Chutzpah

“Chutzpah” is a Yiddish term meaning the impudence of those who believe excessively in themselves, but over the years it has been used in English as a way to express a certain boldness that allows you to get out of the box and perform unthinkable actions.

Courage and boldness are certainly characteristics of the AdE BIG collective: their works are the result of a work on the verge of virtuosity, which arises from a form of obsession, and which allows the collective to reach levels of extreme technical perfectionism. Tenda-Mater  has been one of the major installations: a self-supporting tent placed in the space in such a way as to incorporate the last oculus of the facade overlooking St. Mark’s Square: a metaphor of the complex relationship between subjective interiority and external reality and of the transforming power of art.

Pater, the Over-Lived is a large two-dimensional structure meant to divide the space in two, made with the same materials as the tent: on one side a red fabric created by stretching meters of adhesive tape on the canvas, on which a metallic leaf design stands out; on the other side, the Cameluxe, a warm recycled camel wool.

The exhibition has been completed by the large zoomorphic drawing Mater GB7, in many colours and gold leaf, and the series of 12 drawings entitled Oracular Cells.