The international exhibition dedicated to water, collateral and sponsored by, opened on 3 May Expo Milano 2015 and which will remain open until next October 31 whose presidency has been entrusted to Cesare de Michelis with artistic direction by Davide rampello.
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Acquae Venice 2015 presents an interactive itinerary among the various themes related to the environment, agriculture and industry, health and well-being, nutrition, leisure and work, climate change with a six-month exhibition between May and October. Aquae Venezia 2015 includes entertainment sections alongside institutional and edutainment areas of an artistic, cultural and scientific nature.
The new Pala ExpoVenice takes up the ancient Venetian gold coin in its architectural form "round“. It was built with cutting-edge materials and technologies such as aluminum, wood and concrete, and is entirely covered with sound-absorbing wooden panels to allow future concerts to be hosted inside the structure, as well as exhibitions and events.
We asked Giuseppe Mattiazzo, CEO of Expo Venice 15 days before the inauguration, what are the expectations for the coming months.
We have exceeded 10 visitors and this is an important sign that comforts us and makes us think that the project is interesting, in fact every day is enriched with moments and events of great importance that will allow us to grow.
Who is your audience?
Of all kinds, families, schools, singles and various tourists but significantly a technical-scientific public.
How do you dialogue with external incentive structures?
We have made an agreement with all the hotels, which allows their customers to visit Aquae at special conditions and we have already found interest, we cover the Venetian area first of all but also the maritime areas and the Veneto hinterland. It is also possible to reach us from Venice with maximum comfort, with buses that leave from Piazzale Roma every 4/5 minutes with a discounted ticket for €1,30. Surely the summer tourism that will arrive in the Veneto region will increase visits.
Any other conventions?
Certainly, with the Universities precisely because of the scientific issues that are addressed in the various moments that are organised. But there will also be other initiatives precisely to share moments of encounter with young people.
The newly opened outdoor area looks like a large lunar landscape where the first visitors have now descended: Six Artists from Veneto, with a single French incursion, who have gathered as a group for the occasion under the name "Cloak Stars”, who interpreted the theme: “Ten Great Rivers”. Inspiration provided by the artistic curator Davide RAMPELLO, to represent the theme of WATER outside the AQUAE Venice 2015 Pavilion.
The Sculpture Park consists of 10 installations created by Bertrand BARACHIN, Andrea Zelio BORTOLOTTI, Gianfranco COCCIA, Giampietro CUDIN, Guido DRAGAN, Carla STRIPED. The project was coordinated by the Paduan urban planner Matteo Giovanni CUDIN.
The first sculpture that we find along the way is the work entitled la "Mother of Rivers" by Andrea Zelio BORTOLOTTI (galvanized steel h.4 x1,5×1,5 m), a harmonious figure with his head erect and who collects the water that falls from the sky stretching out his arms and then carrying it to the rivers that collect it. From its round shapes comes a music that contains the meaning of life, hope and help to all the peoples of the world.
The second always by Andrea Zelio Bortolotti: "The Ganges" (painted steel h.4×1,5×6,5 m), a work that welcomes the sweetness of a river that slowly travels its long stretch towards the East. The sinuosity of this sculpture is a tribute to the sacredness of this river.
Il "Mississipi" (painted steel h.3×1,2×1,2) is the work of Gianfranco Coccia, it imposes itself in a vertical movement, red, imposing and severe, which "father of the waters" then knows how to define the character of its tributaries , restless children who calm down in his immense bed.
Il "Danube" di Bertrand Barachin (steel and Plexiglas 3x3x1,5) the mirror of a woman who lets herself be accompanied by the almost sleeping water, her character merges with the transparency, almost untouched by the waves that cradle her, an elegant and sinuous work that plays with the wind and becomes an accomplice like a female figure who is being courted.
Il "Nile" di Cudin and Zelio (steel and glass discs h.3×1,2x,12), represents a stele that pays homage to the artist Licata, components inserted with a reference to Egypt and its mythologies. The sacredness expressed in a pyramidal shape for a river composed of "white and blue" that touches the banks that narrate the life of the Gods.
Il “Volga” di Giampiero Cudin (worked steel h.2,5×1,2×4,5), the work looks like an immense staircase where the waves chase each other in a perfect movement from top to bottom. All this suggests an infinite game between sky, water and earth, a succession of harmonies that play and tell their story. The suggestion of silence makes the work a sort of complicity with time.
Il "Jordan" di Giampiero Cudin (terracotta h.1,2×2,2,5) a series of crucibles from Murano glass furnaces, placed like a sequence of colored waves to differentiate the difference between peoples. A chromatic game that runs on the bed of a river where Jesus was baptized.
Il “Amazon River” di Guido Dragani (stone h.3×1,2×1,2), a work furrowed by the water like a thought folded back on itself: men tend to take refuge in the creeks left by the water to find shelter and protection from the carelessness of the time and this is how the furrows of water become the cradles of human thought.
Il "Colorado" (chromed steel h.5,5×1,5×1,5) by Carla Rigato, a series of elements that rise to the sky to collect the waters of the rain and then make them descend and give life to life. The composition suggests a musical instrument, a sort of harp where the rustling of the flowing water creates a melody which then calms down in the mirror of the river which will lead to the great sea.
Finally, in the center of the "Sculpture Park" area we find the work that unites all the artists, created with a single and common artistic thought: The Yellow River, a row of three bricole tied with ropes subjected to the bad weather of time and an expanse that can indicate the direction towards the south, towards the infinite east. In it an inscription “You who give in the day like a meadow and rest inside the embrace of a silent willow. You who make the night a cradle for shooting stars. You who make yourself an ocean for my rivers – She You”
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