italianversion More Canvasses revealed
In the '20s and '30s,in Venice, there was a group of womes painters who did have, each,a "room of their own". Fiore Brustolin had her art studio and ran a school of painting near S.Trovaso. Emma Ciardi's atelier was in the Fondamenta Alberti (a fondamenta is a sidewalk along a canal). Nearby there was Lina Rosso's studio, in Calle Lunga S.Barnaba. And a little further, in fondamenta Rezzonico, we would have found Bice Lazzari's atelier, where, among her brushes and palettes she kept her hand looms on wich she used to weave scarves, belts, and other objects designed according to her aesthetic principles.	On the other side of the Grand Canal (across the water"as the Venetian say), a short hop across on the traghetto to S.Angelo, Alis Levi had her studio, in the Corte dell'Albero. Not far from there, in Calle degli Orbi ("Blind men's"lane)Miranda Visonà had hers. At a little distance, near S.Giovanni e Paolo (where the girls'music school of the Mendicanti and the Ospedaletto used to be,from 16th century up to the end of the "Serenissima"), in Calle delle Erbe, Gabriella Oreffice had her studio. Somewhat secluded, but certainly acutely observant of their environment and the life in it, these seven women painters pursued their paintings and their studies, attended exhibitions, and have left us their gift of art:
perhaps a last gift for us of the figurative, when art was turning to be abstract. We still know very little about their lives. We assume they must have come across one another, they must have met,but whether they actually frequented one another or met regularly, we do not know. Some sixty years later one thing is certain: they have a common denominator in the excellence of the work they produced, pervaded by the culture of their time and suffused with the magic of Venice. Unfortunately their studios have not been preserved, as such.	Their works, however, can now be found in their homes of their relatives and collectors, who have kindly allowed us to put together the exhibition that you will enjoy here now. With the present exhibition we are adding to the research on women painters of the Veneto. Its first result is the publication of the volume "Le tele svelate"(Canvassed Releaved, Eidos Press 1996), which is entirely dedicated to the women painters who lived and worked in Venice and its mainland territory, the Veneto, from the XIV century to the present time. We do hope others yet will join in this exciting work. Vittoria Surian
	Venezia Palazzo delle Prigioni nuove oltro il Rio Riva degli Schiavoni 4209 8 - 27 Aprile 1998
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