Castello925 - in collaboration with Cross Contemporary Art Projects - is proud to present “Vedute Palinsesti”, Martin Weinstein’s first solo show in Venice.

Martin Weinstein presents different stages of seeing by painting on layers of acrylic and allowing the layers to re-combine together and glow through one another. These paintings at first glance, seem rooted in the landscape tradition however the artworks represent perceptions that together become an individual record of space and being. In his solo exhibition, Vedute Palinsesti, the combined images are painted in multiple sessions of direct observation from Weinstein’s rented studio in Castello, Venezia at different times, different days - and sometimes even years apart - yet always from the same point of view. The final layer, placed in the back, is an abstract panel that supports the realistic layers above signifying the ultimate unknowability of reality that underpins all perception. These multiple sheets of acrylic record a period of time, experience and memory and acknowledge that all these perceptions are illusory. Richard Vine, managing editor of Art in America has written that, “although the results are deceptively traditional-looking landscapes, the process and the pictorial technique are quietly radical.”