04/06/2026
Palazzo Rota Ivancic
We Thought We Were Alone, Koen Vanmechelen
Koen Vanmechelen’s We Thought We Were Alone takes shape as an encounter between living memory and ancestral imagination. More than forty new works—animals, bodies, hybrids, and mythic forms—are cast into the historic rooms as if the palazzo itself had summoned them. The exhibition turns architecture into habitat: frescoes, stone, shadow, and patina become part of Vanmechelen’s larger meditation on species, kinship, and the old illusion that humanity stands aoart.
Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore
Barry X Ball’s The Shape of Time
His marble sculptures seem to have been waiting there for centuries. Ball begins with historical masterpieces, submits them to scanning, modeling, distortion, and return, then gives them back to stone and handcraft. The result is sublime without spectacle. His Saint Bartholomew Flayed is beautiful in the old Catholic way: through horror. He wears his own skin like a cloak around his torso.
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