Luca Guadagninofamous director of the just released Challengers, 2024 And Call Me by Your Name, 2017signs, together with the architect Nicolò Rosmarinithe new edition of Homo Faber, presented on May 21st at the “Lo Squero” Auditorium in Venice, curated by the Michelangelo Foundation, the Cologni Foundation and the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
Giorgio Cini Foundation
The theme, chosen from an intuition of Hanneli Rupertvice president of the Michelangelo Foundation, The Journey of Liferevolves around the desire to present “the entire path of human life”, he says Alberto Cavalli, director of the Michelangelo Foundation, through works forged by the most skilled craftsmen. Their works will convey the imagery of birth, growth, first love experiences and death, making the observer part of their art and their feelings.
Like every year, the exhibition venue will be the island of San Giorgio, in the spectacular setting of the Cini Foundation with its famous outdoor spaces of Borges’ Labyrinth, symbolizing predestination to life, “destiny”. And it is precisely from this garden that the experience of The Journey of Life, from which you can then continue to the Cypress Cloister, where a huge goose game inspired by the lagoon city of Venice will be installed. Each area of the Foundation will represent a fragment of life, a stretch of the human journey. All the experiences we have had, the remorse, the suffering and the struggles that have dotted our existence will be represented and summarized here, in ten stages.
And this is how love and courtship, crucial elements for human existence, will have their space in the White Room and in the Tapestry Room, where the “spectacular installations, original works and live demonstrations”, continues Alberto Cavallithe result of the work of 300 master craftsmen, coming from fifty different countries of the world, whose techniques will embrace diametrically opposed universes of techniques, will immerse the observer in a vision and feeling common to each of us.
The Journey of Life it will not only be a visual and educational experience, but a real emotional experience, which will end in the former Nautico room, where death will lead the soul into the afterlife. The spaces of the Cini Foundation will become the home of a common feeling, generating nostalgia, sadness, happiness and emotion. «Everyone will be able to make their own journey» he concludes Renata Codello, General Secretary of the Giorgio Cini Foundation. All human emotions will be condensed in an immersive exhibition itinerary, allowing observers to retrace the various phases of life and recall their own.
The event program will be enriched by a series of engaging initiatives. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in workshops and explore new gastronomic horizons. Furthermore, Homo Faber will extend beyond the borders of the island thanks to the initiative Homo Faber in the City, involving seventy artisan workshops to offer an innovative way of visiting Venice. A significant moment will be the award ceremony of the Master of Arts and Crafts, organized by the Cologni Foundation and sponsored by the Presidency of the Republic.
