Over-Pinking
The Accademia
di Belle Arti di Venezia is opening the exhibition “Over-Pinking“ at Spuma. Space for the Arts (Giudecca). The exhibition
is the result of the Erasmus cooperation between the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and the University of Applied Arts
Vienna, i.e. works that emerged from the workshop “Fiber-Art, Arachne Nets”, which took place at the beginning of the year
with guest lecturer Dr. Silke Geppert (Collection and Archive).
The
students of the Giudecca art school were confronted with textiles, or more precisely with 200 meters of peach-colored velvet,
donated by Homo Faber in 2024. In the exhibition Over-Pinking, the fabric serves both as a carrier for found motifs and as
a representation of itself. The works shown demonstrate how the liberation of material from its original decorative function
can lead to new levels of meaning and thus stand in the tradition of emancipatory movements in modern art. The photographs
of the works and the editing of the catalog were done by students of Prof. Carlo Tombola's New Technologies in the Arts
(NTA) department.
