A bi-personal exhibition by Luisa Badino and Maria Giovanna Zanella, “Deus e Macine” is the third in a cycle of four exhibitions held during the first months of the 60th International Art Exhibition. The project, conceived by Mattia Sinigaglia, sees painting as the main protagonist and involves artists who studied at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts.
In “Deus e Macine”, the locution ‘Deus Ex Machina’ is ironically altered in a play on words that brings an element that has always been confined to the aulic sphere onto a reality, thus turning the object (‘macine’, biscuits no one can resist) into a symbol of a contemporary sentiment: the irrepressible desire, the insatiable impulse before the object of desire. The protagonist, together with Maria Giovanna Zanella and Luisa Badino, is therefore the voracity with which both artists approach their modus operandi, allowing the material used to bring out unexpected traits. Like their works, so too the exhibition is unexpected, presenting also site-specific works.
