Poetry, a glass garden: Marco Nereo Rotelli's new project for Ca' Sagredo

For Ca’ Sagredo, Venetian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli has created the new project Poetry: a Glass Garden.

Visitors will be able to see four installations in Campo Santa Sofia and one on the Grand Canal more than five meters high, the so-called bricole fiore: large tripods formed from briccole salvaged from the Venice Lagoon, which were floating adrift. The centuries-old trunks, rescued from the scrap heap, were cleaned, gilded and ennobled by the marks traced by the artist’s hand. Thanks to the intervention of Massimiliano Schiavon’s furnace, hundreds of blown-glass stems have blossomed from their ancient wood, from which letters and words sprout, soaring into the sky.

The exhibition continues inside the ancient Sagredo mansion: glass books are on display, made by writers called by Rotelli to Massimiliano Schiavon’s furnace to donate different words to a reborn Venice. In these volumes, each of these writers wanted to solidify the sound of a verse, the shape of an idea, the brilliance of a tone. Books with the colors of Yang Lian’s poetics; compositions of color by Adonis, fused in recycled glass; the open volume bearing Axelrod’s chosen quote; the cover with the symbol of his beloved Cuba, the pineapple, for Nunez.

And still in the Palazzo’s Amigoni room is visible new series of visual works painted by the Syrian Adonis; the monumental staircase and the Sala del Portego host the Porte d’Oro, a central work in Marco Nereo Rotelli’s research. Disused objects brought back to life and transformed into icons through gold leaf treatment.

Completing the exhibition is F-Lux, a light sculpture that transforms the “fluid chandelier” created by “Signoretto Lampadari” together with theVenice Academy of Fine Arts into a graphic sign: the glass modules of the Venetian chandelier give life to a soft and sinuous element that diffuses light from within.

The exhibition is open to the public from May 8 to Nov. 24, daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

For info: www.officinadellezattere.it/foto-poetry

Image: Marco Nereo Rotelli, large flower bricola. Ph.Credit Wladimiro Speranzoni

Poetry, a glass garden: Marco Nereo Rotelli's new project for Ca' Sagredo

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