| Exploring nature. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and James Richards talk about V-A-C Collection |
| Written by Delphine Trouillard | |
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Produced in cooperation with Whitechapel Gallery in London and curated by Iwona Blazwick, The Explorers. Part One at Palazzo delle Zattere shows 35 pieces, the first part of a larger project to re-think V-A-C, a corpus in continuous development that comprises art by top-tier artists like Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Amedeo Modigliani.
Lynette YiadomBoakye is a figurative artist. She studied Aristarkh Lentulov, Enrico David, Gary Hume and is able to depict the human figure as part of its natural environment and as a metaphor of primordial energy and libido.
James Richard won the Turner Prize in 2014. His art is a mix of video, sculpture, and sound installation. Again, human nature is the theme of the immersive soundscape presented at the second floor, To Replace a Minute’s Silence with a Minute’s Applause (2015), which originates from Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait of 1953. Richards’ pieces translate painting into symphony.
In the garden at V-A-C is Sudest 1401, an ethnic restaurant open every day 8 to 11 and a testimony to migrants and their travel to Italy, the doorstep to Europe.
«The Explorers. Part One» Until 22 October V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Dorsoduro 1401 - Venice
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Artists Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and James Richards offer visitors a representation of nature, from flora and fauna to the expression of the human condition.