Running Exhibition from June 11th to November 6th 2005
"HENRI FOUCAULT,
SATORI - Venice"

The exhibition, curated by Dominique Païni, is organised in concomitance with the 51st Venice Visual Arts Biennale. Located on the first piano nobile of the Palazzo, the exhibition complements the atmospheric interiors and furnishings of Mariano Fortuny's atelier. It comprises a series of works - photographs that have been punctured and/or re-drawn by the superimposition of hundreds of pins - which are a conceptual conjunction of the photographic image and the three-dimensional. Other pieces include video installations and a floor sculpture of twelve components. Often, what we look for in photographs of bodies and things is mass rather than outline, weight rather than evanescence, the modulation of volume rather than the diaphanous extension of surfaces. However, Henri Foucault has long known that photography also possesses another undeniable gift: it exalts materials themselves, facing us with the problems raised by spatial perception, by the form and reproducibility of images. From the apparent conflict between the slow development of a volume and the instantaneous act of taking a photograph emerges the opportunity to blend together these two notions of sculpture and photography. Sosein and Satori, the two series exhibited in Venice, mark the stage the artist has reached in exploring this encounter, in radically undermining the traditional categories of art. The starting-point is the model, the human body.

Running Exhibition from March 27th 2004 to Feb 28th 2005
"MARIANO FORTUNY:VIAGGIO IN EGITTO - Appunti fotografici d'artista"