Belmacz is pleased to announce that Esto Perpetua, the current group show curated by Lavinia Filippi, and realised in collaboration with Venice in Peril, will now be extended into early July.

Tiina Itkonen establishes the exhibition’s conceptual and visual framework with her 2011 photograph of San Michele Island. From this image, Venice emerges as a city where endings generate continuity, a singular place shaped not only by its fragile material fabric but also by layers of memory and immaterial heritage.

Carolyn Barker-Mill engages with an archival image, a still of Donald Sutherland from the iconic film Don’t Look Now, set against the atmospheric backdrop of Venice.

Toby Christian wakes chalk and marble on painted board, setting residual marks that recall eroded hollows and the desiccated surfaces of the evanesced. Coco Crampton explores permanence and vulnerability through abstract yet recognisable ceramic forms that recall the elegance and stratified structures of certain Venetian architectures.

Leonardo Frigo reactivates the mapping methods of the seventeenth-century Venetian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli, treating craftsmanship as knowledge carried through gesture and as a way of thinking and storytelling.

Finally, Domitilla Harding and Massimo Nordio demonstrate how traditional Murano glass techniques can remain rigorous while evolving through experimentation, embodying continuity as adaptation rather than repetition.

Belmacz
45 Davies Street
London W1K 4LX
United Kingdom

opening times: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm

Further Information

Further information on Venice in Peril may be found here