GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ

In the year of the International Art Biennale, Ca’ Pesaro’s programme of contemporary voices will continue in November. Two rooms on the second floor will host a small exhibition devoted to Giorgio Andreotta Calò, a Venetian artist who won the Ministry of Culture’s PAC competition, enabling the acquisition of his monumental sculpture Medusa for the municipal collections in Ca’ Pesaro. Together with this work, the artist will exhibit the results of the surveys (core samples) conducted by the City of Venice’s public works department on the facade of Ca’ Pesaro, so making art out of scientific studies and surveys of the static condition of the building. The dialogue between the past and the stratifications of time in Longhena’s palace facing the Grand Canal is open to a contemporary vision, in which “the stones of Venice” are still a source of inspiration and reflections on history.