Parallel Worlds Exhibition at the Venice Biennale – Opens October 1

September 22, 2009

PRESS RELEASE
Parallel Worlds: Fleeting Realities
Detournement Venise collateral exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Arts

Curated by Dovrat ana Meron

October 1 – 27, 2009
Private View: October 1, 2009, 6-8pm

Scalamata Gallery
Cannaregio 1235
Ghetto Vecchio
Venice, Italy

To address the apparent dichotomy of reality for a different and multifaceted perception of our lived experience: This is what the 17 artists participating in Parallel World: Fleeting Realities propose.

In the vast range of topics covered by various artists, contradiction is one of the topics that most characterizes their work. Though embracing very different forms of artistic expression – switching from painting to installation, from performance to video art-we can find in this topic a solid common ground that unites them.

From that premise begins a survey on the elusive realities surrounding us which are caught to be fixed on matter to allow us to reflect on the “rift between opposite positions”. One wonders then between what is known and what is not, between cerebral and sensual, between word and anti-word, between the attractive and the repulsive pursuing the inquiry on the meaning of the ascent and descent of man and his relation between codes and symbols, the boundary between a dream of veiled modern mysticism as opposed to the experience of the ordinary which is only apparently trivial.

The artists of Fleeting Realities while taking us in the territory of opposites seem interested in widening the rift created between the elements and antithetical feelings and by doing so they seem willing to suggest that the opposites, in reality are merely shades of the same idea.

Exhibiting artists include: Alberto Graziani, Aya Chowers, Birgit Ramsauer, Carmela Weiss, Chen Shapira, Dante Maffei, David Behar Perahia, Eiva Lilja, Fabrizio Cotognini, Kaisu Koivisto, Lia Chavez, Michael Basov, Patrick Corrado, Regine Freise, Richard Schofild, Roma Pas, Sergio Trevisan, and Valter Luca Signorile.

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