Decentral Art Pavilion presents: Weekend #2
Photography & NFTs
curated by Arianna Grava
May 6 – 8, Palazzo Giustinian Loline
EVENTS PROGRAM
May 7
6pm – 7pm Alternative Spaces Talks – Starting from Walter Benjamin’s thesis on the work of art in the period of its technical reproducibility, Peter Halley has focused that with the NFTs “the cult of the single work has reached a new apotheosis”. Moderator: Nassib Ghannam, Host: Nello Barile 7pm – 8pm, cocktail & live classic music
VENUE
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Marco 2893
Curated and organized by Florencia S.M. Brück, Javier Krasuk, Diego Lijtmaer and Simone Furian, with installation design by David Rodríguez Gimeno, and the photography section curated by Arianna Grava, the Decentral Art Pavilion runs from April 23rd to June 20th, 2022 at Palazzo Giustinian Lolin in parallel with the Venice Art Biennale.
With the aim of generating a dialogue around NFTs and their impact on mainstream art, and develop a wider public understanding and appreciation of decentralized technologies the Decentral Art Pavilion will also host from April 30th to June 20th, 8 weekends of thematic NFT activities, such as Generative Art curated by Art Blocks, Photography and NFTs curated by Arianna Grava, Women and NFTs curated by AKQA, Fashion and NFTs, Music and NFTs, and a series of live discussions, entitled Alternative Spaces, that invite audiences to think further about digital ownership, provenance and the future of art.
For the second weekend running from May 6th to May 8th and in partnership with SuperRare, curator Arianna Grava in collaboration with Decentral Art Pavilion will present 28 photographers both established in the world of the NFTs or invited to mint their works for the first time: Justin Aversano, Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek, Leyla Emektar, Andy Feltham, Bruce Gilden, Cheryl Fox, Alberto Maria Colombo, Danilo Falà, Dominika Kuda, Federica Belli, Iness Rychlik, John Knoph, Michael Yamashita, Emanuele Ferrari, Cristina De Middel, Sean Mundi, Gabriele Galimberti, James Mollison, Stefano Tiozzo, Rizacan Kumas, Ryan Koopmans, Max Vadukul, Stefano Babic, Federico Garibaldi, Karen Jerzyk, Marco Glaviano, Sasha Katz, Francesco Bertola.
A project-art exhibition that is born from the Socratic concept of freedom as expressed in the maieutic, whereby there is no such thing as a common understanding within the artistic community, but an agora where the curator is like a ferryman, a guide that aids in crossing the seas of knowledge of this new universe, the one of NFTs, which is revolutionizing the world of art and photography. A path that leads the viewer to a personal criticism not influenced by the issue that is being addressed or by any critical text; in fact, the topics are based on the full freedom, by the photographer, to choose with which work to express themselves. A reflection on the scope of concepts once taken for granted and on the contradictions we hold or on the unfounded beliefs we have, a debate that must ask the question “what is it?” and find an autonomous epilogue based on an anarchist curatorial vision that departs from any past model: each work contains a path that differs from the ones that follow and the viewer, with his thoughts and his unique vision, will give birth to a thought of its own towards that Archimedean point where everything becomes suddenly clear to them.
