The famous Venetian sculptor celebrates his 50 years of artistic activity, creating an event collateral to that of the 51st Biennale of Venice.
The exhibition features approximately forty installations, hosted in a peculiar and innovative space, some of which were created on purpose for the show. The works outline a creative route that, starting from the first half of the 50’s, steps to the 90’s up to nowadays.
If we consider the peculiarity of the space requested by each work, the exhibition offers the visitor the absolutely extraordinary chance to enter a show route characterized by an enthralling staging.
Palazzo Cornoldi, with its cloister prepared in a way that it symbolically reminds of the spiral of Gian Maria Potenza’s logo, it is thus the ideal place to gather the artist’s most important installations.
La Riva is another protagonist, with two huge bronze sculptures dominating the spaces near the lagoon.
Wood, blown glass (coming from the skilful hand of Archimede Seguso), and mosaic help creating a surface-breaking effect. The result is the creation of structures that impose themselves on the environment more and more, forcing tridimensionality until they reach the full-relief sculpture. For the continuous use of materials such as bronze, of meticulous engraving of the material and of geometrical shapes, his work has been defined by the critica s a modern interpretation of the Venetian Gothic-Byzantine tradition.
Several solo and collective exhibitions (between the others: Bevilacqua La Masa, Biennale of Venice, Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, Museo Rivoltella in Triest) made his art known and appreciated in Italy and abroad. His works can be found in museums and both private and public collections all over the world (Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul, Waterloo Museum of Art, Hong Kong Museum of Modern Art). Preferring big assignments, he carries out also gigantic works; it is right there that we find the works for great banks’headquarters, ships, public and private offices, hotels (his works are exhibited for the occasion in the city’s most important hotels), churches, born from the collaboration with world-famous architects.

Sponsored by: Veneto Region, Province of Venice, Venice City Council, Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa.