BOUNDLESS
curated by Elisabeth de Brabant
Palazzo Morosini del Pestrin, Castello, Venezia
What does painting, the pictorial work, mean when it does not refer to the painting?
That is to say, when the word "painting" is no longer used, as in French, as in many languages, to designate the painted object by metonymy. Since the Italian Renaissance, painting traditionally presents itself in certain forms, with a sense of composition, arranged by certain pictorial laws, framed and hung on a wall. We perceive painting as a flat surface, benefitting from these optimal conditions of visibility and owing to it’s placement in institutional spaces that enhances their clearness and gives it a legibility within the conventions of the "white cube". It is therefore quite legitimate to ask the following question, when faced with the paintings of the artist Caroline Dantheny: what are we dealing with?
The canvas, suspended like a cloth, thrones, lascivious, in the splendour of the Palazzo Morosini, it seems to be the relic of a sunken world, where gold embellished the brocades and the ducal horns. It is also, the wonders of ages past that we see shimmering with precious stones and pearls, in the paintings embroidered in India. The painting is no longer fixed, it is entirely uncovered, offered, mixed with fabrics and feathers, buried by bundles of threads and ants or hidden in the lapels of a fold.
The painting dreams itself in movement and is transfigured.
It is the fantasy of every painter, to see his canvas moving and becoming alive... One thinks of frescoes in tempera, of the dense pigments that filled the cornices of churches, but with this irreverent and iconoclastic element that, by the same tamed gesture, destroys and liberates the painting. As if painting released itself of its hinges, "Boundless".
Boundless, without hinges, the painting exceeds the medium, the traditional form of the frame, which has become to the artist, an obsolete straitjacket. The painting joins the race, from Madras to Venice, and seems to ignore all conventions proclaiming itself impure, formless, as alive as water which always transforms itself.
Victoria Konetzki
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The exhibition occupies the second floor of Palazzo Morosini del Pestrin presenting both the artist's paintings made in Venice over the last two years and embroidered paintings made in India from 2013 to 2018 in collaboration with the master embroiderer Jean-François Lesage.
Map: F.Zanon
PALAZZO MOROSINI DEL PESTRIN
Castello 6140
Calle del prestin
30122 Venezia
( Acces : Calle del pestrin
& Porta d’acqua Rio del pestrin/Rio del paradiso )
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