Unstable harmonies. Paola Madormo and Luana Segato

12 November 2024 – 12 January 2025

Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna
Project room and permanent collection

Curated by Elisabetta Barisoni

Two Venetian artists, Paola Madormo and Luana Segato, collaborate in this project to continue to give life, in their journey, to the experience of sharing. They choose to intersect in communion, in the real world, maintaining their singular originality.
The project was born from the observation of the environmental and human problems of the contemporary world. They seek to return to a more harmonious and profound time of human nature, inviting a slowdown of the Art itself in its execution and observation by the public.
For Paola Madormo the vision of the world is like a forest in which all things are made up of consciousness but grow only when they encounter the experience of a new sensation: a sound, a ray of light, a drop of water and infinite other elements . The sculpture loses heaviness and weightiness, it moves to the first moment of its analysis, it almost becomes a delicate hypothesis of a future work. Metal gives back every perceived color and the material part forms a network that recalls the design of the fractals and the molecular chains that make up the elements, while the empty part expresses the suspension of space, of the void. “I have always used metal, because I am interested in the discovery and recovery of pre-existing materials; you can find everything through recycling. A few years ago I recovered old nets from fishermen, it was perhaps 2006; I had been seeing the obvious analogies between this material and internet communications for some time, the net that has begun to be in common use by almost the entire population. In the net I see the world of communications/information and the world that makes up every element around us in the design of fractals and molecules”.
For Luana Segato (Luse) form and space are something to separate and recompose, matter to hold in her hands and represent in different ways with the colors of change like a multifaceted universe rooted in her own canvases. The artist paints, cuts, repairs and reconstructs space to demonstrate its immense potential; a thread unites pieces of canvas and recovered fabric to create works that represent and shape places and form of the natural environment. Luse is concerned with protecting and keeping together the integrity of nature, a nature that is wounded but repaired, it is mended but still maintains the magnificence of its colors and its generating power. The eye-catching stitching recalls the experience and depth of ancient languages, between color and gestures, almost graffiti with an archaic sign. A sign that also becomes a multidimensional image.
Paola Madormo lives and works in Venice. She studied Advertising Graphics and Photography at the ISA in Cordenons. Pupil of master Gian Franco Tramontin at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she graduated in Sculpture. She was self-taught student in the Squero di San Trovaso, learning the art of gilding, a profession she developed in her own research. She has exhibited numerous times in important Italian institutions and her Studio in Venice is a meeting point for many artists from the lagoon cultural scene.
Luana Segato lives and works between Venice and Padua. She trained at the International School of Graphics in Venice, experimenting with various graphic and pictorial techniques. She attended, first as a student and then as an assistant and at the same time numerous studios of Venetian painters. Her journey in the lagoon began in 2002 and in 2008 she established her own atelier here, also shared with other Italian and foreign artists. In 2013 she moved to her current studio, Atelier Luse. She has exhibited at important Italian institutions and collaborates with numerous cultural associations.
Both Madormo and Segato are involved in the “Saloni Celesti” association which unites some important artists on the Venetian scene and participates in cultural initiatives such as the Amaci Contemporary Day and Artnight.