OPENING: BORDERS ART FAIR 2021 | FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES

Venice | July 12/13 - August 01, 2021
THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space | Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello

ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with Venice Events and ACIT Venice - Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the opening of FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES, the second appointment of BORDERS - Venice International Art Fair, that will be held in Venice, at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space from July 12 to August 01, 2021, and at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello from July 13 to August 01, 2021.

BORDERS ART FAIR is a contemporary art fair divided into three appointments (BODIES+CITIES SKIN, FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES) that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 2021 edition will represent a forum for direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance.

FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES analyzes human beings as a living mosaic composed of many different pieces, mixing together to form a whole. In art people are mixed together in a melting pot of sensation and fluctuating emotions. The challenge is to see all those fragmented identities, recognize and use them to see things through many different points of view and imagination in order to break all barriers and boundaries. There is not a unique perspective on our unconscious beings and identities, showing how things are rarely whole or perfect.

VENUES
THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space
Calle Larga San Marco, 374 - 30124 Venice, Italy
July 12 - August 01, 2021
09:30 AM - 05:30 PM | Monday - Friday
OPENING July 12, 2021
Free entry

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
Cannaregio 4118 - 30121 Venice, Italy
July 13 - August 01, 2021
10:00 AM - 06:00 PM | Monday - Friday
OPENING July 13, 2021
Free entry

Our artists are invited to work on the concept of the identity’s multiple layers. Robert Jaso with his particular technique fuses photographic imprints to paper “like strokes on a canvas, to explore primal emotions and interrogative disorder, and to force us to look in depth”. Irina Vytyaganets analyzes the influence these layers have on each one of us, as the reflection of many different contexts we have lived through in the past and present. In her standing sculpture made of ceramic, the artist Chisato Yasui searches for a kind of "not-yet-identified context”. She believes that unseen, non-verbalized contexts are essential components of the visible world, and she wants to deeply discover them in the liminal state which lays unconscious.

Mariko Kumon focuses on the theme of the individual facing others and how it influences the construction of the self. She creates brain-shaped textile sculptures with some colors or objects inserts which represent the areas where our different emotions arise in the various situations of life. Our fragmented identities, in fact, are a result of the contact with other human beings that sometimes makes us vulnerable, as Dell’Aversana & Varavallo tell us through their work, which is an invitation to listen to each other and to interact in a purer way.

At the ground floor of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, the solo exhibition of Fant Wenger will capture us in his large paintings made with a vivid spectrum of colors and lights. They are all about nature and technology that collide in a rugged and momentous way, and represent railway wagons, telephone poles, parabolic antennas and satellites in a different point of view.

The inner energy of people is the main theme of the works of Doyeon Kim, who makes an explosion of colors and positive energy on a dripping canvas. This same movement of the painter’s hand is replicated also in the photos of Valentin Pfeifhofer, who moves the camera continuously to generate dynamic images. This movement can be perceived as the energy that relates everything in the universe, and this way, his work is connected with the one of Hiroshi Wada, whose calligraphy painting seems to follow a kind of flow, and with the one of Friedhard Meyer, who feel the entire world as a rhythm, and demonstrates it in his artworks, that are a mixture of artistic and musical compositions. During the exhibition, visitors will also have the opportunity to attend a video screening and a performance program, and to ‘play’ with Paolo Bianchi’s installation, whose aim is to give a different consciousness of ourselves and the world around us by seeing our disjointed image on various televisions in front of a real grass carpet.