The exhibition “The strength of color. Roberto Capucci at Villa Pisani” is a Strao eventRdinario, designed to pay homage to Roberto Capucci’s career, one of the most famous and innovative Italian stylists, who deeply influenced the evolution of fashion. The exhibition, which includes twenty clothes, about seventy drawings, sketches and vintage photographs explores the union between its artistic vision and the historical spaces of Villa Pisani, transforming the entire exhibition itinerary into a unique sensory experience. Exhibition promoted by the Regional Directorate Musei Veneto – National Museum of Villa Pisani in collaboration with Suazes and the Roberto Capucci Foundation. By combining fashion with history, the exhibition enhances the incredible link between its sculptural creations and the highly suggestive environments of the monumental residence founded by the Pisan family in the first half of the eighteenth century. Thus starts a new, unpredictable and suggestive dialogue, which captures attention starting from the element that perhaps more than the others has always characterized Capucci’s creations: the color.
Capucci’s works, which go beyond the traditional conception of dress, are real wearable sculptures. Each of its creations is conceived as a three -dimensional work of art, with complex lines, volumes and structures that impose themselves as real “living sculptures” or “moving sculptures”. These masterpieces not only tell Capucci’s skill and ingenuity, but also become a vehicle of emotions. The introduction of these unique pieces in the rooms of Villa Pisani takes place in the sign of an exceptional meeting: the rooms of the villa with their aesthetic charge become the ideal context to welcome Capucci’s creations, in the sign of a perfect combination that merges the elegance of fashion with the monumentality of historical spaces, in a surprising synthesis. The exhibition therefore represents a dual opportunity. On the one hand, it offers the possibility of immersing yourself in the creative universe of Roberto Capucci, one of the pioneers of contemporary fashion, who has been able to get the dress from a simple true dress and own work of art. On the other hand, it represents an invitation to discover and appreciate the historical beauty of Villa Pisani under new perspectives. Through this exhibition, the rooms of the villa come in a certain sense reclaimed by Capucci’s sculptures, real generators of space and chromatic dynamism capable of blending harmoniously with the decorations and architecture of the Pisans.
Each dress becomes a structure that rises, expands, is modeled, just like a building that grows in space, interacting with its lines, its light and its volumes. The presence of clothes in historic rooms suggests a vision of fusion between movement and static, between the dynamism of fashion and the solidity of architecture. In this scenario, the interaction between sartorial masterpieces and historical spaces opens a reflection on the nature of beauty and its evolution. Capucci’s art, which plays with sculptural shapes and bold geometries, is bridge between past and present, showing that fashion is not only a trend, but a fundamental form of artistic and cultural expression. Starting point of this dialogue is Capucci’s wedding dress inspired by the colors of Tiepolo; With a procession of four other pieces, it will be placed in the heart of the large dance hall, under the extraordinary frescoed sky of one of the major masterpieces of the Ariosa and bright painting of the eighteenth century: the apotheosis of the Pisani family, a peak of the ceiling painting by Giambattista Tiepolo. On this dress, an articulated exhibition itinerary will converge between the ground floor and a noble floor of the Museum complex of Stra. The three exhibition rooms of the ground floor will offer three important focus dedicated to color in Capucci’s work while in the south and north anti -stone of the noble floor – almost a counterpoint to the procession of clothes of the Tiepolo salon – a selection of drawings of the master and architect photographic material will allow to take a look at the creative process of the great designer. The exhibition, curated by Enrico and Paolo Alvise Minio of the Capucci Foundation and Francesco Trentini, is promoted by the Regional Directorate National Museums Veneto – National Museum of Villa Pisani in collaboration with Suazes and the Roberto Capucci Foundation. The project is carried out by the National Museum of Villa Pisani with Suazes who last year, in the same spaces organized an exhibition dedicated to the work of the photographer Federico Garolla.

Carlo Franza