PRO PORTIO
PALAZZO FORTUNY
MAY to NOVEMBER 2015
(6th May 2015)
Its always a great pleasure to experience the Palazzo Fortuny whenever in Venice.
For the occasion of the 56th International Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the Palazzo put together an exhibition that became immediately memorable. We still think back to it, the ideas it produced and the great sensory experience that it was.
Curated by AxelVerroordt (Axel and May Verroordt Foundation) and Daniela Ferretti, it was created as a platform for a historical and current visual context to the knowledge of proportion and sacred geometry that informed human endeavour and is now somehow lost.
The works exhibited by diverse cultural producers were situated across all floors of the Palazzo and placed to reflect different aspects of human interaction to proportion.
The embodiment by humans of Proportional Features was expressed upon entering by a group of architectural pavilions, made out of organic materials, and designed by Axel Verroordt, Tatsou Miki and Jorgen Hempel.
Gigantic photographs of Medieval cathedrals by Markus Brunetti.
The encounter of works alongside the architectural features of the Palazzo Fortuny enriches all exhibitions presented there.
Artist Nanushka Jackson looks at works while curator Martin Rasmussen takes a moment to rest by the side of a giant and vibrant Ellsworth Kelly.
The 'Piano Mobile" of the Palazzo acts like an epicentre of the exhibition. A demanding visual spectacle full of architectural models and plans. A variety of Minimalist works and works by ZERO artists, alongside Old Master architectural capriccios.
Artist Nanushka Jackson and curator Martin Rasmussen exploring works.
On the fourth floor the wabi aesthetics remind us of the acceptance of transcience and imperfection and the curators have chosen works that start a discourse about the proportions of the cosmos, intergalactic spaces and meditation and silence.
The experience of the exhibition allows for the development of a new exploration about how humans locate themselves within the proportions of the order of things.
Curators Ulia Rabko and Martin Rasmussen and artist Nanushka Jackson earn a proportionately comfortable rest after this last wabi-sabi moment.
