The Palazzo Grimani Museum , a rare example of Tuscan-Roman Renaissance architecture in Venice and a place where the classic and the contemporary find a unique point of union, is pleased to present the Ugo Carmeni exhibition. Venice Mapping Time. Curated by Daniela Ferretti with Dario Dalla Lana , promoted by the Veneto Regional Directorate of Museums and by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Municipality of Venice and the Lagoon and sponsored by the Patriarchate of Venice , the exhibition was expressly conceived for the spaces of the museum and will be open to the public from 5 July to 26 November 2023, offering an unprecedented look at the "stones of Venice" and highlighting their particular way of interacting with light. The exhibition is part of a project that aims to put the museum's great historical heritage into communication with contemporary experiences: the exhibitions produced and co-produced by Palazzo Grimani, in fact, aim to enhance the permanent installations and the architecture of this place through innovative proposals and cultural operations created ad hoc for its spaces.

On the second floor of the building , usually dedicated to temporary exhibitions, Carmeni exhibits fifty-seven works which start from a work of documentation and mapping of the architectural surfaces of the city which took place between October 2020 and March 2023 in the context of a series of restorations by some buildings and churches of the Patriarchate of Venice, to which are added glimpses of other places in the city. The exhibition also includes a multimedia installation , composed of a wider selection of images assembled in an apparently random sequence but in reality generated by an algorithm which, by reacting to the presence of the observer, will produce an ever-changing visual reading along the entire time span of the opening of the exhibition while a similar mechanism, in connection with the flow of the public, will determine the composition of the sound design. The projection - conceived expressly by the artist for this exhibition in collaboration with Federico Poni for the algorithm and Alessandro Gambato for the sound design - will therefore be a flow of images and sounds that follow one another in a random narration, a personal journey on the intimate perception of idea of Venice between past, present and future, seamlessly. While on the main floor, in the rooms that house the decorations by Giovanni da Udine, Francesco Salviati, Federico Zuccari as well as the statuary collection by Giovanni Grimani (returned to the palace after more than four centuries), an exhibition accent of particular importance will welcome visitors. In the Sala di Psiche, where a bas-relief depicting a salamander was recently brought to light, Ugo Carmeni composes a rhapsodic Venetian bestiary, consisting of a careful selection of ten photographs of sculptural details with animal subjects such as lions, dragons, snakes and eagles scattered in the city.