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• In Venetia Hortus Redemptoris
• Video HD, colori, suono, 5′ 34”, 2024
• Il video è stato realizzato in occasione del progetto di restauro e conservazione di Venice Gardens Foundation dell’ Orto Giardino del Redentore.

 

1. In Venetia Hortus Redemptoris
2. Video HD, colours, sound, 5′ 34”, 2024
4. The video was made on the occasion of Venice Gardens Foundation’s restoration and conservation project of the Redeemer Garden Garden Garden.

• The collective billboard campaign “I’ll be right back (but better)” is promoted by  We Are Here Venice. The initiative launched during the lockdown uses the posters of the WahV campaign to raise awareness about the harmful effects of cruise ships, reworked by residents based on their wishes and visions about the future of Venice.
• My contribution is the one on the left
• Collage on printed poster, 2020

• Living Under Water (Commissioned work)
• A Jewish Exploration of Climate Change, 2019
• colours, stereo sound, 6′ 48”
• A project by Beit Venezia with the collaboration of Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
• Artists: Andi Arnovitz, Ken Goldman, Lynne Avadenka, Leora Wise, Meydad Eliyahu
• Still from video and installation view at The Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art, Jerusalem. Photo Credits by Elad Sarig
• Beit Venezia has invited five international artists to Venice, a uniquely inspiring but also fragile city, to provide a Jewish creative response to the most severe challenge facing humankind today: climate change.
• The residency is focused on production, experience, critical discourse, networking, and participation with the local community. Using contemporary essays by both biblical and environmental scholars, these artists will explore the role of climate change as it relates to Venice, to Jewish history and to the artist’s country of origin and country of residence.
• Complementing the three weeks’ residency in Venice in October 2018, primarily centered in the Ghetto and in the Scuola Internazionale di Arte Grafica, is a commitment to the group of almost a year’s duration. There will be artistic interventions that will be passed from artist to artist as well as several other components that will eventually all be combined to create a vibrant, thought-provoking, visual, educational zine.  The zine will be four color, oversize and forty pages, designed by a professional graphic design studio and professionally printed. The final aim of the project is to raise awareness about climate change in Jewish communities and beyond.
• This video is the documentation of the Residency in Venice. Presented for the first time in the 4th Edition of the Biennale of Jerusalem in October 2019.

• I Giardini Reali di Venezia (Lavoro su commissione)
  
• Video HD, colori, stereo, 16:9, 2’28”, 2017
• video promosso dalla Venice Gardens Foundation per la presentazione del progetto di restauro dei giardini
• I Giardini Reali, situati tra Piazza San Marco e il Bacino di San Marco, si estendono su una superficie di circa 5.500 metri quadrati circondata dall’acqua sulla quale si affacciano le Procuratie Nuove con il Museo Correr, le Sale Imperiali del Palazzo Reale, il Museo Archeologico e la storica Biblioteca Marciana.
  Oggi i Giardini Reali versano in uno stato di progressivo degrado, il disegno originale è ormai quasi illeggibile, sia nelle sue geometrie che nella componente vegetale arborea e arbustiva. Il Padiglione neoclassico di Lorenzo Santi e l’ottocentesco pergolato sono danneggiati e in rovina, lo storico ponte levatoio è inutilizzabile e la cancellata e gli arredi urbani sono consumati dalla ruggine.
  L’insieme di questi fattori ha profondamente offuscato e trasformato il significato storico, urbano, sociale e paesaggistico dei Giardini, che, isolati dal Sistema Marciano di cui erano parte integrante, stanno vivendo un periodo di forte declino. Nonostante ciò nel corso del tempo i Giardini Reali sono rimasti uno dei luoghi più amati dai veneziani.
  La Venice Gardens Foundation, si impegna a restaurare, conservare, manutenere e gestire i Giardini Reali, affidando il progetto botanico al Giardiniere Architetto Paolo Pejrone e il progetto architettonico all’Architetto Alberto Torsello richiamando il progetto Aymonino-Barbini.
  Il Progetto artistico culturale della Fondazione è volto ad abitare e ampliare, attraverso gli interventi degli artisti e dei ricercatori, il vasto concetto metaforico di ‘Giardino’. Un giardino da seminare con nuovi pensieri, visioni, suoni e con i linguaggi contemporanei. Un luogo di pensiero, un entrare silenzioso in cui trovano spazio la produttività e la contemplazione ricordando che la terra è una risorsa limitata che si può deteriorare e distruggere facilmente. Anche quel semplice “coltiva il tuo giardino”, con cui Voltaire termina Candide, si è trasformato alla luce dei nuovi processi di globalizzazione, inevitabilmente portatori di problemi urgenti per il nostro pianeta. Forse proprio da quel giardino a volte occorre ripartire per riflettere e ritrovare una coscienza adeguata ai processi di trasformazione del vivere contemporaneo.

 

1. The Royal Gardens of Venice (Commissioned work)
   
3. Video HD, colour, stereo, 16:9, 2’28”, 2017
4. video supported by The Venice Gardens Foundation in order to present the restoration plan of the gardens
6. The Royal Gardens of Venice, situated between Piazza San Marco and the Bacino di San Marco, came into being during the Napoleonic occupation of the city when it was decided to house the Royal Palace in the Procuratie Nuove, a building on the south side of the piazza. Surrounded by water, the gardens cover an area of approximately 5,500 square meters, overlooked by the Correr Museum, the imperial chambers of the Royal Palace, the Archaeological Museum and the historic Marciana Library.
   The Royal Gardens have progressively deteriorated. Their original design is now barely legible, in terms both of geometrical patterns and the placement of trees and shrubs. Lorenzo Santi’s neoclassical pavilion and the nineteenth-century pergola are in ruins, the historic drawbridge unusable, railings and street furniture rusted and crumbling.
   All these factors have obscured the historic, urban, social and landscape significance of the gardens.
   Now isolated from the rest of the Marciana area, of which they were once an integral part, they are rapidly becoming derelict. Despite this, over the course of time, the Royal Gardens have remained one of the places most loved by Venetians.
   The Venice Gardens Foundation will be engaged in the restoration, conservation, upkeep and management of the Royal Gardens. It has entrusted planning of the botanical restoration to the garden architect Paolo Pejrone while architectural renovation, based on the Aymonino-Barbini project, has been planned by the architect Alberto Torsello.
   By promoting the work of artists and scholars, the Foundation will seek to explore and enlarge the vast metaphorical concept of “garden”. A garden that can be sown with new ideas, visions and sounds and will welcome contemporary idioms. A place of contemplation, silent entry into a world in which there is space for productivity and reflection, awareness that the earth’s resources are limited and can all too easily be damaged or destroyed. Even the closing words of Voltaire’s Candide on the importance of “tending one’s own garden”, have taken on new meaning in the light of the recent processes globalization which have inevitably created urgent problems for our planet. It is perhaps specifically from that garden that we need to recommence so that we are able to reflect on what is occurring and rediscover the knowledge and awareness that will enable us to face the transformations taking place around us.

• MCA Tote Bag (Collaborazione)
• serigrafia su cotone giallo, tessuto nero impermeabile, bottoni automatici
  dimensioni: chiusa 40 x 43cm, aperta 40 x 63cm
• In collaborazione con Barbara Bongiana, 2018
• MCA tote bag è stata presentata in occasione dell’apertura della 16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Freespace. La borsa nasce dalla collaborazione con l’architetto Matteo Cainer ed è stata disegnata considerando il suo approccio e la sua filosofia all’architettura. Può essere indossata chiusa, con una tasca esterna porta oggetti o completamente aperta e quindi più capiente. E’ completamente cucita e serigrafata a mano ed è composta da due diversi tessuti, uno interno nero e impermeabile e uno esterno giallo più spesso e in cotone serigrafato. Le maniglie, anche queste in doppio tessuto sono state specificatamente disegnate per essere meglio indossate quando la borsa è al massimo della sua capienza. All’interno una piccola tasca porta cellulare o chiavi.

 

1. MCA Tote Bag (Collaboration)
3. yellow silk-screened cloth, black impermeable fabric, rivet buttons
   dimensions: closed 40 x 43cm, opened 40 x 63cm
4. In collaboration with Barbara Bongiana, 2018
6. The new MCA tote bag, launched during the vernissage of the 16th International Architecture Venice Biennale, Freespace, is the result of a close collaboration with architect Matteo Cainer:
   the bag has been designed considering his approach and design philosophy.
   The result is a stylish and colourful flexible bag that also conveys the core concepts of tension between multidisciplinary clusters within the work and philosophy of the office. The bag can be worn closed, creating an external pocket to insert rolls, drawing tools or simply a newspaper, or completely open, transforming it into a large bag with more capacity. The bag itself has been entirely handmade, from the sewing to the work of the artist who silk-screened the artwork on every bag. It is composed of two fabrics, an interior impermeable black material to protect the contents and an external more resilient and thicker yellow fabric with the silk-screened artwork, resulting in a very high-quality product. Another important feature is the handles, also in a double-layer fabric, which have been specifically designed to be wider for greater comfort when the bag reaches its full capacity. Inside there is a pocket for mobile phones or keys.