Sabrina Montiel-Soto La Pequeña Venecia y otras realidades posibles Little Venice and other possible realities
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia Mi piace, Veneto, Venezia, 07/23/2014 - 08/03/2014
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The name of Venezuela is said to have originated from an
expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda in 1499. Upon arriving at the
Venezuelan coast, the stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo
reminded the navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice,
so he named the region "Veneziola", literally "little Venice".
Venezuelian artist Sabrina Montiel-Soto, resident in Brussels
and born in the country where such etymologies originated,
delivers a work where both identities meet, by exploring one
another while acknowledging their respective cultures.
Her work confronts two realities, the indigenous and the
Venetian, each with their own particular aesthetics and graphic
identities. The artist takes up the role of an alchemist, who
adopts one identity and overlays the other, contrasting them
both in a fictional dialogue of instances made up of mixed media
such as printmaking (etchings, typography, monoprint),
sculpture-like objects, sound and video.
Montiel-Soto hides the obvious and leaves the essential, to
create the mystery of what it is now, what was once and what
could yet be, from an old colonist's point of view. All artwork
has been created during the residency at the Scuola
international di grafica di Venezia and in cooperation with APT,
Artist Pension Trust.
Photo credit:
Sabrina Montiel-Soto
Venise-Zuela
1976 guidebook, typography carved wood.
Series object by La Pequeña Venecia y otras realidades posibles Venezia, Italy 2014
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The name of Venezuela is said to have originated from an
expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda in 1499. Upon arriving at the
Venezuelan coast, the stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo
reminded the navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice,
so he named the region "Veneziola", literally "little Venice".
Venezuelian artist Sabrina Montiel-Soto, resident in Brussels
and born in the country where such etymologies originated,
delivers a work where both identities meet, by exploring one
another while acknowledging their respective cultures.
Her work confronts two realities, the indigenous and the
Venetian, each with their own particular aesthetics and graphic
identities. The artist takes up the role of an alchemist, who
adopts one identity and overlays the other, contrasting them
both in a fictional dialogue of instances made up of mixed media
such as printmaking (etchings, typography, monoprint),
sculpture-like objects, sound and video.
Montiel-Soto hides the obvious and leaves the essential, to
create the mystery of what it is now, what was once and what
could yet be, from an old colonist's point of view. All artwork
has been created during the residency at the Scuola
international di grafica di Venezia and in cooperation with APT,
Artist Pension Trust.
Photo credit:
Sabrina Montiel-Soto
Venise-Zuela
1976 guidebook, typography carved wood.
Series object by La Pequeña Venecia y otras realidades posibles Venezia, Italy 2014
For More Information