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"Venice's Ca' Rezzonico museum, which occupies a magnificent 18th-century white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal, makes a splash into modern day as it hosts the recently opened exhibition \"A Very Light Art.\" Featuring the work of seven international contemporary artists\u2014 Mario Air\u00F2, Luigi Ontani, and Gabriel Orozco among them\u2014the bold, functional pieces serve as a striking visual foil to the museum's frescoes, gilded interiors, and permanent collection of 18th-century Venetian decorative arts.\n\nPinterestFacebook*Roiseau 12,* 2012, by Gabriel Orozco (in the foreground).\n\nThe exhibition's curator, Cornelia Lauf, a German-American art historian and editor based in Rome, explains, \"In the past it was normal to commission artists to make useful everyday objects. Today, however, this concept has become so rare as to be avant-garde.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookFrom left: *Nel Regno del Ragno Eggoista,* 2005, by Luigi Ontani. *Mayadusa,* 1987\u201388 (hanging), and *Vanitaso,* 2000 (on table), also by Ontani.\n\nLauf asked a handful of talents to create new, decorative pieces specifically for the show\u2014and for the grand backdrop the museum provides. \"Artists often thrive on being given a theme around which to work,\" she says. \"In this case, the 18th-century interiors of Ca' Rezzonico set the tone for technical finesse.\"\n\nPinterestFacebook*Senza titolo [Untitled],* 2012, by Heimo Zobernig.\n\nHighlights from the exhibition include Italian artist Stefano Arienti's light installation incorporating tree branches and Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig's light sculpture featuring large ruby-red glass spheres hanging from the ceiling.\n\n\"A Very Light Art\" is on view through November 24; carezzonico.visitmuve.it\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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