Charles Mason : cul - de - sac

Oratorio di San Ludovico

Galerie Nuova Icona

Charles Mason will be showing four new sculptures in Venice.

Mason’s work generally is concerned with the ways that human beings present and represent themselves, one to another - both in terms of ideas and by means of manifest structural forms. He is particularly interested in ideas surrounding wholeness and identity making objects that create a slippage allowing them to exist somewhere between the categories of things and the properties of things

The Oratorio di San Ludovico is a small church built in the 16th Century with money left by doge Ludovico Priuli. In his will, he commissioned a building to house twelve elderly impoverished men of Venice in honor of the Apostles. The building, standing at the end of a cul - de -sac in Venice, comprised a hostel with an interconnecting small Oratorio/church constructed for the inmates devotion. The institution Ospizio Priuli still survives, functioning today as it did in the 16th C, although now on a new site in Venice. The Oratorio has recently been restored by gallery Nuova Icona.

The exhibition is co-curated by Vittorio Urbani of Nuova Icona Gallery and by Simon Wallis of the Tate Gallery Liverpool whose critical text is included in a catalogue accompanying both exhibitions

supported by the British Council