Curated by Martina Cavallarin

February 27 - April 03, 2010

Latitudes | Longitudes is a collective exhibition for single voices, an exhibition that makes use of the presence of works by artists who collaborate with the Michela Rizzo Gallery, diversifying by culture, generation, geographical area, language, and poetic code.
The geographic latitude and longitude are the coordinates that allow you to find a point, thus establishing the conjunction that is prescribed in the exhibition for differences and comparisons.

In the halls of the Venetian gallery, the temperature varies, passing from the primordial sculptures of the New Yorker Richard Nonas to the unrivalled aesthetic perfection of the Californian Barry X Ball, from the volumes of the Australian Lawrence Carroll to the conceptual signs of the Venetian Maria Teresa Sartori. The walls support the sheet metal mechanisms by Francesco Bocchini from Romagna, the ironic and unsettling works of the Bassano Antonio Riello and the Macedonian Robert Gligorov, and the alienating refinement of the Venetian Giovanni Rizzoli. The atmosphere becomes magical-religious with the idols of the Italian Argentine Sebastiano Mauri up to the "plastic souls" of the video Packaging's Life by Silvio Giordano and the processuality of the works of the New Zealander David Rickard.

Latitudes | Longitudes revolve around the coexistence of different obsessions organized in a structure of controlled chaos, modulated with variable languages, but which presupposes technical research, the different identities of the presences, the dangerous stratifications, the tension between the visible and the invisible, the sedimentations of experiences always to be checked, constantly to be undertaken.

Martina Cavallarin