Marcela Cernadas

Ca' Pisani Rubelli, Venice

May 10 - October 10, 2019

Rubelli is pleased to present the Loom exhibition by Marcela Cernadas specially conceived for Ca 'Pisani Rubelli in collaboration with the Michela Rizzo Gallery. On display a series of works form an environmental installation through which the artist proposes the idea of ​​weaving as a figure inextricably linked to the continents where it takes place.

In the choice of the title Loom there is the synthesis that characterizes the works of Marcela Cernadas. A word capable of suggesting the poetic and formal intentions of the proposal which consists on the one hand in intertwining the works of art with architecture and on the other in celebrating fabrics as fundamental elements of the project. Intentions also molded in the graphic choice where in the interweaving of the characters a trespassing of forms and a continuum-like action - that of the tesserae - in the stylized symbol of infinity are recognizable.

The works on display make up an environmental installation that crosses the façade spaces, the historical archive and the showroom with great lightness. The installation "without beginning or end" alludes to cyclicality: another constant in the artist's work. Embroideries, collages and frottages on display are made with carefully selected fabrics from the new Rubelli collection, which on this occasion try to give formal boundaries to a "constellation of petals": now garden, now sky, now garland, now cartouches - with words by Cernadas.

The collaboration between the Rubelli textile company, the Michela Rizzo Gallery and the artist Marcela Cernadas dates back to the long-term project Peneolpe: an association gathered in the recent essay published in Madrid * which traces the performances presented in the Garden of the Gallery in the autumn of 2016 and in the previous Venetian headquarters of Rubelli in the spring of 2017. Two occasions where white linen - one of the artist's favorite colors - had an undisputed centrality. Now from the purity of the whites it ranges towards the lightness of the blues, wisteria and blues, recently appeared in the artist's research and associated with his position "on the ephemeral", stated in his Ephemeral Manifesto - also visible in the exhibition.