Luigi Viola. Il tempo delle meduse - Fino al 31 febbraio
- venicegalleriesvie
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
MARINA BASTIANELLO GALLERY is pleased to present “Il tempo delle meduse” (The Time of Jellyfish), a solo exhibition by Luigi Viola, a multimedia artist and pioneer of Italian video art. The exhibition, curated by Marina Bastianello, presents a project born during the days of pandemic isolation, when the artist, immersed in the silence of the sea, gathered images of mysterious organisms, biological wrecks, and translucent jellyfish: symbols of metamorphosis and rebirth. It will be open to visitors from December 1, 2025, to January 31, 2026.
During the period of profound solitude experienced by the artist during the pandemic, the days spent in silence facing the sea were transformed into a visual meditation on time, matter, and metamorphosis. The images collected then, re-elaborated years later through a conscious use of artificial intelligence, have now become organic maps of mutations in the making: hybrid forms between natural and artificial, life and decay, memory and rebirth.
In this vision suspended between reality and imagination, Viola explores the regenerative capacity of matter and of life itself, evoking the idea of immortal jellyfish as a metaphor for an eternal rebirth.
The exhibition thus becomes a poetic and visual investigation into uncertainty, fragility, and transformation, in which technology becomes a tool for introspection and revelation.
Luigi Viola (Feltre, 1949) is a multimedia artist and former professor of Painting at the Academies of Fine Arts of Macerata, Brera, and Venice, where he co-founded the School of New Technologies for Art. A pioneer of Italian video art in the 1970s, he has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, 2009). His research weaves together art, memory, spirituality, and technology in a continuous dialogue between the visible and the invisible.
Marina Bastianello Gallery, Venezia Cannaregio, 1865A
Calle de l’Aseo, Venezia
Date: fino al 31 gennaio 2026
Dal martedì al venerdì 11 – 18
Sabato 16 – 18
nstagram: @marinabastianellogallery @marinabastianellogalleryvenice
