan Farronato, the show will be promoted through the publication of a special issue of Mousse Magazine, which will substitute the catalogue. The artists are:

Sharing project experiences… like collecting postcards from non-virtual friends in an ongoing existential dialogue.

Seven young artists and a collective shared the studios of the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa for 12 months inside the Complesso Cosma e Damiano at the Giudecca. Each with their own space, yet brought together by the opportunity to create synergies, to carry out debates, to measure up to one another and work out their conflicts, with a series of dynamics documented and celebrated by Spritz Time!, an exhibition of juxtapositions, hybrids and collaborations. The show provides the opportunity to celebrate the conclusion of this experience, and to highlight the very finest works produced. In the venue in St. Mark’s Square, there is not a statically classical layout of isolated artists, but rather an ongoing dialogue and new, unexpected equilibria. No hortus siccus — a patch of odourless and tasteless specimens – but rather an unprecedented wunderkammer, the multifaceted expression of a Single Learning Experience (both in artistic and existential terms) to which each participant responds with their own vivacious characterisation.