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Exhibition from Sept 01.2019 to Sept 22.2019
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Isola Di Giorgio Maggiore
Venezia

 

“Invincible Truth” is an exhibition, curated by Lars Rachen and Paolo Vincenzi, of work by the London based artist and designer Marianna Kennedy. The choice of works found inspiration in the rooms of Sala Borges of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The exhibition will be open to the public free of charge from Sunday, the 1st of September to Sunday, the 22nd of September 2019. 

The project arose and has taken shape as a creative dialogue with the spaces dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and with the city of Venice. They form an ideal setting for the presentation of a series of past and recent works by the artist, including two new creations that give 

the exhibition its title. Also, there are two large-format Artist Books made by traditional techniques. 

Through the exploration of emblematic and alchemical themes and images, these books represent a 

contemporary catalogue of Marianna Kennedy’s imagination. “By looking to the past, she creates 

works that speak of the present and will endure into the future,” wrote Rupert Thomas in the introduction to the exhibition’s catalogue. 

The exhibition’s title, “Invincible Truth”, alludes to an emblem representing Veritas Invicta contained in Choice of Emblemes, a book published by Geffrey Whitney in 1586.  This book brought to England the great continental tradition of the emblem book embodied by Andrea Alciato, 16th-century jurist and author of the Emblematum Liber. The book presents a gallery of human situations turned into metaphors that was intended to pass on a fund of wisdom and morality, partly through recourse to the efficacy of the iconographic medium.  

Marianna Kennedy has created the two large-format Artist Books by combining printing techniques with original drawings reproduced on typographic plates and magnificent contemporary bindings that echo the classic Venetian style. They will be displayed on two large lacquer and bronze tables that deliberately recall those in the Fondazione Cini’s splendid library, designed by Longhena, from which the artist has drawn inspiration.

INVINCIBLE TRUTH

Exhibition from Sept 01.2019 to Sept 22.2019
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Isola Di Giorgio Maggiore
Venezia

 

“Invincible Truth” is an exhibition, curated by Lars Rachen and Paolo Vincenzi, of work by the London based artist and designer Marianna Kennedy. The choice of works found inspiration in the rooms of Sala Borges of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The exhibition will be open to the public free of charge from Sunday, the 1st of September to Sunday, the 22nd of September 2019. 

The project arose and has taken shape as a creative dialogue with the spaces dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and with the city of Venice. They form an ideal setting for the presentation of a series of past and recent works by the artist, including two new creations that give 

the exhibition its title. Also, there are two large-format Artist Books made by traditional techniques. 

Through the exploration of emblematic and alchemical themes and images, these books represent a 

contemporary catalogue of Marianna Kennedy’s imagination. “By looking to the past, she creates 

works that speak of the present and will endure into the future,” wrote Rupert Thomas in the introduction to the exhibition’s catalogue. 

The exhibition’s title, “Invincible Truth”, alludes to an emblem representing Veritas Invicta contained in Choice of Emblemes, a book published by Geffrey Whitney in 1586.  This book brought to England the great continental tradition of the emblem book embodied by Andrea Alciato, 16th-century jurist and author of the Emblematum Liber. The book presents a gallery of human situations turned into metaphors that was intended to pass on a fund of wisdom and morality, partly through recourse to the efficacy of the iconographic medium.  

Marianna Kennedy has created the two large-format Artist Books by combining printing techniques with original drawings reproduced on typographic plates and magnificent contemporary bindings that echo the classic Venetian style. They will be displayed on two large lacquer and bronze tables that deliberately recall those in the Fondazione Cini’s splendid library, designed by Longhena, from which the artist has drawn inspiration.

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