Valeria Manzi Al fuoco. Fire!, 2019

under construction

[...] Valeria Manzi distributes and reveals the iconographic fragmentation of her existence, marked by her commitment to poetry. The presence of folded papers, combined with chiaroscuro effects born from the dialogue of the material surface with light, the disarrangement of the sheets guided by her sensibility alone, refers to a profound feeling for the moral value of literary memory and of a cultured sensibility. The artist’s autobiographical component lies in sharing with the viewer the precious meaning of paper as document and as trans-theatrical cultural medium. Paper is no longer only the place of memory but the tissue, the living membrane born from a process of osmosis between the real and the perceptive-sensory dimension ; the surfaces are inhabited by the written word and above all by the shadow of the fold, capable of creating undercuts, deep openings, sudden and unpredictable projections and changes of direction [...]

 

Within the walls of the Domus Civica student residence in Venice, D3082 – Woman Art Venice is born: a new research space and artistic incubator that will host exhibitions, events and artist residencies dedicated to multidisciplinary female creativity.

D3082 opens with a first group exhibition: My Life. Margaux Bricler | Andrea Hess | Valeria Manzi, curated by Andrea B. Del Guercio: three voices of European resonance recount their life experience, intertwined with their professional one. A narrative that anticipates the aims of the project and the contents of the residency - support for the work of emerging women artists - set up in an unconventional exhibition space: the exhibition becomes part of the fabric of the city and of everyday routes, making use of the large windows of the twentieth-century building; an "urban pavilion" in direct dialogue with the city.

The project is in harmony and continuity with the dimension of international encounter between artists, in the full spirit of the Biennale, but also with the specific experience of a setting, that of the student residence, lived in by the new generations of university students, which from 2020 will also host an artist in residence.