Venice, Giovanni Soccol's Theaters and Labirinites of Invention star in an exhibition at Ca' Pesaro

The Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro in Venice inaugurates the 2019 exhibition season with a small but valuable exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Soccol (Venice, 1938), a Venetian author and protagonist of a long and fruitful artistic career that has spanned different disciplines, from painting to set design, architecture and cinematography. Entitled Giovanni Soccol. Metamorphosis of Reality into Myth, the exhibition, running from Jan. 26 until April 22, 2019, is curated by Gabriella Belli and Elisabetta Barisoni.

Trained at the school first of Guido Cadorin, then of Mario Deluigi and later of Carlo Scarpa, Soccol crossed the abstract current in the 1960s, to concentrate in the following decades on some famous pictorial cycles: the Islands, the Basilicas, the Cisterns, the Oil Tankers, and the Labyrinths, exhibited in numerous important monographic exhibitions in Italy and Europe. Two of the artist’s most recent series are presented at Ca’ Pesaro: the Theaters and the Labyrinths of Invention.

The production of Giovanni Soccol’s Labyrinths, between 2014 and 2017, and of which six canvases are exhibited at Ca’ Pesaro, develops fascinating and symbolic scenarios that represent a true emotional investigation, approaching through this intertwined sensitive and imaginary universe, the human soul, its inner “landscape.” In the imposing architectures of these canvases, the Venetian artist appropriates the archetype of the labyrinth, representing an eternal metamorphosis between the before and after of his pictorial expression, penetrating a vision that always seems to dissolve, like the escape routes from these deceptive places. Instead, the second room presents six Theaters, a representation from the classical architecture of the empty central space of the stage, called the orchestra, enclosed by the cavea of the hemicycle. From the closure and inescapability of the Labyrinths of Invention, we move to the scenographic opening of the theatrical space, whose cut shape looks to the sky, reflecting its fascinating changes. An embrace, the figurative one, that welcomes and, at the same time, excludes all human presence, returning to the viewer an alienating and deserted atmosphere. A large Tide from 2011 closes the exhibition. The inspiration traceable to the creation of Theaters can be seen in the manifestation of Nature and architectural structures that blend together in space, returning a totality dense with meaning. Soccol himself, on the ultimate goal of his art, says, “I try to extrapolate certain elements to make them plastic forces capable of evoking feelings or situations.”

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., from April 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday. The ticket office closes one hour earlier. Entrance is with the Ca’ Pesaro Gallery ticket. Ticket price: full 14 €, reduced 11.50 €. Free Residents and those born in the Municipality of Venice; children from 0 to 5 years old; handicapped persons with accompanying person; licensed tour guides accompanying groups or individual visitors; for each group of at least 15 people, 1 free admission (by reservation only); accompanying teachers of school groups, up to a maximum of 2 per group; ICOM members; AMACI Card holders; ordinary MUVE partners; Civil Service volunteers; MUVE Friend Card. For information you can call +39 041 721127, send an email to capesaro@fmcvenezia.it or visit capesaro.visitmuve.it.

Venice, Giovanni Soccol's Theaters and Labirinites of Invention star in an exhibition at Ca' Pesaro

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