Textures of light

In the extended project of the Biennale, commissioned by Vittorio Sgarbi, who extended the boundaries of the Italian Pavilion, bringing the vastness and complexity of the national territory, going beyond the borders of Venice, the Veneto Region has chosen Villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta.

“The regional spread of the exhibition of the Italian Pavilion – says Vice President Zorzi – has a double meaning: on the one hand, binds to celebrate the 150 th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, on the other hand, allows a detection of the state of contemporary art in Italy, at the dawn of the second millennium through the exhibition of contemporary artists living in the region that have the most significant work over the past ten years. ” Stefano Curto, of Segusino (TV), is an artist who from birth has been able to enjoy the happy harmony of a landscape in which nature and its elements is shown at its best.

Curto’s work is an extraordinary flying carpet, the image of a thousand stories, a thousand trips, distant worlds in which the imagination is opened to the myth. A job that requires skill in the production of carpet, made of thousands of impenetrable crystals, stones can reflect endlessly sparkle of a thousand colors in a kaleidoscope of imaginative, able to combine the aesthetic with the originality.

The Marvellous flight of coexistence, a rug that reveals the philosophical and esoteric dimension of the artist, which is associated with the fascination of the material. The exquisite decor of the ‘flying carpet’, suspended and almost about to take flight, alluding to the union of twisted wires in original artifacts, evoking the unbreakable bond and coexistence among peoples.

Curto explains himself: “I entered, and when stacked side by side, almost imperceptible between the thick textures of stones, the symbols that represent the main beliefs which enlightens and elevates the human co-existence in this wonderful flight I imagined.”