VENICE, ITALY.- The Gallery of San Marco Square presents Federico Herrero and Nic Hess. Walls of color. Be it paint, adhesive tapes or plotter prints it is not significant. The viewer will feel wrapped in the bright chromatism joining two different, though artistically consentaneous artist who have decided to decorate the BLM Gallery in San Marco Square: Federico Herrero (Costa Rica, 1978) and Nic Hess (Zurig, 1968).

The energy springing from their works will not be restricted to the gallery’s space. The very heart of Venice will be animated by big painted strips hanging from the bridges and from the palaces, and by the wooden walls used for the yards of Insula which will be decorated by the artists. A double exhibition, then, for which the artists have conceived original works intended to be realized for these selected locations.

Walking through Venice is one of the richest, and yet contradictory, aspects of the city life. On the one hand, the inhabitants cannot move but walking or taking the vaporetto. This very act of forcibly shifting by feet or by water increases the charm of the city even from a human point of view. In Venice, the times for shifting can never be calculated as you always come across a friend of yours. The exhibition Walls tries to compel the viewer to lose some time also in paying attention to the decorations on the bridges and on the buildings. On the other hand, for the ones who do not live in Venice, walking through the city may produce a certain anguish of losing oneself, and of finding oneself again; a sort of taste for the labyrinth and for permanent discovering. Yet, in our memory everything is mingled into a succession of banks, canals and bridges. Decorating and highlighting the city’s work areas becomes an element which, instead of disturbing, enriches the sight of the viewer; it means to recognize that we are in an extremely dynamic city. What emerges from the yards is the image of a city which is not in decomposition but, on the contrary, a city in perpetual composition, renovation, in constant reflection of itself.