Mats Bergquist, Alessandro Diaz De Santillana, Riccardo De Marchi, Serena Fineschi, Alberto Gianfreda, Nancy Genn, Silvia Infranco, Artur Lescher, Emil Lukas, Antonio Scaccabarozzi, Roy Thurston
For the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Marignana Arte will be opening a new exhibition curated by Ilaria Bignotti.
On this particular occasion, the theme is strongly aligned with both the identity of the gallery and the curatorial orientation of Ilaria Bignotti. Ilaria is a researcher in the spatialism and ambiental languages between the sixties and seventies and also in contemporary exploration, with reference to the themes of the processuality, of the resilience and of the site-specific.
These themes of the project are reflected from the title that is a play on words on two tracks: on one side, if the reader takes the words’ initials w.w.w. they are sent directly online, to the net, to the digital world that celebrates the potential of the collective involvement used in the artwork and the immersive experience.
On the other side, reading the title in its extension, the title of the exhibition asks us, and foremost the artist, “what do walls want”: or rather, how the works of art fit in with the space, intended as how the surfaces welcome the image, how the osmotic walls of a metaphysical vision, and also like a osmotic membrane, activating the exchange between artwork, artist and spectator.
Press
“W.W.W. – What Walls Want” and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana “The depth must be hidden. Where? At the surface” at Marignana Arte, Venice, Mousse Magazine, August 2018
Art cities: Venice-W.W.W. What Walls Want, Efi Michalarou, Dreamideamachine, May 2018
Dal muro all’opera. Undici artisti a Venezia, Arianna Testino, Artribune, May 2018
W.W.W. – What Walls Want, installation view