07/05/2026
Pre Opening of the Venice Biennale.
One can already sense a powerful current moving across the city; energy emerges as one of the defining themes explored by artists this year.
From the inmaterial and spiritual to the physical and industrial, the works showcased trace energy in its many forms- transformation, movement, production, memory and origin.
Transforming Energy of Marina Abramovic- the body becomes the vesel of transmisión and inner force, inviting reflection that connects, presence and consciousness and human experience.
In dialogue with this idea, this expressive black@and white Study of a N**e of Fernand Leger at the reveal movement and intimate energy through gesture itself; brushstrokes charged with rhythm, tension and momentum.
A Venetian lion sculpted from discarded Murano Glass evokes the hidden energy behind Venetian glassmaking traditions- labor and heat transformations.
Polish artist Goshka Macuga artiwok GONOGO, 15 meter Rocket installed at the island of San Giacomo on the new Sandretto Rebaudengo Foundation. Representing a go/no go decision point for the future of humanity and the planet
“Waves of Energy” and “The Origin of Energy” bronze and amethyst sculptures and artworks from Ornella Gallo Di Fortuna, explore more elemental language. Through mineral matter and sculptural form, the works channel notions of vibration, creation, waves of energy, primordial sexual force, suspended between nature and mythology.
Together these works compose a meditation on energy not only as a material phenomenon, but a poetic condition.
One that moves through bodies, cities, histories and matter itself.
