Ozpetek and the installation in which Venice has the face of Kasia Smutniak- Corriere.it
At the Maxxi museum, «Venetika» is in the square named after Alighiero Boetti: Mara Venier. , the musician Shel Shapiro, the producer Domenico Procacci, husband of the actress, and the talk show moderated by Paolo Conti
When a director imagines a city: Venice for Ferzan Ozpetek has the ethereal and mysterious beauty of Kasia Smutniak, actress and model of Polish origin called to interpret the Serenissima. At the Maxxi museum, the «Venetika» installation is in the square named after Alighiero Boetti. A breathtaking beauty in apnea. Kasia Smutniak is Venice. This is how Ferzan Ozpetek imagines the city of the lagoon, with the mysterious and elusive face of the actress who she wanted in 2013 on the set of «Fasten your seat belts».
Her portrait, neither siren nor Ophelia, is superimposed on the fragments of palaces, paintings, icons, ponds of an urban scenario that regenerates itself continuously, feeding on its own image. The “Venetika” video installation, presented at Maxxi over a long afternoon (vernissage in Piazza Alighiero Boetti, talk moderated by Paolo Conti, and cocktail for 200 guests), is an invitation to museum visitors to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the Serenissima, represented from a red box, a cube where images count, but also the scents and sounds composed of the singer and producer Sezen Aksu (queen of Turkish pop). All this, while the new edition of the Venice Biennale of Art approaches, as passed by the president of the Maxxi Foundation Giovanna Melandri. In the parterre of friends there were Mara Venier, the musician Shel Shapiro (his hit “But what is our fault”), just hosted in Sunday insideand then the director of Rai1 Stefano Coletta, the actress Valeria Solarino, the producer Domenico Procacci (husband of Kasia), the president of Fondaco Italia Enrico Bressan, the curator Giovanna Zabotti, and Lucia Boscaini (Bulgari).
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March 31, 2022 (change March 31, 2022 | 07:31)
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