{"id":18169,"date":"2024-03-09T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spazioartecontemporanea.com\/evento\/venus-in-furs\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:08:22","slug":"venus-in-furs","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.spazioartecontemporanea.com\/en\/evento\/venus-in-furs\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus in Furs"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 9, 2024 \u2013 April 6, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Venus in Furs (1870) the novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, remains a renowned book in the collective memory: Severin, a simple man, tells his absolute devotion for Wanda, a woman that he identifies as Venus, the goddess of love. In Severin\u2019s room, a painting dominates the setting, he said the artwork was inspired by Tiziano\u2019s Venus in the mirror, which depicts a northern Venus wearing only a fur coat: she is the incarnation of the perfect woman according to his fantasies. But the protagonist rebels and emancipates herself from the ideal she is associated to by taking her fur off, the same fur that imprisoned her in a role. Venus in Furs is the final affirmation both of the desire of self expression and of the creative instinct conceived as a generating force on a deeper level.<\/p>\n

The collective exhibition \u201cVenus in Furs\u201d brings together a group of artists who have decided to express their creativity and their artworks projecting them as a life driven energy, the famous Eros described by Freud, named from the Greek god of love.<\/p>\n

Each artist dialogs returning a large fresco where different areas of research investigate the contemporary fabric of existence using different mediums. We talk about the theme of memory and the perception of time, memories from the past, the unconscious and its unexplored places, crossing the female body that appears sinuous and fluctuating like a veil or a sculpture. The woman and her nowadays representation is examined while living her classic role of angel of the hearth. The female image is painted while she is locked up in suffocating domestic settings permeated with inflorescences or while dealing with common chores. The displayed artworks are also linked to current events, to their social issues that involve anti-speciesism and the female world, outlining painful paths that lead to rebirth and self-discovery. Art has the social value of bringing people together, of unity, art acts like a collective ritual where the Greek principle of kalocagathia reigns, in this world beauty is goodness.<\/p>\n

The collective exhibition \u201cVenus in Furs\u201d was possible thanks to the commitment of Loredana Galante, Marta Mez and Antonella Casazza, who created a committee that coordinated and fulfilled the project.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Delmenico<\/em><\/p>\n

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Artists on display<\/strong><\/p>\n