until Sunday November 24 2013
Louis Vuitton Venezia Space
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Calle del Ridotto, 1353
30124 Venice
Italy
The first exhibition at the Venetian cultural space: Where should Othello go?by Pompeo Molmenti & Tony Oursler is the brainchild of Modern Art historian Adrien Goetz and exhibition curator Hervé Mikaleoff.
It revolves around a work by artist Pompeo Molmenti (1819- 1894), which has been restored thanks to backing from Louis Vuitton.
By giving pride of place to the masterpiece of a key figure in the history of Venetian art – The Death of Othello(1866) –, which depicts a legendary and emblematic character from the City of the Doges, the exhibition aims to pay homage to Venice in an original and evocative manner.
Indeed, standing opposite Pompeo Molmenti’s painting, an audio-visual installation by contemporary artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) entitled Strawberry-Ecstasy-Green, inspires one to reconsider the classical interpretations of a work of art that is less conventional than it appears to be.
