Venice, at Ca' Pesaro comes She Loves You, a work by Diego Marcon inspired by the Beatles song

On the occasion of the 20th edition of Giornata del Contemporaneo, from Oct. 12 to Nov. 3, 2024, Ca’ Pesaro in Venice presents the 2008 work She Loves You by Diego Marcon. The event concludes the 2024 events related to the Salotto Longhena project, which gathers all the initiatives organized by MUVE with IUAV University of Venice since 2016. This year’s protagonist was the exhibition Polifonie italiane, curated by Angela Vettese and Camilla Salvaneschi and realized in collaboration with the Department of Project Cultures of IUAV University. After the project rooms dedicated to the video works of Caterina Erica Shanta, Diego Tonus and Elena Mazzi, Diego Marcon closes the review on the occasion of the 20th AMACI Day of Contemporary Art - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums.

Recognized for his ability to interweave video art, animation and experimental cinema, Marcon invites, through this work, an immersion into the worlds of the unspoken and the elusive, revealing an emotional complexity that unfolds with rare intensity. She Loves You, inspired by the well-known Beatles song, represents a reflection on the concept of memory, desire, loss and emotional bonds, recurring themes in Marcon’s production. Here, the protagonist Claudia becomes the focus of a poetic torment, in which the artist explores, through images, the instrumental power of empathy and vulnerability, used with intentional ambiguity. In She Loves You, Claudia is filmed expressing the source of her pain and the only escape from the torments of her existence: the Beatles. She recounts in the first person her experience of a lonely and all-consuming love while displaying records, books, gadgets and photographs, which make up only part of her extensive collection dedicated to the band.

"Once again this year, the vitality of the collaboration between MUVE and IUAV has brought to the Ca’ Pesaro Gallery new and new voices, from former students or professors of the Venetian University, who have now become accredited artists on the international scene. I am very pleased to celebrate the success of the Italian Polyphonies exhibition and the 20th AMACI Contemporary Day with She Loves You by Diego Marcon, a work dense with different meanings and of the highest formal quality," says Elisabetta Barisoni, head of Ca’ Pesaro.

“Shot without manipulation or special lighting, almost only indoors, almost without a soundtrack were it not for the three songs that intrude on the protagonist’s monologue, it has a simplicity executive that we will not find in later works, full of animations, masks, special attention to the positioning of lights and the rhythm of the narration; however, it has the same existential temperature, that of a despair that tries to resist itself and of which we do not really understand the reasons,” adds Angela Vettese, curator of the exhibition.

Notes on the artist

Diego Marcon (Busto Arsizio, Italy, 1985) is a graduate of IUAV University of Venice (2012). He has had international solo exhibitions including La Gola, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (2024); Dolle, Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York (2023); Have You Checked the Children, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2023); Glassa, Centro Pecci, Prato (2023); Dramoletti, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Teatro Gerolamo, Milan (2023); Monelle, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); The Parents’ Room, Museo Madre, Naples (2021); Ludwig, Institute of Contemporary ArtSingapore/LASALLE, Singapore (2019); and La miserabile, La Triennale di Milano, Milan (2018). His work has also been part of group exhibitions including Nebula, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Ospedaletto Complex, Venice (2024); Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, 24: A Cosmic Movie Camera, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2024); After Laughter Comes Tears, MUDAM The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2023); Man in House, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg (2023); Il Latte dei Sogni, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Museo MACTE, Termoli (2021); Museo MACRO, Rome (2021); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2019). Marcon currently lives and works in Milan.

Marcon’s research, mainly focused on the moving image, constitutes an investigation of cinematic archetypes through a process that combines an analytical approach to filmmaking, proper to structural cinema, with a sentimental attitude typical of popular and genre cinema. His works, which span film, video and installation, often use the loop structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of spectacle.

Venice, at Ca' Pesaro comes She Loves You, a work by Diego Marcon inspired by the Beatles song

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