On November 4 at the Emeroteca dell’Arte in Mestre, Elena Bellantoni, Carola Cappellari, Cesare Pietroiusti, and the Zeroscena collective will present the results of the artistic projects developed as part of the CAFÉ – Redefining Café Houses as Unique European Cultural Heritage, co-funded by the Creative Europe program and in which ECCOM is a partner, which explores cafés as spaces for cultural production, social interaction, and community life.
Through different languages and approaches, the works of Elena Bellantoni, Carola Cappellari, Cesare Pietroiusti, and Zeroscena offer new perspectives on cafés as spaces where memory and the present, the individual and public life, daily habits and shared imaginaries intertwine.
Carola Cappellari, Il dodicesimo pannello
A photographic project inspired by Giacomo Casa’s eleven allegorical panels in the Senate Hall of Caffè Florian. Through diptychs that juxtapose historical details and contemporary images, the project creates new visual and narrative associations, imagining a symbolic twelfth panel in which memory and the present engage in dialogue.
Cesare Pietroiusti, Terzo luogo
A sound journey divided into three installations, featuring vintage radios, audio cassettes, and documentary materials. The episodes trace the history of cafés as places of gathering, debate, and artistic experimentation, from the historical avant-garde movements to contemporary experiences.
Elena Bellantoni, Rimediario, Azione per un caffè de-coloniale
A participatory project that, through coffee cups inspired by the tradition of Venetian porcelain, explores coffee as a space for connection, listening, and care. An initiative that invites reflection on the colonial legacies tied to coffee culture and encourages the imagination of new forms of encounter, reciprocity, and sharing.
Zeroscena, Café Volant
A performance piece that accompanies the act of offering a cup of coffee with small sugar sculptures shaped like paper airplanes, each containing a brief message. A convivial experience that evokes the history of cafés as places where ideas circulate, and where people meet and engage in cultural exchange.
The event, organized in collaboration with the Emeroteca dell’Arte and the Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia, will provide an opportunity to share the project’s findings and explore the contribution of contemporary art to a new interpretation of a European heritage that continues to evolve alongside society.
Admission requires a reservation at this link.
CAFE – Redefining Café Houses as Unique European Cultural Heritage is a project co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe program.
