La Ballata della Vita: Group Show on Death at Marina Bastianello Gallery in Mestre

Curated by Francesco Liggieri, the group exhibition 'La Ballata della Vita' at Marina Bastianello Gallery in Mestre explores death and the transience of life through 12 works by Giacomo Bolzani, Beatrice Gelmetti, and Paula Sunday. The show draws from the apocryphal 'Life of Adam and Eve', where Adam sends Eve and Set for the oil of mercy but is denied by the archangel Michael. Gelmetti's painting 'summer power nap / 36' (1991, Verona) depicts childhood spontaneity. Sunday's four photographs (1981, Naples) address the grown female body in struggle. Bolzani's video 'Caravaggio era un maiale' (1988, San Benedetto Po) portrays a pig's last days, unaware of its fate. Two QR codes lead to three more Bolzani videos: 'SENTRIES – sentinelle', 'Sulla possibilità di evadere', and 'Mare d'inverno', extending the exhibition into a virtual afterlife. The exhibition runs at Marina Bastianello Gallery in Mestre.