Seeing contemporary art in Venice, outside of the Biennalle, is a tricky thing.
There are virtually NO real art galleries, and the ones that do exist tend to be on the stodgy and unimaginative side, featuring a smattering of this and that.
The one real exception to this is The Jarach Gallery, located just next to La Fenice Theatre. They specialize in contemporary photography, and literally every show I have seen there has been terrific.
The current show on view of works by Claudio Gobbi, called "Persistence.
A history of Europe" is no exeption. These are beautiful, moving and odd photographs of theaters and waiting rooms, spaces meant to be elegant, but that are slightly down-at-the heels.
Gobbi favors very long narrow formats and soft evenly-lit colors. His spaces are empty, devoid of people, spaces waiting for action to take place in them.
This gallery is a haven of thought-provoking images in a maze of mask and glass shops.
long may they live!
Jarach Gallery
Claudio Gobbi :
Persistence.
A history of Europe
La mostra verrà prorogata fino a sabato 28 febbraio.
A cura di Daniele De Luigi
13/12 2008 - 28/02 2009
Jarach GalleryCampo San Fantin,
San Marco 1997, 30124 Venezia,
da martedì a sabato 10.00-13.00, 14.30-19.30
unedì e domenica su appuntamento
T +39 041 522 1938 F +39 0412778936
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