When
28 September – 30 November 2022
Galleria in Corte a Contemporary Art and Photography Gallery in Venice
A courtyard is a space protected from the eyes of passers-by. An almost secret place, where people can meet up, play and experience the pace of Venice at its most authentic. That is why Bugno Art Gallery opted for the name “In corte” (“In the courtyard”) for its new exhibition space, which is, precisely, in the courtyard behind the historical venue. This is not a change of identity for this gallery, which is already well-known to art and photography lovers, but an expansion of what it has to offer. The new venue will be used for curatorial projects delving into the work of more famous artists and a collection of new experiences.
NEXT EXHIBITION
Danila Tkachenko - Somewhere / Nowhere
From September 29th to November 30th 2022 Galleria in Corte, will host “Somewhere / Nowehere” an exhibition of the most recent series of artworks by Danila Tkachenko (two in absolute preview), visionary testimonies on the state of desolating ruin of Orthodox religious buildings in rural areas and many urbanized areas on the eastern borders of Russia, the result of internal Soviet colonization projects.
The exhibition follows “Restricted Areas” exhibited in 2015, at the Bugno Art Gallery, a project on the industrial and military sites of the former Soviet Union, whose existence was largely kept secret, abandoned after the fall of the Berlin Wall . Some subjects of this work, which gave international fame to the young Tkachenko (Moscow 1989), today characterize the covers of Anna Politkovskaya's books published by Adelphi.
Somewhere / Nowhere will introduce the entire Monuments series, a selection of Planetarium, Colonies and two artist videos.
In the Monuments serie, religious buildings partially destroyed during the revolution of 1917, are transformed, thanks to the intervention of the artist, into impressive funeral monuments just for the duration of the shooting, only to return to simple ruins afterwards. Urban settlements functional to five-year colonization plans of the vastness of the Russian territory, then abandoned due to (or in the absence of) other plans, come back to life in the fiction of the Planetarium photographs, where windows illuminated in the night suggest possible surviving existences.
On the same housing sites theme, the Colonies serie, still in the process of being completed. In this case zenith images of buildings now identifiable only by the presence of the perimeter walls now frozen in the permafrost; they appear as watercolors, more related to the dimension of fiction than to that of documentation. This duality between investigation and imagination is the hallmark of most Danila Tkachenko's works.
The videos Fireworks and The Scenes dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine in which buildings in an advanced state of decay become theaters of war, are further confirmation of this, as if to reaffirm that the current one is a fratricidal clash.
Born in the year of the Berlin Wall’s fall, the artist follows the traces of that past he has been living on, whose utopian grandeur he senses but, at the same time, notes the failures and tragedies it entailed.
Location
Campo San Fantin
San Marco 1997, Venice
Admission
Free
Opening hours
Tuesday to Saturday
10.30 AM / 6.00 PM
and by appointment
About Danila Tkachenko
Danila Tkachenko was born in Moscow in 1989. In 2014 he graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, department of documentary photography. In the same year he became the winner of the World Press Photo 2014 competition with the project “Escape” which he worked on for 3 years. In 2015 he finished the project “Restricted Areas” which has received a number of international awards including European Publishers Award For Photography, Burn Magazine grant, and included in the Dutch magazine Foam Talents. In 2016 completed series “Lost Horizon”, in 2017 published projects “Motherland” and “Monuments” which have caused a wide public response. In 2018 by the invitation of Qatar Museums Danila realized the series “Oasis”. In 2019 completed series “Heroes” and “Acid”, 2020 – «Mannequins» and «Planetarium», 2021 – «Shoal» and «Drowned». Tkachenko’s photos were published in such magazines as BBC Culture, The Guardian, IMA Magazine, GUP Magazine, British Journal of Photography, National Geographic.
