Call for
artists: SELF ? Venice 2015
It?s LIQUID International Art
Show
It?s
LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International
ArtExpo and Ca? Zanardi, is pleased to announce
the open call for the international art festival
SELF and its experimental
section LIQUID
ROOMS.
The festival
SELF is organized in Venice at
Palazzo Ca? Zanardi and Venice Art
House, starting from the opening day of Venice Art Biennale,
May 9, 2015, with a rich program of different events
until November 2015. Artists, photographers, video makers
and performers, will have the amazing opportunity to show their works to a
huge audience, during one of the most important period for the whole
art
world.
SELF consists
of collective and solo shows hosted at Ca?
Zanardi and Venice Art House gallery, and
it includes the experimental program of exhibitions and art
residencies LIQUID ROOMS. For the first time in Venice we will
give audience the possibility to have private meetings
with artists, to meet them personally and share their art and
experience.
The festival
includes 11 events of photography,
painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art,
with a strong program of video art screenings and premiers, art
residencies, talks, workshops, private meetings between artists and
audience, live dj set, live experimental dance and art
performances.
The festival
SELF and the experimental section LIQUID ROOMS are organized and
curated by Luca Curci (director of It?s LIQUID and
International ArtExpo) and Andrea Chinellato (director of
Ca? Zanardi and Venice Art
House).
The festival
aims to conduct an intensive investigation about the
SELF. The self is defined as the ?being which is the source of
consciousness; the agent responsible for an individual?s thoughts and
actions; and/or the substantial nature of a person; the representation of
one?s identity or the subject of experience?. After many years of research
and exhibitions about the evolution of the idea of identity, we ask
artists to share their personal tales through their
artworks; to create a link between personal experience and the
audience; to tell us which are the stories and the reason beneath
their
work.
Each event of
SELF festival is focused on different themes:
?WHY SELF ? Adventures of social identities? (May 9-30,
2015); ?PERSONAL TALES ? Humans + Hybrids? (June 3-13,
2015); ?SELF PORTRAITS ? Inner Feelings? (June 17-27,
2015); ?SELF IDENTITIES ? Faces . Places . Spaces? (July
1-11, 2015); ?FRACTAL IDENTITIES ? Entropy . Disorders .
Obsessions? (July 15-25, 2015); ?SELF MEMORIES ? The
contemporary sense of awareness? (August 5-15, 2015);
?FUTURE MEMORIES ? Reconstruction of new identities?
(August 18-29,
2015).
LIQUID
ROOMS experimental section is a mix between contemporary
art shows and art residency. During LIQUID ROOMS events, artists
will have the possibility to show their artworks and be hosted in Palazzo
Ca? Zanardi?s private rooms/apartments (accommodation
included), or to take part in the collective shows hosted
in the common area of Palazzo Ca? Zanardi and in Venice Art House gallery.
The different events of LIQUID ROOMS, included in SELF festival, have
a duration of three days and will be organized in May (9/10/11),
July (10/11/12), September (4/5/6) and November
(20/21/22)
2015.
To take
part in the one or more events of SELF festival, send your works?
submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video-art), links
of videos/performances, pictures of artworks via e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com.
Each event will
present an exclusive selection of artworks, video screening program,
intense live performances, with its own dedicated opening ceremony
and PR campaign. At the end of the whole
exhibition cycle there will be the publication of a
catalogue.
Artists
interested in taking part in our shows, are free to be sponsored
and supported by institutions, organizations,
governments and their representers; the logos of their sponsors will be
included in all the communication (digital and print) of the events.
Artists are free to take part in one or more of the programmed
events.
It?s possible to
organize dedicated exhibition and solo show in Venice Art House, Ca?
Zanardi and other available spaces we have in Venice. Please send us a
project proposal to receive a
quotation.
Palazzo
Ca? Zanardi (Cannaregio 4132, Venice) is a residential palace
dating back to the 16th century which, over the centuries, has been added
on to by various noble Venetian families and is one of the most evocative
and beautiful palaces in the city of Venice. Sumptuous and possessing
particular charm, Ca? Zanardi is located in a most peaceful setting and
has its own delightful private garden as well as a magnificent terrace
full of sun and colour. Ca? Zanardi is located close to the Ca? D?Oro, the
splendid 15th century gothic palace along the Grand Canal. It is
easily reachable by foot, after a two minute walk from the Ca? D?Oro water
bus stop, or by boat using the palazzo?s private pier positioned along the
fetching Santa Caterina canal. The refined elegance of the palazzo?s halls
and common areas and the delicacy of its original 16th century furnishings
create a fascinating
setting.
Venice
Art House gallery is the new exhibition space of
Ca? Zanardi, located in Venice (Cannaregio 1863C), with a dimension of 250
sqm and two water entrances. The artist William Herod is the artistic
director of the
space.
Starting from
2001, Luca Curci with International
ArtExpo and It?s LIQUID Group, have curated and
organized more than 80 contemporary art events, with the participation of
about 2.500 international artists from all-over the world (UK, Spain,
Italy, France, Austria, Portugal, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Poland, USA,
Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Israel, UAE, Russia, Thailand, etc.) with an
average of 45 artworks exhibited in each show (with a maximum of 108
artists involved in the great MORPHOS festival held in Venice during the
Architecture Biennale 2014). The organization has international
partnerships with art venues in Italy, Turkey, USA, Spain, Argentina, UK,
Middle East, etc., and collaborates with museums, galleries and
institutions such as MuMo ? Museum Montanelli in Prague, Laura Haber
Gallery in Buenos Aires, MIXER gallery in Istanbul and MECA art center in
Almeria.
To take part in
the one or more events of SELF festival, send your works?
submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video-art), links
of videos/performances, pictures of artworks via e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com.