Doppio Dialogo – second appointment
Doppio dialogo – second appointement
ANTONELLO TAGLIAFERRO
OLIMPIA BIASI
07.06 – 31.08 2025
The initiative is promoted by Gioielli Nascosti di Venezia – a cultural project of Fondazione Venezia Servizi alla Persona – in collaboration with I.P.A.V. (Public Institutions for Venetian Assistance) and organized by Fondazione Giovanni Santin ONLUS per il contemporaneo and Theke Museum.
Following the dual solo exhibition, from February 8 to June 2, 2025, of Ludovico Bomben and Amedeo Sanzone, the cycle of exhibitions featuring works by artists from the university collection V:Ar.Co (Vanvitelli for Contemporary Art) continues at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage (DiLBeC) in Santa Maria Capua Vetere: a Double Dialogue between today’s and yesterday’s art, set against the unique architectural backdrop of Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, alongside the extraordinary Paradise by Jacopo Tintoretto.
Olimpia Biasi, from Treviso, and Antonello Tagliafierro, from Caserta, find a point of connection and dialogue in their reflections on the increasingly evident and wounded state of Nature in its relationship with Humanity. Each of the acclaimed artists will be given a dedicated space of expression, which will come together before a significant work by the last great master of the Venetian Golden Age of painting.
In her large mixed-media collages on gauze from the Pardes series, Olimpia Biasi gathers aspects—often enigmatic—of Nature, as a refuge for the “small creatures” usually ignored and often harmed: contemporary herbariums that combine poetic texts and fragments of the artist’s drawings with ribbons, leaves, seeds, feathers, roots, and other recovered scraps, simulating the natural/cultural living world, the vital existence that reveals itself to those who can—and wish to—see. Recalling The Expulsion of the Devils from Arezzo by Giotto in the Basilica of Assisi, Antonello Tagliafierro seeks a filter to interpret the daily disorientation of contemporary life, while also drawing geographical maps to help navigate toward inner spaces, shores, and estuaries, far from the advancing urban decay, overbuilding, and exploitation.
There is hope: violated Nature will find order and peace in the encounter between Biasi’s Visions and Tagliafierro’s Landscapes, both in dialogue with Tintoretto’s heavenly sky.
This second exhibition is also curated by Almerinda Di Benedetto, Enrico Lucchese, and Alessandra Santin, and will be open to the public until August 31, 2025.
Opening Hours:
Monday – Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
