Month: March 2022

Venice is an incredible work of art crystallized over time. The industrialization of the 20th century intensified the dangers to the life of the lagoon from man’s work. The discussion that rages today concerns more current issues such as over tourism that has become the economic engine of the historic center, the depopulation of the city, the growing damage caused by the frequency of floods and the progressive damage and pollution of the lagoon ecosystem due to cruise ships. On the other side of the planet, in a similar way, the Amazon has lost much of its biodiversity and this degradation is a result of continuous deforestation and climate change. Logging, fires, and the continued encroachment on indigenous lands threaten not only the region’s thriving biological treasures, but also the rich cultural treasures.

Our planet is a single ecosystem whose parts are interdependent and environmental problems pose a real existential threat. This symposium aims to raise awareness, raise awareness, and address issues that are poorly supported due to economic interests, but also open a dialogue between artists, architects, academics, and experts that can culminate in real sustainability actions and end with a conscious progress of society through perfection. combination of environmental sciences, architectural and artistic disciplines. Venice, like the Amazon, can become the paradigm of a new model of socio-environmental sustainability.

The event will start at 5 pm with a guided tour of the Time Space Existence exhibition; will follow a cycle of conferences that will involve personalities who will present the Amazonian reality and the preservation of its culture, such as Dr. Aidalina do Nascimento, Samela Sateré Mawé, Suzan Vasconcelos Valentim and Jackson Alencar Silva. Professor Takashi Yakamoshi, architect Patricia O’Reilly and artist Alexandre Mavignier will propose some sustainable solutions at an architectural and artistic level. Architects Yuval Baer and Joseph Press will illustrate the challenges and opportunities of architecture in the Anthropocene era; all crowned by video art by Maor Michaelov Maoritsyoo: The Burning Bush. The event will close with a presentation by Sergio Pascolo, architect, and professor at the IUAV University of Venice and a lecture by Hélène Molinari, president of SUMus.

The meeting, organized by Saphira & Ventura in collaboration with YBGSNA & Maoritsyoo, and coordinated by Alcinda Saphira and Louis Ventura in the Mora Palace gardens. The cocktail and lectures will start at 6:30 pm, following the rules issued to contain Covid-19’s epidemiological emergency.

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture: located in the heart of New York, it has hosted, since 2012, works of art, architecture and avant-garde design and promotes established and emerging artists in the international art scene. Saphira & Ventura’s mission was realized through the organization of individual and group exhibitions, collaborations with public and private entities, museums, and art fairs, capable of writing essential pages of international contemporary art. The gallery is dedicated to emphasizing the multiple forms of expression capable of meeting the diverse interests of its buyers.