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CANOVIAN DIALOGUES:

Karen LaMonte. Nocturnes

From 23 October to 28 February 2026

Running Museum

Piazza San Marco, 52, Venice

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Karen LaMonte possesses the extraordinary ability to investigate the figure through subtraction: through an analytical work, initially focused on the container-dress, the artist manually retraces, with obsessive and scientific precision, every single fold, modifying every yarn detail to the smallest extent. It is the evocation of a feminine world that the artist presents to us: the fusion in glass crystallizes this creative process to deliver it in a transparency that now appears suspended in time, rich in immobile suggestions and crossed by distant echoes. In the recent series of works entitled Nocturnes, the artist raises the stakes even further by leading us on a journey through nocturnal visions, populated by sculptures that are now immersed in an atmosphere characterized by different shades of blue, just as different are the chromatic veils in the transition from evening to night. Tone on tone. The artist's work is not unfamiliar with classical art and Canovian neoclassicism; but while in Canova the executive perfection serves to give life to inert matter, in Karen LaMonte the same perfection serves, instead, to evoke a possible form of life. To create the conditions from which that life can emerge. This is a comparison between two apparently similar but actually opposite visions of art, which could be summarized in the relationship between description and deduction. A look in the mirror. In LaMonte's sculptures, it is not the female body in its fullness that dominates the scene, but, as in a photographic negative, its absence. A light night breeze gently blows on the surface of these new works, channeling through the folds, seeming to reshape their contours: the transparency of the glass tinted in the night slowly leads us beyond the usual, beyond the apparent, to the slow emergence of the unexpected.

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CANOVIAN DIALOGUES:

Karen LaMonte. Nocturnes

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