Palazzo Merulana, home of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, and CoopCulture , are pleased to present Winter Swimmers | Personal exhibition by Vittorio Marella , edited by Giovanna Zabotti.

Vittorio Marella, a twenty-seven-year-old Venetian artist and an authentic promise in the national artistic panorama, carries out on canvas, with extraordinary talent, his very personal journey to discover another point of view. His works, characterized by precision and vitality, reflect a personal journey of discovery. In his paintings, he combines inspirations from magical realism and the great Venetian masters such as Tintoretto and Tiepolo, creating dreamy atmospheres that mix reality and fantasy.

His first exhibition in Rome presents drawings and oil paintings that explore daily life and nature, showing a Venice, "the city of everyone and the city of no one, through the unusual gaze of a Venetian" writes the curator Giovanna Zabotti " Far from the souvenir shops and gondoliers of San Marco, it depicts the silent canals, inhabited by characters emblematic of a humanity adrift. The fragile city, threatened by the sea, cradles the figures who move in their latent solitude, in the humid glimpses and disturbing and in private rooms. our solitudes and suspended times"