Artist Dietmar Brixy is exhibiting his colourful works entitled "The Description of the World" from 24 August to 21 September in the magnificent Sansovinian Hall of the Marciana National Library in St Mark's Square. The title given to the exhibition is inspired by the book "Il Milione" by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, whose 700th anniversary of his death falls this year. At the same time, Brixy incorporates the exhibition collection of the historic library with its antique globes into its presentation. Together with wall and ceiling paintings by Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto and other masters of the Venetian Renaissance, the exhibition is an emotional experience.
Travel and encounters with foreign cultures have always been a source of inspiration for artists. Dietmar Brixy is also a traveller and an explorer. His expeditions have taken him to European countries, but also to Malaysia, Mexico, India, Bali, Thailand, the Seychelles and the USA. Over the years, Brixy has developed a special approach to capturing his experiences, adventures and perceptions in his works. In Venice, he is exhibiting works from the ‘Happy’, ‘Reflect’ and ‘Journey’ series, as well as several roundels, the so-called ‘Bamboo Bubbles’. His compositions are dominated by vibrant colours, which together appear like a kaleidoscope and reveal a vision of fantastic landscapes at their centre. The multi-layered structures and shapes immerse the viewer in a world that appears at once strange and familiar. The central work in the exhibition is a three-metre-high spatial installation in the shape of an octagon, which transfers Brixy's pictorial work into the third dimension.
The Brixy exhibition, curated by Dr Tayfun Belgin, former director of the Osthaus Museum Hagen, is part of the exhibition project "At Home Abroad", a series of four consecutive solo exhibitions of leading contemporary artists in the Sansovinian Salon, which, in line with the motto of the 60th Art Biennale ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, artistically explore the themes of foreignness and being foreign. The art project was initiated by exhibition organiser Dirk Geuer in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Dietmar Brixy, born in Mannheim in 1961, studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and has been working successfully as an independent artist since 1991. His works have been exhibited in major museums in Germany and abroad, are shown in galleries and art fairs, including France, the USA and South Korea, and have become part of important institutional and private art collections.
The exhibition is organised in conjunction with the Biennale Arte 2024 - 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice.
