Melissa McGill's Watermark at Mazzoleni Milan: Po River, Venice Lagoon, Lake Ontario

Fatti principali

• Melissa McGill's solo exhibition Watermark (Segno d'Acqua) is at Mazzoleni, Via Senato 20, Milan, through October 31, 2026.
• Works in the show were made between 2020 and 2026 and focus on the Po River, Venice, and Lake Ontario.
• In Venice during the 61st Biennale d'Arte, McGill presented Marea, with large white, blue, and light-blue canvases hung on clotheslines in Castello.
• The exhibition includes Eridano (based on a Po map from the Archivio di Stato di Torino), Delta I (using a map of the river mouth), and Onde in Piazzetta, San Marco (after Canaletto).
• Estuary (a diptych) and Vogalonga were made using water from the Venetian Lagoon.
• The triptych Venetian Lagoon Study uses green micro-brushstrokes to simulate rippling water.
• A Lake Story (September 2025) involved 400 colored flags on canoes on Lake Ontario, creating a moving mosaic.
• The exhibition is curated by Vittoria Caprotti.