We are celebrating our gallery’s second anniversary.
On the occasion we are proud to be part of Atelier Aperti 2026 -Made in Italy Days (April, 15-18) promoted by the Ministry of Culture.
A beautiful occasion to come together and raise a Murano glass to an ongoing dialogue between tradition and contemporary exploration.
#AtelierAperti #AtelierAperti2026 #MadeInItaly #GNMI2026 #giornatamadeinitaly2026
Dal 26-28 March @palazzopisanirevedin (campo Manin) Art fair on contemporary printmaking. Demonstrations of various techniques with the etching press on site. #veniceart #artgallery #etching
“Trame di Pace”. Group exhibition of our #CollectiVE24 of Venetian women artists. Open untill March, 24. My contribution:
“Creazione della pace / The Creation of Peace”
unfolds in three images.
At the center is a large painting (2024): a fragile cloud of fabric, at once resembling a fishing net, hovering above the waters of time and permeated with light. This image refers to numerous biblical and classical allusions — to the Spirit of the Creator moving over the waters, to the figure of the fisherman, to the Fates and to the unfinished weaving of Penelope — and at the same time to history itself as an act of creation.
The two engravings (2026) continue the theme of peace also through the interweaving of threads — though now metaphorically — through the fabric of culture and a network of symbolic references.
Pax Romana (2026) does not merely refer to the historical term — the roughly two-hundred-year period of relative peace and stability that began under Emperor Augustus — but reinterprets it by placing at its center not the power of the state but a fragile cloud resting on slender fingers which, coming together, recall the form of the crown of a stone pine — a tree rising above Rome, a sign of harmony and protection of the Eternal City. The hand gently supporting the cloud becomes a symbol of personal responsibility and choice, where every raised hand may become a bearer of heavenly protection and peace. «Pax Veneta» (2026) depicts an open book-bird flying above the waters of the lagoon, recalling the freedom of culture and the flight of thought. The flying book refers both to the Venetian emblem — the book of the Lion of Saint Mark — and to the dove from Noah’s Ark. In Venetian iconographic tradition the open book signifies peace, while the closed book and the lion with a sword symbolically proclaim a time of war. The dove here is not merely a worn cliché of the symbol of peace, but also a reference to the image found in the mosaics of St Mark’s Basilica. According to Venetian tradition, doves were released into freedom in Piazza San Marco on the Feast of the Ascension. #veniceart #pax #womenartists
