Marignana Arte's Group Show Explores Nature and Artifice in Venice

Marignana Arte in Venice has opened a group exhibition titled 'Tra natura e artificio' during the Venice Galleries View, curated by Roberta Vanali. The show examines the concept of nature in relation to the individual and the collective, spanning micro and macro cosmos, through diverse media from digital painting to fiber art and recycled materials. Claudia Losi uses old images of a wild herbarium, adding filaments to create geometric patterns that subvert analytical approaches and human tendencies to catalog nature. Stefano Arienti manipulates, overlaps, and sews an image of a vast flock of flamingos created specifically for the exhibition, aiming to appropriate nature and create disorientation. Mariella Bettineschi's visions are printed on glass, plexiglass, and mirror, serving as pretexts for creating an other space, a Foucauldian heterotopia. Laura Renna digitally prints on silk and intervenes with gold thread, combining leaden skies and rocks into ad hoc habitats where nature and culture coexist. Arthur Duff probes the boundary between nature and artifice with a combination of neon and volcanic stone. Quayola employs a technological method, composing algorithms with a team of collaborators to investigate Monet's Impressionist painting, dismantling and reconstructing it digitally through a flow of thousands of pixels visible only up close.