Venice, March 24 (askanews) – An uncompromising, nervous and powerful painting that has been able to look forward, anticipating dynamics, such as digital suffocation, that are of pressing relevance today. ACP Palazzo Franchetti in Venice hosts an exhibition of Mattia Moreni entitled “Objects and Things think in silence”: more than 30 works, almost all in large size, that retrace the career of the artist, nonconformist and radical, who has crossed post-cubism, abstraction, informal, to then arrive at the “Watermelons” or representations of vulvas to finally imagine his “Humanoids”, born from something that makes you think of a cross between Philip Guston and Street Art. Very interesting is the use that Moreni makes of the written word within his paintings, which have a sort of dark internal caption that shows the conceptual awareness of the artist, without affecting the pictorial strength of the works, which shines almost everywhere. And his critique of electronics and computer science in some ways anticipated by decades, for example, today's debate on artificial intelligence.
Always on the initiative of the Calarota Foundation, another exhibition is open in the palace on the Grand Canal, dedicated to the British painter Graham Sutherland. "Bittersweet" investigates some of the artist's most beloved themes, such as nature with its landscapes immersed in greenery and the animal world, through a group of oil and watercolour works and a selection of lithographs belonging to the artist's most famous cycles, among which the famous "Bestiary" stands out. It seems that in Sutherland everything becomes landscape, but also vision, further intuition on forms, images and representation of what we call reality.