http:// www.repubblica.it/speciali/arte/recensioni/2010/08/20/news/cos_in_onor ... In Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, an exhibition commemorating the experiment of the French scholar, who tried to live under the sea. Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi reflect on the mythical adventure in underwater installations and sculptures of aquariums LAURA Larcan So in honor of the museum becomes a myth Cousteau seabed VENICE - A home under the sea, overlooking the world of Poseidon and the sirens as condominiums . Jacques Cousteau with the myth was almost at hand. In the early Sixties the great French oceanographer tried the incredible experiment to live under the sea. He chose the plateau south of Sh'ab Rumi, off the coast of Sudan, to implant a viallaggio structures on the seabed, through clouds of fish of all types and colors, including sharks and barracuda. A team of divers lived for almost forty days in the depths, carrying out the operation of underwater life "Precontinente two." A little less than fifty years to recall the company we think of two Italian artists, Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi, with a fine show "A Ballad of the Flooded Museum, from 26 August to 10 October at the Palace of Titus Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, event organized with the support of the Contemporary Art Project, which opens in conjunction with the twelfth Biennale of Architecture. IMAGES 1 It is no coincidence, because the exhibition, curated by Paola Nicolin, and it is recommended for lovers of sea and underwater worlds, for the bold seabed and the dreamers of underwater adventures, but it points above all, with the taste and lyrical transfiguring typical of contemporary art, to reflect on the concept of depth and abyss, in physical terms but also emotional. And the water, that water and ruthless magic of Jacques Cousteau, became the reflection of the extraordinary theater, with its ephemeral and unpredictable spatial dimension, where everything is played between reality and a distorted perception of reality. Almost a metaphor, warns the curator Paola Nicolin, the nature of the work of art itself staged in a museum, in the balance, if not the chasm between reality and fiction. Both Turin, class '76, New Yorkers by adoption, Isola e Norzi, in collaborazione dal 2003, incentrano la loro ricerca concettuale, eposta in tutto il mondo, su espedienti di museologia e architettura, inondati, per rimanere in tema, di legami profondi con la storia dell'arte. E la loro mostra veneziana diventa un "tuffo" singolare e per nulla banale, meditativo ma mai scontato, nell'universo dell'acqua salata. Appropriatisi dell'esperienza di Jacques Cousteau, il cui insediamento abitativo รจ ancora visitabile attraverso le immersioni subacquee nel Mar Rosso sudanese, i due ripropongono, accanto alla raccolta di materiali e documenti legati alla storia dell'impresa del pioniere dei mari, una loro rivisitazione atraverso installazioni, sculture, fotografie, video e disegni, con strategici jumps of scale affect the viewer by altering the perception of the exhibition space. If the water is the element "heard" that creates and destroys, floods and protects, alters the essence of things, here the isolation and Norzi think about this borderline nature. It happens with underwater installations, sculptures, aquarium creatures in between plexiglass and sponges, glass with natural settlement of marine algae, paintings that evoke deep. A portion of the sea seems to live again in these rooms, as if to re-activate the utopian spirit of daring and fascinating, a great man of the sea. Useful information - "A Ballad of the Flooded Museum. Norzi Island and, from August 26 to October 10, 2010, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palace Tito, Dorsoduro 2826, Venice. Hours: WEDNESDAY-Sunday from 10.30 to 17.30, closed Monday 'and Tuesday'. Admission: € 5, reduced € 3. Information: 041-5207797,
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