Spazi is the latest artist residency project conceived by Fallani Venezia, a historic laboratory of artistic screen printing based in Venice, that took place from September 14th to October 4th 2020. The project was curated by Illustrazioni Seriali, who since 2017 have proposed exhibitions and insights related to the world of illustration.
Six internationally renowned artists and illustrators were invited to create and develop an original work in relation to their own artistic technique and sensitivity, which explored the concept of ‘space’. The six resulting works became six serigraphs that the artists, together with Gianpaolo Fallani, head of Fallani Venezia, created during the residency period. For a week they participated in the process of production, processing, and printing of the graphics, confronting themselves with a technique widely used in the artistic field.
The screen prints, all 70×50 cm in size, were printed on Fedrigoni Arcoprint 300 grams paper, in a limited edition of 50, each signed and numbered by the artists. Elenia Beretta, Martina Paukova, Michela Picchi, Ana Popescu, Beya Rebaï, and Charlotte Trounce had the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the intentionally expansive theme, providing the opportunity of great freedom of interpretation in the creation of their works.
The six works are linked by the same theme, yet are each was uniquely different, made with various techniques and methods. Elenia Beretta, an Italian illustrator living in Berlin, outlined with watercolours the profile of a face full of colours and shades, representing three spaces of essential importance to her: mental space, physical space, and the space of feelings. Charlotte Trounce, an English artist, had recently moved to Edinburgh when lockdown was implemented: in her work ‘space’ is represented by a large green expanse painted with wax crayons, inferring the same lawn that she walked on during the few hours of daily freedom. Beya Rebaï ’s landscape, dense with pastel colours, is a blurred but tangible dream landscape, the little known but spectacular garden of Eden in Venice. For Michela Picchi, a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, ‘space’ is a surreal vision, a sequence of digital arches and scenographies, and the dreamlike presence of a splendid white horse. In contrast, the interpretation of space for Martina Paukova, a Slovak illustrator who currently lives in Berlin after many years spent in London, is more realistic. In Martina’s artwork ‘space’ appears to be almost missing; a frame from life in lockdown, between computers, telephones, objects scattered in a room, and an armchair that welcomes an unconvinced girl. Ana Popescu, an artist of Romanian origin who lives in Vienna, remains faithful to her distinctive trait, reflecting the relationship between space, light, and shadows. She painted a still life that is simultaneously simple and poetic, the result of attentive observations.
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