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OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, March 18, 2023, 5-7 pm

LOCATION

PUNTO SULL'ARTE
Viale Sant'Antonio 59/61
Varese, Italy

EXHIBITION DATES

May 6 - June 10, 2023

VISITING HOURS

Tuesday-Saturday:
9:30am-5pm

CATALOG

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Submarines&Periscopes | Alice Zanin

Seven years after her last exhibition at PUNTO SULL’ARTE, the Italian artist and author of refined surrealist sculptures ALICE ZANIN returns to Varese for a solo show dedicated to the sea animal world. The Opening reception will be held on SATURDAY, MAY 6 from 5pm to 7pm at the main gallery at Viale Sant’Antonio 59/61 Varese.

Expert in papier-mâché, with which she has created a light, floating bestiary over the years, constructed on Art Nouveau suggestions and with the warmth of the material – often left in original – in this new show at PUNTO SULL’ARTE titled “Submarines & Periscopes”, Alice Zanin presents works portraying sea animals. Next to the seahorses – long among her most beloved subjects – the sinuous sea dragons pass by, with their leaf-like fins seemingly attached to their bodies only by a slender stem, the chromodoris (or sea snails) with their sinuous movements, but also the spotted rays and surgeonfish. A symphony of bright colours, with pop suggestions, even more fascinating when one realises that these are the exact colours that these animals flaunt in nature, depicted in both papier-mâché and glossy bronze. And then a series of engravings: etchings depicted in soft colours, sometimes completed by the application of a small lens to recreate the effect of refraction of light through water.

Previously unexhibited works by Artist will be on display. Opening reception MAY, SATURDAY 6TH from 5 TO 7 PM. The Artists will be present and at 6 pm the art curator Alessandra Redaelli will take a short speech in which she will introduce the essence of the exhibition.

The exhibition is accompanied by a BILINGUAL CATALOGUE created by PUNTO SULL’ARTE containing curator Alessandra Redaelli’s critical text and the reproduction of the exhibited artworks.
The exhibition will be open until June, Saturday 10.

ARTISTS

Alice Zanin