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Until August 31, 2025, the M9 – Museo del ’900 in Venice Mestre presents Escalation >< Involution, a striking immersive installation by multimedia artist Alessandro Zannier. Curated by Paolo Mozzo and Sandro Orlandi Stagl and supported by OOM (Nicholas Bertini and Alex Piacentini), the work is part of a wider cultural program alongside the exhibition Arte salvata, featuring masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Braque, Dufy, and Marquet.
Hosted in the 400 sqm immersive room “Orizzonti” — equipped with 13 projectors and 20 speakers — the installation combines visuals and sound to reflect on the Anthropocene. In just ten intense minutes, shifting data-based landscapes and an enveloping soundscape (composed by Zannier himself, also known as musician Ottodix) immerse visitors in the fast-paced contradictions of our time: environmental collapse, cultural decline, and increasing technological dependency.
More than an artwork, Escalation >< Involution is an experience. Environmental and anthropic data gathered from institutions and research centers (including the Italian CNR) are transformed into emotional and aesthetic forms, expressing the alarming rise toward the “tipping point” — a threshold of irreversible global impact.
The installation expands upon Zannier’s ENT Project – 6 Continents, previously shown at the Venice Biennale (Italy 2021, Cameroon 2022), where big data and symbolic visual language were used to trace the fragile balance of our planet.
Here, the escalation of climate and information crises meets the involution of Western culture. These forces intertwine in a sensory narrative, suggesting that Earth itself now acts like a global neural network — interconnected, unstable, yet still open to change.
Produced by ARTantide Gallery (Verona), Escalation >< Involution is a powerful example of how art can move beyond storytelling to shape awareness — blending data, aesthetics, and emotional urgency into a collective experience not just to see, but to live
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Born in Treviso, Italy, on August 7th, 1971, graduated in painting from the Venice Art Academy in 1996, Zannier is a visual artist, musician, songwriter and performer.
Alessandro Zannier is an atypical conceptual visual artist that has been moving with equal intensity between electronic art music and visual arts for a long time. In the recent years, he has been working on specific concepts inspired by Physics, Astronomy, Anthropocene, Historical geography and Environment realising real conceptual manifesto albums and staging specific thematic concerts with a multimedia approach that make use of visuals, electronics, a string quartet and divulgation elements concerning the topics covered. In partnership with his art dealers and the Ethic Art Movement (ARTantide Gallery), he has participated in exhibitions in three editions of Italy – China Biennale, two of those in Beijing and one in Turin, at Curitiba Biennale (Brasil), in addition to some art exhibitions in Venice, in Polo Correr (Archaeological Museum) in San Marco square and in Ca’Foscari – Science Gallery.
via G. Pascoli Venezia Mestre
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