6th June 22th November 2009
Gallery Franchetti

Last 6th June Palazzo Franchetti opened the original exhibition ‘The soul of Water – Contemporary Art’, a journey in the contemporary art with unknown artworks by Fabrizio Plessi and evocative video-installations by Bill Viola. The exhibition is about contemporary art enriched with unknown installations of the Venetian artist Plessi as well as the wonderful video-installations by Bill Viola. For both of them water is a basic element of one’s artistic and personal career, being a metaphor of purification, life, death, rebirth. Water is not simply a quotation with an end in itself, but it is an element full of meanings just because it can represent different aspects of the human conditions. As a matter of fact the themes which have been faced are liquid Thought, Maternity, Femininity, Voyage, Oblivion, Transformation, Purification and Rebirth, Thirst. Besides, the exhibition joins art to poetry thanks to the contribution of some contemporary poets (Rondoni, Mussapi, Pontiggia, Copioli, Conte, Cera Cosco, Brullo, Cenni) who, with their works, represent the themes of the exhibition, offering a complete view of the evocative nature with which water represents humanity in its general and distinctive aspects. The exhibition holds some contemporary artists too (Aikman, Andersen, Arrivabene, Buccella, Coltro, Costa, Damiani, Demetz, Ghibaudo, Gilardi, Inferrera, Papetti, Raffaelli, Robusti, Stoisa) who, during their artistic careers, have dealt with the water theme embracing the scientific aspect of the exhibition itself. TD