Venetian Bubbles

The event exhibition Venetian Bubbles was created by artist Jiri Georg Dokoupil, curated by Dirk Geuer on the occasion of the 60th Venice International Art Exhibition, supported by the Association for Art in Public. The opening press conference and Vernissage were coordinated by Once Extraordinary Events; friends, family and fellow artists came to celebrate Dokoupil and admire the explosion of color-a tribute to La Serenissima-in the Sansovinian Hall. This was also the first official exhibition with the new director of the Marciana Library, Stefano Trovato.

Georg Dokoupil, a revolutionary artist who explored the technique of mixing soap with pigments and blowing bubbles on a paint-covered canvas, has been working on this technique since the 1970s. The artist reflects on fundamental themes of the human condition: the breath required to create the bubbles evokes the fleetingness of life.

The exhibition, specifically, features seven large paintings depicting soap bubbles colored with his technique, along with eight glass sculptures. The glass sculptures are a three-dimensional extension of the Soap Bubble Paintings and are a tribute to the master glassmakers of Bohemia.

Among the main pieces in the exhibition is Open Bubbles Condensation Cube, a tribute to Dokoupil’s master, Hans Haake.

The exhibition opened June 22 and will be on view until Aug. 18 at the Marian National Library in Venice.