Bosco Sodi a Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. What Goes Around Comes Around

Bosco Sodi, known for using raw natural materials in large-scale works, has been selected by the Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro for an artist’s residency at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. The essential simplicity of the material and the intense pigments sought after by Sodi worldwide are the basis of his creative process, described by the artist as a “controlled chaos” that produces “something completely unrepeatable”. Bosco Sodi has been invited to compete with a Venetian palazzo in which the same dialectic between organic forms and the search for essential geometries (square, circle) can be recognised. The artist’s subject matter evokes the sinuous movement of the water that gives the shape of the Lagoon city. During his residency at the Palazzo, the artist created two large rectangular paintings, two round paintings and other minor works using also cochineal, a pigment produced in the Oaxaca region. Other works in the exhibition were conceived and executed for the occasion: the clay spheres for the installation Noi siamo uno, modelled and executed in Oaxaca, the large silver tondo and some of the fans, made in his New York studio.