Curatorial Notes

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After the recent passing of Marta Czok in February this year, Fondazione Marta Czok is proud to present the first exhibition following her death, featuring the international premiere of a VR collaboration with Anise Gallery and AVR London. Responding to the 2025 Architecture Biennale, this selection of works features the cityscape as key symbol in Czok’s social and political commentary and uses virtual reality to bring this to life, by reimagining Czok’s 1987 triptych ‘The Other Half/ L’Altra Metà’.

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In this the exhibition, urban utopias and dystopias are combined in Czok’s pungent political critique across the decades: at the mercy of market forces and social hierarchies, our environments, both urban and natural, have never been more fragile. Her cynical perspective is balanced by her trademark wit, which provides playful humour in her depiction of the world and its inhabitants.

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The show also marks a further step in the umbrella project ARCHĪVUM: now more than ever, the Foundation aims to create an exhaustive archive of Czok’s work. Beyond the process of cataloguing and documenting her oeuvre, this is based on exploring innovative ways in which her work may continue to be reinterpreted and reimagined for posterity. New technologies, such as VR, may provide a lens to experience her artworks and continue to expand her audiences.

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The partnership with Anise Gallery and AVR London is fundamental in this sense: it originates in an ongoing collaboration between Jacek Ludwig Scarso (Senior Curator, Fondazione Marta Czok), Jacquelyn Jubert (Director of Anise Gallery) and Joseph Robson (Director of AVR London), which has included previous projects at Tate Modern, London Art Fair and London Festival of Architecture amongst others. This collaboration will continue to be featured in our forthcoming projects internationally.

 

Anise Gallery

Founded in 2012 by Jacquelyn Jubert and Joseph Robson, Anise Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in London with a strong focus towards the architectural aesthetic. Working in a wide range of media, the gallery presents an exciting and diverse programme of exhibitions, events and talks that relate back to architecture, technology and the built environment.

 

AVR London

Established in 2006 by Joseph Robson, AVR London is a collective of artists, architects and researchers. AVR London have created thousands of images for architects and developers, specialising in illustrative CGI, virtual reality and verified planning views.  

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