2023-04-27 15:33:46
A Munichin the elegant setting of Lodenfrey Park, in front of the foreign press, the BiHoliday tourist group presented the 2023 summer season. And to do it she chose a original art project, entitled “I Say Art”: tell a journey. The project involves the two villages managed by the group: BiVillage in Croatia and Villaggio San Francesco in Caorle.
Just these days three briccole, exhibited in Venice in conjunction with the last Biennale Arte, left from the atelier of the artist Enrico Marcato to then find a new home on a stretch of coast in Croatia inside the BiVillage of Fazana. The works have been positioned in such a way that the guests of the village – the season starting with the long bridge on May 1st – and anyone who happens to be strolling along the seafront will be able to admire them. And to give an idea of the project, a briccola – of smaller dimensions – was brought to Monaco and exhibited for the presentation. The artist who told of his activity also connected directly from his atelier.
What are briccole? It is about Frwooden wings – planted, by the thousands, already at the time of the Serenissima, on which the city physically rests – which characterize the Venice lagoon and have many uses: they are precious “road” indicators essential for orienting oneself among the shallows, they are tools used to moor boats along the canals, they are also bases – they can be recognized by the T-shaped head – indispensable for supporting the piers.
Once these wooden poles reach the end of their life, Marcato starts them for reuse, transforming them into works of art: “I tried and experimented until I found what is part of Enrico: the briccole of Venice – explains the artist – told from 1500 onwards by any artist in his paintings: from Tintoretto to Canaletto, just to name a couple . They are the silent guardians of Venice. And 15 years ago I started recovering them and inserting strokes of color to make them come alive again. If we talk about this project linked to BiHoliday what gratifies me, from the human side, is knowing that these works of mine have traveled from Venice – the mother city – to Croatia. And the Bi-Village of Fazana, where they are installed, mirrors Venice”.
Where to see the artist’s briccole, other than in Croatia? “Many of my briccole – he explains – are well kept in private collections. In Miami, however, you can see them: they are located outside the Cipriani. In Montreal, Canada, however, they are within the Aldo Bensadoun Foundation. Then there are some in Paris, in Ibiza. And now in Croatia”.
“Bi Holiday – underlines Ilena Cherubin, CEO of the Group – embraces Art as a language of values, as well as expressing that Art-Activism which today allows us to talk about socially important issues”. Among these, BiHoliday underlines the value of a territory and its respect with everything that gravitates around it such as, for example, the reuse of materials (and the rebirth of the briccole is a concrete example).
But the project didn’t end there. There is also a second part that will be revealed shortly. And who will travel Italy Croatia, in reverse.
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