SPIRAL ECONOMY. CHARRIÈRE AND CANOVA

With Spiral Economy, Julian Charrière transforms the historic Canova Galleries of Museo Correr into a field of inquiry into the time of matter. The Franco-Swiss artist, long engaged in exploring the thresholds between art, geology, and ecology, enters into resonance with Canova to interrogate marble not as an ideal surface, but as a living archive of pressures, fractures, and planetary eras. Marble becomes the protagonist: for Canova, an ideal body and a ghost of flesh; for Charrière, a living material, traversed by memories of ancient seas and terrestrial forces. Stone thus emerges as an autonomous body, bearing witness to a time that exceeds the human and scales back any claim to control.

Featured image: Julian Charrière, Spiral Economy, 2025 – © The Artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn – Ph. Jens Ziehe