...OR WAS IT A DREAM?

The 193 Gallery is glad to announce its debut in Venice with the exhibition Colore e Materia, to be held from 20th April to 22nd October in parallel to the BiennaleArte 2022 at Dorsoduro 556, a magnificent venue dates from the 17th century next to the Academy of Fine Arts and a few steps from the Peggy GuggenheimFoundation, the Fondazione Vedova and Punta della Dogana.

Colore e Materia (Colour and Material) is the umbrella concept gathering 3 exhibitions every two months presenting 8 international artists which best represents the 193 Gallery mission. In a time when fears and divisions overwhelm unity, our artists express identity and beauty through vivid textiles, colours, different materials, taking us to a cross-cultural journey that unites us all.

...OR WAS IT A DREAM ? ALIA ALI & ALDO CHAPARRO (April 22nd — June 22nd) curated by the 193 Gallery curator's team is the first exhibition. A duo show where we will present multi-media artist Alia Ali (Yemen/Bosnia/US) and sculptor Aldo Chaparro (México).

Alia Ali works on subjects like migration, social exclusion and histories of colonialism, and her photographs are mounted on aluminium Dibond and framed upholstered in unique fabrics from all over the world. She challenges culturally sanctioned oppression and confronts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender, politics, media and citizenship.

Aldo Chaparro works with a long-term methodology: to establish tension with the materials to ultimately transform them. He will show spontaneous sculptures created with different materials like iron and wood.