THEThe theme is: The milk of dreams. There Venice Biennale of Art this year draws inspiration from this and other surrealist works by Leonora Carrington. The mission of Cecilia Alemani, curator of this edition, more than a theme is an urgency on a reflection: that on the post-human. In a world where the boundary between human and non-human is unstable, art arrives (as often happens) to make us reflect. To save us.
Everything is ready for the 59th International Art Exhibition, in Venice from 23 April to 27 November 2022. And as always, the exhibition is full of novelties. From themes and artists, to the Italian Pavilion, to foreign participations and collateral events not to be missed around the city. Until to collections between fashion and art. Inevitable tributes, whether declared or not, to the month of art par excellence. Not only dedicated to the Serenissima.
Collections between fashion and art: the news
This year Burberry officially collaborates with The British Council to support the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The latter has supported and hosted the excellence of UK artists, architects, designers and curators since 1937 and for 2022 will exhibit and celebrate the artist Sonia Boyce OBE RA.
But, apart from the exhibitions, as we said, there are many fashion houses that are creating co-labs or exclusive capsule collections dedicated to art for this Spring 2022 season. Valentino On Canvas. Three artists, Giorgio Celin, Emilio Villalba and Oh de Laval, invited to reinterpret the iconic Valentino Garavani One Stud bag, from the Valentino Rendez-Vous collection, in the emerald variant for exclusive sale on e-commerce. OR H&M which launched its second collection with the Keith Haring printsafter the very successful first launched in 2021. It is a children’s collection designed in collaboration with the extraordinary Jakarta artist Martcellia Liunic.
The most visionary projects
Among the most visionary projects is the one proposed by Acne Studios which presents a collaboration with the artist and technoshaman Angelo Plessas. Born from his interview and artistic portfolio in the relaunch issue of Acne Paper, the limited edition collection features embroidered patches inspired by the artist’s Noospheric Cape project. Decorated with talismanic symbols, the cape is seen as a ritualistic tool that touches on aspects of spirituality, cultural heterogeneity and healing of our hyper-connected world.
Acne Studios presents a collaboration with artist and technoshaman Angelo Plessas.
Another example is the collection Fendi Spring Summer 2022, designed by Kim Jones, which represents a modern perspective on disco-age with a spotlight on the powerful femininity interpreted by the maison. This is why we have chosen to have the logo hand drawn by visionary illustrator Antonio Lopez which offered the starting point for a collection that draws on the liberating sensibility of the artist and the environment of Studio 54.
Art according to the Furla Foundation
Furla Foundation and GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano are once again collaborating for the cycle Furla Series, annual exhibition projects in which contemporary art dialogues with the spaces and the museum’s collection. This partnership, which confirms the path undertaken in 2021 with the Nairy Baghramian exhibition, reaffirms the desire to promote a form of collaboration between public and private based on institutional synergies and shared planning. The appointment now in progress is the personal exhibition by Andrea Bowers, curated by Bruna Roccasalva. The exhibition, the first dedicated to the American artist by an Italian institution, offers a starting point for reflection on feminism and bodily autonomy, with an eye to both the present and our history.
The personal exhibition of Andrea Bowers, curated by Bruna Roccasalva, organized by the Furla Foundation and GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano.
The tribute to Dior’s art
The Venetian season gets off to a great start (and a little further on than the Arsenale!) With a touch of contemporary glamor, among the masterpieces of Bellini, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Tiziano and Veronese. Because elegance is timeless. The staff of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice will wear uniforms created and made by Dior. But the maison does not stop there and moves outside of Venice.
At the beginning of the month, on the occasion of the presentation of the Fall Winter 2022 2023 collection by Diorthe works ofItalian feminist artist Mariella Bettineschi. The latter directly from the Dior set are now available for purchase in the latest online exhibition, launched just yesterday and set up at the Richard Saltoun Gallery in London. Entitled The Next Era – title borrowed from the one that Mariagrazia Chiuri used for her collection – it is a series of iconic portraits of Renaissance women painted almost exclusively by men. Revisited by the artist with a female critical eye. In the same way in which the French fashion house has used technology to re-imagine the relationship between body and dress, Bettineschi in his works reinterprets these portraits in a contemporary key to re-emphasize the role of female subjects in the history of art. What to say? To be seen.
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