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18 Apr 2024 18:30

Mostra: Any War Any Enemy. Murals and mezzotints

Tesa 1 CFZ - Cultural Flow Zone, Zattere al Pontelungo, Dorsoduro 1392, Venezia

By Lena Herzog
Curated by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri
Curatorial assistant Angela Bianco e Giulia Gelmi

Vernissage: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm
Free admission

The exhibition will be open from April 11 to June 22, 2024
Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday, 3 pm - 6 pm
Free admission
Special opening in the evening on Saturday, June 22 during Art Night
The exhibition will be closed from 25 to 26 April, 1 May and 2 June

Any War Any Enemy presents the new work of multidisciplinary conceptual artist Lena Herzog. Curated by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri on the occasion of the 60th Venice Art Biennale, the exhibition forms an ideal "diptych" with Last Whispers: Immersive Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and, a Falling Tree, created in 2022 for the 59th Venice Art Biennale. Both projects reflect on the theme of extinction: that of languages in Last Whispers , and that of the entire planet in the aftermath of a possible, global nuclear warin Any War Any Enemy. A rallying cry for the suffering that every conflict inevitably provokes, the exhibition is a heartbreaking - if poetic - reflection on war and all conflicts, past, present and future, that plague many countries around the world. Like in her previous works, Herzog conceived Any War Any Enemy at the intersection of art and science, combining cutting-edge experimental techniques with centuries-old artistic practices. Through a black mirror, murals, and ten mezzotints, the project takes on a complex "multimodal" configuration. "Who is my enemy?" asks the visitor. The mirror answers.

Special event
Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 6:30 pm, CFZ Cultural Flow Zone
Talk between Lena Herzog and Flavio Gregori, director of the incroci di Civiltà festival, and presentation of the monograph Lena Herzog by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri (Skira, Milan).

Language

The event will be held in Italian

Organized by

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

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