A fascinating guided tour at Palazzo Fortuny that in this winter 2015/2016 is paying tribute to Henriette, at Fortuny’s side, for no less than 47 years. In the house and workshop in their Venetian palace, she worked alongside her husband in the creation of fine printed fabrics and silk lampshades. She it was, for instance, who was responsible for the idea of the Delphos, the fine plissé silk gown that became a worldwide icon of style and the symbol of a timeless elegance. This ““lady of the house”, will virtually lead the visitor through the magic spaces of the workshop-studio of Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei in discovering different artistic experiences. Other three outstanding female personalities are in fact housed here in this occasion– Romaine Brooks, Sarah Moon and Ida Barbarigo – with their unusual and fascinating “stories”, in a new intense “journey” that starts in the late nineteenth century, travels through the Belle Epoque and the 1920s and arrives at the present day, illustrating the feminine interpretation of modernity.

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SARAH MOON
A tribute to Mariano Fortuny

December 19, 2015 – March 13, 2016 / extended until to May 1st, 2016
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny

Curators
Alexandra de Léal and Adele Re Rebaudengo
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The highly personal and visionary style of Sarah Moon, the intensity of her gaze and the poetry of her photographs could find no more enchanting and empathetic space in which to be displayed than Palazzo Fortuny.

The soft lights of the lagoon in winter that penetrate through the large windows, the folds, the swirls and reflections created by the fabrics and drapes of the clothes designed by Mariano Fortuny, are a source of inspiration for this new exhibition, curated by Alexandra de Léal and Adele Re Rebaudengo, which the great photographer has built up over the years during her frequent visits to the house/workshop of Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei.

Her photographs, taken to pay tribute to Mariano Fortuny, welcome us in the luminous spaces on the second floor of the palazzo, and trigger a journey through memory, where the signs of ageing make manifest the evanescence of beauty and the permanent state of uncertainty underlying human existence.

The inkjet and silver salts prints tell fragments of an inner story, which takes shape in the shadows created by the movement of the fabrics recalling the softness of the pleats of the Delphos, the iconic dress made by Fortuny, and in the lines – blurred by memory – of the palazzo’s architecture.

One of the major photographers of contemporary fashion, and the first woman in 1972 to take photos for the Pirelli calendar, the French artist has for many years expanded the horizons of her focus, with a particular interest in three themes: the evanescence of beauty, uncertainty and the passage of time.

The development of her art has also seen her work with video, and her work has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1995 and the Prix Nadar in 2008.

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Catalogue
Catalogue published by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia,
edited byDaniela Ferretti,
with texts by Alexandra de Léal and Federica Mazzarelli.

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