A site-specific project developed by Giorgio Vigna (Verona, 1955) especially for the Wabi-Sabi in the middle of the third floor of Palazzo Fortuny. Once again, experimentation with the potential of materials – glass, copper and gold as well as waste materials – are at the helm of the artist's research, in which the natural and artificial, the highly imaginative and the sublime meet and clash in works that are suspended somewhere between the possible and imaginary. The exhibition is divided into eleven moments, eleven different “stations” or moments of meditation in which the material becomes either light or heavy, incandescent in colour, taking on a deceptive consistency or ancestral forms.

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Already anticipated by some of the artist’s works on display or “scattered” around the first floor, the exhibition covers all the vast space of the Museum’s second and shows large-sized canvases together with sculptures and other smaller sized works conceived by Marco Tirelli (Rome, 1956) especially for the museum.
The paintings portray architectural geometrical abstract elements that refer to states of indeterminateness and transit.

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Eighty unique pieces by Alberto Zorzi (Padua, 1958): jewellery-sculptures (gold, silver precious stones, oil paintings, glass), as well as six large pieces of silverware that initially appear to be for decorative purposes only but actually have a function, “turning out to be” vases, fruit bowels or table centre pieces.
All these works were created during the last decade and were especially selected by the artist to interact with the site, space, objects, garments and fabrics in the museum.
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On show are 15 pastel works of the well-known painter Živa Kraus which she created between 1975 and 2007, a 1976 videotape, which reveals the invisible interiority of the Kraus “painter”; where one colour does not dominate the other. The vitality of colours, the pastel’s matter, the contrasts of fullness and emptiness are part of what makes her abstract painting, a universal representation of our emotions.
Živa Kraus is also known for having collaborated with Peggy Guggenheim, for having founded the Ikona Gallery, for taking part of the Venezia 1979 world photography kermis organized by the Venice Municipality, the ICP New York and the Unesco, through which, still today, she collects cultural progression for the city
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International Exhibition for figurative and narrative painting with itinerant locations.
Kitsch Biennale 2010 will mainly be held on the second floor.
On the first floor are displayed thirty selected paintings by artists such as Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Pontormo.
Focused on applicants displaying the serious and earnest expression, this sets the exhibition concept apart from the general trend of contemporary figurative painting.
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