Art and Culture
BORDERS ART FAIR 2021 | FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES
ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with Venice Events and ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES, the second appointment of BORDERS – Venice International Art Fair, that will be held in Venice, at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space from July 12 to August 01, 2021, and at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello from July 13 to August 01, 2021.
BORDERS ART FAIR is a contemporary art fair divided into three appointments (BODIES+CITIES SKIN, FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES) that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 2021 edition will represent a forum for direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance.
The last edition of BORDERS ART FAIR took place in Venice in 2020, presenting a great selection of more than 500 art and architecture works by 250 artists and architects, coming from 36 countries. Never as this time the concept of the exhibition seems to be epochal: humankind coexists at a distance to stay closer. The new invisible borders generated by the Covid-19 are creating new ways of living everyday life, new human connections, re-thinking common spaces and entire cities. Could the new “borders” be the solution? We invite artists, architects and designers to be inspired by this new era, exploring the connection between desires, needs, fears that brings humankind to change, to transform and to evolve our inner world.
The festival focuses on the concept of “borders”, between the soul and the body, the human being and the city, the city and the ground; it analyzes the idea of human and urban borders, how people live them and how they are modified in contemporary society. Every human being lives in a world in which the limits, the borders, shape its attitudes and behaviors, limiting freedom and creating a sense of alienation. The human being reacts by breaking the limits and finding a new way of life. We imagine a world of “liquid cities”, where differences create new possibilities instead of being social barriers.
FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES analyzes human beings as a living mosaic composed of many different pieces, mixing together to form a whole. In art people are mixed together in a melting pot of sensation and fluctuating emotions. The challenge is to see all those fragmented identities, recognize and use them to see things through many different points of view and imagination in order to break all barriers and boundaries. There is not a unique perspective on our unconscious beings and identities, showing how things are rarely whole or perfect.
Our artists are invited to work on the concept of the identity’s multiple layers. Robert Jaso with his particular technique fuses photographic imprints to paper “like strokes on a canvas, to explore primal emotions and interrogative disorder, and to force us to look in depth”. Irina Vytyaganets analyzes the influence these layers have on each one of us, as the reflection of many different contexts we have lived through in the past and present. In her standing sculpture made of ceramic, the artist Chisato Yasui searches for a kind of “not-yet-identified context”. She believes that unseen, non-verbalized contexts are
essential components of the visible world, and she wants to deeply discover them in the liminal state which lays unconscious.
Mariko Kumon focuses on the theme of the individual facing others and how it influences the construction of the self. She creates brain-shaped textile sculptures with some colors or objects inserts which represent the areas where our different emotions arise in the various situations of life. Our fragmented identities, in fact, are a result of the contact with other human beings that sometimes makes us vulnerable, as Dell’Aversana & Varavallo tell us through their work, which is an invitation to listen to each other and to interact in a purer way.
At the ground floor of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, the solo exhibition of Fant Wenger will capture us in his large paintings made with a vivid spectrum of colors and lights. They are all about nature and technology that collide in a rugged and momentous way, and represent railway wagons, telephone poles, parabolic antennas and satellites in a different point of view (see ‘Fant Wenger’ press folder).
The inner energy of people is the main theme of the works of Doyeon Kim, who makes an explosion of colors and positive energy on a dripping canvas. This same movement of the painter’s hand is replicated also in the photos of Valentin Pfeifhofer, who moves the camera continuously to generate dynamic images. This movement can be perceived as the energy that relates everything in the universe, and this way, his work is connected with the one of Hiroshi Wada, whose calligraphy painting seems to follow a kind of flow, and with the one of Friedhard Meyer, who feel the entire world as a rhythm, and demonstrates it in his artworks, that are a mixture of artistic and musical compositions. During the
exhibition, visitors will also have the opportunity to attend a video screening and a performance program, and to ‘play’ with Paolo Bianchi’s installation, whose aim is to give a different consciousness of ourselves and the world around us by seeing our disjointed image on various televisions in front of a real grass carpet.
VENUES
THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space
Calle Larga San Marco, 374 – 30124 Venice, Italy
July 12 – August 01, 2021
09:30 AM – 05:30 PM | Monday – Friday
OPENING July 12, 2021
Free entry
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
Cannaregio 4118 – 30121 Venice, Italy
July 13 – August 01, 2021
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM | Monday – Friday
OPENING July 13, 2021
Free entry
Supported by BAM BOTTEGA ANTONIO MANTA | CONCELLO DE RIBEIRA | CREARTS | CZĘSTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY | DORIMAR COTTO RODRIGUEZ | ENFASIA | HAAN | SALVAT SPRUNGALA |
SELECTED ARTISTS
THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space
Fiona Araee . USA | Jonathan Banks . UK | Franziska Becher . Germany | Maria Goretti Bello Serans . Spain | Jürgen Barnickel . Germany | Liubov Bochkova . Italy | Blair Martin Cahill . USA | Andreea Moon Ciucico . UK | André Colinet . Belgium | Nathanael Cox . USA | Dell’Aversana & Varavallo . Italy | Gianni Depaoli . Italy | Lord Nicolaus Dinter . Germany | Theo Emil . Austria | Kelly Jean Gillow . USA | Thanchanog Mai Chin Ho . Singapore | Dominique Joyeux . France | Doyeon Kim . South Korea | Svetlana Konegen . Italy/Russia | Brigit Kovax . UK | Julia Kruse . Switzerland | Mariko Kumon . Japan | Friedhard Meyer . Germany | Ms. etui . Germany | Aude Gourichon O’d . France | Oan Kyu . South Korea | Margarita Orlova . Spain | Raffaela Pederiva . Italy | Valentin Pfeifhofer . Italy | G. Pryor . USA | Raphael . Austria | Lucia Ravens . USA | Randy Rocchi . USA | VaRu Vanessa Rusci . Italy | Alfio Sacco . Switzerland | Sandra Salvat . Spain | Milos Sejn . Czech Republic | Rohit Singh . India | Elisa Spagnoli . Italy | Ceren Tekin Karagöz . Turkey | The Project Fonès Team . Greece/Italy | Chiara Trevisan . Italy | Nora Van Driessche . Belgium | Irina Vytyaganets . Spain | Hiroshi Wada . Japan | Nancy Jo Ward . USA | Peter Wendel . Sweden | Sven-Kristian Wolf . Austria | Ching-Hui Yang . Taiwan/The Netherlands | Root Yarden . Israel | Chisato Yasui . Japan | Katarzhina Zakharova . Russia
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
Rima Al-Juburi . Austria/Iraq | Mish Aminoff . UK | Mitchell Bahr . USA | Fiammetta Bellati . Italy | Julanne Barry . The Netherlands | Paolo Bianchi . Italy | John Bodkin . USA | Teresa Letizia Bontà . Italy | BOY/GIRL . UK | Pamela Campanelli . UK | Chepurna . Ukraine | André Colinet . Belgium | Erick Costa Kohl . Brazil/Germany | Lynn Creighton . USA | D’Oro Provocateur Kerstin Köglmeier . Germany | Theo Emil . Austria | Ernestine Faux . Austria | Lilian Frei . Switzerland | Vanessa Freuler . Switzerland | Peter Frigo . Austria | Christian Garcia-Olivo . USA | Thomas Gonzalez . Puerto Rico | Michal Greg . Poland |
Laura GuildA . Germany/Italy | Thanchanog Mai Chin Ho . Singapore | Cinzia Inglese . Italy | Robert Jaso . France | Hans Johansson . Sweden | Aomi Kikuchi . Japan | Alice Kim | Kiki Klimt . Slovenia | Agnieszka Kopczynska Kardas . Poland | Katrin Loy . Germany | Una Marzorati (unamarz) . Italy/UK | niabee . Switzerland | Nina Nowak . Poland | Paolo Parenti . Monaco | Yulia Parfenova . Switzerland | Kiara Peelman . Belgium | G. Pryor . USA | Lucia Ravens . USA | Daria Reiinku Rhein . Germany/Russia | Michael Schwan . Germany | Milos Sejn . Czech Republic | Rohit Singh . India | Olesya Smolkova . Russia | Sonia Soffritti . Italy | Jacek Sztuka & Pawel Paruzel . Poland | Jacek Sztuka . Poland | Özge Tan . Turkey | Paula Temple . France | The Project Fonès Team . Greece/Italy | Chiara Trevisan . Italy | Nancy Jo Ward . USA | Fant Wenger . Switzerland | Philip Wittmann . Belgium | Katarzhina Zakharova . Russia
