A blue gondola with waste recovered from the sea: this is Marco Nereo Rotelli's environmental installation

On the occasion of World Earth Day, on April 22 at 10:30 a.m., a procession of gondolas with flags reading"Clean Water, please" will depart from St. Mark’s Basin toward the Partigiana Monument, in front of the Giardini della Biennale, to accompany volunteer gondolier divers in an environmental performance that will take place the same day from 11 a.m.

It is Marco Nereo Rotelli’s project entitled Clean Water, produced by Art Project and Ever In Art realized in collaboration with the Gondoliers Association, and involves diving and collecting waste from the bottom of the lagoon not only as an action, but also and especially as an ethical hypothesis. The project is dedicated to the sea and the responsibility we all have towards it.

Symbol of Venice is the 11-meter-long gondola. Gondoliers divers experience the water cycle on the gondola and in the water they dive to clean the seabed: the gondola itself is therefore a carrier of an environmental message.

The recovered material will be the subject of anart installation at the Naval Historical Museum of the Navy, which will be inaugurated on April 22 at 12 p.m. In the museum’s central hall, in fact, a gondola will be placed with artifacts recovered at sea, most of them old tires, and painted by Rotelli with ultramarine blue pigments. Underlying Clean Water is indeed the idea of metamorphosis, recycling, and the possibility of art to change the fate of things.

Another room in the museum will be dedicated to a visual-sound installation that refers to the idea of emergence to pure life. Made with musician Alessio Bertallot, it is entitled After the Flood. For the third room, the artist involved a gondolier photographer Ettore Belgrado. On four large-format photos Marco Nereo Rotelli will intervene by drawing with his stylistic signature words dedicated to the sea.

The project also has a purpose to support the activity of volunteer divers. For the first time a gondola enters the open sea of the NFT as a work of art and will also be featured in the metaverse curated by Ever in Art.

Clean Water will be on view at the Naval Historical Museum of the Navy from April 22 to May 23, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tuesdays. Free admission, no reservation required.

A blue gondola with waste recovered from the sea: this is Marco Nereo Rotelli's environmental installation

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