DELFINA MARCELLO
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OPENING:
02 September 2022 – H. 5.00 pm. Until 30 September.
WHERE:
Oratorio di San Ludovico – Calle dei Vecchi, Dorsoduro 2552, Venice (stop at San Basilio).
The project is realized by Nuova Icona for Oratorio di San Ludovico with the support of Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice; Fondaco Marcello, Venice; We Exhibit, Venice; Fondazione Morra, Naples; Galleria Artericambi, Verona; AlbumArte, Rome with a contribution by Pietro Marcello.
Curated by VITTORIO URBANI
Five years after her premature death, Delfina Marcello’s video oeuvre is being presented in Venice, the artist’s native city, from which she tried to escape as often as she tried to return. The body of work, stylistically uniform at times, at times varied, is a testament to the unceasing search by the artist.
An international figure by character and training (she lived long periods in New York, Berlin, London), Delfina used more than one medium or genre as means of expression: beginning with video, then drawing, installation, painting, photography, and writing.
Research involving gallerists, curators, and friends allowed us to identify and put together a significant bulk of her work. The work of a generous, unmethodical, unclassifiable, independent artist that was at risk of being lost, forgotten, or dispersed among collectors, heirs, friends, gallery deposits.
The urge to document and preserve it has been the driving force of the “Delfina Marcello” project by Ewa Gorniak Morgan, Lorenzo de Castro, Margherita Fabbri and Vittorio Urbani. The exhibition presents a collection of films that can be considered complete at the current state of the research. It is also the most consistent body of work in the multi-disciplinary oeuvre of Delfina Marcello.
The protagonists of Delfina Marcello’s videos are alone in their brief adventure. They are followed by the caring eye of the artist who becomes the witness, as well as their companion on the road.
The contemporaneous presentation of all the films in one venue for the first time, in the spaces of the Ora- torio San Ludovico in Venice, will undoubtedly allow a more profound understanding of Delfina Marcello’s complex work. A new publication will be available, fea- turing texts by professionals and friends and, in particu- lar – given the focus of the project – an essay written on the occasion by the film critic Roberto Ellero.