Venice, at Ca' Pesaro Chiara Dynys reinterprets Piet Mondrian with immersive environments

Concurrently with the 60th Venice Art Biennale, the Dom Pérignon Rooms of Ca’ Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice, will host from April 20 to September 15, 2024 Chiara Dynys ’ solo exhibition entitled Lo Stile, curated by Chiara Squarcina, Alessandro Castiglioni, and Elisabetta Barisoni. In the site-related exhibition project conceived specifically for Ca’ Pesaro and promoted by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Chiara Dynys, among the most important contemporary Italian artists, reinterprets the linguistic synthesis of Neoplasticism founded by Piet Mondrian (the De Stijl movement), through a series of new immersive environments, where light and matter redesign the narrative of reality.

“The reference to Mondrian,” the artist writes, “is meant to make explicit my claim that the form of language, even when style is disavowed, as in my work, is central.” “The unpublished installation that gives the exhibition its title,” Dynys continues, “is in fact an ambiguous work, intentionally echoing the compositions of the theosophical artist but at the same time disavowing them, because it is made of stone and metal, that is, of present and resistant materials, what Mondrian eschewed more than anything else.” "Opposed to this, a group of colored methacrylate books from the Tutto series provide further insights into my particular and contradictory idea of style, while the second large room is entirely occupied by the installation Gate of Heaven, where the luminous skeleton of a large door seems to derive from the equally luminous curves that spread across the floor in accordance with the course of the gravitational waves of the universe," he concludes.

The close view in time and space of these three works speaks of a “style” that can safely disavow itself, but to renew itself: everything becomes “style” if the disparate language with which it is expressed manages to become form.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog published by Nomos Edizioni, with texts by the curators and a critical contribution by Angelo Crespi.

Image: One of the rooms at Ca’ Pesaro with Chiara Dynys’ exhibition. On the wall: Chiara Dynys, Lo Stile (2024; enameled volcanic stone and metal profiles, 200 x 130 x 4 cm). In the foreground: Chiara Dynys, Everything (2015-2023, methacrylate casting, 65 x 40 x 10 cm). Photo: Studio Blu

Venice, at Ca' Pesaro Chiara Dynys reinterprets Piet Mondrian with immersive environments

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