Architexture personale di B.Zarro

With ARCHITEXTURE. Human and Inhuman Architectures, the Roman artist B.ZARRO returns to Venice with an exhibition project curated by Matilde De Giovanni and Denise Martinuzzi, addressing the theme of urban transformations related to overtourism and the changing social fabric of historic cities, approached with an artistic and critical lens.

The artist continues a research path that began in 2022 with the first exhibition of the series SURVIVAL – Art For Renaissance, titled "Venice. Surreal Architectures and Visions," now provocatively exploring the limits and possibilities of urban living, navigating between aesthetic tensions and ethical questions, creating a multimedia artistic representation that unfolds in the field of Architectural Texture.

The exhibition explores the deep connection between architecture and the human soul, transcending mere shelter to become a guardian of memory and a bridge between the physicality of the present and the deep roots of existence. The series primarily focuses on architecture but maintains an artistic-social perspective on the development of contemporary society and the issues related to the excessive influx of tourists/travelers in Heritage Cities.

The title "Architexture. Human and Inhuman Architectures" reflects how the unbalanced presence of visitors can alter the social balances within cities and their architectural, urban, and economic frameworks. Starting from the Shakespearean reflection that "Cities are made by Citizens," the exhibition highlights the risk that influence shifts from residents to occasional visitors, dismantling and reassembling the urban fabric according to new economic-commercial needs.

The neologism "Architexture" merges "architecture" and "texture," understood not only as the tactile perception of surfaces but as the invisible yet palpable weave of every structure. Every building possesses its own "skin," a texture that continually interacts with the surrounding environment, reflecting the memory of presences, weather phenomena, lights, and shadows. A vision of architecture not as static but as a living organism: an urban body that breathes, reflects, suffers, and changes along with the community that inhabits it—or consumes it—whose surfaces reflect the human and "inhuman" dynamics—the flows, collective energies, and anonymous pulsations of the city.

Windows, in particular, become vibrant mirrors capturing and reflecting the ceaseless flow of lives moving outside and inside. The different shades and changing reflections are not random but visually represent the energies, origins, and stories that intersect in front of the building. Inspired by the Murano tradition, they are not nostalgic citations but transform the structure into a continuously evolving work of art, a dynamic painting that interprets the passage, making it an integral part of a visual dialogue between architecture, art, and the vibrant life of the city.

The path also unfolds in other exhibition cores, each tackling a different aspect of urban living and its fragilities, combining materials, techniques, and expressive registers.

VIE CRUCIS – New contemporary passions
Curves and shadows trace silent paths; charcoal gives voice to the invisible, where figures emerge and disappear, alternating presence and absence as stages of a personal contemporary via crucis.

MURA(NO) METROPOLITANE
Urban facades transform into living, vibrant skin. Inspired by the Murano glass tradition, the surfaces become charged with hues and meanings, becoming witnesses to the ever-changing identity of metropolises.

ETERNO INCONTRO. Bibiena's baroque meets the contemporaneity of B.ZARRO
A long-distance dialogue between two eras. The majestic perspective scenography created by Ferdinando Bibiena in 1721 lives again today through an artistic intervention that integrates its absences with new visions. It is not a restoration, but a poetic reinvention that connects baroque theatricality to contemporary sensibility.

DANZA CROMATICA – The unveiled rhythm of gesture
Brushstrokes in red, black, white, and green chase each other like emotions in motion, creating a gestural symphony that invites the eye to dance with the matter.

B&B: EQUILIBRIO IN BILICO
The paper gelatin works explore the tension between transparency and solidity, between stability and precariousness. The material itself becomes the protagonist of a reflection on existence, where every light and shadow tells our constant search for harmony in a fragile world.

ARCHITEXTURE. Human and Inhuman Architectures is an exhibition project and a critical statement. Not a show to watch, but a city to listen to.
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