Emilio Vedova. Venezia Muore

28.01.2023 - 18.03.2023

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg [Villa Kast], Salzburg / Österreich

Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg will present previously unexhibited works by Emilio Vedova, ranging from 1986 to the realisation of his monumental painted pentaptych titled Venezia muore, completed in 1992.

Vedova persistently challenged the potential of materials and his mixed-media approach to artmaking was a fundamental aspect of his practice throughout his career. Continuously influenced by the city of his birth, Venice, with its rich cultural heritage, he was largely self-taught as an artist. His earliest artistic endeavours in the mid 1930s include drawings of Venetian architecture and frescoes, particularly those of Tintoretto who was a key inspiration to the artist throughout his life.... Strongly guided by his moral and political beliefs, Vedova’s works are characterised by his response to the political reality of the post-war period. The works in the exhibition further reveal an increased preoccupation with existential questions and show that for Vedova gestural abstraction was a vehicle for expressing the complexity of lived human experience.

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