From May 9 to November 22, Marni Prisma, the series of events developed to mark Marni’s 20th anniversary, will occupy the spaces of San Gregorio Abbey in Venice with Becoming Marni.
Under the supervision of Carolina Castiglioni, Marni’s Director of Special Projects, and directed by Stefano Rabolli Pansera – architect and founder of Beyond Entropy Ltd – Becoming Marni is a site-specific installation.
The exhibition consists of around 100 wooden sculptures by the self-taught Brazilian artist Véio, which are displayed around the cloister and in the rooms of San Gregorio Abbey, which is usually closed to the public.
Véio, exclusively represented by Galerie Estação, lives and works in Nossa Senhora da Gloria, a small village in northeastern Brazil, where he creates his enigmatic sculptures by giving new life to pieces of wood, logs and branches he finds along the river, immediately identifying a being in each piece.
Becoming Marni, the prismatic Marni, an identity that takes shape indefinitely, is expressed through encounter and dialogue with a unique form of creativity. Although radically distant in geography and culture, Marni and Véio share the same approach and language.
They both explore the power of transformation and the struggle to preserve pure form. The title Becoming Marni is the result of a dialogue between the opposites of people and places linked by the same aesthetic.
In this way, Becoming Marni has found an ideal place within the cartography of All the World’s futures, the theme of the 56th Venice Art Biennale: it draws an ideal world, a scenario that could belong to the future.
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