Julian Charrière & Antonio Canova

Opens Thursday, April 30

Canova Rooms

The exhibition Spiral Economy unfolds as a dialogue between the Franco-Swiss artist Julian Charrière and Antonio Canova, through the spaces of Museo Correr, revealing the poetry of materiality.

Charrière meets Canova's idealized forms: marble as body and phantom, a vessel of beauty and a witness to profound time. The material itself takes center stage: every fissure, vein, and geological texture carries within it the memory of ancient seas and metamorphic pressures. Where Canova's marble leans toward the semblance of human flesh, Charrière evokes another truth: stone as a living body in its own right, needing no human likeness to exist.

Spiral Economy invites visitors to reflect on every attempt to measure or master time and to ultimately be absorbed into deeper, planetary durations, where matter itself becomes the supreme guardian of time.

In the historic Canova Galleries of the Museo Correr, the exhibition uncovers Canova's luminous bodies, where marble emerges as an avatar of time, bearing the traces of the Earth's slow transformations.

Curated by Chiara Squarcina and Pier Paolo Pancotto with Claudia Cargnel