Curated by Katia Baraldi, Marta Gorini, Elena Santagiustina
ScalaMata Gallery, Venice
27th of November - 20th of December 2008
opening Thursday 27th of November, at 7 .00 pm


As part of the annual event of contemporary art exhibitions of "Accade", the ScalaMata Gallery opens an exhibition in which we may find the photos "Riflessione Contemporanea" (Contemporary Reflection) of Martina Dinato, and the site-specific installations "Intreccio, Fabula" and "Camera Chiara" (Light Room), of Francesco Fonassi and Lucia Caterina Margherita. The exhibition aims to investigate the recent transformations that have taken place in the relationship between space and time.
The effectiveness of a time which is always more fragmented and fleeting and brings us to each instant as capable of infinite issues. The mutating space, that instead hasn't been capable of staying in tune with the liquid modernity, has lost his original
value. Some spaces tend to be cancelled, because there is no interaction between people that would confer them value. Other spaces are almost unperceivable because the instantaneity of time brings to the cancellation of distances and the impossibility of entirely understanding the essence of the urban spaces. The reality in which we live is, so, based on the concept of instantaneity where both the future and the past loose their value and where the spatial variable is subdued to the one of
time.

Caterina Margherita Lucia
Caterina-Margherita Lucia was born in London in 1979, lives and works in Venice. The artist has participated to Genius loci - I giardini segreti di Venezia (The secret gardens of Venice), in various sights, Venice; Abitare il confine (Living the boundary), at the Forte San Carlo, Turin; Atelier Aperti (Open Atelier) collateral event of the 51st Biennale of Contemporary Art of Venice, at the Academy of art of Venice, Collettiva sezione Scultura (Collective exhibition of the scultpture section) at the Academy of art of Florence. Recently she has collaborated at the realizaon of the set design of the film The Palermo Shooting, of the German register Wim Wenders., and has received an honour mention at the Talent Prize 2008.
The artistic research of Caterina-Margherita, proposes a reflection on our way of perceiving the transformation of the spaces that we frequent. The artist with here sight specific installations decomposes the spaces and gives an heterogeneous and
fragmented vision playing with the spectators and testing their capacity of observing.

Martina Dinato
Martina Dinato was born in Camposampiero (Pd) in 1978, lives and works in Milan. The artist has held a temporary exhibition in the exhibition space of Carichi Sospesi, Padua and has participated to numerous collective exhibition of which: 90ma e
91ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti (the 90th and 91st Collective Exhibition of Young Artists) at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice; Quotidiana (Daily), at the space of the Ex Macello, Padua; Remake, at the gallerie En Plein Air, Pinerolo (To);
Il senso del viaggio (The meaning of travelling), at the S. Fedele Gallery, Milan.
Martina Dinato retraces, through photography, the solitude of abandoned, transformed by time. In the series "Riflessione Contemporanea"(Contemporary Reflection), Martina Dinato investigates the peripheral subject to a continuous mutation thet often implicates the necessity of utilizing a new system of fruition.

Francesco Fonassi
Francesco Fonassi was born Brescia in1986, lives and works Padua. The artist has participated to numerous exhibitions of which: Due minuti di futuro (Two minutes of future) at the cultural centre, "Bertolt Brecht", Milan; Real Presence 2007 e Real
Presence 2008, at the House of Legacy - Museum of City of Belgrade, Belgrade; Re: Public -Refusès! at the Tese of San Cristoforo, Venice; Internal/ External stories, at the National Museum of Photography "Cav.A.Sorlini", Brescia. Through his sight-specific installation Francesco Fonassi investigates the relationships that are established between the spectator and the exhibition space and the ones between the public and the artwork, underlining the enormous distances that are formed between these two binomial names.


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Saturday closed


ACCADE 2008 - CONTEMPORARY MUTATION
Event realized with:
the collaboration of:
Galleria A+A di Venezia - Centro Espositivo Pubblico Sloveno, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,
GAI - Archivio Giovani Artisti Italiani del Comune di Venezia, Assessorato alle Politiche Giovanili
e alla Pace del Comune di Venezia, Provincia di Venezia, Exibart, Toletta Studio LT2, Galleria
Contemporaneo - Centro Culturale Candiani di Mestre, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia,
Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca di Venezia, ISR - Spazio Culturale Svizzero, Istituto
Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Associazione Culturale Italo-Francese/Alliance
Française.
il patronage and contribution of: Region of Venice
the sponsorship of: BCC Credito Cooperativo veneziano and San Marco Hotel