Palazzo Fortuny
Intuition
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning: a feeling that guides a person to act in a certain way without fully understanding why
To coincide with the 2017 Venice Art Biennale, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation presented their sixth, and final, exhibition: Intuition, until November 27, at Palazzo Fortuny. Curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti, Director of the Palazzo Fortuny, the exhibition explores how intuition has, in some form, shaped art across geographies, cultures and generations. It brings together historic, modern and contemporary works related to the concept of intuition, dreams, telepathy, paranormal fantasy, meditation, creative power, hypnosis and inspiration.
Neolithic Menhirs - carved standing stones
from ancient European civilizations
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Axel and May Vervoordt
Copyright Jean-Pierre Gabriel – courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Neolithic Menhirs
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Venus Medici - 1982
Antony Gormley – Gut X - 2013
Anish kapoor – White Dark VIII - 2000
Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary
El Anatsui – The Beggininng and The End - 2015
Masaomi Raku – Transmigration “Thunderbolt” – 2016
Director of Palazzo Fortuny, Daniela Ferretti and Audrey Azoulay, French Minister of Culture
Photograph - courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Palazzo Fortuny
The Second Floor
Photograph - courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Cy Twombly – Untitled – 2008
Performance
Matteo Nasini – Sparkling Matter – 2017
Nasini registered and analyzed the sleep-pattern of a sleep-performer, transforming this into ceramic volumes with a 3D-printer.
Matteo Nasini
Performance
Yasmine Hugonnet choreographed a group of 4 dancers, who moved in circles in an ongoing silent dialogue.
Giorgio Vigna – Cosmografia – 1985
Giorgio Vigna
Participatory site-specific installation
Kimsooja – Archive of Mind - 2017
The top floor of Palazzo Fortuny houses an impressive installation by Kimsooja, who encouraged the audience to mold balls from lumps of clay while surrounded by a sound performance. Each personal meditative or spiritual moment will be cast in the finished clay balls.
Kimsooja
Copyright Claudio Franzini, Venezia – courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
Tancredi Parmeggiani - Untitled- 1955
Performance
Marcos Lutyens – Straatman
Marcos Lutyens presented a hypnosis performance, inducing the audience to participate by designing their unconscious thoughts on two clay tablets positioned on either side of a chair; in his improvisation “Straatman”.
Marcos Lutyens