16 October 2010 / 0 comments

THE POETICS OF WRITTEN SPACE

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Handwriting and Calligraphy exhibition curated by

MONICA DENGO and MONICA VIERO

VENEZIA – MUSEI CIVICI VENEZIANI

2/31 OCTOBER 2010

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The exhibition, part of the educational activities proposed by the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani, presents an itinerary that is a synthesis of traditional and contemporary visual communication through handwriting. The exhibition, curated by Monica Dengo and Monica Viero, proposes handwritten documents from the Museum Correr Library, in particular materials documenting the private and daily use of handwriting over the centuries, along with contemporary artworks of art that have in common the practice of writing by hand as image, bundle of written marks capable of communicating per se.

The show is organized in four parts:

– Historical: manuals, letters and private documents with handwritings from the 1500’s to the 1900’s from the Correr Museum;

– Contemporary: artworks on paper and artist’s books by contemporary artists working with Western, Islamic and Eastern calligraphy. Artists: Kitty Sabatier (France), Benno Aumann (Italy-Germany), Satsuki Hatsushima (England-Japan), Adriana Seri (Italy), Xin Ye (France-China). Hassan Massoudy (France-Iraq), Torsten Kolle (Germany), Mari Bohley (Germany), Cinzia Ruggieri (Italy), Birgit Nass (Germany), Ewan Clayton (England), Brody Neuenshwander (Belgium-USA), Carlo Buffa (Italy), Monica Dengo (Italy-USA), Akar Abdallah (France-Tunisia), Laurent Rebena (France), Michaela Keller (Switzerland), Norio Nagayama (Italy-Japan), Dominique Pinchi (France-Italy);

– Workshop: The works of students participating in the calligraphy workshop, held by Monica Dengo, will be exhibited in the show.

– Installation by Monica Dengo: I invite you to make the text your own.
Text to touch, smell, listen and feel.

1 /photo from the series “Book as Body” in collaboration with the photographer Marco Ambrosi