From childhood to love stories and dreams, the aesthetic and ethical beauty of special objects, for a journey of creativity and life. It’s called exactly «The Journey of life» the third edition of «Homo Faber 2024»scheduled in Venice from 1 to 30 September on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Curated by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, in partnership with the Cologni Foundation of Art Crafts and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the exhibition celebrates contemporary excellent craftsmanshipbetween tradition and future, will propose 10 exhibitions to compose a journey that will present over 400 iconic objects linked to every phase of each of us’s existence, created by more than 300 artisans and designers from 50 countries. «”Homo Faber” – stated Renata Codello, General Secretary of the Cini Foundation – is genetically against clichés. In the era of artificial intelligence, Craft is a challenge. Against banality, against homologation.” Unique and original objects, made by artisans of great talent and skill, increasingly attentive to sustainability and the choice of materials.
Guadagnino and Borges
There artistic direction is entrusted to the well-known and award-winning film director and producer Luca Guadagnino who (Call Me by Your Name, Bones and All, Challengers), together with the architect Nicolò Rosmarini, imagined the departure of journey for the visitor from Borges’ Labyrinth, to underline the idea of destiny from birth, which will be staged in the Chiostro dei Cipressi: «Here there will be a very particular game of the goose, inspired by Venice and all hand-embroidered», reveals Alberto Cavalli, director of the Michelangelo Foundation. There representation of life will unfold within the Cini monumental complexfrom the Palladian Cenacle – the ancient Benedictine refectory, now completed with the facsimile of The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese created by Factum Arte – which will be dedicated to time spent at the table and a magnificent banquet will be set up in the Photographs Room, where it will pulsate the world of cinema and the transmission of knowledge.
Knowledge meeting
The garden will be the place of affection: the White Room will be dedicated to courtship and the Tapestry Room to the colors and symbols of love. And if in the Pavilion of the trusses we will find the flavors of a tea room which will become a surprising oasis and echo of the enthusiasm of travels, it will be all to be discovered the former typography, now under restoration, which will come back to life for the first time, filling with suggestions of nature. You will enter a dimension suspended at the Gandini Poolappointed as a place of dreams, an antechamber to the last breath of existence and then towards the afterlife: in the former Nautico room a last dialogue, where artisans, artists and designers will meet showing the secrets of their very personal work.
The development of the event
Born from an idea by Hanneli Rupert, vice president of the Michelangelo Foundation, the theme of the 2024 event explored and translated from Guadagnino’s cinematic allure, it appears intriguing and on the winning card, perfect for exciting and involving spectators in a imaginative stage of artistic craftsmanship, among spectacular installations, original works and live demonstrations: everyone will be able to make their own journey. Andfter the 55 thousand attendances of the last edition, expectations are high. A rich program of initiatives will accompany the event. You can participate in workshops and savor new horizons of flavours; we will witness the award ceremony of the Master of Arts and Crafts, promoted by the Cologni Foundation, under the patronage of the Presidency of the Republic. «Homo Faber» is also projected beyond the island, thanks to the «Homo Faber in Città» program, to offer a new way of visiting Venice. In collaboration with Confartigianato and Cna Venezia, Consorzio Promovetro Murano and Venezia da Vivere, in fact, it will be possible to visit as many as seventy artisan workshops, selected through a specific call, with extraordinary stories of inventiveness, talent and life choices, little known to the Venetians themselves.
