Two years after his demise, an intense and touching retrospective of the great venetian photographer Fulvio Roiter on display until 26th of August at Casa dei Tre Oci.

200 photographs, most of them vintage, accopanying from 1948 to 2007 the life and trips of Fulvio Roiter in the most complete monographic exhibition ever realized on the author and the first after his recent demise, on April 18 2016. A tribute and a memory that ‘Casa dei Tre Oci’ want to dedicate to the photographer which linked the image of Venice to his name, more than others.

The exhibition, promoted by Fondazione di Venezia in partnership with Città di Venezia and curated by Denis Curti, has been possible thanks to the wife Lou Embo; the works on display let emerge all the width and the internationality of the work of Fulvio Roiter, putting him between the most relevant photographers of our days. Starting from the origins and the chance that determined the first approaches of Roiter to the photograph, in the middle of the neorealism season, from which he acquired the delicacy of composition, the path narrate the unknown and incredible imaginary which represent Venice and the lagoon, as well as the trips to New Orleans, Belgium, Portugal, Andalucia and Brazil. The set-up is enriched with video projections, spectacular enlargments and about twenty original books which not only give the possibility to see the work of Roiter on paper but shows also the numerous reviews of many authors on his works, such as Andrea Zanzotto, Italo Zannier, Alberto Moravia, Ignazio Roiter, Fulvio Merlak, Gian Antonio Stella, Roberto Mutti, Giorgio Tani, Enzo Biagi.

Entrance: 12€

Reduced: 10€

Open everyday exept tuesday from 10am to 7pm.

Literature, like all art, is a confession that life is not enough. (Fernando Pessoa)

Melancholy and vanity, the ironic game of identity and the politics of autobiography, the existencial reflection and the body as a sculpture, effigy or fragment and its symbolic representation: it opens on sunday April 8 at Punta della Dogana “Dancing with myself” a collective exhibition that inspects the primordial importance of the self representation in the artistic production from the 70ies until now and the role of the artist as protagonist or object itself of the work.

Photography, video, painting, sculpture, installations, which narrate culture and origin, generations and experiences of artists with different art inclinations. The exhibition, curated by Martin Bethenod and Florian Ebner it was born from the collaboration between the Pinault collection and the Folkwang museum of Essen, and it was presented in its first representation in Essen in 2016. It was deeply rethink for the Punta della Dogana spaces, with more than 56 works that didn’t appear in the German museum. The exhibition gather around 100 works of the Pinault Collection – from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Fazier, from Gilbert and George to Cindy Sherman, from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan – dialoguing with a selection of works coming from Volkwang Museum. 

De Chirico, Morandi and “a room for Zoran” on display for Spring at Palazzo Fortuny from March 24 to July 23 the subjects of collecting, the reasons and the passion lying under the inception of a personal collection are the focus of the exhibition dedicated to the collection of Giuseppe Merlini. 

Sculture, drawings and above all painting: Merlini’s collection range between works which date back to the founding moment of the modern experience –  drawings by Amedeo Modigliani, paintings by Filippo de Pisis and then works by Adolfo Wildt, Giorgio De Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Mario Sironi, Gino Severini, Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli – till Italian Abstractionism or the Informal with important works by Mario Radice, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Piero Dorazio, Giulio Turcato, Roberto Crippa, Alfredo Chighine, Piero Ruggeri.

A really wide overview of the Italian art in the XX century which invites you to a significant question: which energies push to persist in the collecting challenge? Which intellectual curiosity, which random meetings guide the  selection, helping to give to any collection its proper appearance pushing to be available for the public?

Entrance: 10€

Reduced: 8€

Palazzo Zaguri presents “Venice Secrets, Crime and Justice” Exhibition – from March 31, 2018 in Venice.
A ground-breaking exhibition, illustrating the darker aspects of Venetian history through the theme of justice, with unique items and suggestive reconstructions, debunking myths and false myths about one of the most long-lived, and avant-garde under various aspects, historical realities within the European panorama.
The exhibition circuit is structured in four sections: inquests and torture, prisons and prisoners, capital executions, the Inquisition between myths and legends.
The thirty-six showcasing rooms will offer the opportunity of viewing hundreds of instruments for torture and death, dozens of paintings, period garments and ancient books, all displayed to the world for the very first time and emerging from libraries, museums and private collections, from Italy and abroad.
Experts have reconstructed inquisition cells, and an anatomical theatre with plastinated corpses, recalling how executed persons were used for scientific purposes.
International scholars and famous writers have worked in order to narrate and bring back to life great tragedies, like the ones regarding the Doge Marin Falier or the Count of Carmagnola, or libertines like Lorenzo Da Ponte and Giacomo Casanova, who both used to frequent Ca’ Zaguri. Not only the terrifying spectacles of death sentences and the hellish punishments inflicted, but also the many folk spin-offs about the poor little baker or the monster Biagio Luganegher.
In addition to such stories, the secrets of the magistrate benches which made up the structure of the State are also revealed. Ample space is dedicated to the Holy Office through several examples: from the clash between the Republic of Venice and the Holy See, to the figures of the Servite Friar Paolo Sarpi, the philosopher Giordano Bruno and the courtesan Veronica Franco.

Open every day, from Monday to Sunday, from 10am to 9pm.

Info: www.venicesecrets.net

It opens the day 26th of december 2017 inside the 2500 mq exhibition space 123 in Jesolo Lido and will bring the Big Egypt in the Venetian area until the 30th of June.

Unique evidences and evocative reconstructions of pyramids, in a captivating and interactive format: this is the focus of the exhibition ‘Egypt. Gods, Pharaohs, Men’ curated and produced by Venice Exhibition Srl, promoter society of international exhibitions, and Cultour Active Srl, a Society of Treviso, pioneer of the duo culture and digital since 2011, supported during this project by a scientific committee of Egyptology experts.

The Exhibition

Have you ever explored an Egyptian burial chamber? During the itinerary you will see even two of them in 1:1 scale: the artesan Pashed grave and the legendary Tutankhamon grave, ‘the young boy pharaoh’, twelfth king of the XVIII Egyptian dinasty, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. During the visit it will be possible to take a closer look to the very ancient original evidences of this civilization born and raised alongside the Nilo’s banks, evidences coming from the most important Egyptian collections of Italian and foreigner museums.

It will be an absolute experience that will not only allow you to see, know and analyze the Egyptian world, but also to feel it, thanks to the many interactive multimedia supports along the exhibition itinerary.

PRICES

Adults with free audioguide 16€

Reduced with free audioguide 12€

Kids 6-12 years old with free audioguide 8€

Kids 0-5 years old and persons acompanying dependents persons with disabilities: free

An extraordinary heap of technique and creativity. This is what hold a Venecian glass pearl. Little and precious artifacts of rare beauty that accompany with all their different typologies, the Venician glass history, will be protagonist of ‘The world in a pearl’ exhibition until the 15th of April 2018 inside the ex-glass smallwares spaces of the Murano glass Museum.

The exhibition comes from the long catalogue work and from the study of the collections of pearls of the Murano glass Museum made by the ‘Musei Civici Veneziani’ foundation by Augusto Panini, one of the main experts in this field, who published the first detailded catalogue of these artistic objects. The pearl universe is a unique one: not just decorative objects but also a precious bargaining chip, exported in huge quantity during the XIX century towards West Africa colonies, India and Americas; a desired and valued piece of jewellery that the old native americans exchanged for that territory that today we know as Manhattan.

The Murano glass Museum collection is made of 85 sample folders with 14182 pearls, of 3 fabric panels from 1863, a gift from the ‘Unite Industries Society’ containing 2015 pearls and 266 bunches of glass smallwares and 91 bunches of lampwork beads some of them incomplete: 8957 intact pearls, 274 fragmented ones and 492 bunches of glass smallwares. Disappeared since 1912 the inventory written by the Abbot Zanetti, just know it is possible to link some of the pearls, bunches and panels to some operative glass factories of Venice and Murano between 1920 and 1980 so as to the glass makers, masters of art and enlightened businessmen like giovanni Battista Franchini, Domenico Bussolin, Benedetto Giorgio Barbaria, Antonio Salviati, Pietro Bigaglia and  Giovanni Giacomuzzi that, with generosity and civic sense, donated to the city museum some pieces of their best fresh production.

Full ticket 10€

Reduced ticket 7,50€

Everything is ready for the most magical night of the year!

The usual appointment with the fireworks show will be in St. Mark’s square at midnight and will enlighten the first night of the year.

But this isn’t the only thing you can do on New Year’s Eve in Venice.

Venice, St. Mark’s Basin

Riva degli Schiavoni, Riva Ca’ di Dio, Riva San Biagio and Riva dei Sette Martiri are the best places for watching the fireworks show. On the next day, January 1st, a 11.15 am, the twenty-fourth edition of “Auguri di Capodanno sulla spiaggia del Lido di Venezia” will take place. The event will be at the Blue Moon beach in Lido.

Myung-Whun Chung, the Korean award-winning maestro, will conduct the orchestra for the fifteenth edition of the New Year’s Concert at Teatro La Fenice.

The program is divided in two parts. The first one will be purely orchestral and the second one will be dedicated to a opera with arias, duets and choral parts from the most loved opera repertoire.

The appointments at the theatre are five:

• Thursday, December 28th at 8 pm
• Friday, December 29th at 8 pm
• Saturday, December 30th at 5 pm
• Sunday, December 31st at 4 pm
• Monday, January 1st at 11:15 am

The second part of the New Year’s Concert will be broadcasted live on Rai1 and later on Rai5.

Mestre, Piazza Ferretto

In Mestre, the New Year’s Eve is awaited too and it will be celebrated with the exceptional presence of Radio PiterPan, from 10.30pm till 1.30am.

Luisa Corna and the new band Le Deva will be the protagonist of the whole night, with Marco Baxo, Dj Lady Helen and Dj Andy Mancuso.

Trasportations

For the occasion there will be more waterbusses during the night after the fireworks show.

This will help everyone to reach their home easily.

Also the regular transportations between Venice and Mestre will be more frequent until midnight and after the fireworks show.

The People Mover will be working till 3am.

There will be more trains from Venice to Mestre, Castelfranco, Treviso, Portogruaro and Padua too.

From Russia to China, from Korea to Argentina, from Nigeria to India and Iran: this si Stefano de Luigi’s 3-years photography trip. Stefano’s pictures tell the story of a trip around the world, far from the luxury of Hollywood but rich and sparkling at the same time.

His picture will be shown until January 28, 2018 at the 3° floor of Centro Culturale Candiani in Mestre, where Luigi’s photos are collected inside the exhibition called Cinema Mundi.

“Thanks to the movies I studied the light” the photographer says, he’s talking about that light we can recognize in his pictures. Stefano is curious and brave, he became a photographer in 1988, making portraits, reportage and photojournalism. He won several awards, among them we can mention the World Press Photo, that he won for 4 times, and many publications in Vanity Fair, Time, New Yorker, Le Monde Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, Internazionale, D repubblica, Newsweek…

Cinema Mundi opened the 20th edition of Mestre Film Festival a small but a long-running show.

They are three, and there you can become a child again by wearing a pair of ice skates.
As always, around Christmas time, the three ice skating rinks open in Venice, Mestre and Marghera, giving a magical touch to our holidays.

1. Venice: Campo San Polo

From December 7 (2017) to February 14 (2018)
The ice skating rink is open daily, and you can rent the ice skates directly there. Your turn will end after an hour and a half, with a break for the staff of about 30 minutes.
Between the last morning turn, there will be a break of an hour, from 12.30am to 1.30pm.

Remember that wearing gloves at the skating rink is mandatory.

2. Mestre: Piazza Ferretto

From December 2 (2017) to February 14 (2018)
Your turn will end after an hour and a half, with a break for the staff of about 30 minutes.
Between the last morning turn, there will be a break of an hour, from 12.30am to 1.30pm.

The ticket costs 5 euros per person and 3 euros per kid.
You can also come with your own ice skates.

Remember that wearing gloves at the skating rink is mandatory.

DECEMBER 2017 HOURS

December 7 3pm – 7pm
December 8,9 11am – 9pm
December 10 11am – 7pm
Dec 11,12,13,14,15 3pm – 7pm
December 16 11am – 9pm
December 17 11am – 7pm
Dec 18,19,20,21,22nd 3pm – 7pm
December 23 11am – 9pm
December 24 11am – 5pm
Dec 25,26,27,28,29,30 11am – 5pm
December 18,19,20,21 11am – 7pm
December 31 11am – 5pm

JANUARY 2018 HOURS

January 1 3 pm – 7 pm
January 2,3,4,5,6,7 11am – 7pm
January 8 DAY OFF
January 9,10,11,12 3pm – 7pm
January 13 11 am – 9 pm
January 14 11 am – 7 pm
January 15 DAY OFF
January 16,17,18,19 3pm – 7pm
January 20 11 am – 9 pm
January 21 11 am – 7pm
January 22 DAY OFF
January 23,24,25 3pm – 7pm
January 26 3pm – 9pm
January 27 11am – 9pm
January 28 11am – 7pm
January 29,30,31 3pm – 7pm

FEBRUARY 2018 HOURS
February 1 3pm – 7pm
February 2 3pm – 9pm
February 3 11am – 9pm
February 4 11am – 7pm
February 5,6,7 3pm – 7pm
February 8,9 3pm – 9pm
February 10,11,12,13 11am – 9pm
February 14 3pm – 7pm

3. Marghera: Parco Catene

From December 1 (2017) to January 7 (2018)
Courses and exhibitions are available during all the opening period. On January 20, there will be an exhibition to close the ice skating rink.

130 artworks, 10 sections and 3 main characters, who let the relaunch of Venice’s culture after Napoleon. These are the numbers of “Canova, Hayes, Cicognara. The last glory of Venice” the exhibition that from September 29, 2017, to April 2, 2018 celebrates the bicentenary of the Gallerie dell’Accademia foundation.

An homage to the period between the 1815, when the Horses of Saint Mark came back to the city, and the 1822, when Canova died, an important period for the history of the Serenissima Republic. A sort of rebirth for the cultural life of Venice.

Leopoldo Cicognara, intellectual and president of the Academy of Fine Arts, worked with his friend Antonio Canova, tutelary deity of this project, and Francesco Hayes to gave birth to a museum of international importance, that could give value to the extraordinary Venetian artistic heritage, promoting contemporary art at the same time.

The masterpieces you will see at the exhibition are divided in 10 thematic sections, among them you’ll notice the prestigious collection of manufactures that Francesco I, the imperator, sent to his court in Vienna in 1818. They are known as “the Venetian Provences’ homage”. For the first time after 200 years, they are coming back to Venice.

You’ll also see the Canova’s Musa Polimnia, paintings, sculptures and several marble vases. An entire floor is dedicated to Murano glass and precious bindings, representing the highest artistic production of the Neoclassical period in Venice.

Tickets

Full price ticket, Gallerie dell’Accademia + Mostra Canova, Hayez, Cicognara: € 15.00

Splendid gems, precious stones, ancient and legendary jewels close to a contemporary exhibition. Over 270 pieces are hosted at the Doge’s Palace in Venice and tell us about a 500-year history of art. This unprecedented exhibition is related to the Indian subcontinent, both for its origin and inspiration.

After New York, London, Paris and Kyoto, “Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas” arrives in Venice, for the first time in Italy. A prestigious exhibition, dedicated to Indians jewels and gems, that belong to the Al Thani Collection.  We are talking about a journey through 5 centuries, from XVI to XX century, among design and beauty. This collection testifies the deep twist of different cultures, trough their mutual influences, between the Easter and Western culture.

Promoted by Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice, the exhibition is curated by Amin Jaffer, Senior Curator of the sheik Hamas bin Abdullah Al Thani’s collection, a member of the royal family of Qatar and Gian Carlo Calza, researcher of the Far East art, with the scientific direction of Gabriella Belli.

The exhibition will be open from September 9, 2017 to January 3, 2018.

One of the most important photographers of the ‘90s, one of the founders of Magnum agency: from September 22 to February 25, the Casa dei Tre Oci will host a great anthology, dedicated to Werner Bischof (1916-1954). An exhibition curated by his own son Marco Bischof and organized by Fondazione di Venezia and Civita Tre Venezia, in collaboration with Magnum Photos and with Werner Bischof Estate.

250 pictures, taken from Werner Bischof’s most important reportages, are presented at the exhibition. A journey through all those distant places, where the Swiss artist visited during his life. From India to Japan, from Korea to Indochina, until Panama, Chile, and Perù. For the first time, we will see a selection of 20 black-and-white photos.

Bischof, considered one of the best photojournalists, didn’t only look at the world through the lens of his camera, but tried to tell a story about the people he met and describe through his pictures those dichotomies between the poverty and the industrial development, business and spirituality, modernity and tradition.

Magister Giotto is an exhibition that, after 750 years from this great maestro’s birth, let you get close to the most hidden meanings of his artworks. A synergy of words, music, and images in an unprecedented multimedia exhibit. A unique occasion, that Venice couldn’t miss. In fact, the appointment is at Scuola Grande Della Misericordia, from July 13 to November 5.

Light and color. Landscapes and faces. Simplicity and naturalism. And above all, a lot of details you’ve never seen so closely: from the first kiss in the history of art to the Halley’s Comet. Magister Giotto presents an accurate, meticulous and almost magic multimedia journey, that winds through impressive spaces, scenographic reconstructions, illusionary visions thank technology. Art is enhanced by technology, which gives all visitors the chance of living an unprecedented experience.

A touching 45-minute account will accompany you during the visit. Music, words and suggestive images tell about Giotto’s revolution, thanks to Luca Zingaretti’s voice and Paolo Fresu’s exclusive soundtrack too.

the stories of St. Francis’, the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, the majestic crucifixes and the other works the artist made in Florence are the base of the narration, which ends with the Giotto Mission in 1986, organized by the European Space Agency. That was the first time the Halley’s Comet was intercepted. The same comet Giotto painted in the Adoration of the Magi, in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Timetable

From Sunday to Friday: from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm

Saturday: from 10:30 am to 12:30 am.

From August 26, 2017 to January 7, 2018 Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the dossier exhibition PICASSO, at the exhibition spaces of Project Rooms.

Through a unique and fine selection of artworks (3 paintings and 10 draws made by Pablo Picasso from February 1987 and December of the same year) Barbero tries to show the artist’s work under a new light. The main objective is highlighting Picasso’s relationship with the Mediterranean Sea, which had an important role in his artistic career. From his roots in Spain to his life in France.

The exhibit was born thanks to the collaboration with the Musée Picasso, in Paris and it winds around one masterpiece that Peggy Guggenheim herself loved so much: Picasso’s On the Beach (La Baignade). Nowadays this painting belongs to the Venetian museum. The exhibition is part of the triennale Picasso-Méditerranée program, promoted by the Musée National Picasso-Paris, which includes seminars, publications, studies and exhibitions. More than sixty institutions have cooperating in organizing a series of exhibitions about Picasso’s “obstinate Mediterranean” artwork, in order to celebrate his art and his relationship with the Mediterranean culture.

Venice is always magic, but there’s a night in particular, during the year, that is special: the night of the Redentore Feast.

The third Saturday of July, as tradition dictates, the city of Venice become the center of a feast that you won’t forget. St Mark’s Basin is going to be full of boats, the fondamenta will hosts hundreds of people with tables and lot of typical food.

The sky is getting ready to be the perfect scenery for an amazing firework performance.

The programma of the Redentore Feast 2017

7pm – The votive bridge, which connects Zattere with Redentore Church on Giudecca Island, opens.

You’ll walk literally above water, through what Venetians usually call a “pontoon bridge”, to reach the other side of the canal and get started with a yummy dinner with friends.

7pm – Presentation of the Venetian regatta boat crews.

11.30 pm – Firework display in St. Mark’s Basin

Other events

ASSEGGIANO: Firework display at 11.30 pm.

FAVARO VENETO: From 6.00 pm “Redentore a Favaro Veneto”, at the sport centre in via Monte Cervino. Firework display at 11.30 pm.

MALCONTENTA: From 4.30 pm Redentore at Malcontenta, by the parrish church. Firework display at 11.30 pm.

PELLESTRINA: From 7.30 pm Redentote at Pellestrina, by Piazza Zendrini. Firework display at 11.30 pm.

Sunday 16th July 2017

Regate del Redentore (Regatta of the Redeemer) – Giudecca Canal

4.00 pm children’s twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
4.45 pm twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
5.30 pm twin-oared gondola regatta
7.00 p.m. – Votive Mass at the Chiesa del Redentore on the island of Giudecca

Parties in St Mark’s Basin and more

You can celebrate the Redentore Feast in different ways. Of course if you have a boat, we suggest you to use it and get to the basin before 7pm.

If you don’t have you own boat you can still celebrate the redentore Feast on the Jolly Roger ship at a price of 160 euros per person or at Serra dei Giardini, where a techno party will take place right after the fireworks and there will be an additional party on a boat from 3am to 10am (this is free).

Another party will be in Lido, at Nicelli airport with Altavoz + Yolo (electronic and hip hop music, from 10pm to 7am).

If you simply want to stroll around Giudecca Island, you can easily do it since the votive bridge will be open till Sunday 16th at 10pm.

Trasportations

The Actv, public transportation company, will increase the number of buses and vaporetti from Venice:

• People Mover: from Piazzale Roma to Tronchetto will be available till 3am
• Trains from Venice to Mestre: at 1.01am, 1..10am, 1.20am, 1.50am, 2.05am
• Train from Venice to Treviso at 2.45am
• Train from Venice to Padua at 2.10 am
• Train from Venice to Vicenza at 2.50am.

Venice wakes up early, with all its tourists going throughout its streets. The Rialto’s Market is opening and preparing fish not the counters. Venetian palaces bright when they see themselves on the water and the vaporetti start running up and down the Grande Canal to bring people to different museums and locations.

But in the night, everything stops. Venice seems to be wrapped by a magic silence. Some souls are walking around, but the majestic Venetian buildings have already fallen asleep, as in a fascinating Renaissance painting.

Imagine to live a quiet Venetian night, discovering the masterpieces of the Doge’s Palace. It’s the symbol of Venice, that still reminds us about the glorious past of the Serenissima Republic.

Have you ever thought about the possibility to visit it by night?

The Doge’s Palace opens its doors to public after 8pm.

When:

Saturday, July 22nd 2017

Saturday, August 12th 2017

Saturday, August 26th 2017

Price per person: €39,00

Info and bookings: events@parkviaggi.it

Meeting point: 7:50pm between the two columns in St. Mark’s Square.

The tour starts at 8pm

If you love mistery and you think you have enough courage, this tour might interest you!

A new evening walking tour to discover hidden paths is now available and dedicated to Venetian legends and events.

Are you ready to visit a forgotten crypt?

We suggest you to join this tour with a group of brave friends, since you are going to discover and explore a crypt just with a candle. You’ll see ancient frescos all over the walls. You’ll find yourself surrounded by skulls and a skeleton painted on a recess.

The adventure then continues among strees and little squares, where the tour guide will reveal you some scary stories about mysterious fact the happened there.

When:

Sunday, July 8

Friday, July 21

Sunday, August 13

Duration: 2 hours

Meeting point: in front of Venice train station, at 6.45om

Prices: 18,00 euros per person (advanced payment required, through your bank account)

+ 1 euro to pay the day of the visit

Total: 19 euros per person

To book your sit, please send an email to events@parkviaggi.it

Everyone was waiting for Intuition, the exhibition organized by Vervoordt Foundation, which will be hosted at Palazzo Fortuna till November 26.

Intuition opens its doors in the same period of the Venice Biennale 2017. This exhibition wants to show how intuition always influences art as in different corners of the world as in cultures and generations.

The exhibition has been curated by Daniela Ferretti and Axel Vervoordt, and the co-curator is Dario Dalla Lana.

In order to realize this amazing exhibit, ancient objects and works of art have been collected and put together with modern and contemporary pieces of art. All these masterpieces are tied to the concept of intuition, dream, paranormal fantasy, meditation, creative power, telepathy and inspiration.

Intuition is the last one of a series of exhibitions which have had a great success of public and critics, such as Artetempo (2007), In-finitum (2009), TRA (2001 and Proportio (2015).

Intuition derives from Latin (intueor) and refers to an uninexplicable form of knowledge, which reveals itself through sudden flashes, images, sounds and experiences.

Intuition is the capability of a human being to learn things without any evidence or reasoning. It’s a feeling which guides you to a certain point, without knowing why.

Four entire days of music, art and parties in the heat of Venice and on its islands.

The 5th edition of Venezia More Festival 2017 is taking place from June 8 to June 11!

Thursday JUNE 8th – Opening – SECRET VENUE

Xavier Veilhan (DJ set)

Jacques (live)

6 pm – Midnight

No tickets. Pass holders only.

Friday JUNE 9th – SAN SERVOLO ISLAND

7.30 pm – 4 am (Boat shuttles from Tronchetto and San Marco)

LIVE STAGE

Joe Goddard (live)

Parcels (live)

Hard Ton (live)

CLUB

Claudio Coccoluto (3 hours DJ set)

Saturday JUNE 10th – BAIA DEL FORTE MARGHERA

6 pm – 3 am

Todd Terje (live solo)

dOP (live)

Konstantin Sibold (DJ set)

Zombie Zombie (live)

Kosme (DJ set)

Sunday JUNE 11th – BAIA DEL FORTE MARGHERA

Noon – 11 pm

HUNEE (DJ set)

Pablo Valentino (DJ set)-

Polo & Pan (live)

Tickets and offers

If you want to know more about tickets and offers, just visit the official website of the event. 

As usual, the Festival of Fools is coming to Venice. This is a cultural event based on the idea of madness, an opportunity to to think about creativity and communication.

This is the 8th edition of the Festival of Fools and its title is : Temporali (Thunderstorms). It will take place in Venice from the 26th to the 28th of May, 2017.

The event will be full of conferences, debates and show all focused on the theme of madness, that captivates all of us, in some way.

People who experience madness and people who just touched it lightly will meet, along with tv celebrities and famous cultural figures, such as philosophers, artists and directors.

In a moment of our life where shortcuts are the favorite choice for everything, there’s still someone asking for a break and a thunderstorm that might change the scene.

You know that summer is coming when the Peggy Guggenheim Collection organizes its annual event with Aperol Spritz.

Happyspritz@guggenheim is finally back, the most “social” event in summer.

Venice goes hand in hand with its typical bars, that’s true, but this is a way to have a spritz surrounded by art that you won’t find anywhere else in the city.

Different DJs will enliven the evening at the Nasher Sculpture Garden, creating a unique soundtrack for the event.

Save the dates on your calendar, because this is something you can’t miss!

PROGRAMME

May 15, 2017
Lorenzo Senni / LIM

May, 29, 2017
Palm Wine / Lorenzo BITW

June 12, 2017
Daniele Baldelli / Nan Kolè

TICKETS:

The ticket to the museum for Happyspritz@guggenheim costs 13 euros, but if you own the Young Pass, you get a reduction of 5 euros, including a priority access.

You can buy the ticket online on the Happyspritz@guggenheim official website, the Wednesday before each Happyspritz evening. If the online tickets sell out, you can still purchase them at the museum, from 7pm.

The event stars at 7pm .

The ticket includes two drinks.

The Fèsta de la Sènsa is the Venetian name for the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.

Venice cares a lot about this feast, in fact, the celebration lasts for 2 days, every year.

The Festa de la Sensa is a annual meeting that makes you relive the important relationship between the Serenissima Republic and the Sea. This is also an occasion to take the oars and start rowing as Venetian used to do and still do.

The Festa de la Sensa celebrates two important events for the Serenissima Republic: the day when Pietro II Orseolo, 26th Doge of Venice, helped Dalmatians who had been threatened by Slavs (May 9, 1000) and the establishment of the Peace of Venice, a peace treaty between the papacy and its allies, in 1177.

For all these reasons the Council of Ten decided to celebrate the Festa de la Sensa every year, on the Assumption Day. Another celebration you should attend on these days is the so-called Sposalizio del Mare (Wedding with the Sea).

Every year, the Doge, on board the Bucintoro (the doge’s official ship), reached the island if St. Elena, where the bishop of Venice was waiting for him. Once there the bishop blessed the Doge, then the Chief of Venice used to throw a ring into the water, as if he got married with the sea.

Festa de la Sensa programme

May 27th

Sensa’s Ceremony

May 28th

Sense water parade

9.am: Meeting time in St. Mark’s Basin

9.30 am: Start of the parade

10.30am: Wedding with the Sea ceremony in front of St. Nicolò Church in Lido

11am: Concert by Coro Serenissima in front of the curch San Nicolò del Lido

11.30am: Holy Mass at the church of S. Nicolò di Lido

Regatta of the Sensa

• Women’s twin-oared mascarete regatta
• Regattas of the Rowing Season organized by the Municipality of Venice
• men’s regatta on 4 oars gondolas

Course of the regattas: Basin of San Marco – Riviera St. Nicolò, where the prize-giving will take place.

From Saturday , May 13, to Sunday, November 26 2017, the doors of the Biennale reopened to public. This is the 57th edition of this super famous International Art Exhibition.

The exhibition, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA, will be curated by Christine Macel and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta.

85 countries are participating to the the exhibition, which takes place at the Arsenale, at the Pavilion of the Giardini and in the historical center of Venice.

Cecilia Alenami will curate the Italian Pavilion, hosted at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale.

The 57th Biennale of Venice offers an exhibition itinerary that goes through 9 chapters or families of artists, with two introductory universes at the Central Pavilion of Giardini and the other seven at the Arsenale and the Giardino delle Vergini.

The artists involved in the exhibition are 120, coming from 51 different countries.

The Collateral Events are a lot and scattered all around the island.

The 9 Trans-pavilions of the International Art Exhibition

The Exhibition follows a line, a sequence of pavilions or rooms which lead the spectator through an experience, a sort of trip, from the inner reality to the infinite.

Each one of the nine chapters or families of artists represents a Pavilion or a Trans- Pavilion. The number of the Biennale Pavilions has never stopped growing since the 90s.

1. Pavilion of artists and books
2. Pavilion of Joys and Fears
3. The Pavilion of the Common
4. The Pavilion of the Earth
5. The Pavilion of Traditions
6. The Pavilion of the Shamans
7. The Dionysian Pavilion
8. The Paviliion of Colours
9. Pavilion of time and infinity

Biennale 2017 opening hours

10am – 6pm

10am – 8pm at the Arsenale, friday and sunday till September 30.

Monday closed (except for Monday, May 15, August 14, September 4, October 30 and November 20).

Ticket offices:

Giardini – Opening times 10 am – 5:30 pm

Arsenale (Campo della Tana) – Opening times 10 am – 5:30 pm

Tickets

Full 48h € 30

Full Regular ticket € 25

48h for students and/or under 26  € 22

(valid for 48 hours from first validation, closing days excluded)

You can book your ticket in advance through the Biennale official website.

Like every year, Fai (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) is celebrating Spring with the so called FAI Spring days. On the 25th and the 26th of March you will have the chance to visit more than 1000 sites and 400 cities in Italy, such as churches, villages and archeological areas.

Usually, all these places are not open for a visit and most of the times people don0’t even know that they exist.

You will have the opportunity to see several hidden treasures during this weekend, giving a optional donation.

ALL THE PLACES YOU CAN VISIT IN VENICE AREA DURING THE FAI SPRING DAYS

VENICE

During the FAI spring day you will be able to visit:

• San Domenico Church (on Saturday 25th March, from 9.30am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 5pm; Sunday 26th March, from 10am to 1pm)
• Sant’Andrea della Mirada Church (on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm)
• Negozio Olivetti in St Mark’s Square (on Saturday and Sunday from 10.30am to 5.30pm)
• Palazzo Morosini Gatterburg in St Mark’s district (on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm)
• Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Cannaregio area (on Saturday and Sunday 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm)
• Villa Bisacco Palazzi in Chirignago city (on Saturday from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm; on Sunday from 10am to 1pm)

MIRANO

FAI delegation organizes a guided tour at Villa Morosini and Villa Erizzo Belvedere in Mirano city, two magnificent mansions which belong to the Mirano’s heritage. (on Saturday from 2.30pm to 6pm and on Sunday from 10.30am to 6p.30pm).

PORTOGRUARO

In occasion of the FAI Spring days 25h edition, on Sunday 26th March the FAI delegation and the new-born Gruppo FAI Giovani (FAI Young Group) are organizing some guided tours in 4 important sites, all related to a theme: “Mansions culture, environment and religioni in the Basso Livenza area.

At the municipality of S. Stino di Livens you will be able to see:

• The Bandizioi and Pressacon forest, one of the most impressive example of reforestation in the Padan Plain
• San Marco Evangelista Church, full of precious pieces of art and located in a suggestive background
• Villa Bigotto in Caroline city, a fascinating XVI century mansion
• Villa Correr Agazzi, a vivid proof of a luxurious and adventurous life in Biverone.

You can visit these fantastic places on Sunday 26th March, from 10am to 6pm.

Su e Zo (the “Up and Down the Bridges” walk) is a spring event that involves a lot of people every year. It is a solidarity walk throughout Venice, where people of any age participate  just for the please of spending a day together.

Maybe you have done it already or maybe not, what is sure is that you don’t have to be an athlete to join the event.

THE FULL ROUTE: 13km (48 bridges). Departure and arrival both at Piazza San Marco.

THE SHORT ROUTE: 6,5Km (22 bridges). Departure at the Santa Lucia Central Station and arrival at Piazza San Marco.

The event will take place in all weather conditions.

THE EVENT PROGRAMME

Saturday 1st, April 2017

9.00 pm

Su e Zo Night Live

A special music evening to celebrate Venice and the Se e Zo event.

In collaboration with Hard Rock Café Venezia.

Sunday 2nd, April 2017

39th SU E ZO PER I PONTI DI VENEZIA

09.00 am
Holy Mass in S. Mark’s Basilica
hymns performed by Coro Improvvisando

10.30 am
Start from Piazza S. Marco
full route

10.30 am
Start from S. Lucia Railway Station
short route

12.30 pm
Prize giving ceremony for the largest groups in S. Mark’s Square

1.00 pm
Parade and prize giving of Folk Groups in S. Mark’s Square

3.00 pm
Closing of the event

HOW TO ENROLL

Individual purchase

• You can enroll online on the official Su e Zo website, by 27th March 2017
• The day of the event, presenting the voucher attached to the “Su e Zo” ticket to the ticket booths, which are at Piazza San Marco, Santa Lucia Railway Station and at the Tronchetto parking.

Group purchase

• You can enroll online on the official Su e Zo website, by 27th March 2017 (group size: 22-50 people)
• ou can enroll online on the official Su e Zo website, by 22nd March 2017 (group size: more than 51 people)
• At the dedicated ticket points, filling in the appropriate section of the group registration form
• By mail, fax or post

On October 16th, Venice will host one of the most amazing event in the San Marco lagoon: the Veleziana 2016.

The Veleziana is the most magical regatta, organized by the Compagnia della Vela. For one day only Venice will be a unique meeting point for dozens of sailing boats. This event is the autumn classic regatta that will close the sailing season, bringing a lot of sailing boats in San Marco’s lagoon, divided in 12 categories.

Boats of more than 5 meters can partecipate to the regatta. Among the 12 categories there is also the Elan 210, the protagonist of a former regatta, called Velezianina, on October, 15th. The winners of each category of the Velezianina 2015 will partecipate, driving several Compagnia della Vela’s Elan 210, which needs a crew of 3-4 people.

The award ceremony will be on November, 26th.

Among the sponsor of this 9th edition there are: the Sartori Jewellery, which raffles a Officine Panerai watch, Carlo Moretti Glassmaker with some Murano handmade products and Rigoni d’Asiago, SLAM, Armare Ropes and Duvetica with some other prizes.

During the same day CONI organizes the Sani Sapori event.

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When fashion meets Venice there’s only one word that you can use: Venice Fashion Night 2016.

Get ready to be surrounded by the Made in Veneto creativity with fashion shows and extraordinary performances that involve designer and emerging artists. Hotels and Venitian art galleries give some space to the independent art. Streets will be under spotlights.

The real new is that the Venice Fashion Night 2016 lasts a week, not just a night! From the 22nd to the 29th of October you will have the chance to meet a new concept of art. Venice will be to be the city of talents.

We can summarize the Venice Fashion Night 2016 in 3 main moments:

• a tour around the places where the Venetian creativity becomes real, in Venice and in the Veneto region. Ateliers, abs and factories will be open to public for the occasion to show their abilities and experience.
• a digital storytelling made by the Instagrammers who partecipate to the event, recording and posting photos and video of parties, fashion shows and photo shootings.
• a totality of events, performances, exhibitions and more that will end the Venice Fashion Night 2016 on October, 29th

The main purpose of the Venice Fashion Night 2016 is celebrating the Made in Italy with their fundamental representatives: creatives, artists, designers, textile manufacturing companies.

All events are free and open to public.

Venice Fashion Night 2016 is an event organized by VeneziadaVivere.com, Venezia Unica and the municipality of Venice.

Cover photo credit: VeneziadaVivere

Venicemarathon is one of the most important running event in Venice and surrounding. Venicemarathon is not just a running competition, but an occasion for everybody to discover the beauties of the Veneto Region in a different way.

The 31st Venicemarathon edition is scheduled for October, 23rd. The departure time is at 9.30am.

You still have time to sign up for the marathon through this link.

The Venicemarathon is worldwide recognized and Bronze Label marathon, certificated by the IAAF – International Association of Athletics Federations.

The marathon will run from Villa Pisani to the Doge’s Palace in Venice, 42, 195 km in total.

Don’t be afraid to partecipate even if you are not a sportsman, you can choose a shorter itinerary such as the 10K.

The 10K is a non competitive run on the last 10km of the Venicemarathon. It starts from the Exposport – San Giuliano Park in Mestre.

The family Run, instead, is a non competitive run open to everybody, organized in different cities in October, that gets families, students and children involved to spend a day out in a spirit of amusement.

Exposport is a Sport and Leasure Fair in San Giuliano Park, where people can find the biggest producers of running staff, such as shoes, clothes and accessories.

The Venicemarathon is joining the Venicemarathon Charity Program.

The program of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival is full of stars and exclusive parties, but the real protagonists, as you know, are the movies. Who will win the Golden Lion 2016?

Twenty are the movies partecipating in the competition to win the Golden Lion, the award of one of the most important kermess of this industry.

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival is taking place in Venice Lido from August, 31st to September 10th and its calendar is full of shows. In addition to the film in competition there are other sections: Orizzonti section (Horizons), open to the new trends and the rising filmmakers, Film out of competition, regarding movies of well-known stars who have already been part of the Festival.

Paolo Sorrentino, a famous Italian director, is waited at the Venice International Film Festival with his new movie, The Young Pope, a miniseries partially set in the Venitian Lagoon. During the Festival, the first two episodes will be showed.

Sam Menders has been elected as the President of the Jury this year, among the Italian actors there are Chiara Mastroianni and Giancarlo De Cataldo.

THE FILMS IN COMPETITION

ANA LILY AMIRPOUR – THE BAD BATCH
Usa, 115’
Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Giovanni Ribisi

STÉPHANE BRIZÉ – UNE VIE
France, Belgium, 119’
Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Swann Arlaud, Yolande Moreau

DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND
Usa, 127’
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock

DEREK CIANFRANCE – THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
Usa, Australia, New Zealand, 133’
Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Emily Barclay

MARIANO COHN, GASTÓN DUPRAT – EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE
Argentina, Spain, 118’
Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas, Gustavo Garzón

MASSIMO D’ANOLFI, MARTINA PARENTI – SPIRA MIRABILIS
Italy, Swizerland, 121’ (documentary)

LAV DIAZ – ANG BABAENG HUMAYO (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT)
Philippines, 226’
Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz

AMAT ESCALANTE – LA REGIÓN SALVAJE
Mexico, 100’
Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Edén Villavicencio

TOM FORD – NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
Usa, 115’
Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Laura Linney

ROAN JOHNSON – PIUMA
Italy, 98’
Luigi Fedele, Blu Yoshimi Di Martino, Sergio Pierattini, Michela Cescon, Francesco Colella

ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY – RAI (PARADISE)
Russia, Germany, 130’
Julia Vysotskaya, Christian Clauss, Philippe Duquesne, Victor Sukhorukov, Peter Kurt

MARTIN KOOLHOVEN – BRIMSTONE
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, UK, Sweden, 148’
Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington, Carice Van Houten

EMIR KUSTURICA – NA MLIJECNOM PUTU (ON THE MILKY ROAD)
Serbia, UK, Usa, 125’
Monica Bellucci, Emir Kusturica, Sloboda Micalovic, Predrag Manojlovic

PABLO LARRAÍN – JACKIE
Usa, Chile, 95’
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt

TERRENCE MALICK – VOYAGE OF TIME
Usa, Germany, 90’ (documentary)
Cate Blanchett

CHRISTOPHER MURRAY – EL CRISTO CIEGO
Chile, France, 85’
Michael Silva, Bastian Inostroza, Ana Maria Henriquez, Mauricio Pinto

FRANÇOIS OZON – FRANTZ
France, Germany, 113’
Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Marie Gruber, Ernst Stötzner, Cyrielle Claire

GIUSEPPE PICCIONI – QUESTI GIORNI
Italy, 120’
Margherita Buy, Marta Gastini, Laura Adriani, Maria Roveran, Caterina Le Caselle, Filippo Timi

DENIS VILLENEUVE – ARRIVAL
Usa, 116’
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg

WIM WENDERS – LES BEAUX JOURS D’ARANJUEZ (3D)
France, Germany, 97’
Reda Kateb, Sophie Semin, Jens Harzer, Nick Cave

SPECIAL EVENTS

“The Young Pope” Episode 1 & 2 – dir. Paolo Sorrentino
“Planetarium” – dir. Rebecca Zlotowski

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

AMBROGIO CRESPI – SPES CONTRA SPEM – LIBERI DENTRO
Italy, 70’ (documentary)

THOMAS KOOLHAAS – REM
Usa, 75’ (documentary)

LORENZO VIGAS – EL VENDEDOR DE ORQUÍDEAS
Venezuela, Mexico, 75’ (documentary)

FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION

BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI – OUR WAR
Italy, Usa, 68′ (documentary)

KASPER COLLIN – I CALLED HIM MORGAN
Svweden, Usa, 91′ (documentary)

ANDREW DOMINIK – ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D)
UK, 112′
Nick Cave

PHILIPPE FALARDEAU – THE BLEEDER
Usa, Canada, 93′
Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, Pooch Hall

ANTOINE FUQUA – THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Usa, 130’
Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Peter Sarsgaard

MEL GIBSON – HACKSAW RIDGE
Usa, Australia, 131′
Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey

NICK HAMM – THE JOURNEY
UK, 94′
Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt, Toby Stephens

BENOÎT JACQUOT – À JAMAIS
France, Portugal, 86′
Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar

YASUSHI KAWAMURA – GANTZ:O
Japan, 95′ (animation)

JEE WOON KIM – MILJEONG (THE AGE OF SHADOWS)
South Korea, 114′
Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-Min

ORIZZONTI

DORIA ACHOUR – LE RESTE EST L’OEUVRE DE L’HOMME
France, Tunisia, 14′
Houssin Benwarda, Anissa Daoud

RAÚL ARÉVALO – TARDE PARA LA IRA
Spain, 92′
Antonio de la Torre, Luis Callejo, Ruth Díaz

BIBHUSAN BASNET, POOJA GURUNG – DADYAA
Nepal, France, 17′
Parimal Damai, Lachhima Damai

MAURIZIO BRAUCCI – STANZA 52
Italy, 13′
Vincenza Modica

PETER BROSENS, JESSICA WOODWORTH – KING OF THE BELGIANS
Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, 94′
Peter Van den Begin, Lucie Debay, Titus De Voogdt, Bruno Georis

RAMA BURSHTEIN – LAAVOR ET HAKIM (THROUGH THE WALL)
Israel, 110′
Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi

CHIARA CASELLI – MOLLY BLOOM
Italia, 20′
Chiara Caselli, Enrico Carotenuto, Elisabetta de Vito, Lilian Sassanelli, Nicole Guerzoni, Lorenzo Ciambrelli

FEDERICA DI GIACOMO – LIBERAMI
Italy, France, 89′
(documentary)

MAMADOU DIA – SAMEDI CINEMA
Senegal, 11′
Fallou Keita, Assane Lo, Saikou Lo, Penda Daly Sy

REHA ERDEM – KOCA DÜNYA (BIG BIG WORLD)
Turkey, 100′
Ecem Uzun, Berke Karaer

LUCA FERRI – COLOMBI
Italy, 20′
Giovanni Colombi, Annunciata Decò, Dario Bacis

BAYU PRIHANTORO FILEMON – ON THE ORIGIN OF FEAR
Indonesia, 12′
Pritt Timothy

GIOVANNI FUMU – GOOD NEWS
South Korea, Italy, 17′
Eun U, Soonwoo Kwak

FLURIN GIGER – RUAH
Swizerland, 18′
Fabian Villiger, Christina Brandenberg, Annina Walt, Mona Petri, Jürg Plüss

WEI HU – CE QUI NOUS ÉLOIGNE
France, 18′
Camille Debray, Isabelle Huppert, Nai An, André Wilms, Zhang Xianmin

KEI ISHIKAWA – GUKOROKU
Japan, 120′
Tsumabuki Satoshi, Mitsushima Hikari

SARA KERN – SRECNO, ORLO! (GOOD LUCK, ORLO!)
Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, 14′
Tin Vulovic, Primož Pirnat, Nina Ivanišin, Tin Marn

KARL LEMIEUX – MAUDITE POUTINE
Canada, 91′
Jean-Simon Leduc, Martin Dubreuil

JUAN PABLO LIBOSSART – AMALIMBO
Sweden, Estonia, 15′
Margaretha Ulfendahl, Anna Odell

JAKE MAHAFFY – MIDWINTER
Usa, New Zealand, 17′
Jill Larson, Eleanor Hutchins

MARCELO MARTINESSI – LA VOZ PERDIDA
Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, 11′
Librada Martinez, Cinthia Quiñonez, Raulito Cáceres

MARCO MARTINS – SÃO JORGE
Portugal, France, 112’
Nuno Lopes, Mariana Nunes, David Semedo

BILL MORRISON – DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Usa, France, 112’
(documentary)

KATELL QUILLÉVÉRÉ – RÉPARER LES VIVANTS
France, Belgium, 103′
Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen

DEEPAK RAUNIYAR – WHITE SUN
Nepal, Usa, Qatar, Netherlands, 87′
Dayahang Rai, Asha Magrati, Rabindra Singh Baniya, Sumi Malla, Amrit Pariyar

PARVIZ SHAHBAZI – MALARIA
Iran, 100′
Saghar Ghanaat, Saed Soheili, Azarakhsh Farahani, Azadeh Namdari

CHAI SIRIS – 500,000 PEE (500,000 YEARS)
Thailand, 15′
Montree Reun-ngeun

GASTÓN SOLNICKI – KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ
Argentina, 72′
Laila Maltz, Katia Szechtman, Lara Tarlowski, Natali Maltz, Maria Soldi, Pedro Trocca, Denise Groesman

TIM SUTTON – DARK NIGHT
Usa, 85′
Robert Jumper, Anna Rose Hopkins, Eddie Cacciol, Rosie Rodriguez, Karina Macias, Aaron Purvis

ANDREI TANASE – PRIMA NOAPTE (FIRST NIGHT)
Romania, Germany, 17′
Alfredo Minea, Cristiana Luca, Mimi Branescu, Elvira Deatcu

FIEN TROCH – HOME
Belgium, 103′
Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti, Loïc Batog, Lena Suijkerbuijk, Karlijn Sileghem, Els Deceukelier, Robby Cleiren

RONNY TROCKER – DIE EINSIEDLER
Germany, Austria, 110′
Andreas Lust, Ingrid Burkhard, Orsi Toth

MICHELE VANNUCCI – IL PIÙ GRANDE SOGNO
Italy, 97′
Mirko Frezza, Alessandro Borghi, Vittorio Viviani, Milena Mancini, Ivana Lotito, Ginevra De Carolis

NICHOLAS VERSO – BOYS IN THE TREES
Australia, 112’
Toby Wallace, Gulliver McGrath, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Justin Holborow

BING WANG – KU QIAN (BITTER MONEY)
Hong Kong, France, 120′
(documentary)
BIENNALE COLLEGE

ALESSANDRO ARONADIO – ORECCHIE
Italy, 90’
Daniele Parisi, Silvana Bosi, Masaria Colucci, Sonia Gessner, Francesca Antonelli, Re Salvador

SHUBHASHISH BHUTIANI – MUKTI BHAWAN (HOTEL SALVATION)
India, 103’
Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh, Navnindra Behl, Anil K Rastogi

SOFIA BROCKENSHIRE – UNA HERMANA (ONE SISTER)
Argentina, 68’
Sofía Palomino, Adriana Ferrer, Saúl Simonet, Sebastián Carbone, Mateo Giménez

JORGE THIELEN ARMAND – LA SOLEDAD
Venezuela, 85’
José Dolores López, Marley Alvillaes López, Adrializ López Jorge, Thielen Hedderich, Maria del Carmen, Agamez Palomino
FUORI CONCORSO ORIZZONTI

“Dark Night” – dir. Tim Sutton

CINEMA IN THE GARDEN

MARCOS CARNEVALE – INSEPARABLES
Argentina, 108’
Oscar Martínez, Rodrigo de la Serna

FRANCESCO CARROZZINI – FRANCA: CHAOS AND CREATION
Italy, Usa, 80’
(documentary)

JAMES FRANCO – IN DUBIOUS BATTLE
Usa, 110’
Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris, James Franco, Josh Hutcherson, Nat Wolff, Robert Duvall, Sam Shepard, Selena Gomez

KIM KI-DUK – GEUMUL (THE NET)
South Korea, 114’
Ryuu Seung-bum, Lee Won-gun, Kim Young-min

GABRIELE MUCCINO – L’ESTATE ADDOSSO
Italy, 103’
Brando Pacitto, Matilda Lutz, Taylor Frey, Joseph Haro

CHRIS RENAUD, YARROW CHENEY – THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (3D)
Usa, 90’
(animation)

MICHELE SANTORO – ROBINÙ
Italy, 91’
(documentary)

LAURIE SIMMONS – MY ART
Usa, 86’
Laurie Simmons, Lena Dunham, Parker Posey

VENITIAN CLASSICS – Selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinemarc

ASHIM AHLUWALIA – EVENTS IN A CLOUD CHAMBER [DOCUMENTARY]
India, 20’ (documentary)

WOODY ALLEN – MANHATTAN (1979)
Usa, 97’
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway

ALESSANDRO BIGNAMI – E VENNE L’UOMO – UN DIALOGO CON ERMANNO OLMI [DOCUMENTARY]
Italy, 47’ (documentary)

NOEL BLACK – PRETTY POISON (DOLCE VELENO, 1968)
Usa, 89’
Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland

MARCO BONFANTI – BOZZETTO NON TROPPO [DOCUMENTARI]
Italia, 75’ (documentary)

ROBERT BRESSON – L’ARGENT (IL DENARO, 1983)
France, Swizerland, 83’
Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet

LUIGI COMENCINI – TUTTI A CASA (1960)
Italy, France, 115’
Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina

STEFANO DELLA CASA, FRANCESCO FRISARI – PERCHÉ SONO UN GENIO! LORENZA MAZZETTI [DOCUMENTARI]
Italy, 61’ (documentary)

NICK EBELING – ALONG FOR THE RIDE [DOCUMENTARI]
Usa, 90’ (documentary)

MARCO FERRERI – BREAK UP. L’UOMO DEI CINQUE PALLONI (1965)
Italy, France, 85’
Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Ugo Tognazzi

INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS’ WEEK – indipendent festival of 7 films – organized by a commission nominated by SNCCI

MARCO BELLOCCHIO – PAGLIACCI [SPECIAL EVENT – OPENING SHORTS]
Italy, 18’
Lucia Ragni, Luca Micheletti, Federica Fracassi, Rebecca Liberati, Corrado Invernizzi, Mino Manni

FATIMA BIANCHI – NOTTURNO
Italy, 15’
Claudia Consonni, Rosaria Girotti, Giovanna Gossi, Laura Morelli, Carmen La Corte, Elisabetta Sisti, Florinda Trombetta

VINCENT BIRON – PRANK
Canada, 78’
Etienne Galloy, Constance Massicotte, Simon Pigeon, Alexandre Lavigne

RICCARDO CARUSO, ROBERTO TENACE, LUIGI LOMBARDI, ELISABETTA FALANGA – DODICI PAGINE
Italy, 13’
Vittoria Araldi, Claudio Guain, Davide Bellofiore, Michele Galasso

MARIA GIOVANNA CICCIARI – ATLANTE 1783
Italy, 20’

IRENE DIONISIO – LE ULTIME COSE
Italy, Swizerland, France, 85’
Fabrizio Falco, Roberto De Francesco, Christina Rosamilia, Alfonso Santagata, Salvatore Cantalupo, Anna Ferruzzo, Nicole De Leo, Maria Eugenia D’Aquino, Margherita Coldesina, Matteo Polidoro

EDOARDO FERRARO – COLAZIONE SULL’ERBA
Italy, 14’
Riccardo Pandolfi, Giacomo Bottoni, Francesco Melchiorri, Giorgia Torregrossa, Davide Dentamaro

ROSSELLA INGLESE – VANILLA
Italy, 13’
Carolina Dovera, Eriberto Peruzzo, Mariangela Di Paolo, Antonio Iurino, Oscar Genovese

KEYWAN KARIMI – DRUM
France, Iran, 95’
Amirreza Naderi, Sara Gholizade, Akbar Zanjanian, Elyas Rasouli, Honaramooz, Ardalan Haji Rahim, Ahmad Ghoorchi, Ali Farschchi, Mohammad Safajouyi

CHIARA LEONARDI – ALICE
Itale, 14’
Francesca Leonardi, Sofia Leonardi, Chiara Leonardi, Massimo Leonardi, Elena Bonati

Peggy Guggenheim’s life and style celebrated in an exhibition at Ikona Gallery in Venice

Until 27 November 2016, in the 500th anniversary year of the Ghetto of Venice, the historic Ikona Gallery in the Campo del Ghetto Novo 2909, will host the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim in Photographs, curated by Živa Kraus and organized by Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Ikona Gallery.

It’s a great chance to reflect on life and history of Peggy – the greatest patron of 20th century western art – through a small but precious series of pictures: a selection of approximately 20 images, both from the archives of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and from private collections, will render homage to this great patroness, a key figure in 20th century western art.

Peggy was rarely the subject of painted portraits, but was frequently captured in photographs. Among the celebrated photographers who portrayed the American patron there are Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Roloff Beny, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Gisèle Freund, Constantin Brâncuși and Marcel Duchamp, all friends whose art she was to promote.

Taken in a long period of time, these photos show us the change in taste, fashion and style – and about the eccentric art collector, her professional path developed through decades.

Zaha Hadid’s career is celebrated in Venice during Architecture Biennale 2016

In celebration of Zaha Hadid’s career in architecture and design, the 15th century Palazzo Franchetti on the Canal Grande will host a great retrospective exhibition of her work. Hadid – an icon of neo-futurism – was the first woman who received the prestigious Pritzker Prize: after four decades devoted to architecture, she died on 31 March 2016 of heart attack.

The exhibition – realized by the Fondazione Berengo and coinciding with this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale – showcases many of the paintings, drawings and models of Hadid’s huge repertoire: through her designs – built, under-construction, in development and unrealised – the exhibition displays the pioneering research that defines Zaha Hadid Architects’ work.

Three projects representing milestones in Zaha Hadid’s career will be presented in their own room. Beginning with the Vitra Fire Station (completed 1993) in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Zaha Hadid’s first completed project and followed by the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (completed 2003), which contributed to Zaha Hadid being awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2004. Concluding the room’s projects is the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (completed 2009).

Helene Binet‘s photographs, capturing the integrity and materiality of Hadid’s projects, will also be showcased in their own room. All of Zaha Hadid Architects works in progress will be exhibited, including projects to be completed in the coming year, as The Port House in Antwerp, The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC) in Riyadh, and the Mathematics Gallery at London’s Science Museum. Also included in the exhibition are models, relief studies and visualisations of a residential building on the High Line in New York that will complete in early 2017.

Precious pictures of Frida Kahlo, taken by Leo Matiz, on display for the first time at the Ar33 Studio of Venice.

From 18th June to 18th August 2016, the Ar33 Studio of Venice, close to Piazza San Marco, will host an extraordinary and unique exhibition: 30 unedited pictures of Frida Kahlo taken by one of the greatest photographers of the XX century, Leo Matiz.

Frida Kahlo, whose life began and ended in Mexico City, is world-renowned as an icon of contemporary art (and of Magic realism indeed), well-known for her sensitive and enigmatic self-portraits and universally celebrated for her great depiction of the female world. Last but not least, she is a powerful symbol of strength and resistance to physical and mental pain.

Leo Matiz, Colombian photographer and artist, who had Venetian origins, met Frida in the 1940s: the result of their friendship is a series of pictures, taken both in black and white and in colours, in which the Mexican painter is portrayed in the quiet and intimate atmosphere of her private life.
These images, captured during a particularly scandalous period of her life, reveal Frida’s quiet attitude in front of the camera. The photos by Leo Matiz correspond to Frida’s artistic and personal maturity and to the acceptance of her physical fragilities and her husband’s (Diego Rivera) evidence of infidelity.

In 1998, Leo Matiz reminded of the first time he met Frida and Diego: “I met up with Diego Rivera several times and it’s curious how many things we now know about Frida Kahlo, were unknown to the people at that time. To me, she had a quite sad life. Diego had a strong personality and Frida was a fragile woman condemned to disability for the whole life. She was full of corsets and similar objects. Actually, she was invalid and her suffering was evident. She used art to release herself”.

The exhibition, organized by the Ar33 Studio of Venice and Leo Matiz Foundation, will give us the opportunity to look inside an extraordinary moment of both Leo and Frida’s lives. In the studio we can also admire photographic works of Arsen Revazov, the owner of this incredible studio gallery in the heart of Venice.

Opening hours
Everyday from 10:30 am to 07:30 pm

Over 300 glass works by the main architects of the Viennese Modernism on display in Venice at Fondazione Giorgio Cini

From April 18th to July 31th, the exhibition The Glass of the Architects. Vienna 1900-1937, curated by Rainald Franz and organized by LE STANZE DEL VETRO, will run on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice, with over 300 glass masterpieces of Modernism, mostly from the collection of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna. Some names of the protagonists: Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Leopold Bauer, Otto Prutscher, Oskar Strnad, Oswald Haerdtland Adolf Loos.

The exhibition will focus on the birth of the art of modern glassmaking in Austria between 1900 and 1937 – a very lively period spanning the years between the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic – and on how much young architects had influence on the development of glass art in Vienna.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a decisive impulse and inspiration was brought to architecture and applied arts to stimulate creativity, research and innovative technologies in central Europe: a group of young architects and designers, scholars of Otto Wagner, chose glass as the Modernist material to work with.

The aim of the exhibition, with a set-up which includes drawings and photos, is to show some key aspects of this period, including the Viennese Secession’s experimentation with new lines of research and styles in the arts and architecture, and the relationship between design, craftsmanship and production.

Opening: 10.00 am – 7.00 pm, closed on Wednesdays
Free entry

How to reach the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore:
Actv line 2 departing from San Zaccaria, 3 minutes; from Ferrovia or Piazzale Roma, 45 minutes

Imagine: the Italian avant-garde of the 1960s at Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

From 23 April to 19 September 2016 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will host Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero: this temporary exhibition shows a fresh perspective and a refined approach on European post war art in the Italian avant-garde in the 1960s, focusing on the origin of a new sense of image.

In Italy during the 1960s, at the height of the economic boom, artistic experimentation flourished at an unprecedented pace and intensity. The aim was to create a new vocabulary of signs and images capable of interpreting the vitality of contemporary culture and society.
This exhibition draws on the richness of Italian art production in those years: the leading theme is how the figured image served to construct a new language of representation in a little known phase of Italian art history.

The exhibition, in a tightly curated sequence of galleries, lays out the multiple lines of research of several of Italian artists who reconstituted a new world of images and narrative. On display there are works by artists such as Franco Angeli, Mario Ceroli, Domenico Gnoli, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa, Fabio Mauri, Francesco lo Savio, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Schifano, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis, Pino Pascali – some of them members of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, an important avant-garde movement based in Rome. An intense sequence of emblematic works captures the vitality of that brief period of time, a mere nine years, and uncovers, by diversity and assonance, in an unceasing process of exchange and dialogue, that melting-pot of visual art, in a process which gave rise to the schools and movements of future avant-gardes.

Opening: 10 AM – 18 PM, everyday except Tuesday

Ticket: €15
Students under 26 yrs.: €9 (with current student ID)

Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana reopen with the long-awaited couple of exhibitions: Sigmar Polke and Accrochage.

Contemporary art is always on scene in Venice, especially in the two historical palaces, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, owned by the Pinault Foundation. Until November 2016 it is worthwhile visiting the couple of exhibition set up in the charming venue of these two huge exhibition halls: Sigmar Polke and Accrochage.

SIGMAR POLKE – PALAZZO GRASSI

Palazzo Grassi in Venice will host a retrospective on life and works of Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer, well-known for his experimentation in painting with chemical reactions: curated by Elena Geuna and Guy Tosatto, it marks the 75th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
On display there are 90 brilliant works, including Athanor, his project for the German Pavilion of Art Biennale 1986, in which the artist developed techniques and motifs that would become central during his life.
The exhibition follows a reverse chronological order and opens in the monumental atrium of Palazzo Grassi with Axial Age, the artist’s last important pictorial cycle, created between 2005 and 2007. The 90 works surveys the eclectic production of the artist from the 2000s to the 1960s, celebrating his long career. His work intertwines the alchemical and the political, the abstract and the figurative, past and present.

ACCROCHAGE – PUNTA DELLA DOGANA

In the meantime of the one at Palazzo Grassi, another big exhibition – curated by Caroline Bourgeois at Punta della Dogana – will show 80 works never been shown before from the Pinault Foundation: Accrochage underlines the artist’s search and creative process, not the work’s aesthetic, focusing on how rather than why these works were created.
The selection reflects the Pinault Collection as a whole and brings together established and up-and-coming artists: Sol LeWitt, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Philippe Parreno, Cerith Wyn Evans, Pierre Huyghe, Nina Canell, Pier Paolo Calzolari and the italian Arte povera.
A living performance created by Tino Sehgal – Ann Lee – is also displayed until the end of May: it sees an ethereal little girl recite a script describing her transition from manga character and interacting with visitors.

Opening: 10 AM – 7 PM. Closed on Tuesdays.

Ticket: €15
Ticket valid for both exhibitions: €20

Masterpieces from the Vittorio Cini Collection shown off in his house of San Vio: Palazzo Cini Gallery.

From 8 April 2016, Palazzo Cini Gallery of Venice reopenes the doors to visitors with a great exhibition that shows off the art collection of the leading 20th-century Italian collector: the industrialist and philanthropist Vittorio Cini (1885– 1977). The second floor of the museum house will host the exhibition Rediscovered Masterpieces from the Vittorio Cini collection, conceived as a temporary extension of the permanent collections of the Gallery: on display paintings from Venetian artists, some of which are shown off for the first time.

More than 30 masterpieces can be admired until 15 November 2016: unique pieces of art from Guglielmo Veneziano, Stefano di Sant’Agnese, Michele Giambono, Nicolò Di Pietro, Carlo Crivelli with its amazing Madonna Speyer, Jacopo Bellini, Bartolomeo Montagna, Cima da Conegliano, Andrea da Murano and Giovanni Mansueti.

The magnificent beauty of Renaissance is represented by valuable works of Tiziano, as the San Giorgio painting, Lorenzo Lotto, Bernardo Licinio, Benedetto Diana, Giovanni Cariani.
From the 18th century we can admire great painters of veduta from the classic Venetian school: Giambattista Tiepolo, Canaletto and the two brothers Francesco and Gianantonio Guardi – founders of the Venetian academy in 1756.

Three drawing album are exceptionally displayed: the series known as Fasti veneziani, a collection of 58 papers illustrating events of Venice history.

The whole Palazzo Cini at San Vio is worth visiting once in lifetime. It was chosen to host the finest items from his immense collection, which had reached qualitative standards that very few similar Italian collections could rival: paintings, sculptures, glass works, porcelain, small bronzes, rugs and mirrors.

Opening
11 am – 7 pm (ticket office closes at 6:15 pm)
closed on Tuesdays

Tickets: € 10

A thrilling exhibition in Venice celebrates one of the greatest fashion photographer of all time: Helmut Newton.

From 7 April 2016, nearly 200 pictures, both black and white and color, shooted by the German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton, are displayed in the unique venue of La Casa dei Tre Oci, an art house in Venice, in Giudecca island.
Considered an undisputed icon of fashion photography, Helmut Newton is the star attraction of this precious exhibition – wanted by the widow of the great photographer, Alice Spring – that shows off pictures from White Women, Sleepless Nights and Big Nudes: three famous collections released in the end of Seventies, conceived and developed by Newton himself and nowadays considered legendary books.

White women section collects 84 photos from the eponymous book of 1976 and they introduce the concept of nude and eroticism in fashion. They are purely female nude portraits – which remained his essential charachteristic and deeply influenced other photographers and filmmakers.

Sleepless nights section takes over the book in 1978 and exhibits 69 photographs that have been published in fashion magazines – Vogue, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire and Elle above all. The female nude is still dominant, but fashion is almost an excuse to tell something more personal: the concept of fashion photography is related to crime scenes.

The last section is named after the 1981 book Big nudes, in which 41 shots in black and white become giant portraits: a new dimension for human portraits that became really popular thanks to Newton’s work.

Opening: everyday, except Tuesday, from 10.00 to 19.00

Tickets: € 12 (full prize) – € 10 (students under 26) – € 8 (groups)

How to reach La Casa dei Tre Oci: line 2, from Zattere to Zitelle boat stop.

A special spring event will lead you to discover the enchanting hills in the renowned Valdobbiadene area: don’t miss the Primavera del Prosecco 2016!

The biggest wine-touristic event in the region of Venice – at its 21st annual – started in March 2016: the Primavera del Prosecco, as every year, you will have the opportunity to visit the extraordinary hills of Prosecco and to taste prestigious wines in the best wineries of the whole Veneto.

The area of Conegliano Valdobbiadene – with the 17 wine shows organized – will welcome tourists and visitors until June 8th, with tastings of wine and local food, concerts, outdoor activities and visits between old churches and ancient villages.

The Marca Trevigiana looks like an unique vineyard interspersed with abbeys, centuries-old trees and farmhouses. Along the way, in addition to admire the beauty of the landscape, in typical taverns you can taste flavors of the past and discover the variety of wines that represent innovation and tradition of the DOCG Conegliano Valdobbiadene. All the events are available here.

Don’t miss the chance to try the main wines: Rive, Verdiso, Colli di Conegliano DOC white and red, Refrontolo Passito DOC Colli di Conegliano – sung by Mozart’s Don Giovanni – Torchiato di Fregona DOC. And, of course, the two best qualities of Prosecco: Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco superiore DOCG and Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze DOCG – perfect for the spring with their delicate fragrance of fruit and white flowers.

On 10th April, don’t miss the chance to join the Su e Zo per i ponti walk and discover Venice in a different way!

Every year more than 10,000 people take part to one of the most important spring events in Venice: the Su e Zo per i ponti (i.e. up and down the bridges, in Venetian language), a historical walk in which participants get involved in a stroll around the streets of Venice in the name of friendship and solidarity. This year the Su e Zo per i ponti walk takes place on 10th April.

Different itineraries lead through the less known areas of the city on the water, also touching its most famous landmarks. A day of sustainable tourism, respecting the city we are in, its art, its history, its real soul and its essence.

The Su e Zo per i ponti walk is a real day of celebration: several folk groups put on their performance either in open spaces along the itinerary, creating a burst of colours and sound – and giving the opportunity to live Venice in a unique way. Two contests are also organized for the occasion.

VIDEO CONTEST

In collaboration with TGS Eurogroup, the Association Amici del Pasinetti – always interested in solidarity and peaceful living competition – has decided to organize a competition for short videos taped during the “Su e Zo” with video cameras, cameras, mobile phones.
A jury of experts will select the best videos which will be awarded and admitted to the VideoConcorso “Francesco Pasinetti”.

SCRIVI A VENEZIA CONTEST

Writing down impressions on the town or a glimpse of it (a “calle”, a canal, a “campiello”, a palace…), a thought, a piece of poetry, you may be included among the authors quoted in the literary route next year – with a prize and a nice surprise!

SATURDAY 9th APRIL
SU E ZO PRELUDE

09.00 pm
Su e Zo Night Live
a special evening of music, a tribute to Venice and Su e Zo
In collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe Venezia.

SUNDAY10th APRIL

09.00 am
Holy Mass in S. Mark’s Basilica

10.30 am
Start from Piazza S. Marco

10.30 am
Start from S. Lucia Railway Station

12.00 am
Parade of Folk Groups in S. Mark’s Square

12.30 am
Prize giving ceremony for the largest groups

15.00 am
Closing of the event

The event will take place in all weather conditions.

REGISTRATION FEE: http://www.suezo.it/en/quota-di-iscrizione

The Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice are dedicating an exhibition to the most famous printer in the world: Aldo Manuzio.

Until 19 June 2016, the exhibition Aldo Manuzio. Il rinascimento di Venezia at the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, will show an unrepeatable period in the history of European and Western culture – Renaissance – and it will particularly present the story of the man who invented the concept of modern book and of publishing: Aldo Manuzio.

Together with Manuzio’s most famous illustrated books, an itinerary of paintings and sculptures from Renaissance is presented for the occasion: masterpieces by Giorgione, Carpaccio, Bellini, Tiziano, Lorenzo Lotto and Pietro Lombardo – some of them on loan from the great museums of Europe and US.
An important part of the exhibition is dedicated to the intense relationship that tied Aldo Manuzio to the culture of northern Europe and to Erasmus of Rotterdam: he thought that having his works printed by Manuzio was of fundamental importance for the circulation of his thinking throughout Europe.

Between 1495 and 1515 Aldo Manuzio printed in Venice a hundred-odd editions of a unique beauty, which actually created the modern book and publisher – and invented the reading public. Manuzio managed to conceive of and achieve his extraordinary programme of making the great classics available to scholars and writers for the first time: those of Greek culture, and then collecting the writings in Latin along with those of the new Italian literature. He has been careful both in the format and the typefaces, rediscovering beauty in the ‘divine’ proportions of the classical world.

Masterpieces of painting and sculpture created in this same period and with the same achievement of rediscovery of classical culture will enter into dialogue with the most beautiful books in the world in this amazing exhibition – which is a rare opportunity, not to be missed.

Opening time

Monday: 8.15 am – 2.00 pm (last entry at 13:15 pm)
From Tuesday to Sunday: 8.15 am to 7.15 pm (last entry at 6:30 pm)

Tickets

Gallerie dell’Accademia + Palazzo Grimani + exhibition: € 15

Murano Glass Museum of Venice hosts an exhibition concerning the evolution of sociable drinking.

The Museo del Vetro di Murano is the prestigious venue of a new exhibition devoted to glass and graphic design: Glass art for the aperitif. The evolution of sociable drinking. Stories of glass and paper, a project sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in cohoperation with M.A.X. Museum of Chiasso, in Switzerland. The exhibition, opened until May 29th, 2016, focuses on the important role played by social drinking through the history of advertising graphics.

A precious visual heritage is exhibited: flyers, posters, playbills, placards, menus, calendars, advertising graphics, metal and ceramic signs, logos, as well as designer objects such as tables and chairs. And, of course, items used in drinking aperitifs: designer glasses with various logos, coasters, ice buckets and soda siphons. The purpose is to enlight the various transformations of the modes of social drinking, from the Belle Époque to the Deco period and the post-war recovery of the dolce vita to the contemporary happy hour. The drinking toast as well is a sign of conviviality: the exhibition emphasises not only the passion for aperitifs and the sharing of a moment with a social relevance, but also a cultural phenomenon that has its roots in civil life.

The exhibition will also give an outline of a true history of communication by major companies, such as Branca, Campari, Carpano, Cinzano, Cynar, Zucca and Martini, as well as the Ticinese Franzini and Galli, which entrusted their image to distinguished artists, including Marcello Dudovich, Leonetto Cappiello, Fortunato Depero, Adolf Hohenstein, Franz Laskoff, Mario Gros, Achille Luciano Mauzan, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Plinio Codognato, Marcello Nizzoli, Lora Lamm and Armando Testa.

Opening hours: 10 am – 5 pm, last admission at 4 pm.
From April 1st: 10 am – 6 pm, last admission at 5 pm.

Tickets: full price €10, reductions available for students, children or groups.

The first edition of Venice Night Trail is coming in the enchanting venue of Venice lagoon!

Venice Night Trail is the name of the new event organized by Venicemarathon: more than 2000 athletes are expected to race in the amazing Venice-by-night venue on Saturday, 23rd April.
The first edition of the Venice Night Trail is inserted into the double-sport event “Ali Venice Running Day”, which in addition to the trail will organise the Corrimestre 10 km the day after in San Giuliano Park in Mestre, and the Panoramica with 5k, 11k and 18k.

The Venice Night Trail – with its 16 kilometers and 51 bridges – will offer a unique opportunity to race in the magical atmosphere of Venice by night, and it is supposed to be available to all: athletes will have the opportunity to choose between competitive and non-competitive version.

There are already more than thousand assigned bibs and only 2000 places are available for this first edition.

THE RACE
The start of the race is at 9.00 pm. The competition starts and finishes in Dorsoduro district, in the port area of San Basilio and the first exciting crossing of the Grand Canal takes place at the first kilometer with the Calatrava Bridge. The trail runs then in the most typical areas of Venice, campi and campielli of suggestive beauty, going further to S. Elena and the Biennale, and then back to Piazza San Marco where the participants can enjoy the beautiful lighted square by night. The race will then continue again in the heart of the city, will touch the La Fenice theater and then going through the Grand Canal on the Academy Bridge and go further to the Punta della Dogana. From there the athletes will get back the Fondamenta delle Zattere to San Basilio, along the Canale della Giudecca.

The Canova collection in the renewed section of Museo Correr from 21st November, 2015

From 21st November, 2015, the Canova collection of Museo Correr, in Venice, has returned to its original neoclassical setting, thanks to the precious work of a small task force of restorers and artisans.
This museological project – called Sublime Canova – was born in 2012 from an idea of Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and Andrea Bellieni, manager of the Museo Correr – while the set-up has been created by Daniela Ferretti, art director of the Fondazione.

In comparison to the museum’s general themes, the Canova section appeared only to have a weak connection: the plan for the renewed Canova section concerned the display of the words in accordance with a flexible order that places a chronological overview above a simply typological one. The aim was to highlight Canova’s creative processes, from idea to finished work, passing through the stages of drawing, sketch, model and life-size model – and to the part of the collection that was still in the museum storage.
The whole Canova section is now revalued in its amazing complexity, toghether with the strong connection between the artist – Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1757 – Venice, 1822) – and Venice.

ROOMS
The Ballroom hosts the largest and most demanding sculptures (Apollo and Daphne, Daedalus and Icarus, Perseus), which require the space to enable an an observer to walk around them. In the room 4, the Canova cabinet has re-assembled and most of the large bas-relief plaster works are displayed here, together with the drawings and sketches; in the room 5, the display will be of some minor sculptures and prints.

TICKETS
San Marco Square Museum Ticket: full price 18 €, reduced 12 €
Family and school offers available.

OPENING HOURS
from April 1st to October 31st 10 am – 7 pm (ticket office 10 am – 6 pm)
from November 1st to March 31st 10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4 pm)

Reporting from the front is the title of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice, curated by Alejandro Aravena

Open from Saturday May 28th to Sunday November 27th, 2016 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, Venice, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition title is Reporting from the front. The exhibition, directed by Alejandro Aravena, is organized by La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta.

This year, the purpose is to offer new perspectives on what Architecture represents, as Alejandro Aravena said in his introduction: “In his trip to South America Bruce Chatwin encountered an old lady walking the desert carrying an aluminum ladder on her shoulder. It was German archeologist Maria Reiche studying the Nazca lines. Standing on the ground, the stones did not make any sense; they were just random gravel. But from the height of the stair those stones became a bird, a jaguar, a tree or a flower.”
“The lady on the ladder who, climbing up onto the highest steps can gaze over a far broader horizon, and by doing so conquers an expanded eye” announces Aravena. “We immediately loved this picture – stated President Paolo Baratta – because in a way it represents la Biennale as a whole, with our attitudes and our goals.”

The aim of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition is to give voice to those who acquired another perspective in architecture, and to widen the range of issues to which architecture is expected to respond in the present and in the future.
Reporting from the front will be about sharing with a wider audience, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and participation of communities.

The Exhibition will also include the 62 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. Five countries will be participating for the first time: Philippines, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Seychelles and Yemen.

The Venice Ghetto in 2016 celebrates 500 years of history

The term ghetto was used for the first time in Venice. Since fourteenth century, Jews were segregated in the part of the island called geto: in old Venetian language the verb getar means to found, and it refers to the presence of many foundries in that particular area, located in Cannaregio sestiere (i.e. district). The number and the importance of Jewish community grew so much – as the complaint of Christians towards them – that on March, 1516, the Republic of Venice instituted political rules to control and to restrict their activities.

Today, the Ghetto is still an active center of Venice, and the Jewish Community too: in order to promote this historical event, a special committee – I cinquecento anni del Ghetto di Venezia (i.e. The five houndreds years of Venetian Ghetto) – has been created and managed by the President of Venetian Jewish Community, Paolo Gnignati. The committee organized several formal occasions to celebrate the anniversary: an opening ceremony and concert in the venue of The Fenice Opera House on 29 March, 2016, the exhibition Venice, the Jews and Europe. 1516-2016, and the restoration of Jewish Museum.

OPENING CEREMONY
On the day of the anniversary (29 March, 2016), The Fenice Opera House will host an official ceremony: conductor Omer Wellber is invited to lead the Fenice symphony orchestra. The event is arranged in collaboration with Fortunato Ortombina, the artistic director of La Fenice. Program: Symphony No. 1 in C major by Gustav Mahler.
The evening is for invite only.

EXHIBITION VENICE, THE JEWS AND EUROPE. 1516-2016
Organized in collaboration with MUVE foundation of Venice in the prestigious venue of Doge’s Palace, the international exhibition – opened from June 19th to November 13th, 2016 – will narrate the story of Ghetto’s settlement and the relationships between the Jews and the city of Venice.
The scientific committee is lead by Donatella Calabi – professor at IUAV University of Venice, major expert on the urban history of the Jewish Ghetto – and it counts on an equipe of world-renowned scientists and researchers. Calabi is also the curator of the exhibition, realized in cooperation with Gallerie dell’Accademia, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Louvre.

DOCUMENTARY FILM
Directed by Emanuela Giordano, the documentary film The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life recreates the story of the Venetian Ghetto collecting memories and narrations from people who could see events and live them from the inside. Everyone talks about a particular topic: the roots, the relationships between Jewish Community and Serenissima Republic, influent people of the Ghetto, the Cabala, the food, the language, arts and crafts. Little by little, we are led to discover a long story of persecution and integration.
Trailer: 500 Years of Life – promo sub eng from Tangram film on Vimeo

Current exhibition of Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice celebrates Postwar era through new perspectives

Postwar era: a recent history. Homages to Jack Tworkov and Claire Falkenstein. This is the curious title of the new exhibition hosted by Peggy Guggenheim Collection, one of the most well-known and prestigious museums of Venice.
Opened until april 4, 2016 and curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the exhibition offers an original perspective about postwar American and European art until 1979, the year of Peggy Guggenheim death.

Peggy has been a woman of remarkable artistic sensibility: in the brilliant narrative of Postwar era we can admire more than seventy paintings and sculptures, some of them never exhibited, both from her personal collection and from donations to the Foundation after her death. On display artists as Vedova, Ciussi, De Kooning, Afro, Santomaso and the sculptor Basaldella, all influenced by American Abstract Expressionism.

Postwar era also allows us to step into the work of two artists in the Foundation’s collection: Jack Tworkow (1900-1982), a Polish-born American Abstract Expressionism painter, and Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997), who designed the water-side gates of Guggenheim Collection, Peggy’s former home, located on the Grand Canal.

Ticket: full price € 15, discounts for students and senior visitors, free for children under 10 yrs

An extraordinary exhibition in Venice at Correr Museum

Until April 10, 2016 the halls of the wonderful Museum Correr overlooking St. Mark’s Square in Venice, hosts the first exhibition dedicated to Andrea Schiavone, the inventor of an innovative style which was sensational and an artist who ‘stood out from the crowd’, admired by Tintoretto, Carracci and El Greco.

This monographic exhibition it’s an extraordinary opportunity to discover Schiavone’s central role in the golden age of painting in the Venetian Republic through 140 works from all over the world. He’s an artist who from the start stood out as a sensational novelty, who was was ground-breaking and in a certain way enigmatic on the extraordinary field of Venetian Renaissance painting, with its polyphonic concerto that included outstanding artists first in Venice, and then in Europe. A fascinating and modern artist who therefore ‘stood out from the crowd’ and it is to this Dalmatian artist that, after decades of studies and research, the first monographic exhibition will be devoted, offering the public the first real opportunity to discover Schiavone’s central role in the golden age of painting in the Venetian Republic.

On display together are more than 80 of Andrea Meldola’s works paintings, drawings, prints– most of which have never been shown at an exhibition before and are on loan from Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Collection, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Albertina in Vienna, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts in Zagabria, the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, Musée du Louvre in Paris and the London British Museum.

Visitors will also can admire cornerstones of Schiavone’ painting, alongside important paintings by other great artists of the period in comparison. Masterpieces by his ideal maestro Parmigianino – the marvellous Madonna with Child from the Uffizi – a friend of his youth, Jacopo Tintoretto, Titian – with the Aldobrandini Madonna from the National Gallery in London – as well as works by Vasari, Salviati, Bordon, Bassano, Polidoro da Lanciano, and Lambert Sustris; all of these artists were not only important for Schiavone, but also for the extraordinary scene of Venetian art in the age of Mannerism.

Arts and Trades are the protagonists of the Venice Carnival 2016, titled this year “CREATUM: an idea for a new start, a rebirth of Venice’s ancient origins.”

Heart of Venice Carnival 2016 will be St.Mark’s Square, where mask makers, weavers, tailors and glass-makers will relive in their 18th century Venetian workshops. From January the 30 to February the 9th the square will be transformed into a great crafts’ laboratory. An extraordinary village, the Creatum, designed by Massimo Checchetto scenografo of Teatro La Fenice, will become a stage where Venice will show her skills in gondolas and oars’ construction, masks and customs’ production, all accompanied by music and acting made by Gran Teatro La Fenice and Teatro Stabile del Veneto. All activities will be amplified on a big screen set up in the Square.

A bridge for a stage and a Ferris wheel for the Angel’s arrival will complete the set of a fairy-tale, where much-awaited traditional engagements come to life: the Festa delle Marie, historical parade of the 12 girls in magnificent Renaissance costumes; Sunday 31st January, the Flight of the Angel from St. Mark’s Bell tower, performed by Irene Rizzi, (2015 “Maria” Carnival winner).

Together with the mainland, where the Carnival will spread, and celebrations become a showcase exhibiting long traditions of Venetian life, even Calli and Campi in Venice will become places for musical and theatrical events.

These events will be backed up by evening and nocturnal events at the Arsenale, like the open-air urban costume performances, the sumptuous King’s Banquet (“Banchetto del Re”) – the official Carnival “gala dinner”, together with “The Club” and the Dance Machine where guests will be taken back to times echoing the pomp and splendour of the Venetian Republic, the centre of civilization.

Brian De Palma receives the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2015 Award.

In few days the 72nd Venice International Film Festival will start. From September 2nd and for 11 days Venice will host the annual appointment of the cinema. As already announced, the pre-opening will take place on September the 2nd in the Sala Darsena (starting at 8:30 pm) with the screening of The Merchant of Venice (1969) and Otello (1951) by Orson Welles.

The Biennale di Venezia and Jaeger-LeCoultre has announced that the great American director Brian De Palma will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2015 Award, dedicated to personalities who have made particularly original contributions to contemporary cinema. The award will be given on September 9th at 9.30 pm in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema during the 72nd Venice International Film Festival (September 2-12, 2015), directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by the Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta.

Following the ceremony, the 72nd Film Festival will present the world premiere, Out of Competition, of the documentary De Palma (109’) by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. The film grew out of the two directors’ spending time with Brian De Palma for over ten years. It’s an intimate conversation between filmmakers, telling his six decade long career, his life, and his filmmaking process.

Regarding this award, the Director of the Festival Alberto Barbera declared, “The child of an artistic era (the ‘70s) full of innovative ferment, Brian De Palma has made a name for himself as one of the most skillful directors in constructing perfect narrative mechanics with great creative freedom, experimenting with new technical solutions, rejecting the classic rules of the language, abandoning himself to aesthetic virtuosity, and celebrating his favorite authors. When watching a movie by Brian De Palma, we revert to being basic spectators. Although our eyes are wide open to avoid falling into the trap, we know full well we’re bound to fall into it anyway.”

Every year the first weekend of September Venice presents an event that should not be missed: the Regata Storica.

On Sunday September 6th 2015, the charm of the Regata Storica comes back in Venice. After the historical parade with the beautiful traditional boats, there will be the awaited competitive races that will fill every canal.

The Regata Storica has ancient origins. On the occasion of the Regata Storica, both residents and tourists attend and support the races on the several boats that fill the St. Mark’s Basin and the Grand Canal. Among all the races, the best known and most exciting is the Gondolini race.

The historical parade, which will start at 4pm, commemorates the welcome given in 1489 to Caterina Cornaro, the wife of the King of Cyprus, who renounced her throne in favour of Venice.

The traditional event will be preceded and followed by lots of collateral events, such as the concert organised in honour of the Regata Storica that will take place at San Salvador Church at 8pm of Saturday 5th 2015 (FREE ENTRANCE).

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER
6.00 pm, Campo della Salute
Presentation of the teams and blessing of the Gondolini

SUNDAY 6th SEPTEMBER

4.00 pm
HISTORICAL AND SPORT WATER PAGEANT: parade along the Grand Canal by historical crafts with costumed crews, boats and gondolas of the Venetian rowing associations (Voga alla Veneta). Course: from St. Mark’s Bay all the way down the Grand Canal.

4.30 pm

Maciarele and Schie regatta: two oared regatta on mascarete dedicated for children.

Categories:
– Schie (under 10 years). Course: from Rialto to Ca’ Foscari
– Maciarele Junior (under 12 years). Course: from San Stae to Ca’ Foscari
– Maciarele senior (under 14 years). Course: from San Stae to Ca’ Foscari

4.50 pm

YOUNG ROWERS’ TWIN-OARED PUPPARINI REGATTA
Course: St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, around the paleto in front of Ca’ Farsetti, to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

5.10 pm

WOMEN’S TWIN-OARED MASCARETE REGATTA

Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto between Riva de Biasio and San Marcuola), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

5.30 pm

Batane regatta
Course: from Punta della Dogana to Ca’ Foscari

5.40 pm

SIX-OARED CAORLINE REGATTA

Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto in front of the Santa Lucia railway station), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

6.00 pm, after the passage of caorline (match for third place) and 6.30 pm, after the passage of gondolini (final)
International Universities Boat Challenge
Challenge on eight-oared galeoni boat by the crew of the Ca’ Foscari and Iuav Universities of Venezia versus the teams of other Universities
Course: From Rialto to Ca’ Foscari

6.10 pm

TWIN-OARED GONDOLINI REGATTA
Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto in front of the Santa Lucia railway station), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

COLLATERAL EVENTS

Saturday 5TH September 2015 at 8 p.m.
San Salvador Church, Rialto
Concert: HOMAGE TO CATERINA CORNARO, QUEEN OF CYPRUS
“SALVE REGINA” di D. Scarlatti e J.A. Hasse
Ensemble MusicaVenezia
Free admission
Info: tel. (39) 389 485 9828 – mail: ass.musica.venezia@gmail.com

Tuesday 8th September 2015 at 6 pm, Canottieri Giudecca
In the round of meetings “Storie sotto el fèlze”: Regata storica e regatanti del terzo millennio
With Gaetano Bregantin, Giorgio Crovato and Gloria Rogliani
Free admission.

Until October 2015 many and many itineraries to discover food and wines of Veneto region.

Until October 2015, in conjunction with Milan Expo 2015, you will have the chance to appreciate a rich series of events dedicated to food and wine products of Veneto region officially recognised by UE. Gusto Veneto is the project that offers this extraordinary chance to discover one of the best aspects of the region.

More than 45 events give the opportunity to visit some new destinations and tourist attractions through 14 routes – from the Dolomiti to the Adriatic Sea, from the Palladian Villas to the vineyards of the hills and the historical cities.

One shouldn’t miss one of the many appointments dedicated to wine, the top-of-the-range among the products of Veneto region. An example is “Calici di stelle”, a suggestive event that every year attracts hundred of visitors in the fascinating setting of Villa Cedri.

Veneto region is also the land of ‘radicchio’ and other seasonal products like asparagus, strawberries and cherries. Not to be missed the event “TERRE DEL TIEPOLO E SEMENTI DEL RADICCHIO” (Land of Tiepolo and Radicchio) and the Festival of Cherries in Marostica.

The tasty project Gusto Veneto also offers the chance to know better products of the dairies like the asiago cheese and the typical salamis like the ‘soppressa’.

Discover all the special routes on the official site of Gusto Veneto and choose your next destination!

All the itineraries are free (except for taste menus)

Discover the fascinating Venetian Villas with several events, shows, tasting itineraries and theatrical performances of Venetian Villas Festival 2015.

In summer 2015 the Venetian Villas Festival comes back again! Venetian Villas Festival is a great event that offers the opportunity to live a fascinating journey appreciating wine and food excellences of the Veneto region. More than 50 events, meetings, workshops and exceptional soirées are organised in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia region offering the visitor a very rich programme of events to choose.

Who wants to know something more about wine cultivation and the historical and landscape heritage should not miss the event SORSI D’AUTORE (Author’s sips). Until July 12th the event proposes many appointments of taste and culture with some special guests. Among them: Enrico Mentana, Corrado Formigli, Giuseppe Cruciani and Carlo Petrini, “guru” of the slow-food movement.

The website Ville Venete Tour presents the first online catalogue that gathers all the accessible villas. It has been realised by the Venetian Villas Association and offers the user to discover the extraordinary heritage of the Venetian Villas: more than 150 villas are opened to the public for guided tours, events and hospitality.

The opening of the villas gives the opportunity to promote a journey through breath-taking and unique places.

The full programme is available here.

A unique exhibition in Venice explores the omnipresence of universal proportions in art.

Until November 22th 2015 the fascinating spaces of Palazzo Fortuny in Venice hosts “Proportio”, the exhibition organised by the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia that explores the omnipresence of universal proportions in art, science, music and architecture.

PROPORTIO carries on the highly acclaimed exhibition project that has already presented a trilogy of exhibitions: Artempo (2007), In-finitum (2009) TRA (2011) and Tàpies. Lo Sguardo dell’artista (2013).

Throughout human history, the concept of proportions has been applied across civilisations. In the West, the knowledge of sacred geometry was intentionally guarded for hundreds of years and may have been forgotten or discarded. PROPORTIO want to relaunch a contemporary dialogue about the lost knowledge of proportions and sacred geometry. The work of artists, scientists, architects, philosophers and other thinkers helps the visitor to understand how proportions can inform the essential design of life in the present and how we can use them to have a blueprint for the future.

The exhibition includes specially commissioned works by leading artists such as Marina Abramovic, Bae Bien-U, Michael Borremans, Maurizio Donzelli, Riccardo De Marchi Arthur Duff, Anish Kapoor and Izhar Patkin, which are displayed alongside major works by Berlinde de Bruyckere, Luciano Fabro, Antony Gormley, Anselm Kiefer, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Fausto Melotti, Mario Merz, Ad Ryman and Bill Viola. Moreover you can admire a unique selection of Egyptian artefacts, a series of Dutch Old Master architectural paintings, a splendid portrait by Botticelli and a monumental sculpure by Antonio Canova.

A great exhibition in homage to Mario Merz at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice

From May 8th to September 20th 2015, in conjunction with the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and with Milan Expo 2015, Venice presents the exhibition “Mario Merz – Unreal City”. It is the first exhibition of Merz’s work to be held in any public institution in Italy since the artist’s death and it brings contemporary art to the new spaces of the Gallerie dell’Accademia.

Unreal City is also conceived as the artist’s ideal homage to Venice, the unreal city par excellence, a metaphysical and surreal place where nature and culture combine themselves perfectly.

In the artist’s works of art natural materials come together with urban and industrial elements. There’s a deep affinity between the artistic research of Mario Merz and the issues proposed by Expo 2015 in Milan, “Feeding the Planet – Energy for Life”, so that it’s the perfect setting to propose the extraordinary modernity of Merz’s poetic message.

WORKS
From the 60s Mario Merz started to use neon lights, which have become the heart of some of his most iconic works of art: from the permanent installation like the Fibonacci series, on the Mole Antoneliana’s dome, and the igloo in Turin, to the big spiral of Naple’s metro station and the light installations of the central station of Zurich and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

Two rooms are dedicated to Merz’s art, starting from a selection of works of his graphic research, which represents an important part of his artistic life. The exhibition culminates In in his large scale environmental installations In the following room you will have the chance to admire Senza titolo (Luoghi senza strada) (1994), an igloo made of slate, which shows the employment of different materials, and the Wax Spiral (1970-1981) that propose again the theme of the Fibonacci series. a progression in which each number is the sum of the two before. The artist interpreted the numerical sequence as the emblem of the dynamics associated with the growth processes in the organic world. After some other masterworks of big size (like “Fulmine in Tazza” and “La natura è l’equilibrio della spirale”), the exhibition path ends in the courtyard of the Gallerie dell’Accademia with the big 8 igloo of 74 steps created in 1992.

OPENING TIMES
Monday from 8.15 am to 2 pm
Tuesday – Sunday from 8.15 am to 6.30 pm
The ticket office closes at 6.30 pm

ADMISSION (exhibition + museum)
Full price € 15,00
Reduced price € 12,00

Once again Glasstress returns to Venice: the amazing exhibition that every year takes several contemporary artists to express their art through the media of glass.

Until September 22th 2015, Palazzo Franchetti hosts the exhibition “Glasstress”, a collateral event of Venice Biennale. Since 2009, this project have been encouraging a dialogue between contemporary art and glass – one of the most magical, flexible and innovative medium – thanks to the participation of international well-known artists in Venice, the city of glass.

GOTIKA is the title that has been chosen for the exhibition of this year. A fascinating theme with many connections and reflections of today society and the world of contemporary art that make this edition even more ambitious.

Glasstress Gotika 2015 is a joint project of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Berengo Studio of Venice, in partnership with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Ermitage Italia.

Palazzo Franchetti, located on the Grand Canal in Venice, presents almost 100 hundred historical glass artworks and other gothic objects from the exclusive Hermitage collection such as monstrance, reliquaries, glass crosses and armors – most of them never seen by the public. These works of art are on display with the other newly commissioned art works created by 50 artists coming from 20 countries together with the glass masters of the Berengo furnace in Murano, all with a Gothic theme.

Beyond the exhibition “Glasstress”, Palazzo Franchetti also presents “Life Bank”, a site-specific project by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, who in collaboration with the Slow Food Movement will transform the old Banca di Venezia at the top floor of the Palazzo Franchetti into a “Gothic garden” dedicated to bio-diversity with a monumental installation created with ancient cereals and plants.

Opening times
Everyday from 10 am to 6 pm

Tickets
Full prince: 10€
Reduced price 8€ (groups, over 65)

On show in Venice, the photographic journey taken by Sebastião Salgado in partnership with illy to pay homage to the men and women of coffee.

During the Biennale, a not-to be missed exhibition is presented by Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa at his seat of St. Mark’s Square. We are talking about “Scent of a dream. A journey in the world of coffee”, a unique event that gives the chance to admire a selection of 75 photos by the great Sebastião Salgado.

The exhibition presents some of the most representative images selected from the photographic journey which the great Salgado have taken in partnership with illy to pay homage to the men and women of coffee plantations: a journey that involves people, landscapes and a harmonious relationship with the earth illustrated through highly expressive, evocative and emotive, black and white pictures.

This is one of the most significant reportage ever realized dedicated to the world of coffee. For more than 10 years, Salgado has immortalizes in his black and white pictures the flow of daily life in the coffee plantations and the beauty of the earth where the coffee bean is grown and harvest. The photographic itinerary has involved ten of the countries from which illy buys coffee were: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia,Guatemala, Colombia, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Tanzania.

The exhibition is also accompanied by the “PROFUMO DI SOGNO. Viaggio nel mondo del caffè” published by Contrasto. The book, curated by by Lélia Wanick Salgado, the photographer’s wife, tells the story of this journey through the images created by the great photographer and text by Andrea Illy, Luis Sepulveda, Angela Vettese and of course, Sebastião Salgado.

Opening Times
From Wednesday to Sunday: 10.30 – 17.30

FREE ENTRANCE

For the first time in Italy, 150 works of the Modern German Realism at the Correr Museum of Venice.

From may 2015 the Museum Correr of Venice presents a great exhibition, the first event in Italy to explore the themes that characterize the dominant artistic trends of the Weimar Republic: NEW OBJECTIVITY – Art in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic 1919-1933.

The exhibition features about 150 works of art by more than 40 artists (including paintings, photographs, draquings and prints) and it is organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in association with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and with the support of 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE.

NEW OBJECTIVITY – Art in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic 1919-1933 gives the visitor a unique chance to discover the art of some less known artists like Hans Finsler, Georg Schrimpf, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Carl Grossberg, and Aenne Biermann. In the set-up special attention is directed to make a comparison between painting and photography, offering the unique opportunity to examine the similarities and differences between the movement’s diverse media.

In the period between the end of World War I and Nazism arrival, Germany’s first democracy was a laboratory for cultural experiences, witnessing the end of Expressionism, the exuberant anti-art activities of the Dadaists, the establishment of the Bauhaus and the emergence of a new realism.

This new realism has been called in different ways like Post-Expressionism, neo-naturalism, Verism, and Magic Realism, and has been recognised by the exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit  (New Objectivity) held in Mannheim in 1925.

The exhibition path is divided into into five thematic sections: Life in Democracy and the Aftermath of the War points out the difference of conditions between Germany’s rising bourgeoisie and those suffered most from the war’s effects; The City and the Nature of Landscape explores the growing disparity between an even more industrialized urbanity and nostalgic longing for the rural world; Still Life and Commodities focused on a new form of the traditional still life; Man and Machine examines the artist’s different approaches towards the trasformation and dehumanization effects due to rapid industrialization; lastly, New Identities: Type and Portraiture shows a new trend in portraiture in which subjects are more represented as social classes rather than individual subjects.

Opening times
Every day from 10am to 7pm
The ticket office closes at 6pm

Tickets
Full price € 12,00

Four days of choreographic performances in the sestieri of San Marco, Dorsoduro and the Arsenal: this is Biennale College Dance 2015.

Next Biennale College Dance 2015 will take place in Venice from June 25th to 28th and his director Virgilio Sieni has revealed the theme of this edition: “Give place to dance as a space for sharing with the public and innovate together the sense of attendance”.

Four long days of choreographic performances are scheduled in San Marco, Dorsoduro and the Arsenal, running from noon till evening. As V. Sieni said “Venice in this sense becomes a metaphor for a world that reflects the property left by the community (streets, canals, buildings, fields, squares, bridges, the lagoon, the body of the city), and invites us to inaugurate a series of exercises for the future based on the dignity of the gesture, the body and the dance understood as research on the human territory and beauty “.

For this edition of Biennale College Dance 2015 Virgilio Sieni has invited 16 choreographers who will lead for 3 weeks some workshops involving professional dancers but sometimes also younger dancers and citizens. The result will be the creation of short choreographic works that will be presented to the public on June the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th.

The choreographers invited are already well-known or new prominent names of the international scene, as Laurent Chetouane, Xavier Le Roy, Cesc Gelabert, Alessandro Sciarroni, Radhouane El Meddeb, Claudia Castellucci, the historical founder of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Emanuel Gat and Sharon Fridman, exponents od the new generation of Israeli dance established in Europe, Olivia Grandville (which recreate a choreography of Boris Charmatz), Marina Giovannini and Michele Di Stefano, who won the Silver Lion prize last year, and obviously Virgilio Sieni. Next to them some younger protagonists: Save Sanchis, co-choreographer of some performances with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Kinetic Collective of Francesca Pennines, Anna Ajmone and the Swiss Yasmine Hugonnet.

Cy Twombly arrives in Venice with a great exhibition at Ca’ Pesaro: a colourful and deep testimony of a work that is regenerated every time it appears.

From May 6th 2015 Ca’ Pesaro presents a special retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest masters of contemporary art, Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928 – Rome, 2011) who returns to Venice – where he attended the Biennale five times from 1964 and the last one was in 2001 when he won the Golden Lion – with an important monographic exhibition curated by Julie Sylvester and Philip Larratt-Smith.

This exhibition is a testimony of a work that is regenerated every time it appears and of an artist who never ceases to amaze “for the extraordinary visual intelligence and acute sensitivity to all forms of physical, natural and artistic beauty” as Philip Larratt-Smith has written in the catalogue.

The work of CY Twombly, who passed away in 2011, is focused on the universal themes of love, art, beauty and death, but the particularity of his artistic vision and his perspective of the world offers an extraordinarily original interpretation to these themes.

Like many of his generation, Twombly reacted against the dominant trend in painting of Abstract Expressionism, but unlike others, who opted for a Pop or Neo-Dadaist vision, he made a synthesis between the heritage and established techniques of gestural abstraction and the tradition of European painting. Many are the themes of his artistic research and they are explored in the majestic spaces of Ca’ Pesaro.

The exhibition proposes an itinerary full of references that take the visitor from the early wall paintings on wood dated 1951 to a selection of the artist’s last works created in 2011 when the artist was at the physical limit of his old age. We are talking about eight paintings of gestural baroque circles in yellow, red and orange on a bright green background (half margarita, half key lime). These were the last paintings of the artist, created a few weeks before the death.

Admission
From May 6th to September 13th 2015
Admission accorded to the times and tickets of the museum

Opening times
10am – 6pm (ticket office: 10am – 5pm)
Closed on Monday

Finnish design arrives in Venice with the exhibition “Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection” presented by Cini Foundation.

The Cini Foundation of Venice carries on the project Le Stanze del Vetro, a research about the art of glassmaking in the twentieth century. This time the study goes beyond the Venetian glass discovering a new dimension: the lively design and glassmaking art of Scandinavia. The Finnish glass is the protagonist of the new exhibition that will be opened until August 12th 2015.

In exhibition over 300 glass works from the private collection Christina and Bruno Bischofberger, one of the biggest design of the 20th century collection. You will have the opportunity to admire masterpieces like jugs, vases, plates, glasses and ornaments created by the foremost 20th century Finnish designers: Aino and Alvar Aalto, Arttu Brummer, Kaj Franck, Göran Hongell, Gunnel Nyman, Timo Sarpaneva, Oiva Toikka and Tapio Wirkkala.

The exhibition path starts with works that date back to 1932, when Finnish glass started to be known worldwide becoming also protagonist of some important exhibition like the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the Triennals of Milan in 1933 and 1936.

The itinerary continues with the masterpieces of the 50s of those are considered to be the visionary genius of Scandinavian design – Alvar Aalto, Kaj Franck, Gunnel Nyman, Timo Sarpaneva and Tapio Wirkkala – the the artists of the “golden age” of Finnish glass. In the end, you will admire the colourful and refined glasses of the 60s and 70s, created by designers like Oliva Toikka. Through an irreverent approach to the glass, these artists lead the Scandinavian design to be more contemporary.

FREE ENTRANCE

From April 12th Palazzo Grassi presents a great retrospective dedicated to Martial Raysse.

Until the end of November 2015 the Pinault Foundation, which is located in Palazzo Grassi in Venice, presents MARTIAL RAYSSE 2015-1958 / 1958-2015, the first retrospective of the French artist being organised outside France after a long time.

The exhibition path takes an approach to Martial Raysse‘s work that is not chronological but thematic. Through more than 300 works among paintings, sculptures, video or neon line installations, the visitor can explore the colourful artistic world of one of the most significant contemporary French artists, Martial Raysse, from the 50s to the most recent developments.  The exhibition covers every aspect of the artist’s work: his small sculptures, which range from simple figures to games played with himself, the drawing as work of preparation, his films that show his libertarian ideas, and also the paintings that represent his most accomplished work. Moreover, the path proposes some works that can be seen as self-portraits, reflecting the needs of the artist and the loneliness he has to live in order to move forward in his research.

As the curator Caroline Burgeois said, Martial Raysse is one of the few artists for whom tackling the history of “great” art head on is what really matters, and this has been since the outset of his career. Therefore, there are renaissance references – like in “Portrait of the Ancient Friend” (1963) or in “Via Velazquez” (2003) or again in the drawing “Ramonalisa” (1993) – but also the paramours that are beloved in French paintings, the banal aspects of daily life and a lot of women portraits. All is presented by distance, through humor or by trying to copy the masters, in accordance with the principle expressed by Eugenio Garin that “to imitate is to become aware of oneself”.

The exhibition also reveals the great amount of effort for his work, that want to propose a sort of philosophy of life. Through his radical use of colour and treatment freedom, Raysse want to show us the beauty of the world, the need for each of us to be involved in it, the responsibility that each of us has for the others and for the community.

Opened every day from 10 am to 7 pm (closed on Tuesday)
The ticket office closes at 6 pm

Full ticket
€ 15,00 Palazzo Grassi OR Punta della Dogana
€ 20,00 Palazzo Grassi AND Punta della Dogana

Vino in Villa, the traditional event dedicated to Prosecco Conegliano Valdobbiadene, becomes a Festival that combines wine and culture.

Art, photography, music, literature, philosophy, poetry and the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore: those are the ingredients of Vino in Villa, the traditional date of May dedicated to the most appreciated Italian sparkling wine DOCG. This year the event becomes a unique cultural festival that will embrace the fascinating hills (candidate to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site) from Conegliano, hometown of Cima da Conegliano, the great artist of the Renaissance, to Valdobbiadene.

Vino in Villa Festival will take place from May 14th to May 15th 2015 involving not only Conegliano but also Pieve di Soligo and Valdobbiadene. The closing event expected for Sunday 17th May will be held in the castle San Salvatore in the small village of Susegana, where you will find a wine tasting table which proposes more than 300 different labels, from big companies to the smallest one. Moreover, you will have the chance to appreciate a performance of jazz music with Enrico Rava and Tiziano Scarpa.

Those days a rich programme of events will be waiting for you from 4pm to 9.30 pm (for more info visit the website www.prosecco.it).

The Festival, curated by Massimo Donà (Venetian philosopher and musician, author of the book “Filosofia del Vino”), will host some Italian and international prominent figures who will show how wine can be an important factor that brings together cultural, cultural, social, intellectual and human aspects.

Opening times: Sunday May 17th , tasting from 10am to 10pm.

On the occasion of Expo 2015, Verona presents Arte e Vino, an extraordinary exhibition.

On the occasion of Expo 2015 dedicated to the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, Verona, which has hosted the most important Italian wine fair since almost 50 years, presents one of the most important and unique exhibition scheduled in Italy for the international event and it will take place from April 11th to August 16th 2015 in Palazzo della Gran Guardia. We are talking about Arte e Vino, art and wine matched in a prestigious exhibition.

The remarkable cultural event has been possible thanks to the participation of the city of Verona, the Autonomous Province of Trento, VeronaFiere, the MART Museum (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) of Trento and Rovereto, and the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg.

THE EXHIBITION PATH
The exhibition path of Arte e Vino seems like a kaleidoscopic journey into the universe of the representation of wine in art experience, both sculpture, paintings and minor arts. The exhibition presents almost 170 works of art from more than 90 Italian and foreigner loaners , taking you through an extraordinary itinerary that come from the combination of two jewels our culture and history, symbols of Italy in the world: art and wine.

The exhibition includes not only works of great Italian artists like Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, Annibale Carracci, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Pietro Longhi, Sebastiano Ricci, GianBattista Tiepolo, Depero, De Pisis, Morandi, but also of other important international artists, such as Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe Ribera, Nicolas Poussin, Jacob Jordaens, Philipp Hackert, Gerrit von Honthorst, Philippe Mercier, Nicolas Tournier and Picasso.

OTHER EVENTS
Beyond the exhibition it is interesting the presence of a wine shop next to the bookshop where you will have the opportunity to buy the wine of the companies that support the project and a taste corner that will propose you some matches between renowned wine labels and local products.

OPENING TIMES
From Monday to Thursday and on Saturday and Sunday from 9.30 am to 8.30 pm
On Friday from 9.30 am to 10.30 pm (The ticket office closes 1 hour before the closing time)
Opened also on April 25th, May 1st, June 2nd, August 15th.

TICKETS
Full price € 12,00 (audio guide included)
Reduced price € 9,00 (audio guide included)

The extraordinary jewel collection created by some great artists on display at VITRARIA Glass +A Museum in Venice

On the occasion of the exhibition Precious – From Picasso to Jeff Koons, the VITRARIA Glass + A Museum presents more than 160 jewels belonging to the collection Velvet and created by some of the most important contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Lucio Fontana and Anish Kapoor.

The collection gather together amazing works of art that are often unknown to the public. After stopping in Roubaix, New York, Athens, Valencia, Miami and Seoul, the exhibition give the chance also to the Italian public to admire the less known face of more than one hundred names of modern and contemporary art.

The incredible collection have been gathered over the years by Diane Venet, Parisian collector of origin and New Yorker by adoption, wife of the renowned artist Bernar Venet. It will be possible to appreciate it in the Vitraria Glass + A Museum, the new museum in the heart of Venice that opened its doors in September 2014. The museum is characterized by an inter-disciplinary approach where “Glass” expresses the thematic objective that focuses on the glass through the contamination of this element with art, design, architecture, new technologies and fashion. “A +” mean the aim of the museum to expand its research, affording an exhibition area and presenting itself as a meeting and trade place for artists, designers and the creative industry.

Each jewel is conceived as a wearable work of art, it holds a story and was created by the artists thinking about a person in particular. That’s perhaps this intimate aspect that make them even more fascinating.

The double meaning of the exhibition starts right from the title: Precious. It refers to very rare and precious works of art but also to objects that hold, since their creation, a strong symbolic and personal content. For example you may think about of the pebbles picked up on the beach and then painted by Picasso for Dora Maar, or the pieces of bone on which he engraved the portrait of Marie-Thérèse.

Tickets
Full price: 8 €
Reduced price: 5€

Opening times
Every day from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm
Opened on Saturday evenings from February 21st 2015
Closed on Monday

On the occasion of Milano Expo 2015, Venice presents the pavilion Acquae Venezia 2015 collateral to the Universal Exposition.

The pavilion Acquae Venezia 2015 will be inaugurated on May 3rd 2015. The collateral event of Milano Expo 2015 dedicated to water themes will take place in a new building built in Marghera – Venice and designed by the archistar Michele De Lucchi. Among all the events already scheduled for the exhibition in Venice we mention “The Immersive Tunnel” that will give the chance to climb down the depths of the ocean with the “Lift of the Abyss”, to become a meteorology expert and make your weather prediction in the “Climate Theatre”, and to discover sea flavours in the “Water Food World”.

Aquae Venezia 2015 is sponsored by Expo 2015 which has conferred on the initiative the status of “Collateral” in virtue of the theme of Water, completely coherent with the theme of Expo: “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.

Acquae, with his pavilion that extends for 50.000 mq, will propose a thick programme including exhibitions, experiential activities and conferences, tasting itineraries and spectacular events address to the public, but also international events dedicated to companies and the research world. For six months (from May to October) there will be a rich programme of exhibitions, activities, conferences, B2B business area, workshops and matchmakings in which the theme of water will be treated through different points of view: from environment to work, from industry to agriculture, passing through feeding, health and wellness and leisure.

WORK AT SEAWORLD AND ALTABIRRA
Among other events presented: “Work at Seaworld – International exhibition dedicated to maritime economy and Blue Economy” and “AltaBirra – Exhibition dedicated to beer with high creative level” of Officina Comunicazione & Eventi. One of the most awaited attractions is the “Lift of the Abyss”. Thanks to this experience you may perceive to climb down the Mariana Trench admiring the fauna of the sea of different depths. Moreover, there will be a space for drinks, including wines, spirits, teas and infusions and lastly, there will be an area dedicated to meteorology and environment.

THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD EXPERIENCE AREA
Among the permanent sections there is also The International Food Experience Area, realized in collaboration with ELIOR. The area is dedicated to food, offering a boutique of taste and several rest areas dedicated mainly to worldwide culinary traditions related to fish dishes. Cooking classes and cooking shows are also expected.

THE LEONARDO’S PARK
The section “The Leonardo’s Park” completes the project. It is a thematic park, located outside the pavilion, where children and adults will have the opportunity to learn scientific aspects related to water in a pleasant, dynamic and interactive way.

CONFERENCES
There will be three main moments. “Water and Life”, organized by Umberto Veronesi Foundation with the scientific coordination of Chiara Tonelli, a series of scientific conferences dedicated to wellness and health.

The convention promoted by UN-WWAP World Water Assessment Programme (UNESCO) to talk about the “Water for a Sustainable World” presented for the firs time in New York on March 20th 2015.

“Water Planet”, by eAmbiente and with the scientific coordination of Gabriella Chiellino, a series of three B2B and B2C exhibitions dedicated to reclamation systems, irrigation, the fight against desertification, recycling of polluted areas.

TICKETS FOT ACQUAE VENICE 2015: 22€ at the ticket office or 20€ online.

The masterpieces of Henri Rousseau in a unique exhibition held in the Doge’s Palace of Venice until July 5th 2015.

From March 6th 2015 Venice enriches its cultural activities with the special exhibition Henri Rousseau – Archaic candour held in the fascinating Doge’s Apartments of the Doge’s Palace. The exhibition boasts the special collaboration of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and the patronage of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna.

In Italy it is an extraordinary event that give the chance to admire some of the most famous works of the French painter through eight thematic sections. Hard to classify, Rousseu is certainly a central figure in the figurative art between the end of the 19th century and the revolutionary period of the avant-garde movements, famous for his dreamlike atmospheres, his forests and enchanted landscapes.

The exhibition boasts masterpieces like the famous “Self-portrait” (1889-90) that the artist considered the first “portrait-landscape” in the history of art, “The poultry yard” (1896-98), bought by Kandinsky and showed in the first Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich, “War or the ride of discord” (1894), painted by Rousseau with that innocent eye that Ardengo Soffici, a great adimirer, defined as childlike innocence. That “archaic candour” also emerges in the paintings dedicated to wild nature and in his famous jungle scenes, of which six works are on display.

The exhibition Henri Rousseau – Archaic candour doesn’t mean to be another celebration of the French painter’s naïveté but rather the presentation of a long series of studies started more than three years ago. The project has given Rousseau’s work the right critical and historical light: the artist was a kind of referee for some of the greatest artists of the historical avant-garde movements, for intellectuals like Apollinaire and Jarry, for great collectors like Wilhelm Uhde and Paul Guillaume, and for many painters who preceded and and went beyond the Cubism and Futurism experiences, from Cézanne to Gauguin, from Redon to Seurat, from Morandi to Carrà, from Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera and not to mention Kandinskij and Picasso.  All of these artists will be present in the show with works that establish a coherent dialogue with those painted by Le Douanier in his short but intense creative period from 1884 to 1910.

Opening Times

From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (from Sunday to Thursday)
From 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (from Friday to Saturday)

Full price € 13,00

Venice Carnival 2015 offers a rich programme of events from January 31st to February 17th. All the museums, theaters, churches and foundations will be involved.

On the occasion of Venice Carnival 2015 the most important venetian museums, theaters, churches and foundations are involved in a rich programme of events, proposing special shows, itineraries and other offers. All the events are connected by the main theme of food in relationship with the venetian culture and art, the music and theater.

In particular, from January 31st to February 17th the Civic Museums of Venice Foundation proposes a new themed itinerary about food and an interesting marathon of music and theatre on February 12th – the so-called Fat Thursday.

During the carnival period, they present an original themed itinerary through a rich selection of works closely related to the iconography of food, in order to highlight the connection between food and culture in the artistic traditions of Venice. The project reflects also the main theme of Expo 2015 “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.

In the museums (from the Natural History Museum to Ca’ Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo and Ca’ Pesaro) some information sheets will offer you a suggestive interpretation of the artworks displayed in the itinerary. They compare some different aspects – artistic, historical, naturalistic and the anthropological one – in order to reveal in an original way the world and the relevance of food in the venetian tradition.

The marathon on Thursday 12th of February

On the occasion of the “Fat Thursday” (giovedì grasso) Palazzo Ducale, Correr Museum, Ca’ Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo and the house museum of Goldoni are involved in a kind of marathon of music and theater during which several artistic groups will present some short perfomances (about 20 minutes) just in front of the most significant works of each collection. The shows will be proposed more times during the day (every half an hour from 11am to 4.30).

The activities proposed on February 12th are organised in collaboration with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello of Venice, which will present the two performances at Palazzo Ducale and Correr Museum. For the theater, the shows will be proposed by Pantakin – Commedia Circo Teatro Eventi (Palazzo Ducale and Ca’ Rezzonico), by Kairós – Il tempo giusto Danza e Teatro (Ca’ Rezzonico and house museum Goldoni) and by Arte-Mide (Palazzo Mocenigo).

During the day the Educational Service MUVE will also propose some activities and creative workshops for all the children in Palazzo Ducale and Ca’ Rezzonico (at 3pm and 4pm).

Entrance with the museum tickets

The Big Opening of Venice Carnival: an extraordinary floating show, the exhibition of a pianist and his piano suspended in the air and the traditional “Festa Veneziana”

Venice Carnival 2015, presented in Palazzo Labia, reveals a rich and tasty programme reflecting the main theme of Expo Milano 2015: food.

31st January 6.00pm to 6.30pm: “The Magic Banquet” – water show in Sestiere Cannaregio (a district of Venice)

The 2015 Venice Carnival will be officially opened with a magnificent floating show along the Rio of Cannaregio, “The Magic Banquet”. The show has been conceived by Nu’art and is directed by Gabriele Rizzi. “The Magic Banquet” combines the best international performances with suggestive scenic design, following the tasty theme of food. The event is divided into two parts (one taking place at 6pm and the other at 8pm) but any chapter represents a celebration to the powers of flavour. Coffee cups and strawberries will be some of the elements of a floating world, telling in an ironic and astonishing way the flavours of a menu typically Made in Italy. The show will reach the peak with 4 hot-air balloons and 4 floating structures, just before the grand final, when a big hot-air balloon representing Venice will burst on the scene.

February 1st, from 11am: the traditional “Festa Veneziana” on the water, water parades and the world changing piano.

On February 1st, the typical feast continues in Cannaregio with the floating “Festa Veneziana”, combining the rowing culture and the pleasure of local cuisine. At 11pm a rowing water parade will start from Punta della Dogana, going along with a pianist who will literally fly with them on the Grand Canal. Actually, Venice Carnival Opening will be the chance to present for the first time the great performance “The world changing piano” in which the pianist Paolo Zanarella will play his piano six metres above the water. When the boats will arrive in Rio Canareggio, the “Festa Veneziana” will start with the opening of the wine and food stalls, offering everyone more than 20.000 wine tasting and Venetian specialities for free: from Pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) to bigoli in salsa, from baccalà to sarde in saor and, to not forget, the delicious carnival cakes: frittelle e galani.

All the events are free for everyone

From February 9th the renovated Glass Museum in Murano will be opened to the public again offering a new refined exhibition itinerary.

After a radical renovation and enlargement of the exhibition spaces, the Glass Museum of Murano opens its doors to the public. The museum had been closed for months but now it opens again with a doubled exhibition surface, a completely renovated exhibition path and redesigned spaces offering the visitor the chance to appreciate in a new way his visit in the world of the art of glass.

The Glass Museum of Murano, one of the twelve museums part of the Civic Museums Foundation of Venice, is maybe the only place in the world where the art of glass is represented from its beginnings: from some examples of the Roman times dating from the 1st and the 3rd century AD to some arts of the Renaissance, the original glass masterpieces of the eighteenth century and the innovative pieces of the 19th and 20th century. With no doubts, it is the only museum dedicated to the art of glass located in a still active and strongly rooted context thanks to the several furnaces still operating in Murano.

The project of renovation and restyling has involved both Palazzo Giustinian and an area of the former factory of glass beads next to the museum garden (the former Conterie). Now the restored complex has become a fascinating white cube that keeps the architectural lines of the old building and combines the natural and the artificial light that comes from the view to Fondamenta Giustinian.

Here you can find an original selection of 50 artworks dating from the Roman times to the 20th century. The exhibition path introduce you in the world of the art of glass illustrating in a suggestive way the main stages and the development of the glassmaking industry in Murano.

Moreover, the new area will host temporary exhibitions and some events. First of all an homage to the master of glass Luciano Vistosi, the great sculptor of glass dead in 2010 after many years of international success. The exhibition will be opened from February 9th to May 31st and will include a selection of glass works in black and white.

Opening Times

From April 1st to October 31st: 10-18
Ticket office: 10-17

From November 1st to March 31st: 10-17
Ticket office: 10-16

Closed on December 25th, January 1st, May 1st.

Vaporetto

Line 4.1 or Line 4.2 – Museo Murano stop

Also this year at Christmas time the city of Venice and Mestre host the traditional Christmas markets.

Starting from 29 November 2014 until January 6, 2015 the main squares and streets of the cities of Mestre and Venice will host the Christmas markets, which have now become a regular event for adults and children.

First to inaugurate Christmas season is the market of Mestre, the mainland of Venice; on December 29, 2014 in Piazza Ferretto from 9am until 7pm, timetable that will be observed every day until 6 January 2015 (except public holidays), will be open all the stalls, rich in local crafts, food and wine typical of the Veneto and other regions, objects and various toys. In addition to all the different stalls the program of La Piazza in Festa also provides music and concerts on Saturday and Sunday, jugglers and circus theater, book presentations and entertainment for children. The market will then remain open until Epiphany.

With regard to the city of Venice, the markets will be held in different areas of the city and will remain in the city until Christmas Eve. The Christmas proposed by the city of Venice is a fascinating journey through craft products, tastings, Christmas trees, concerts and activities for the little ones. The best known and most “Christmassy” between Venetian markets  is the one of Campo Santo Stefano which is held from early December until Christmas eve. The goal is to create a meeting point where tourists and Venetians can taste regional specialties, with great music and can spend the holidays together. Very characteristic is also the fact that most of the stands of this market are placed inside wooden houses, built with special care, modeled on those of the countries of northern Europe.

In addition to the famous market of Santo Stefano, it is served also another one much less characteristic between Campo San Bortolomio and Strada Nuova, also open until Christmas Eve.

Remarkable is definitely the island of Murano, where to welcome visitors during the Christmas season the tourists will find installations of glass in theme with Christmas, the most important works of the master glassmakers.

The unavoidable Concert of the Immaculate Conception the 8th of December in Venice at the Church of San Giovanni and Paolo: the Marciana Choir.

The 8th of December 2014 at 5pm at the Church of San Giovanni and Paolo in Venice is renewed again this year the appointment with the Grand Concert the Immaculate Conception.

The Church of San Giovanni and Paolo is one of the most majestic religious buildings of the city, considered the Pantheon of Venice for the significant number of Venetian doges and other important characters buried there from the thirteenth century. Inside, on December 8 will perform the Marciana Choir led by Marco Gemmani.

The Marciana Choir is one of the most old musical institutions operating in the world with a thriving historical past and a tradition marked by great composers. Drawing from his vast repertoire, accompanies by years the liturgical celebrations in St. Mark’s Church in Venice, both in the most solemn occasions such as Easter, Christmas and the Feast of St. Mark, as at Chapter Mass on ordinary Sundays. This unique formation is one of the few remaining in Italy to perform regularly polyphony of merit during the liturgical office, continuing its own tradition.

The schedule of the concert considers musics from Francesco Cavalli, Andrea Gabrieli, Alessandro Grandi and Claudio Monteverdi.

The appointment of the concert of the Immaculate Conception in Venice opens the campaign Tende 2014-2015 titled “GENERATE BEAUTY” to support projects of the Foundation AVSI in Ecuador, Kenya, Syria, Sierra Leone and Iraq.

Any proceeds from the event will be donated to non-profit NGO AVSI.

Admission is free until depletion of available seats.

For a special New Year’s Eve Venice is absolutely the perfect destination.

New Year’s Eve in Venice is a synonym for music, toasts and fireworks in one of the most romantic locations in the world: St. Mark’s Square and the Basin.

This year the format will be that of the White Venice as it was last year: a crowd of nearly 100,000 people all dressed in white, celebrate the new year with rivers of Cinnamon Bellini, the timeless kiss of midnight with a fireworks display absolutely breathtaking , made up of hundreds of lights that reflect on the lagoon and on the facades of the wonderful palaces that overlook St. Mark’s Basin.

A large stage will be set up ad hoc in the centre of the square and the program will consist of a series of events both before and after midnight, as well as musical entertainment.

To allow any of the many visitors who will come to the city as every year the City of Venice and Trenitalia have planned special runs until late at night which will connect Venice to Mestre, surrounding cities and Veneto.

Voices @ Christmas: the  new show proposed for Christmas period from Goldoni Theatre.

The Permanent Theatre of Veneto offers this year, for the Christmas period 2014 in Venice, a fabulous display of Gospel music. Saturday December 2o and Sunday December 21 the choir Big Vocal Orchestra will perform a concert lasting an hour and a half in which intertwine the classical repertoire of best known Christmas Charrols, the melodies from films, some famous songs from Musicals, and pop songs.

The choir counting over 200 voices, directed by Marco Toso Borella in collaboration with Cristina Pustetto, who is also the artistic director of this project, is probably the most numerous choral composition currently present in Veneto. The Big Vocal Orchestra always manages to impress the spectators with the effect of the massive amount of entries, involving the audience with the choice of the repertoire and together conquering the scenic effect: the choreography accompany the songs with continuous effects creating a giant wave of surprise and energy. The choir will also be accompanied by an instrumental section that will consist of: keyboard, drums, bass and acoustic guitar as well as exciting solo voices.

The goal is to arouse in the public moods, memories, traditions and relive the excitement of the magic of Christmas. This then is the way the Big Vocal Orchestra manages to engage the public in an overwhelming show, making the concert a ‘unique experience for the listener and for those who sing, because music communicates, combines, agrees, tells’.

Dates and opening times

Saturday, 20/12/2014 21:00

Sunday, 12/21/2014 17:00

Sunday, 12/21/2014 21:00

Prices

Parterre 20.00

1st – 2nd order 17,00

3rd order 13,00

4th order 10.00

A big ice skating rink in Venice from Christmas 2015 until Carnival 2015

Like every year a modern skating rink on ice will be installed in Campo San Polo in Venice, for all Christmas period (from the 6th of December) until the end of Carnival 2015 (17th February).

The ice rink, which measures about 600 m and can accommodate up to 200 skaters, is located in the heart of the inner city of Venice, a short walk from the Rialto Bridge. All around the track, is set up a village stand in the style of the Christmas markets with products and wine and typical local crafts.

The program of the track provides that the afternoon is dedicated to children, in the evening there is a lot of music and shows of figure skating.

In order to skate is obviously available a rental service of skates.

Opening times:

For the complete calendar check here

Closing days: 12 January 2015; 19 January 2015; 26 January 2015

Opening nights (until 11pm): 31 January 2015; 7 February 2015; 14 February 2015; 17 February 2015

Prices:

For NON Residents:

Adults 

€ 10.00 (with rental of skates)

€ 8.00 (with personal skates)

Children up to 12 years

€ 8.00 (with rental of skates)

€ 6.00  (with personal skates)

The exhibition that celebrates the artworks of the famous Magnum photographer Leonard Freed is arrived in Venice-Mestre at the Cultural Centre Candiani.

The exposition “I love Italy”, will be opened at the Candiani Centre, a multifunctional culture centre which has become the main cultural centre of the Administration within the territory of the Venetian mainland, until the 1st of February 2015. It gathers 100 of the most intense snapshots dedicated to its beloved Italy, where the New Yorker photo reporter Leonard Freed made more than 40 travels within fifty years and that was one of the most intense source of inspiration, because, according to the author, in this country “the past is always present not only in places but in everyday life of the people”.

This particular aspect of his research of Leonard Freed, started after his first travel with a painter that was his friend: after coming back to the United States he started analyse it in the Italian districts, such as Little Italy, welcomed by the spontaneity and traditional customs of Italo-Americans. Then he carried on the researches in Italy, between Rome, Florence, Naples, Milan and Palermo, telling through amazing black and white pictures the daily life, faces and gesture of Italians.

Member of the Magnum Photos from 1972, Leonard Freed (1929-2006), was an important freelance photojournalist; he collaborated with most eminent magazines of the period, from Life to Look, up to Paris Match, Stern and Sunday Times, to name some of them. Freed, chosen in 1967 by Cornell Capa for the exhibition “Concerned Photography”, left us unique testimonies of the Jewish community of Amsterdam, of the Kippur War and the civil rights movement in America; this last work is still a very important document of a travel made with Martin Luther King, during his march through United States from Alabama to Washington. Freed felt deeply his role of photographer, more as an artist than a reporter; photography was for him a way of existing and understanding the world. “My camera is my my psychiatrist’s couch”, and also “What I’m trying to put in my photos is the element of time. Time passes and we need to be aware of it. Photography can give us this awareness.”

Opening times: from Wednesday to Sunday 16.00 – 20.00

Extraordinary openings: 8 December and 6 January 16.00 – 20.00

On display at the Museo Correr in Venice 130 extraordinary drawings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington retrace the art and the myth of Venice

From December 6, 2014 will be on display in Venice at the Correr Museum, directly from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, more than one hundred and thirty works from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century all realized in Venice, when the city of the Doges and the mainland were the cradle of the finest Italian artists. A group of finely selected drawings through shadows, light and shade, highlights and definition of shapes and movements explore the endless possibilities that come from the light.

It is a fascinating exposition “The poetry of light” that, through the exhibition of works by artists such as Mantegna, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione and Titian, passing through Veronese, Tintoretto, Canaletto, Tiepolo, until getting to the passions of “foreigners ” artists for Venice, as John Singer Sargent, revealed as a unique study of the results that the creativity of the great Venetian masters was able to transfer even in the graphic field.

The exhibition, which is organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington in collaboration with the Venice Civic Museums Foundation and with support from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, is run by Andrew Robison, senior curator of the department of drawings and prints of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

The exposition begins by introducing the designs of the most important artists of the Renaissance: Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio. Then follow some pieces by Giorgione and Romanino, of which is exceptionally presented a signed drawing, which is a beautiful combination of soft effects inundated with an extraordinary light – Madonna and Child, Saint Anthony, Saint Francis and a donor – and is considered by critics the touchstone of art on paper of the teacher, as from the point of view of authenticity as for quality. Inevitable pieces by Lorenzo Lotto and Titian, perfect representatives of the Venetian Renaissance.

The final part of the exhibition takes us to the myth, in that dream that built and spread throughout the world the romantic imagery of Venice, but the Serenissima no longer always unique. The show in fact ended with some beautiful designs of James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent, both friends of Henry James, where the same light becomes poetry.

Opening hours

10:00 to 17:00 (every day)

The ticket service ends 1 hour before closing

Last admission 16.00

Tickets

Full € 12.00

 Reduced € 10.00

Last year the Festival “ The spirit of Venice’s music ”, organized by Theatre la Fenice, was focused on the idea of Europe, and the cultural side of the festival offered the premiere of Hotel Europe by Bernard-Henri Lévy. In 2015 the focus will be on the dialogue between Christianity and Islam, in which the city of Venice has a strategic role. With regard to 2016 the trilogy will be closed with the staging of The Bridge on the Drina masterpiece of Ivo Andric headed by the film director Emir Kusturica and with the musics of Dejan Sparavalo.

This year’s edition will concentrate on Venice as emblem and the centre of cultural, musical, economic and philosophical exchanges among different civilizations and cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

From the musical point of view a particular attention will be given to twines, focusing on the production of the sixteenth century from Willaert to Gabrieli and Monteverdi, or on the oriental influences, such as in greghesche, musical works in which there’s the use of other languages than Italian, or melodies from distant countries reached by the trade of Venice.

Will be staged Juditha triumphans by Antonio Vivaldi, opera that perfectly represents the Venetian way to look at the east countries, next to the premiere in modern times of Antonio Caldara‘s Daphne.

Will also be staged The disagreement between a Saracen and a Christian by Giovanni Damasceno (675-749), a text that symbolizes a world characterized by relations using a profound dialogue in which the interlocutors address and debate issues of great relevance with absolute mutual respect.

There will also be concerts of the Baroque Orchestra of the Festival in various Venetian Churches, on the Islands and in Mestre, and also some piano concerts of the winners of the Venezia Prize with the collaboration of Solisti Veneti.

In the meanwhile there will be an exhibition named “Women at Opera” which can be considered as an important part of the search for new horizons and new perspectives about opera. In this exhibition there will be a path made by the satirical cartoons of Pat Carrara exposing the history of opera, with the aim to demystify some stereotypes and at the same time bring out the leading role of women, not only leading lady.

Daniel Harding conducts the New Year’s Concert 2014-2015 of La Fenice Theatre of Venice.

Daniel Harding will direct the 12th edition of the New Year’s Concert of the Theatre la Fenice, as he did in 2010-2011.

The dates of the concert will be three:

–Tuesday 30 December 2014 at 5pm

–Wednesday 31 at 4pm

-Thursday 1 January 2015 at 11:15 am live on the Italian Tv channel Rai1.

The first part of the concert will, as usual, only be played by the orchestra. The second part, which will also see the participation of soloists and chorus, will be devoted to opera and will end, as is the tradition of New Year’s Concerts of the Theatre la Fenice, with the chorus “Va’ Pensiero” from Nabucco and the toast ” Libiam ne ‘lieti calici “ from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.

The tickets for the event are already on sale, with a price range between 30 and 300 euros at the Hellovenezia ticketoffices and at the Theatre la Fenice, at all branches of Banca Popolare di Vicenza, through telephone ticketing (041 2424), on-line ticketing (www.teatrolafenice.it).

DANIEL HARDING

Born in Oxford, he started his career as assistant of Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1994. It is principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, which is why he works regularly with orchestras such as the Dresden Staatskapelle,Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Rundfunk, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra della Scala. In 2005, he opened the season at La Scala in Milan with Idomeneo, followed in 2011 by Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, for which he won the Premio Abbiati from the Italian critics, and in 2013 by Falstaff. He also directed Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic and The Flying Dutchman at the Staatsoper in Berlin and Vienna. Regularly collaborating with the Festival of Aix-en-Provence where he conducted new productions of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and The Marriage of Figaro.

Plessi at Ca d’Oro, Kooning and Manunzio at the Accademia Galleries: big expositions in Venice for the  year 2015.

The Museum Centre in Venice for the year 2015 offers a range of exhibitions not to be missed: Plessi at Ca d’Oro, a major proposal from the Tagore Foundation at Grimani Palace, the long-awaited outfitting of the Great Accademia Galleries with the opening of the new wing, de Kooning and Manuzio at the Accademia Galleries.

PLESSI LIQUID LIFE – CA ‘D’ORO

It starts with a big show at Ca d’Oro titled PLESSI. LIQUID LIFE. The flow of memory – 1.000 projects, a site-specific installation on the theme of water, an issue that Venice has chosen as its code on the occasion of Expo 2015, next to feed and food. Water is not only an element inherent in fame and international identity of the city, but it is also an emblematic element of the entire production of Fabrizio Plessi that becomes in his work, through the theme of the flowing liquid and the flow, the primary metaphor of memory, history and the creative process itself. A large video installation will be structured on two floors of the building, accompanied by a frame of 1000 drawings.

FRONTIERS REIMAGINED – GRIMANI PALACE 

In Grimani Palace, in conjunction with the upcoming Biennial of Art, the Superintendence and the Tagore International Foundation will present Frontiers Reimagined. 38 international artists, established or emerging, explore the overcoming of the idea of cultural frontier. The exhibition, which opens with a tribute to Rauschenberg, a forerunner of this explicit research, offers works by Sebastiao Salgado, Lee Waisler, Robert Yasuda, Joel Shapiro, Susan Weil, Golnaz Fathi, Kenro Izu, Donald Sultan, Nino Suwannee Sarabutra, Hiroshi Senju, among others.

DE KOONING AND MANUZIO – ACCADEMIA GALLERIES
As for the new wing of the Accademia Galleries, presented to the public last year, the Superintendent Damiani has announced that it has already been established an exhibition that will be so enriched with sections devoted to art of the Nineteenth Century, statuary, and find a large-scale space Baroque paintings of the seventeenth century of the Italian school or not, and the paintings of that important period of art represented by the Venecian Eighteenth-century.

While working on the new outfitting, the Galleries will host, for the Biennale an exhibition of contemporary art, dedicated to the work of Willem de Kooning, organized in collaboration with The Willem de Kooning Foundation of New York; and in autumn an exhibition event of extraordinary cultural depth and interest, which will concern the work of Aldo Manuzio, extraordinary printer and intellectual, and the Venetian culture between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The Lyric Season 2014/2015 of the Theatre la Fenice in Venice opens with a double opera on the 22nd of November 2014, with the staging  of two major Venetian masterpieces of Verdi, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata. The schedule of performances will continue with eight new arrangements, seven works of repertory and two guests ballets for a total 129 performances distributed throughout the year, including the opening of 22 November and the closing of October 31, 2015.

OPERA
In addition to Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra directed by Chung with the oversight of De Rosa, the eight new arrangements will include: The Capuleti and The Montecchi of Vincenzo Bellini directed by Omer Meir Wellber with the oversight of Arnaud Bernard; the Signor Bruschino of Gioacchino Rossini with the direction of Bepi Morassi and scenes, costumes and lights of the School of scenography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (project Atelier of fenice at the Malibran Theatre); Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck directed by Guillaume Tourniaire, with oversight, scenes and costumes of Pier Luigi Pizzi; Norma by Vincenzo Bellini directed by Gaetano d’Espinosa with oversight, scenes and costumes of the Afro-American artist Kara Walker (special project of the 56. International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale); Juditha triumphans by Antonio Vivaldi directed by Alessandro de Marchi with the oversight of Elena Barbalich; a diptych formed from the Diary of One Who Disappeared by Leoš Janáček and Voix Humaine by Francis Poulenc directed by Gianmaria Aliverta and respectively Claudio Marino Moretti at the piano and Francesco Lanzillotta at the direction; and Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart directed by Antonello Manacorda with the oversight of Damiano Michieletto.

Besides Traviata, reclaimed throughout the course of the year as part of the project Expo Traviata with 37 performances directed by Diego Matheuz, by Omer Meir Wellber, Gaetano d’Espinosa, Francesco Ivan Ciampa and Riccardo Frizza, the seven works will include Elisir d’amore and Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti directed both by Omer Meir Wellber with the oversight respectively of Bepi Morassi and Italo Nunziata; Madama Butterfly and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini directed respectively by Jader Bignamini and Riccardo Frizza and directed the first by Àlex Rigola (sets and costumes by Mariko Mori) and the second by Serena Sinigaglia; La scala di seta and La cambiale di Matrimonio by Gioachino Rossini with both scenes, costumes and lighting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, the first directed by Bepi Morassi and the second directed by Enzo Dara and musical direction by Lorenzo Viotti.

BALLET
As for the two performances of ballet, the first will see the extraordinary return to Venice of the ballet in six movements Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler by John Neumeier, forty years after the Italian premiere took place in St. Mark’s square, just ten days after the premiere of Hamburg in 1975, interpreted by the dancers of the Hamburg Ballet. The second will be the fourth edition of the International Dance Gala that from 2012 annually brings to Venice the best young talent graduated from the major international academies.

During all Sundays of Advent concerts of sacred music in some churches of Venice for the festival “Advent in Music”.

Also this year the Association Alessandro Marcello proposes, in occasion of Chritmas 2014, the festival Advent in Music, a cycle of four free concerts of sacred music with free admittance, one for each Sunday of Advent starting at 4pm, in some of Venice Churches.

The Association Alessandro Marcello, founded in 2012, is promoter of various cultural and musical initiatives, marked by the high level of the scheduling offered to Venetians and tourists. Mainly operating in sacred places, the Association points to a path of spiritual elevation through sacred music and art, while respecting the cultural and religious diversity of the participants.

For the cycle Advent in Music the start is on the 30 of November in the Church of Sant’Elena with the Ensemble Labirinto Armonico composed of baroque violin, baroque cello and harpsichord. In the Church of San Trovaso will follow: the 7th of December a concert for organ, clarinet and soprano, the 14th of December liturgical songs of Advent and Christmas with the singers of the church of Sant’Anna of Belluno, and in the end the 21st of December choir and organ.

The association Alessandro Marcello thanks to the commitment of its volunteers, to the collaboration of Asolo Musica and to the support of the Veneto Region, in 2014 has organised 23 concerts which the public was able to participate for free.

PROGRAMME:

Sunday 30 November (Church of Sant’Elena) 4pm

ENSEMBLE LABRINTO ARMONICO (Abruzzo)

Baroque Violin: Pierluigi Mencattini

Baroque Cello: Galilio di Ilio

Harpsichord: Walter d’Arcangelo

Sunday 7 December (Church of San Trovaso) 4pm

Concert for organ, clarinet and soprano

Soprano: Eva Bresaola (Verona)

Clarinet: Paolo Forini

Organ: Roberto Bonetto

Sunday 14 December (Church of San Trovaso) 4pm

Liturgical songs of Advent and Christmas in patriarchal rite

The singers of the Church of Sant’Anna (Belluno)

Director and organist: Renzo Bortolot

Sunday 21 December (Church of San Trovaso) 4pm

CONCERT FOR CHOIR AND ORGAN

Choir “Una Voce” (Venice)

Director: Monica Barbiero

Organist: Margherita Gianola

The celebration of San Martino, one of the most traditional Venetian feast, brings back the kids to the streets of the city, looking for sweets and money

As it is from a very long time, on the 11th of November in Venice is celebrated the feast of San Martino, one of the most folkloristic and traditional celebration of the city. While the meaning of the feast, that is sharing, kindness and compassion, values personified by San Martino, has never changed with the passing of time, the way of living and celebrate this event has experienced many changes.

Initially for the celebration of San Martino were eaten typical products such as chesnuts with wine, because in the Christian tradition the day of San Martino corresponded with the second to last before the beginning of a long period of penance and without food that accompanied the believers up to Christmas. For the rural world it corresponded with the end of the agricultural year.

With the passing of time the meaning that the celebration had for the Christian and rural tradition got lost; so no more typical autumn products eating, they’ve been substituted by the typical sweet of the celebration: the San Martino. Also this sweet had changed within the years, at the beginning it didn’t represent the Saint and was made of quince.

Nowadays in the pastry shops and in the houses of the Venetians we can find the sweets of San Martino of many different sizes and shapes, covered of candies, sweets and chocolate. The kids, frequently accompanied by their grandfathers or their teachers, walk through the streets of the city, getting into the shops beating pots and covers singing a rhyme, and asking for an offer in order to buy a San Martino, or to earn some money or some sweets. The celebration of San Martino can be considered as the Venetian equivalent of Halloween.

There are two versions of the rhyme; the most traditional one, that often is teached to the kids by their grandfathers, is this one:

“San Martin xe nda’ in soffita (San Martino went to the attic)

a trovar ea nona Riitta, (to meet his grandmother Rita)

nona Ritta no a ghe geera (grandmother Rita wasn’t there)

san Martin col cuo par teera,“  (san Martino with his behind on the floor).

The most modern version says:

“San Martin xe nda’ in soffita (San Martino went to the attic)

a trovar ea so novissa, (to meet his girlfriend)

so novissa no ghe gera (his girlfriend wasn’t there)

san Martin casca par tera, (san Martino fell to the ground)

e col nostro sacchetin,  (and with our little bag)

cari signori xe san martin,  (dear Sirs is San Martino)

FORA EL SOLDIN!!!” (out the coins).

The spectacular bowls of Toots Zynsky on display until November 23 at the Palazzo Loredan.

Until the 23rd of November 2014 are on display in the main floor of Palazzo Loredan, Venice – Campo Santo Stefano, the incredible bowls of Toots Zynsky, contemporary artist famous for her work in “wire of glass” (filet de verre), a technique of her own invention that has evolved into more than thirty years of work, starting from the experimentation of different techniques of handling craft of glass: blowing, pate de verre, fusing, casting, etc.

Toots Zynsky‘s bowls are true works of art: the relationship between inside and outside imposes the proportions and shapes. The base of each bowl is always smaller than the mouth, to let the walls explode like the petals of a flower. Those are real glass sculptures in the form of bowls assuming a baroque opulence made of instinctive curves. A key feature in these curves is to offer to those who look from the outside, glimpses of its internal surfaces. We’re in front of extremely expressive curves, and the glass as it’s forged narrates the series of sculptural decisions culminating in a final form.

Zynsky uses a palette of about sixty colours, and her assistants spend most of their time preparing the wires, with the help of a device created for her by a Dutch engineer. The top layer is made, by contrast, with threads of clear glass that, with the fusion under heat, form a kind of semi-transparent coating which often dampens the vivid colours of the outer surface. The wires will remain separated even after the fusion, so the work seems made of fibres, a little rough to the touch. The weave offers an extra dimension to the veils of intense colour, giving a specific contribution to the aesthetics of the concave and convex.

The works originate from the composition of many layers of wires superimposed on a plan of refractory ceramic. Spread out each piece is for the artist exactly the same thing as drawing or painting. When the composition in plan is complete, starts the work of thermo fusion in an electric furnace. As soon as the wires begin to merge the sheet, composed of thousands of wires, is moved on a series of metal substrates preheated, that gradually became deeper and more round in order to finish the piece inside and out giving it a free form crushing and pulling it manually.

Free entrance

Everyday from 10.00 am to 6.00pm

An exhibition at Palazzo Ducale describes the story of the Doges and Dogaressas in Venice.

The apartment of the Doge at Palazzo Ducale in Venice, renovated for the opening of the exhibition, following the great success achieved until now from the show will host until the 15th of February 2015 this exposition that describes – through works from the prestigious collections of the Museo Correr, its Library and its cabinets of drawings, prints and numismatics – the historical evolution of a symbolic figure of Venice: the Doge. Doges and Dogaressas in Venice tells through paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, coins, medals and traditional insignia of power, the story of an extraordinary world collapsed in 1797 and later immortalized in the size of myth.

The scenic route starts with three important depictions of the Lion of St. Mark, the work of Jacobello del Fiore (1415), Donato Veneziano (1459) and Vittore Carpaccio (1516), which represents the prize to the beautiful portraits of the Doge Francesco Foscari, Alvise Mocenigo and Leonardo Loredan, respectively, of Lazzaro Bastiani, Giovanni Bellini and Carpaccio, with which is highlighted the rise of the image of the prince to real icon of the Venetian Republic. The portrait of Sebastiano Venier by Andrea Vicentino closes the series of the Doges that have made Venice important with the energy and commitment of the use of weapons, which culminated in the Battle of Lepanto.

A big part of the space in the exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Dogaressas, particularly to Morosina Morosini Grimani (1595-1605), of which are shown a portrait attributed to Palma il Giovane and a celebratory painting of his coronation, and to Elisabetta Querini Valier (1694-1700), the fourth and last wife of a Serenissimo to receive officially a public investiture.

Opening dates:

From January 26th to June 30th 2014

Opening hours:

8.30 am – 5.30 pm (last admission 4.30 pm) till March 31st;

8.30 am – 7 pm (last admission 6 pm) from April 1st

Tickets:

Ticket full price: 16,00 euro

Ticket reduced price: 8,00 euro

Peace treaties from 1529 until the mid ‘700 on display in Venice, at Palazzo Ducale.

Part of the valuable documentary heritage, made up of extraordinary documents and cartographic images of Europe, coming from the State Archive of Venice, is on display at the Poll Hall of the Palazzo Ducale until January 12, 2014: For Peace Sake. The long road to Europe.

This is an exhibition prepared in conjunction with the Semester of Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union that aims to celebrate the theme of peace as the supreme value of European culture, from the Renaissance up to the Declaration of Human Rights promulgated in 1789.

For Peace Sake. The long walk to Europe exposes peace treaties between European authorities since the Peace of Bologna of 1529-1530 reaching the peace treaties of Cateau-Cambresis, Westphalia, Aachen and Nijmegen, of which the original documents, result of consummate Venetian diplomacy are kept in the bottom of the dispatches of Senate ambassadors and other documentary series of the State Archives of Venice. The sequence of events and documents is embedded in a context of growing awareness of the need to find political and diplomatic means that would avoid destructive wars, whose main victims were civilians, theme that with the passing of time became more and more present on the stage of history , upsetting the worn-out clerks.

Divided into four sections – Imago Europae; Venice and the courts of Europe: the archives of diplomacy; Europe in search of peace; The Greeks in Venice. Signs of peaceful coexistence – the exhibition runs through three centuries of European history, marked by partial or total conflicts, by shifting alliances, diplomatic marriages, sudden reversion of sides by hosts and fortune, as Machiavelli taught, but scanned at the same time by important treaties, which put an end to the historic wars such as the Thirty Years one, or the one of devolution, the one of Holland and of United Provinces, that of the Spanish Succession, and then Polish, and Austrian.

Timetable

8:30 to 17:30 (entry allowed until 16.30)

Closed on 25 December and 1 January

Tickets

The exhibition is open on the ticket of the ‘Museums of St. Mark’s Square “

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice hosts the exhibition Azimut/h, Continuity and New.

Until 19th January 2015 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice will be the headquarters of the exposition Azimut/h, Continuity and New, which dedicates a very important tribute to avant-garde, celebrating Azimut/h, the gallery and magazine founded in 1959 in Milan by Enrico Castellani (1930) and Piero Manzoni (1933 – 1963).

The intent of the exhibition in Venice, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero, is to remind to the public the fundamental role that Azimut/h had, becoming the generational link that was able to create a meeting point between the new revolutionary generation and the conservative state of being contemporary. Azimut/h was born in the after war Milan, and it was an experience as unique as lightning quit, that can be placed between September 1959 and July 1960.

Azimut (the gallery) and Azimuth (the magazine) gave birth to a “new artistic conception”, that we can find in the dialectic of “continuity and new”. The supporting idea of the exposition, of strong philological mold, is to let visitors virtually and ideally enter in a space in which they can meet the protagonists of the Italian and European late fifties-early sixties avant-garde, paying particular attention to new European generations and those of the emerging American Neo-Dada, which the magazine promoted well in advance of the critics.

The exhibition Azimut/h, Continuity and New develops within six rooms, in which each piece symbolizes an historical-artistic situation: here you can admire works of intense narrative meaning, each with its own particular story that, as many windows, offer different points of view around the experience of Azimut\h. In the exhibition you can admire the works of avant-gardists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, and many others.

A special multi-medial project, made by Zenith, allows the visitor to enter into a kind of path-summary of the story of Azimut/h. In addition, on the occasion of the exhibition, visitors will become “living sculptures”, getting on the authorized reconstruction of the famous “magic basis” of Manzoni, that the artist used transforming into a work of art who mounted it.

Timetables:

Opening 10-18 daily

Closed Tuesdays and December 25

Ticket:

Adults: 14 €

Conventioned: 12 €

Seniors over 65 years: 12 €

Students up to 26 years: 8 € (over compulsory school with a valid student card)

Children up to age 10, members: free

The new management of the Historical Naval Museum of Venice allows everyone to make the best use of its original and unique expository heritage.

From June 2014 the Historical Naval Museum of Venice is part of the museum sites supervised by Vela which handles, after a decision of the City of Venice, the organization and management of the events and of the territorial marketing, in partnership with MUVE, the Civic Museums Foundation of Venice.

The new management of the Historical Naval Museum of Venice, with the extension of the visiting time followed by a project of development of the findings, allowing the public to enjoy the particular and original expository path, drawing perfectly the history of the interesting and fundamental chapter linked to the naval and maritime history of Venice.

The Museum develops nowadays on five levels, for a total of 4000 square meters, structured in 42 rooms. On the inside the exposition is rich of sea traditions, precious finds, ancient maps, navigation tools, boats and documents tracing the history of the Venetian Republic.

In addition to the main building, is part of the museum circuit, from 1983, also the Boats Pavilion, about 1250 square meters, situated in three warehouses headquarters of the ancient “fabric or workshop of the oars” of the galleys of the Arsenal.

Restored and brought back to their original vision of the sixteenth century, the ancient warehouses – at the moment can be visited on Saturday and Sunday with fixed start from the main museum – were used for the storage of larger boats that could not be located in the main building of the museum like typical Venetian boats, ancient ceremonial gondolas, lagoon work boats, military boats, racing boats. In the last few years have been assigned to the museum two other open spaces, inside the Arsenal, where have found a place a Motozattera of World War II and a submarine Class “Toti”, the Dandolo.

There’s also a new graphic guise, that reminds the “bunting” lifted up from the ships on special occasions, an explanation that will be displayed on posters, flyers and information kiosks that will contribute to the promotion of the museum in the city.

The access to the Museum is provided with a full € 5 ticket and € 3.50 reduced ticket (between 6 and 25 years old, max 2 guides for groups of children or students, citizens over 65; MUVE Friend Card holders).

 On November 2nd 2014, in Venice all the state museums will open their doors for free to the public.

The Decree of the new Minister of Culture in Italy states that the first Sunday of the month is free and unrestricted the entry to all the public museums and the archaeological sites will be visited for free. More than 430 museums, monuments and archaeological sites throughout Italy will open their doors for free to the public, welcoming locals and tourists for a day dedicated to the discovery of the national cultural heritage.

On Sunday, November 2, 2014 in Venice all the state places of culture will then be opened without any charge.

Only the State Museums of Venice will be opened for free. Admission is free to the Museum of Palazzo Grimani, where is also hosted an extraordinary exhibition which sees for the first time exposed to the public the entire corpus of Polychrome Woodcuts of one of the most well-known Japanese artists, Utagawa Hiroshige.

Entrance free even at the National Archaeological Museum in St. Mark’s Square and the Rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana, included in the integrated path of “The Museums of St. Mark’s Square,” with the normal opening hours: 10:00 to 17:00 (last admission at 16:15)

Will also have free admittance the Museum of Oriental Art and the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti, which presents the exhibition DIVINE. Splendors of scene: about 350 pieces of jewelry from the Fantasy Collection by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

It’s part of the State Museums also the National Museum of Villa Pisani in Stra, an amazing villa just outside Venice that deserves a throughout visit.

Venice and Palazzo Fortuny celebrates in a unique exhibition the great woman who fascinated D’Annunzio and became the muse of the greatest artists of her time: the Marchesa Luisa Casati.

“The Divine Marchesa. Art and Life of Luisa Casati from Belle Époque to spree years” is the first extraordinary exhibition dedicated entirely to Luisa Casati Stampa, the woman who, at the beginning of the 20th century, through a exaggerated makeup, over-the-top performances and a transgressive lifestyle, transformed herself in a work of art, a living legend, an astonishing personification of modernity and avant-garde.

The exhibition, which has been conceived by Daniela Ferretti, curated by Fabio Benzi and Gioia Mori, and coproduced by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 Ore, presents more than 100 works, not only paintings but also drawings, jewels, sculptures and photographs from private collections and international museums. There’s no better place in Venice than Palazzo Fortuny to host this incredible event, representing one of the most significant places in the Divine Marchesa’s life. Here, Mariano Fortuny, together with Paul Poiret, Ertè and Léon Backst, clothed her eccentric life.

The exhibition path and the researches published for the first time in the catalogue (thanks to 24 ORE Cultura) don’t show just her freak and eccentric side. On the other hand, they reveal a more artistic aspect of her life, retracing the lively activity as collector.

Just to mention some of the artists on display, you will have the chance to admire Portrait of Marchesa Casati by Léon Backst (1912) from the Centre Pompidou, the portrait with peacock plumes realised by Giovanni Boldini from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome and two full-sized paintings by Alberto Martini from a French private collection, which reminds his works representing Cesare Borgia (1925) and a wild archer (1927).

Moreover, the exhibition hosts the photo taken by Man Ray that has spread around Europe becoming a surrealist icon, keeping growing a legend that will never die.

Opening Times: 10am – 6pm
Closed on Monday

Tickets: 12€ full price

The Biennale of Art 2015, titled “All the World’s Futures”, will be dedicated to the possible futures of the world.

The 56th International Art Exposition of the Venice Biennale, cured by the Nigerian-American Okwui Enwezor, introduces itself like a new reflection on the relation between art and reality of our times. The first big new of this year will be an anticipated opening than the previous exhibitions: the Biennale of Art will open on May 9th, simultaneously with the Expo 2015 of Milan.

Then it will be, for the first time in the history of the Venetian event, an African to guide the International Contemporary Art Exposition, Okwui Enwezor, considered the most theorical of the critics. He imagined its own Biennale like a chaotic radiography of the “state of things”, that will put together many artists and activists. An exhibition that starts from the first “fractures” of the present, evoking “the evanescent debris of previous disasters”. The Biennale of Art – like Paolo Baratta, president of the Foundation, made clear – should not be similar to a trade show but also serves as an independent form of expression that reflects on obsessions, anxieties, utopias of our time.

The 56th International Art Exposition will have three theorical fulcrums, even three overlapping filters where “the curator along with artists, activists, the public and the participants of each gender will be the stars in the open central orchestration of this project”. One of this filters will be The Capital by Karl Marx. The spectrum of capitalism will wander through the Biennale this year. A part of the exposition will be dedicated to the live reading of the four books of Das Kapital of Marks and gradually will expand with recitals of work songs, little books, play readings, discussions, plenary sessions and film projections dedicated to different theories and explorations of The Capital. Theatre ensemble, actors, intellectuals, students and members of the public will be invited to make a contribution to the program of readings and their voices will flood and permeate the halls surrounding of a magnificent display of oral talent.

Another theme on which will focus the expository path of the 56th International Art Exposition of the Venice Biennale will be Vitality, or epic life, interpreted as a dramatization of the exhibition space as a live event in continuous development.

The other filter, The Garden of  Disorder, located in Giardini and in the Central Pavilion as well as in Corderie, in the Giardini delle vergini (Garden of the Virgins) of the Arsenale and other selected areas in Venice, uses the historical space of the Giardini of the Biennale as a metaphor through which explore the current historical moment. The Art Biennale 2015 will be a platform from which to analyse the changes in the global environment, to read the Gardens, with its battered set of halls, as the last site of a disordered world, conflicts of national and regional and geopolitical deformation.

By the time it was just mentioned the way of development of the exposure. For more details and to know the artists then we will have to wait until February 2015.

Everything is ready for the 29th Venice Marathon: the Village will open the gates on Friday 24 October and the competition will be held on Sunday 26 October.

Sunday, October 26, 2014 will be run the 29th Venice Marathon. This year the marathon of Venice will be followed both on national and (great new) international level on TV, transmitted by Rai television (from 8.55 a.m until 11.40 a.m on Raisport2) and also in 64 foreign countries. In Europe will be responsible for coverage of the event the French channel Ma Chaine Sport, that will be on air in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Israel and all the sub-Saharan countries. The event will be also transmitted in Brazil, New Zealand, Turkey and most of the African countries.

PATH

The 6000 participants of the 42km run will be ready to start at 9.05 a.m. The starting point is, as always, Villa Pisani in Stra. The path of the march will run along the river Brenta, between charming villas and buildings of the eighteenth-century, linking Stra with Fiesso d’Artico, Dolo and Mira. Then the competition fits into the urban fabric passing through Piazza Ferretto in Mestre, the wide spaces of Park San Giuliano and then the long straight road of the Ponte della Libertà will involve the athletes in the historic centre of Venice until St. Mark’s square and to the finish line in Riva dei Sette Martiri. Also this year the marathoners will run on a fifth bridge (made of boats) over the Canal Grande, built for the occasion by Insula to connect the bank of the Punta della Salute with St. Mark square.

VM 10KM and FAMILY RUN

The Venice Marathon involves every year up to 23000 persons. Other important sporting events always surround the real Marathon, as the Family Run involving nearly 15.000 families. This year has also been added the first non-competitive 10km run, VM 10KM, that will go from San Giuliano Park to Riva dei Sette Martiri starting from 8.45 a.m of Sunday the 26th.

EXPOSPORT VENICEMARATHON VILLAGE

Exposport Venice Marathon Village will open its gates in Park San Giuliano Friday,October 24 at 10.00a.m. The Village will be prepared among the Blue Door of the Park and during the 29th edition of Venice Marathon will involve an even more extensive area. It has also been renewed the events area inside the Fair of Sport and Recreation that will host meetings, debates, presentations and performances.

CONI OPEN SPORT

Outside the Fair the green areas of Park San Giuliano from the 24th of October will be transformed in an open air village of sport housing the 8th edition of Coni Open Sport, show of sportive promotion looked after by the provincial Coni and opened to everyone. On Friday morning Coni will let 1400 students try different sportive disciplines.

Hundreds of drawings by important Italian artists of the ‘800 and’ 900 on display until 11 January 2015 at the Accademia Galleries.

From 11 October 2014, at the Accademia Galleries in Venice, is opened the exhibition Drawings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Hayez to Vedova, the display is part of the initiatives of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in support of the Biennale of Architecture. The exhibit in fact offers an exceptional selection of drawings between art and architecture, signed by some of the most important artists of the ‘800 and ‘900 .This is a unique opportunity, as all the works on display come from the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Accademia’s Galleries in Venice and that, for reasons of conservation, can rarely be admired by the public.

On the occasion of the display Drawings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are exhibited little masterpieces by artists such as Francesco Hayez, Andrea Appiani, Giuseppe Bossi, Khosrow Dusi, Vincenzo Camuccini, Pelagius Pelagi and William Joung Ottley, and 30 unpublished studies of architecture, plants, elevations, facades, sections of civil and religious buildings designed by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi from Bergamo, of which the Venetian fund retains 541 sheets. The twentieth century is represented by 10 unpublished drawings by artists of the past century: Emilio Vedova, Giovanni Previati, Giuseppe Santomaso, Armand Rassenfosse and 16 eliocopie of the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa.

Most of the papers exposed, usually never visible to the public, but kept in absolute darkness, inside the air-conditionedand armored vaults, have been restored for the occasion.

In particular, we point out that the six preparatory studies for the painting of Francesco Hayez The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, already donated to the Gallery in 1868 by the artist himself, are shown for comparison with the painting itself. The 16 eliocopie of the architect Carlo Scarpa have never been exhibited before, and are of particular interest since they are all projects for the Accademia Galleries, and have remained there at the end of the works in 1959. Five tables give also autograph annotations made with graphite, drawn up under review; one dedicated to the easel for the display of the painting depicting the Fortune Teller by Piazzetta, also shows the use of colored crayons to highlight some details. The panel exhibition designed by the architect has now been restored and displayed next to its graphic design studio.

Timetables:

Monday: 8.15 – 14.00 (last entrance 13.15)

Tuesday > Sunday: 8.15 – 19.15 (last entrance 18.30)

The Gaze of Ivan Glazunov at Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy. 

From the 15th of October until the 11th of January 2015 the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice will host the exhibition of the painter Ivan Glazunov; this display was born thanks to the personal collections of the painter itself and to all its researches.

The painter was often associated with the traditions of the European schools of Painting, and the aim of this particular exhibition is to make people aware of the serious loss of traditions that has its roots in the Russian and European culture.

A particularity of “The Gaze of Ivan Glazunov” is the location: Querini Stampalia Foundation of Venice had been chosen for its familiar stamp, which perfectly fits to a project based on memories.

The exhibition is composed of different pieces of art, all belonging to different branches of art: paintings, old Russian costumes of exceptional workmanship, precious objects of popular art belonging to the private collection of the artist and antiquities. To the peculiarity of the objects exhibited is added a unique expository style, attended by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri responsible of the Centre for Russian Arts Studies of the University of Venice, which involves not only the use of art pieces but also of multimedia devices.

The exposure counts also on a video installation displaying shootings of the North part of Russia (the region of Archangel’sk) made from the artist and its wife and director Julija Glazunova; the suggestive soundtrack of the video was realized with the collaboration of Andrej Kotov, choirmaster of the ensemble “Sirin” (http://sirin.svyatovo.com).

The inauguration will be characterized by this famous ensemble making live concerts in the rooms in which the exposition is taking place.

Informations:

Open to the public: Tuesday to Sunday from 10-18.

Closed on Mondays

Admission: Free

Catalogue: Terra Ferma.

The theme of the Venice Carnival 2015 will be the taste, enogastronomy and food.

The Venice Carnival 2015 will be focused on tastefulness. The triumph of flavours, of enogastronomy and of conviviality will be the common thread throughout the great Venetian Festival, which will take place from January 31st until February 17th 2015.

The edition of the Venetian Carnival 2015 was presented today in a press conference that took place at the headquarters of the Expo 2015. The concept of sacredness of food has always been at the base of the Carnival and the theme of gluttony will develop for all the Festival duration not only during parties and performances, but also in all the cultural institutions of the area declined in all the museums areas, with an extraordinary offer and for all tastes. Venice will offer a very rich book of performances, shows and manifestations also related to enogastronomy and its excellence products. The tradition of literature, theatrical and musical events, both national and global offers many ideas which inspires the artistic and scenic choices.

The scenic machine (machina) of Saint Mark’s square, the Great Theatre (Gran Teatro), will be adorned with food centrepieces and garlands of vegetables; theatrical productions and revivals at the Arsenal will purpose again the relationship of the city of Venice with food: markets, the big banquets, the fascinating arrivals of exotic food that from the Lagoon spread throughout Europe. Thanks to the collaboration with Museums and the Venetian Collections will be proposed thematic cultural routes of access, extraordinary openings, temporary exhibitions dedicated to cycles of works that testify the material culture associated to food in Venice; iconographic routes focused on food in sacred places; theatrical and comedy shows; tales for kids between fantasy and gluttony. And at the Arsenal of Venice, the most beautiful water parterre of the world, will be staged the sweetness of the palate of Venetian culture and the celebration of Carnival.

Saturday 31st January and Sunday 1st February 2015

Venetian water party with nuveau cirque show, regatta of Venetian rowing and food and wine stands , to discover the Venetian cuisine from the bigoi to sardines in sauce (sarde in saor) until sweet and soft fritole.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Opening of the Gran Teatro di Piazza San Marco

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Flight of the Angel (volo dell’Angelo) from Campanile di San Marco

From Thursday 12 until 17 February 2015

Fat Week with blaze of shows, concerts, events.

The music of Baldassarre Galuppi and it’s contemporaries in some gorgeous locations in Venice thanks to the Galuppi Festival.

On Sunday 14th September 2014, with an original concert in the Basilica of Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, was started the 20th edition of the famous Galuppi and Music Festival – The places of Baldassarre. The interesting musical manifestation proposes every year a turn of concerts with a musical program dedicated to the rediscovery and re-proposition of the works of the Burano‘s composer and the musicians of it’s era, and moreover offers the opportunity to discover places of rare attendance, sometimes unknown also to Venetians themselves, in other isles of the lagoon, of the estuary and in the city in which, is believed, the musician could have lived and worked and where it’s music could have almost certainly lingered.

From today until the end of the event there’s still the possibility to assist to three concerts, the first the 9th of October, the second the 12th of October and the third the 18th of October; all the three concerts will took place in the Scuola Grande of San Rocco and they will start at 8:30 pm.

Baldassarre Galuppi, the author of this timeless phrasing, is one of the biggest devotee of the Venetian Baroque, both for the thirty oratories composed – flanked by Mottetti, Requiem, Te Deum and even composition for the Russian Orthodox Church- and for the devotion to the musical art that he manifested with almost sixty years of auditory compositions, with a vivacity, a fantasy, a whim of invention that in the exterminate opera production reached summits unreachable for his years.

For more informations about ticket prices and the complete program of the Festival click here.

The suggestive xylographs by Hiroshige on display at Palazzo Grimani in Venice.

Exceptionally, the entire corpus of polychrome xylographs created by Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the most famous Japanese artists in the world, will be displayed from September 20th to January 11th 2015 at the beautiful Palazzo Grimani in Venice. The precious works of art belong to the collections of the Oriental Art Museum of Venice, located in Ca’ Pesaro.

The exhibition “Hiroshige. From Edo to Kyoto: famous views of Japan. The collection of the Oriental Art Museum in Venice.” presents the most popular and appreciated prints of the great ukiyo-e master (pictures of the floating world).

With no doubts, he’s one of the greatest protagonist of the Japanese art. At the end of the 19th century Hiroshige’s art fascinated Europe, the Impressionist painters and especially Van Gogh who reproduced in a oil canvas two xylographs of the exhibition: “Plum Park in Kameido” and the famous “Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake”.

The exhibition proposes especially works of the artist’s late period, created from the 40s of the 19th century. Among them, the series entitled “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo “, the images of Soga history and the famous “Gojūsan tsugi meisho” also known as “The Vertical Tokaido” , the views of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, the route that run from Edo (the ancient name of Tokyo) to Kyoto. Moreover, the last precious series created by the artist in 1858: “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”. To enrich the exhibition there will be some photos that date back to the first half of the 19th century, proof of the interest towards landscape views even after the introduction of photography in Japan. Moreover, you can admire some precious objects owned by the collection of the Oriental Art Museum of Venice, the objects that appears in the prints or where you can see the images of the popular Japanese places depicted by the great Hiroshige.

Opening Times
Monday: 8.15 – 14.00
From Tuesday to Saturday: 8.15 – 19.15
Sunday: 10 – 18
The ticket office closes 45 minutes before the close of the halls.

Tickets: Full price € 6,00

Original ancient and modern flakes for perfumes from the Storp Collection on display in Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice

Until January 6th 2015 Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice, seat of the Study Centre of the History of Fabrics and Costumes, presents the exhibition “Little Big Things” where a significant selection of more than 200 flasks and containers for perfumes from the Storp Collection can be admired.

Throughout the centuries the Storp family, which founded Drom Fragrances in Munich in 1911, has collect with competence and passion more than 3000 items, dating from the 16th century to our days.

The new exhibition “Little Big Things: masterpieces from Storp Collection” is part of a long term project of Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice concerning the history of perfumes and essences. Curated by Chiara Squarcina and under the scientific direction of Gabriella Belli, the exhibition has been created in collaboration with a team of Drom fragrances, the famous German perfume company. It is definitely a chance to discover the technical virtuosity and creativity of the craftsmen producing little bottles to contain perfume, from antiquity to the present day.

The exhibition displays rare pieces of artwork, these small but precious containers, doing homage to an ancient art born in the Middle East that has arrived later in Greece and Rome. The collection ranges from extremely rare ancient pieces, such as a terracotta Egyptian oil jar from the 3rd or 2nd century BC, glass flacons and cases, porcelain, and biscuits dating from the 16th to 19th century to an extraordinary satin glass bottle designed by Salvador Dalì and the most famous creations by today’s major perfume and essence companies.

For further information about times and tickets of the museum, please visit the official website

On the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice the extraordinary works of Tomaso Buzzi for the Venini glassware company

From September 14th 2014 the Stanze del Vetro on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice presents the exhibition “Tomaso Buzzi at Venini”, a unique chance to appreciate the Italian gusto of the 1930s through the famous architect’s glassworks.

The architect Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981) has been a leading protagonist of the so-called Novecento Milanese and he began to collaborate with the Venini glassware company in Murano Island between 1932 and 1933. The knowledge of ancient art, especially of the Etruscan period, is source of inspiration for the creation of his original and new artifacts. In particular, he had an experimental approach to form and materials using a new glass material, the “vetro incamiciato”, with several layers of color and gold leaf. His contribution radically changed the Venini production re-asserting its vocation for creating elegant and refined glassworks.

The exhibition retraces this fruitful collaboration thanks to a selection of 200 works and some original drawings preserved in the Venini’s archive. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to admire a collection of drawings preserved at the Scarzuola in Montegabbione (near Terni), the theatre-city that the architect designed at the end of the 1960s and continued to work on until his death in 1981.

FREE ENTRY

Opening Times: from 10am to 7pm

This year Venicemarathon is enriched. The city presents VM10KM, a non competitive 10km race.

Big news for the edition 2014 of VeniceMarathon. We are talking about the new VM10KM, the first non competitive 10km race in the history of the famous autumn sport event of Venice. It will take place on Sunday 26th October 2014, together with the 29th edition of the Venicemarathon.

From this year the Organizing Committee of Venicemarathon, which is already thinking about the the celebration for next year 30th event anniversary, has decided to accept the high number of requests by short distance runners, fit walkers and sport lovers giving everyone the chance to experience the last unique 10 km of the Venicemarathon race course. In fact, VM10KM participants will run on the same Venicemarathon track: from San Giuliano Park in Mestre, running on the Ponte della Libertà (the Freedom Bridge), crossing the unique floating bridge on the Grand Canal, passing through St Mark’s Square to reach the finish line at Riva Sette Martiri.
Thanks to VM10Km, VeniceMarathon is open to everyone. One more reason to participate, involving family and friends and appreciating the beauties of Venice.

REGISTRATION
The registration fee (18,00 € till 23rd October 2014 and 25,00 € on 24th and 25th October) includes Race Packet with bib number and official T-shirt, commemorative medal of the race for all finishers, insurance and medical assistance, refreshment station after the finish line, toilets at the start and at the finish, personal clothes transportation from start to the finish area, re race transportation from the train station in Mestre to the start and post race transportation from the finish line to Tronchetto Venice. 
The venetian event is combined with the Venicemarathon Charity Program, one more reason to take part in.

VENICEMARATHON CHARITY PROGRAM
Once again, the event is combined with a charity program, the new 2014 Venicemarathon Charity Program: a new format of personal fundraising which involves 15 associations and which has already raised funds for almost 20.000 €. Special testimonial for the charity project is Alex Zanardi.

With no doubts, on September 30th Al Pacino has been the day’s special guest star at the 71st Venice Film Festival

The 74-year-old Hollywood legend looked fit and healthy, arriving once again in Venice smiling. The American actor attended the red carpet of Venice Lido for two different films: Barry Levinson’s out-of-competition The Humbling and David Gordon Green’s competition entry Manglehorn. In both films he plays the leading role, a stressed and depressed man, giving the spectators a great performance as always.

The Humbling
The humbling, which runs in competition, is based on Philip Roth’s novel and adapted by Buck Henry. Despite the director and the main protagonist, Hollywood stars, the film was made on a highly contained budget. It’s the story of an aging theater actor at a crossroads (Al Pacino) who has a love affair with a young woman half his age, played by Greta Gerwig. Actually, it offers an intense analysis of the life of an actor in crisis which can be also seen as an analysis of the human being.

She’s funny that way by the great Peter Bogdanovich acclaimed at 71st Venice Film Festival.

Finally a bit of irony and a fair amount of laughs at the 71st Venice Film Festival elicited by the Out of Competition “She’s funny that way”. That’s the new film by Peter Bogdanovich who comes back after a 14-year absence with an enthusiastic Sophisticaded Comedy which has been acclaimed at the festival thanks to some genuinely funny performances, lots of surprises and coincidences till the inevitable happy ending.

With no doubts actors and characters leave their marks in the fizzy movie: the young call girl (Imogen Poots) who ends up in the hotel room of the charming director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson) who offers the girl 30.000 $ to stop turning tricks and follow her dream to become an actress, the strange therapist with a compulsion to share intimate details about her clients (Jennifer Aniston) and the british actor whose love towards the director’s wife (Kathryn Hahn) is not reciprocated. In other words, a mix of funny characters that made people laugh.

99 Homes – film in competition

Another international star arrived in Venice Lido this morning: Andrew Garfield. The actor of “The Amazing Spider-Man” plays in 99 Homes, another great film directed by Ramin Raharani which has been presented for the first time on the screen in competition at the 71st Venice Film Festival. The movie stars Andrew Garfield as an evicted construction worker who sells his soul to the devil — or at least to Michael Shannon’s real estate agent — and accepts a job evicting other struggling souls to earn enough money to get his family home back. A bit conventional, maybe, but with an outstanding screenplay and a great performance of the actors.

The extraordinary photos by Douglas Kirkland in exhibition at the Telecom Future Centre in Venice.

Thanks to the collaboration with Vanity Fair magazine and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Venice honor the great photographer Douglas Kirkland with “A life in pictures”, an extraordinary exhibition that will be presented on September 29th at the Telecom Future Centre in Campo San Salvador (near Rialto Bridge) also on the occasion of the 71st Venice Film Festival (free entry).

Douglas Kirkland is perhaps best known for his iconic 1961 photo session with Marilyn Monroe, taken when he was only 27. Those photos, published on Look Magazine, are considered to be the most beautiful photos of the actress.

The artist, born in Toronto, has been one of the main photographer of Look Magazine in the 1960s and 1970s with hundreds of fashion and celebrity works, from Mick Jagger to Sophia Loren, from Coco Chanel to Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich and Andy Warhol. He has also worked together with the great director Stanley Kubrick on the set of “2001 A Space Odyssey”.

The exhibition “Douglas Kirkland: A life in pictures” will be opened free to the public from August 30th to September 6th (10am to 6pm). In exhibition the 88 most important photos from Kirkland career presented in two display areas: 58 pictures dedicated to international celebrities like Marylin Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, Warren Beauty, Salma Hayek, Nicole Kidman, John Lennon, Susan Sarandon, Elizabeth Taylor, Rachel Welch and many more will propose a suggestive path in two fascinating cloisters of the monumental complex of the old monastery of San Salvador. On the other hand, in the frescoed refectory will be presented 30 photos of famous Italian actors (Monica Bellucci, Raoul Bova, Pierfrancesco Favino, Isabella Ferrari, Beppe Fiorello, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Laura Morante and others) shot on the sets of the Italian films cult. Some pieces of the films, such as “La dolce Vita”, “Il Gattopardo” and many more, will be screened in the same room.

Free entry

As already said, the president of the International Jury for the 71st Venice Film Festival is Alexandre Desplat, the famous film composer well-known for his many film scores of success.

The jury includes other eight great personalities, actors, directors, screenwriters and artists who will award the Silver and the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice Film Festival. Here the members of the international Jury.

Tim Roth, the British actor known for his unforgettable performance in famous film such as “Pulp Fiction” and “La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano”;

Joan Chen, Chinese actress and director who was in the cast of Lust by Ang Lee, the film that received the Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival 2007;

Philip Gröning, who won the Special Jury Prize last year with his film “The Police Officer’s Wife”;

Jessica Hausner, Austrian director;

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian-American novelist who won the Pulitzer prize with his first work, the short stories collection “Interpreter of Maladies” (1999);

Sandy Powell, the award-winning British costume designer. She won numerous Oscars for many renowned film such as “Shakespeare in Love” by John Madden, “The Aviator” by Martin Scorsese, “The Young Victoria” by Jean-Marc Vallée and a two BAFTA for “Velvet Goldmine” by Todd Haynes and again “The Young Victoria”;

Elia Suleiman, Palestian director who won the Best First Film Prize with his “Chronicle of a Disappearance” at Venice Film Festival 1996

Carlo Verdone, Italian actor and director who will also receive the Robert Bresson Prize.

James Franco will present, Out of Competition, the film “The Sound and the Fury”.

This year the eclectic actor, director, screenwriter, producer, American artist James Franco will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker prize at the 71st Venice Film Festival. Previous winners of the famous prize, which honors personalities who has made innovation in contemporary cinema, include artists like Takeshi Kitano, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Spike Lee, Ettore Scola.

James Franco will be awarded the prize at the Sala Grande in Palazzo del Cinema (Venice Lido) on 5th September. Following the ceremony, Venice Film Festival will present the world premiere, Out of Competition, of the new film written, directed and interpreted by James Franco: The Sound and the Fury. Franco is one of the main protagonists together with Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Joey King, Ahna O’Reilly and Seth Rogen.

James Franco participated for the first time in Venice Film Festival 2011 as director and screenwriter for Sal (Orizzont), a biographical homage to the actor Sal Mineo. In the same year at the Art Biennale he presented the visual arts installation Rebel (a collateral event), homage to the film “Rebel Without a Cause” by Nicholas Ray. In 2012 he came to the Festival as actor and producer of Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine (film in competition). In 2013 he was in Venice as director and screenwriter of Child of God (in competition), an adaptation of the homonym novel by Cormac McCarthy, and as the star of Palo Alto by Gia Coppola (Orizzont), based on a collection of short stories written by James Franco himself.

Sunday 7th September 2014: the spectacular Venice Historical Regatta.

Every year, on the first Sunday of September, the Historical Regatta takes place along the most famous and enchanting canal in Venice, the Grand Canal. Dating back to the mid 13th century, it has become now one of the most spectacular and picturesque events in Venice tradition, attracting every year thousands of tourists.

The most suggestive part of the event is certainly the procession along the Grand Canal: hundreds of boats of the 16th century with their crew dressed in traditional costumes. Following the procession, four races divided in terms of age and type of craft. The best known and most exciting of these is the “Campioni su Gondolini” race, where a series of small, sporting gondolas fly down the Grand Canal until reaching the finish line at the famous “machina“, the spectacular floating stage located in front of Ca’ Foscari palace.

PROGRAMME OF THE HISTORICAL REGATTA

SUNDAY 7th SEPTEMBER
4.00 pm
HISTORICAL AND SPORT WATER PAGEANT: parade from St. Mark’s Basin along the Grand Canal by historical crafts with costumed crews, boats and gondolas of the Venetian rowing associations (Voga alla Veneta)

4.30 pm
Maciarele and Schie regatta: two oared regatta on mascarete dedicated for children.

4.50 pm
YOUNG ROWERS’ TWIN-OARED PUPPARINI REGATTA
Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Basin, Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

5.10 pm
WOMEN’S TWIN-OARED MASCARETE REGATTA
Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto between Riva de Biasio and San Marcuola), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

5.30 pm
Garda Lake bisse regatta
Course: from Punta della Dogana to Ca’ Foscari

5.40 pm
SIX-OARED CAORLINE REGATTA
Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto in front of the Santa Lucia railway station), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari.

6.00 pm, after the passage of caorline (match for third place) and 6.30 pm, after the passage of gondolini (final), International Universities Boat Challenge.

Challenge on eight-oared galeoni boat by the crew of the Ca’ Foscari and Iuav Universities of Venezia versus the teams of other Universities
Course: From Rialto to Ca’ Foscari

6.10 pm
TWIN-OARED GONDOLINI REGATTA
Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Basin, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto in front of the Santa Lucia railway station), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari

Don’t miss the most spectacular event in Venice, you can experience the Historical Regatta comfortably seated on floating platform set up along the Grand Canal near Campo San Vio in one of the most beautiful and spectacular points along the route.

Tickets are available online.

For further information visit the official website of the event.

A new interesting project enriches the programme of summer events in Venice: the Goldoni experience.

All summer long, until November 2nd , the Goldoni Theatre in Venice offers a new unique theatre experience. Directed by Giuseppe Emiliani, Goldoni Experience is an extraordinary Fresco of Venice: an adaptation of several plays by Goldoni that turns into a highly original show, a homage to Carlo Goldoni himself and to Venice, the magic city setting of his works. The combination of the different plays has a narrative structure allowing spectators to enter and exit the twists and turns of several plots following a unified path. The set is designed by the unforgettable Emanuele Luzzati and the actors move in Stefano Nicolao’s costumes along the notes of Massimiliano Forza’s music.

The play imagines the last day spent in Venice by Carlo Goldoni (the young Anzoletto) before leaving for France. It’s the last day of carnival, the last day of festivity and Anzoletto is here as amused spectator and initiator of the carnival game. With no doubts a showcase of Goldonian types and characters that will offer you a vivid and lively portrait of Eighteenth century Venice.

The show is in Italian with English subtitles and at the end of the show, all spectators will be offered an aperitif.

The show lasts for approximately 90 minutes.

Tickets from €20 to €35

More substance and less glamour for the 71st Venice Film Festival line-up.

71st Venice Film Festival, which will run from August 27th to September 6th 2014, reveals his line-up: a mix of expected titles, some news and both well-known and emerging directors. The festival will feature 55 films, 54 of which are world-premiere.

Three Italian movies are in competition for the Golden Lion: Mario Martone’s “Il Giovane Favoloso” a film about Leopardi, “Anime nere” by Francesco Munzi and Saverio Costanzo’s “Hungry Hearts”, starring Alba Rohrwacher and based on the short stories by Anzia Yezierska about Jewish immigrants to the Lower East Side of New York City. Among the film Out-of-Competition we find “La Trattativa” by Sabina Guzzanti; “Italy in a day” by Gabriele Salvatores; “Perez” by Edoardo De Angelis and “La zuppa del demonio”, Davide Ferrario’s documentary. The awaited is Abel Ferrara who will present “Pasolini” starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Ninetto Davoli, Valerio Mastrandrea and Willem Dafoe.

This year for the International scene there seems to be focused more on substance than glamour even if the Festival will welcome some celebrities from Hollywood like Al Pacino, Willem Dafoe, Michael Keaton, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Catherine Denevue.

After “Joe”, David Gordon Green comes back to the Lido with “Manglehorn” where an extraordinary Al Pacino plays an ex-con turned locksmith. Al Pacino is also protagonist of “The Humbling” by Barry Levinson, the story an aging actor who will fall in love with a young woman half his age, played by Greta Gerwig.

In competition also eight French films such as: “Three hearts” by Benoît Jacquot (with Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chaterine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni), “Loin des hommes” starring Viggo Mortensen, and “The Cut” by Fatih Akin.

Among the out-of-competition some interesting surprises: Joe Dante with his “Burying the Ex”, Im Kwon-taek with “Make-up” and Peter Bogdanovich with “She’s Funny That Way”, starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. Moreover, Ulrich Seidl and Lars von Trier, who will present Nymphomaniac II director’s cut version.

Definitely a promising line-up for the 71st Venice Film Festival with a focus on quality, discovery and diversity.

The “Glass Tea House Mondrian” by Hiroshi Sugimoto: a unique temporary pavilion on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

Until the 29th of November 2014, the “Glass Tea House Mondrian” – a temporary pavilion designed by the Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto – is open to the public on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice as part of the activities of Le Stanze del Vetro.

This is an unusual initiative where the pavilion itself become the exhibition that involves the visitor, a new initiative from those organized by Le Stanze del Vetro until now, extending its horizons and involving famous artists of the international scene to design pavilions or installations, following the example of the“Pavilion Series” of the Serpentine Gallery in London.

“Glass Tea House Mondrian” by Hiroshi Sugimoto is inspired by the Japanese tradition of the tea ceremony as perfected by Sen no Rikyû.

The project consists of two main elements: a glass cube and the cedar garden in which it is enclosed. The garden (40 meters long and 12.5 meters wide) follows a path that also includes a long pool covered by glass mosaic, leading the visitor inside a glass cube (2.5 x 2.5 meters), where the traditional Japanese tea ceremony is performed.

The pavilion hosts just two visitors at once, while the other spectators (up to a maximum of 30) can take part by watching around the glass cube.

Within the setting of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore the “Glass Tea House Mondrian” gains also a symbolic value, encouraging visitors to interact freely with the site. Moreover, it is a space where public can experience the Japanese tradition together with modern technologies.

Entrance to the “Glass Tea House Mondrian” is free.

Baroque music in extraordinary settings in Venice: Monteverdi Vivaldi Festival 2014

From the 5th of July 2014, some of the most famous artists in the International scene will perform in the most suggestive sites of Venice for the Monteverdi Vivaldi Festival 2014.

The rich programme of the Festival, which will be held in very special settings such as the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Ca’ Pesaro, the Sale Apollinee of La Fenice Theatre, St. Mark’s Basilica and the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi, want to analyze and reinforce the relationship between Venice and France forged in the XVII century giving to the public the opportunity to appreciate Venetian song, dance and baroque harpsichord. This year a special focus on the Venetian vocal repertoire. The partnership with La Fenice Theatre is even closer and blossoms around the great composer of Venetian opera, Francesco Cavalli. After the première of his Eritrea, together with a conference in collaboration with the International Musicological Society, the Festival organizers will present a selection of Cavalli’s sacred music at Saint Mark’s for the first time.

Some of the concerts are free, other concerts need a ticket. For further information look at the brochure or visit the official website.

Download the programme of the concerts here.

After the preview with Paolo Conte and Keith Jarrett performances, from July 18th 2014 the 7th Venice Jazz Festival get to the heart of the programme.

Other two International Jazz stars are waiting for you on the occasion of the Venice Jazz Festival at La Fenice Theatre: the pianist and composer Burt Bacharach (July 20th at 8pm) and the Lady of Jazz Cassandra Wilson (July 27th at 8pm).

You will find the best of the National and International Jazz scene at the other several stages selected for this edition: from the museum to the charm hotels, from the conservatory, the Venetian ‘campi’ or the cruises, the fascinating notes will spread everywhere in front of the most beautiful views in Venice.

OPENING NIGHT
On July 18th the opening night will be held in the extraordinary setting of Punta della Dogana and the Giudecca Canal on a special stage set up on the museum platform on the water. Protagonist will be the singer Anna Soklic, for the first time in Venice, with a band composed by 20 artists. Her voice will be accompanied by a delicious happy hour to taste at the sunset, enjoying also the spaces of the Torrino, Dogana Café and Dogana Shop that will be open.

SATURDAY JULY 19th
On Saturday 19th of July, the band “Carichi Marching” will start at 5.30pm in front of Santa Lucia railway station to reach Campo Bella Vienna near Rialto Bridge, where some musical happy hour will be held in the following days. To enlive the Campo, Trio Villani (winner of the competition Jazz by the Pool) on July 20th, the Big Band of Benedetto Marcello Conservatory on July 21st, the Main Road Band on July 22nd and the Jazz Ensemble of Benedetto Marcello Conservatory on July 23rd.

MONDAY JULY 21st
On Monday 21 of July, Campo del Ghetto will present the performance of the saxophonist Davide Zamir, one of the most original artist of the Jewish Jazz combining traditional elements with ethnic music and world music (free entrance). Tuesday 22 of July is up to the British singer and songwriter Jack Savoretti who will perform at Peggy Guggenheim Collection. The next day, Wednesday 23 of July, the American singer Amy London will enlive Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro with standard Jazz, accompanied by her trio (free entrance) and on Thursday 24 July the flamenco duo of Juan Lorenzo will homage Paco De Lucia at the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi.

JULY 25th and 26th
Double concert on Friday 25 of July at Goldoni Theatre with the Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta and the Neapolitan Antonio Onorato; following by the singer and pianist Chiara Civello, famous in the International scene.

Saturday 26 of July the Grupo Compay Segundo da Buena Vista Social Club will perform on San Servolo Island for a night dedicated to the Cuban rhythms, ending with the extraordinary Cassandra Wilson on Sunday 27 July at La Fenice Theatre.

For the opening night of the 71st Venice Film Festival Iñárritu’s new film: Birdman.

Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu will be the opening film of the 71st Venice Film Festival (August 27th – September 6th 2014). The film stars Michael Keaton, main protagonist, along with Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts and the world premiere will be screened in competition on August 27th in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido, following the opening ceremony hosted.

Birdman is a black comedy where Keaton plays an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero who is trying to mount a Broadway play. In the days before the opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu made his breakthrough in 2000 with the film Amores Perros which received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film and won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2003 Iñárritu directed 21 Grams starring Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts. The film participated in the 60th Venice Film Festival where Penn won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, whereas Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro received an Oscar nomination for their performances. In 2006, he directed Babel, the last film of his trilogy, receiving the prize for best director at the 58th Cannes Film Festival. The film also received seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Director and won the Oscar for best original soundtrack. It also received seven Golden Globes nominations and won the prize for Best Motion Picture – Drama. In 2007 the director was a member of the International Jury of the 64th Venice Film Festival’s Competition. In 2010 he presented his film Biutiful in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Javier Bardem won the prize for Best Actor. Biutiful received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film, and Bardem was nominated for best actor.

The Redentore Festival: a traditional celebration that lights up the Venice lagoon

Once again breathtaking fireworks will light up Venice on the occasion of the Redentore Festival, on 19th and 20th of July 2014. A fabulous fireworks display in the unique setting of St. Mark’s Basin will create fascinating reflections on the Venetian buildings and churches: an experience not to be missed.

The Redentore Festival (Redeemer Festival) is a tradition that dates back to 1577 when it was first held to celebrate the end of a terrible plague and the construction of Palladio’s Redentore Church, commissioned for the same reason. Every year, the third weekend of July, Venice celebrates it and the Church, built on the Giudecca Island, is reached by pilgrims thanks to an impressive 330-metre-long pontoon bridge.

At the sunset a great number of boats decorated with balloons and brightly coloured lanterns, begin to flock into St. Mark’s Basin and the Giudecca Canal and people on the boats as well those on the river enjoy a delicious dinner waiting for the firework display that begins at 11.30pm and lasts until late midnight.

On the occasion, in the night of July 20th Actv will increase local means of transport, both on water and in the mainland. People Mover from Tronchetto to Piazzale Roma will work till 3am.

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY, JULY 14th 2012
Opening of the Thanksgiving Bridge, connecting the Zattere to the Church of the Redentore on the island of Giudecca
At 11.30pm Fireworks in St. Mark’s Basin

SUNDAY, JULY 15th 2012
Redentore Regattas – Giudecca canal
4.00pm children’s twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
4.45pm twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
5.30pm twin-oared gondola regatta
7.00 pm Thanksgiving Mass at the Church of the Redentore on the Giudecca island

At Fondazione Bevilacqua of Venice the first Italian exhibition of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

On the occasion of the 14th international Architecture Exhibition the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice presents the new solo exhibition of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Until October 12th 2014 you will have the exclusive chance to admire 11 architectural photographs by the Japanese artist of famous international museums andwell-known monuments: from the Johnson Wax Building by Frank Lloyd Wright to the Einstein Tower by Erich Mendelsohn, to two of the most important sites of contemporary art in the world, the London Serpentine Gallery and the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, considered to be one of the most authoritative protagonists of the contemporary photography scene, chooses an evocative approach in his works, dissolving the boundaries of time and memory and investigating the very essence of places. The result are fascinating studies often focused on the interplay between art, history, science and religion, combining Eastern philosophies with various elements of Western culture.

The selection of works on display in the elegant spaces of Palazzetto Tito in Venice continues the major research started in the mid-’90s with the Architecture series, a rich set of dedicated to the icons of world architecture, including the Eiffel Tower, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the famous church by Le Corbusier, Notre-Dame-du-Haut.

Opening hours
10.30-17.30
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

Tickets
full price: 5€
reduced price: 3 €

From Friday 4th July 2014 the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice will be opened two more hours in the evening (8-10pm).

As recently decided by the Cultural Affairs and Tourism Ministry, from Friday 4th July 2014 the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice will extend opening times from 8pm until 10pm every single Friday evening (the ticket office will close at 9.15pm; no changing to the museum closing hours the from 7.15pm to 8pm). The aim of the project, which also includes other important Italian museums, is to valorize the rich cultural heritage of Italy and to make it possible for visitors to enjoy the museum also in the evening.

Every Friday, from 8pm to 10pm, visitors will have one more chance to appreciate one of the major Italian museums and his rich collection of paintings, from the Bizantine and Gothic fourteenth century to the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto and Tiziano until Gianbattista Tiepolo and the Vedutisti of the eighteenth century, Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, Longhi.

Opening Times:
Monday from 8.15am to 2pm
Tuesday to Sunday from 8.15am to 7.15pm (Friday also from 8pm to 10pm)

Tickets:
Full price ticket: € 9,00 (+ € 1,50 as reservation fee)
Reduced price ticket: € 6,00 (+ € 1,50 as reservation fee)

The famous French film composer Alexandre Desplat President of the International Jury  for the Competition of the 71st Venice International Film Festival

For the first time in a Venice International Film Festival edition the President of the Jury will be a film composer: Alexandre Desplat. The jury is also composed of other 9 personalities from the fields of cinema and culture from different countries. The internationally renowned composer, who have created famous film scores such as the one for The Queen, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fantastic Mr. Fox,The King’s Speech, Argo, and Philomena, will award the Golden Lion for Best Film and the other official prizes.

Alexandre Desplat is a passionate cinephile, whose extraordinary artistic sensitivity is sustained by a deep knowledge of cinema, of its history, of its language. Moreover, has won a Golden Globe, three Césars, two European Film Awards, a Silver Bear, a Bafta and a Grammy. He has collaborated with directors such as Stephen Frears, Roman Polanski, Terrence Malick, Tom Hooper, Jacques Audiard, Kathryn Bigelow, David Fincher, George Clooney, Ang Lee, Ben Affleck, David Yates, Wes Anderson, and Matteo Garrone.

On the closing night of the coming 71st Venice Film Festival he will award the following official prizes to the feature-length films in Competition:

•  Golden Lion for Best Film
•  Silver Lion for Best Director
•  Grand Jury Prize
•  Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
•  Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
•  Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
•  Award for Best Screenplay
•  Special Jury Prize

5 exhibitions and 32 itineraries to celebrate Veronese all around Veneto region

From this summer 5 historic cities in Veneto region present 5 exhibitions dedicated to Paolo Veronese taking part in a project of the region entitled “Discover the Veneto of Veronese”. The aim of the project is to celebrate the great artist who captured the colours of the Renaissance Veneto, its luminous spaces and sumptuous architecture. On the occasion some masterpieces will come back to the country after centuries abroad. In addition to the five exhibitions, an itinerary will take you in thirty-two sites (villas, churches and palaces) to illustrate the story and paintings of the places where Paolo Veronese left a mark.

VERONA
Climax of the Veronese celebrations in Veneto will be the major exhibition “Paolo Veronese. The Illusion of Reality” in the Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, from 5 July to 5 October 2014. Over one hundred works of art from some of the finest Italian and international museums will be on show in the exhibition divided into six sections: Veronese’s training; his relations with architecture and architects, such as Michele Sanmicheli, Jacopo Sansovino and Andrea Palladio; his patrons; allegorical and mythological themes; religiosity; and, lastly, his collaborations and workshop, which were significant right from the beginnings.

VICENZA
In Vicenza, the Palladio Museum will host four splendid paintings, once part of an allegorical cycle for a Venetian public palace, that will be reunited for the first time after centuries: “Four Veronese Frescoes Come from Afar. The Rediscovered Allegories”. (www.palladiomuseum.org).

PADOVA
From September 7th 2014 to January 11th, the Eremitani Museums in Padua presents another exhibition: “Veronese and Padua. The Artist, Patrons and Reception” (http://padovacultura.padovanet.it/it/musei )

CASTELFRANCO VENETO
In the same period, Castelfranco Veneto and his Casa del Giorgione Museum present to visitors the exhibition “Veronese in the Land of Giorgione” focused on fragments of the decoration of the Villa Soranza at Treville which was destroyed in the XVII century, and the links of the artist with Castelfranco area.

BASSANO DEL GRAPPA
Lastly, Palazzo Sturm in Bassano del Grappa will host the exhibition “Veronese Engraved. Prints after Veronese from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century”. (www.museibassano.it).

The five exhibitions offer together a survey about Veronese and the artistic culture of his time that has never realized before. Moreover, they represent the starting point for a 32-stage itinerary across Veneto region perfect to discover, or rediscover, villas, churches, palaces and museums where admire frescoes or historical evidence of the spirit of Veronese, and artists who worked together or had been influenced by him.

For further information please visit the website

On display the 200 original photo-etchings of Venice from Ongania ‘s collection Calli and Canals and Calli, Canals and Islands in the Lagoon.

Until November 2nd 2014 the National Museum of Villa Pisani in Strà presents the exhibition “Light on Venice: Discovering Nineteenth-century Photography”. On display 200 precious photo-etchings of Venice, priceless nineteenth-century originals that conserve a faithful record of the lagoon city. Ferdinando Ongania’s masterpiece “Calli and Canals and Calli, Canals and Islands in the Lagoon” is exhibited in its entirety for the first time.

200 pictures record the majestic palazzos mirrored in the venetian waters as well as the monumental areas of the city which have become famous thanks to the great art of Canaletto and the others artists of the Vedutismo. You may appreciate not only the most iconic landmarks of Venice like St. Mark’s Square, the Bridge of Sighs, the Grand Canal and Rialto Bridge, but also other less famous hidden corners such as Santa Marta or San Pietro di Castello, captured by the eyes of these great artists of the XVIII-XIX century.

With no doubts, Ferdinando Ongania was the greatest publisher to work in Venice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a brilliant heir of the typographical tradition of the famous Aldo Manuzio. He gave a significant contribution to photography that was considered a science in that period, a contribution to consolidate his development as a real urban portraiture. Moreover, Ferdinando Ongania has been the first to conceive and start a photography project about Venice in a period characterized by an heated debate about the preservation and restoration of the city and its monuments. The project constitutes the first important photo collection of that time.

TIME OPENING
April-September: from 9am to 8pm
October 1st to November 2nd: from 9am to 5pm
Closed on Monday

TICKETS
Villa + Garden + Exhibition
Full € 10 — Reducted (18-25 years) € 7,50
Free entrance under 18 and over 65

International Jazz stars in Venice for Venezia Jazz Festival 2014: Paolo Conte, Keith Jarrett, Burt Bacharach and Cassandra Wilson.

From 2nd to 27th of July Venice will host the 7th edition of Venezia Jazz Festival. For the occasion 4 great international musicians will enlive the lagoon: Paolo Conte (July 2nd), Keith Jarrett (July 8th), Burt Bacharach (July 20th) and Cassandra Wilson (July 27th).

PAOLO CONTE – JULY 2ND
Venezia Jazz Festival will be launched by the fine music of Paolo Conte. After the amazing concert that took place in St. Mark’s Square in 2009, the world-famous Italian singer come back to Venice in a truly special setting: Palazzo Ducale. After the last production in 2010 – “Nelson” – Paolo Conte has launched “Gong-Oh”, a best of for his 30 years career. For the concert of July 2nd (9 pm) he will be accompanied by his band .

KEITH JERRETT – JULY 8TH
July 8th La Fenice Theatre will host  Keith Jarret, who will come back to the lagoon for a solo acoustic show after the break-up of the legendary trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJonhette. It’s the beginning of a new artistic period for the American pianist and composer. As it happened in 2006, the performance will be recorded: a unique chance to enjoy the music of the greatest living pianist (8th of July, 8pm).

BURT BACHARACH – JULY 20TH
Another star for La Fenice Theatre, July 20th is Burt Bacharach’s turn. On the occasion of “The Spirit of Music Festival” in Venice the artist will enchant the famous theatre with some memorable hits among his many compositions (more than 500).

CASSANDRA WILSON – JULY 20TH
To close the Festival the blessed voice of the award winning Cassandra Wilson (a 30years career, 2 grammy and many other awards). A great night with one of the top jazz singers once again at La Fenice Theatre, the 27th of July.

Many other concerts are scheduled around Venice. To be mentioned those by Anna Soklic (July 18th, Punta della Dogana), Daniel Zamir (July 21st, Campo del Ghetto), Jack Savoretti (July 22nd, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Amy London (July 23rd), Juan Lorenzo (Teatrino Palazzo Grassi), Toninho Horta and Antonio Onorato and Chiara Civello Group with Nicola Conte ensemble (July 25th, Goldoni Theatre) and Grupo Compay Segundo da Buena Vista Social Club (July 26th, Isola di San Servolo).

For the official programme click here

Tickets: www.ticketone.it – www.teatrolafenice.it

Art Night Venice returns once again: the magic of the White Night in the lagoon.

On the 21st of June, for the beginning of Summer, Venice will light up with more than 400 free events and from 6pm about one hundred cultural institutions will open their doors to the public for free. The occasion is Art Night 2014. During the suggestive initiative organized by the Ca’ Foscari University in collaboration with the City of Venice, several museums, art galleries, palazzi and institutions will offer a wide range of guided tours, concerts and performances.

The Art Night begins at 6pm in the courtyard of Ca’ Foscari with “Family Dress”, a coloured performance presented by MALIPARMI, partner of this edition. A lively mosaic made by 30 dresses will move and dance among the public and will continue their ways through the narrow calli of Venice accompanied by musicians. The Art Night will also see the special participation of Nico Vascellari, one of the most important artists of visual art in the Italian scenery, who will liven up the night together with his group Ninos du Brasil and Carlos Casas, Spanish video artist. You will have the opportunity to appreciate the first preview of the new album “Novos Misterios”, the appointment is at 22.30, once again at Ca’ Foscari.

Many other significant events and chances should be mentioned. On the occasion the visit of Peggy Guggenheim Collection is free from 6pm offering you free guided tours, too. Free entrance also to the exhibition LE STANZE DEL VETRO at Giorgio Cini Foundation, the suggestive VEDOVA IN TONDO at Vedova Foundation, ART OR SOUND at Prada Foundation, the exhibitions of Pinault Foundation held in Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the beautiful Negozio Olivetti In St. Mark’s Square designed by Carlo Scarpa and much more, unique events to join in.

“12” – The international design at Ca’ Pesaro and Palazzo Fortuny

At the same time of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Ca’ Pesaro and Palazzo Fortuny present “12”, the exhibition that proposes furniture items of design by famous international designers in the museum path of the two prestigious venetian venues. All the objects on display have been designed for Glas Italia who, together with the Civic Museums of Venice, have conceive the exhibition with a specific aim: to look with different eyes the object of design bringing it back to its natural function of use. Therefore, visitors will have the opportunity to admire the works but they are also invited to enjoy the objects of design scattered along the exhibition path.

12 extraordinary furniture items by different designers will be on display until the 14th of July 2014. The famous creators are: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Piero Lissoni, Michele De Lucchi, Nendo, Jean-Marie Massaud, Naoto Fukasawa,Ron Gilad, Johanna Grawunder, Jasper Morrison, Tokujin Yoshioka, Elena Cutolo and Ettore Sottsass,

This exhibition was created to bring the design object to its natural function of use.

The visit starts from the glass, the main material which is declined in different ways to better match with the characteristics of spaces and different content and with products created by the talent of some of the most influential names of classic and contemporary design.

The works of design like benches, chairs and consoles are located in the spaces of the International Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Ca’ Pesaro and in Palazzo Fortuny not only as works to admire but also as objects of particular use, turning the Museum into a physical place to live.

For the Biennale Rem Koolhaas proposes an incredible journey through architecture, from the past to the future, starting from ‘Fundamentals’.

This year Venice Biennale turns into a real reserch platform that involves each sector. Opened to the public from June 7th 2014, the 14th International Architecture Exhibition integrates every sector of the Biennale in an interesting distinct project that has the ambition to become a research laboratory, a Biennale addressed not only to experts and specialists but to the entire public who will be carried away in a fantastic journey discovering the elements of the buildings that surround us and reflect a humanity always more complex.

It took 2 years of studies for Rem Koolhas, one of the most acclaimed Dutch architects in the world, to present ‘Fundamentals‘ , the exhibition that explores architecture basis,from past to present and beyond to the future.

The Central Pavilion of the Biennale Giardini, curated by Rem koolhas, turns into an amazing encyclopedic digression where you will find floors, walls, roofs, doors, windows, balconies, façades, corridors, fireplaces, services, stairs, escalators and so on. Therefore, all the Elements of Architecture are on display, confirming the curator’s will: Fundamentals will be a Biennale about architecture, not architects. Inside rooms dedicated each one to a different element, there’s a comparison between different examples of parts of a building from the past, the present and the future, elements used inevitably by any architect, anywhere, anytime.

The aim is the same for ‘Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014‘, the exhibition section that involves the National Pavilions: each country has been asked to think about the architecture elements which have characterized their boundaries and in which way they have absorbed modernity.

On the other side, Corderie dell’Arsenale focuses on the Italian context. The exhibition includes 82 movies, 41 research project and an original fusion of architecture with all the other sectors of the Biennale: Cinema, Dance, Music and Theatre. Each research project of Monditalia, title of the exhibition, shows unique and specific themes but all together they give an extraordinary portrait of the entire country.

Opening times

Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, 7th June > 23rd November 2014

Opening times: 10 am – 6 pm

Opening times of the Arsenale venue: 10 am – 8 pm on Fridays and Saturdays until 27th September

Closed on Mondays (except June 9 and November 17, 2014)

Tickets

Special 2days -full price € 30 (pass valid for two consecutive days for both venues)

Special 2days -concession for Under 26 € 22 (pass valid for two consecutive days for both venues)

Regular -full price € 25 (ticket valid for a single entry to each venue also on non-consecutive days)

Concession € 22 (for card holders: COOP, CNAPPC, CTS, ISIC, ITIC, FAI, Touring Club, Cinema Più, Venice Card -Adult/Junior/San Marco-, Rolling Venice Card, Carta Giovani, Arca–Enel, Trenitalia with a Freccia Argento/Bianca ticket, destination Venice (dated no more than 3 days) and CartaFRECCIA members)

Concession € 20 (for Over 65, military forces, City of Venice residents, on production of tickets for the 9th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, the 58th International Festival of Contemporary Music, and subscriptions for the 71st Venice International Film Festival)

Students / Under 26 € 15 (university card or ID card required)

The great contemporary public art at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice

On the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Lisson Gallery and Berengo Foundation present Genius Loci (The spirit of place), an exhibition of sculpture and installation that goes beyond the museum or gallery space and addresses the complex spheres of the public realm and the built environment. From the 7th of June until the 23rd of November the historic Venetian Palazzo Franchetti, fascinating palazzo on the grand canal, will be the location of this dialogue about the relationship between architecture and public spaces.

Why Genius Loci? This Latin term, originally referring to the presiding or guardian deity of a land, is now used to describe the particular essence and unique qualities of a place. In fact public art can contribute to define the features of its location by functioning harmoniously or in active dialogue with the architecture or landscape . The impressive installation by Anish Kapoor at the Millenium Park of Chicago or those by Tatsuo Miyajima in Tokio are perfect examples of this idea.

Both inside and outside of Palazzo Franchetti, the exhibition presents art works by renowned contemporary artists have made significant contributions to art in the public domain: Ai Weiwei; Daniel Buren; Tony Cragg; Richard Deacon; Spencer Finch; Dan Graham; Shirazeh Houshiary; Anish Kapoor; Richard Long; Tatsuo Miyajima; Julian Opie; Pedro Reyes; Santiago Sierra; Lee Ufan; Koen Vanmechelen; Joana Vasconcelos; Lawrence Weiner; Tokujin Yoshioka; Richard Wentworth.

 Free Entry

Opening times:

opened every day from 10am to 18pm

Some of the extraordinary works of Ileana Sonnabend Collection at Ca’ Pesaro in Venice

From May 31st 2014 to January 4th 2015 the International Gallery of Modern Art – Ca’ Pesaro of Venice presents some of the extraordinary works of Ileana Sonnabend Collection. Approximately a hundred of works by artists of the XX century discovered and promoted in her galleries by Ileana Sonnabend (1914 – 2007), considered to be an “ambassador” of contemporary art.

A selection of the finest works of the collection is always present in the permanent displays of the museum thanks to a grant in 2013 as a long-term loan, representing an inestimable cultural value for the city. The exhibition offers a view from Neo Dada to Pop Art, Minimal Art to Arte Povera, Conceptual art to Neo Expressionism and contemporary photographic art. Among the others, some of the greatest names of 20th century art stand out: Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt, Anselm Kiefer and Jeff Koons.

Beyond the well-known ‘Campbell’s Soup Can Tomato‘ by Andy Warhol and the beautiful ‘Little Aloha‘ by Roy Lichtenstein, the exhibition also includes a group of Italian Arte Povera works, a movement that is well represented by artists who experimented with “poor” materials (natural,organic, industrial), used for their expressiveness of primary and sensorial immediacy. You will find extraordinary works of Gilberto Zorio, Mario Merz, Giovanni Anselmo,Pier Paolo Calzolari and Jannis Kounellis.

Opening Times
From 10am to 18pm
Closed on Moday 

Tickets
Full ticket € 10
Reduced € 7.50

The machine designed by Renzo Piano will be again on the move at Magazzini del Sale in Venice for the exhibition Vedova in Tondo.

From May 17th to November 2nd 2014 the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova of Venice presents a new exhibition. “Vedova in Tondo”, which offers visitors a cycle of works marking a key point in the development of the famous Venetian artist: the Dischi, Tondi and Oltre of 1985-1987 and a selection of large teleri dating from 1981-1985, most of them never displayed before.

For the occasion, the machine Renzo Piano had designed for the Foundation will be once more in action. The mechanism,which is unique in the world, allow a dynamic exhibition of the works. Thanks to robotic shuttles, the scenery can evolve changing the place of the artistic objects in a space with no constraints.

The exhibition includes two sections of works: one fixed to the wall and floor, which maintains a dialogue with the other section, which comprises three series of paintings moved by robotic shuttles.
The first includes the Disco called Non Dove ‘86 I (23-1-86), a large painting on wood located on the floor; next to the title is the date of the death of Joseph Beuys. The painting was in fact executed by Vedova immediately after have learnt the sad news of the death of an artist he admired a lot.
On the large 15th-century wall of the Magazzino del Sale five large Tondi of 1985-1987, while the second section presents three series of moving works, including a selection of Oltre and large teleri of the 1980s.

Opening Times:
From 10.30 am to 18pm
Closed on Tuesday

Tickets: € 8

From June 7th to 3rd November 2014 Fondazione Prada explores the relationship between Art and Sound in an innovative exhibition at its Venetian venue of Ca’ Corner della Regina.

Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition Art or Sound analyzes the complex dialogue of the past and our present between art and sound, investigating also on iconic aspects of the musical instrument as well as on the role of the artist-musician. An artistic path from the XVI century until these days that presents more than 180 works: musical instruments, mechanic objects, arrangements, paintings, sculptures, installations and sound devices.

The exhibition will occupy the ground floor and two main floors of Ca’ Corner della Regina. A unique setting. In fact, this is the first time public can enter to the rooms on the second piano nobile after the restorations that has turned them into 1100 square meters of exhibition spaces.

At first, Art or Sound shows musical instruments created from unusual and precious materials by Michele Antonio Grandi and Giovanni Battista Cassarini in the 17th century. It will continue with 18th and 19th century examples of musical automata and mechanical devices along with experiments of the historical avant-gardes and some Giacomo Balla’s objects. The exhibition also gather works by artists of the Sixties (John Cage, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman and Nam June Paik) and sound installations like Oracle (1962 –’65) by Robert Rauschenberg and Handphone Table (1978) by Laurie Anderson. Among the musical instruments, the pianos created by Arman, Richard Artschwager and Joseph Beuys, and hybrid instruments like the guitars and the violins of Ken Butler and the banjos of William T. Wiley. The exploration arrives to these days thanks to the more recent research of artists like Christian Marclay, Janet Cardiff, Martin Creed, Doug Aitken, Anri Sala, Athanasios Argianas, Haroon Mirza, Ruth Ewan and Maywa Denki.

Opening Times
From 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesdays)

This year the entire Biennale is in the Biennale.
For the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, at Corderie dell’Arsenale the section entitled ‘Monditalia’ will involve all the Venice Biennale fields: Dance, Music, Theatre and Cinema.

June 7th 2014 is the date: the International Architecture Exhibition opens to the public and the Corderie dell’Arsenale will present continuously dance performances in a space conceived by Director Rem Koolhaas as a ‘multidisciplinary work in progress’, constantly evolving.

6 stages has been located in the 15th century spaces, next to Monditalia architecture works of art, where a ceaseless cycle of every kind of events will create a changing exhibition day after day. Definitely an unusual situation for both choreographers and dancers, and for the visitors as well. Dance must change in relation to the space, to the freedom of the spectator and his direct gaze, to the narration of a work in progress.

For this occasion Virgilio Sieni, director of the Biennale Dance Section, invited several artists: Michele Di Stefano, winner of the Silver Lion for innovation, Roy Assaf, Luisa Cortesi, Marina Giovannini, Cristina Rizzo, Giuseppe Comuniello, a blind performer, and Kinkaleri.

The Corderie will also be the special venue for the first “Appunti del Vangelo secondo Matteo” (Notes on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew), a special project by Virgilio Sieni that will be on stage over the first three weekends of July.

From June 4th 2014, on the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, the Querini Stampalia Foundation presents a great exhibition dedicated to Carlo Scarpa and the influence he had on many architects and artists throughout the ages: Margarita Andreu, Ivana Franke, Candida Margarita Andreu, Ivana Franke, Candida Höfer, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Remo Salvadorie, Haris Epaminonda. But also Sasha Waltz, the composer Atsuhiko Gondai, the musician Mario Brunello, the photographer Alessandra Chemollo and the director Riccardo De Cal.

The exhibition symbolically gather memories together with sketches and drawings belonging to the Archive Foundation , documents of the origins of the spaces redesigned by the brilliant Carlo Scarpa.

The inauguration will be at 20 pm on 4th June 2014 after the conference “Elements of architecture learned from past, present and future”, a discussion between international architects Bijoy Jain and Kazuyo Sejima and curators Yuko Hasegawa and Chiara Bertola.

This meeting want to discuss next Venice Biennale’s theme, Fundamentals, suggesting a critical recovery of the elements on which architecture is based. The aim is to define a universal repertoire learned from the past and useful device for the present and the future.

Opening Times:
From 10am to 18pm
Closed on Monday

Tickets (entrance to Querini Stampalia Foundation + temporary exhibition)
Full Ticket: € 10
Reduced Ticket: € 8

From May 24th to August 31st 2014 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice presents For Your Eyes Only. A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism, a fascinating exhibition curated by Andreas Beyer which propose for the first time to the public a rich selection of works from the private Collection of Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best, in Basel.

The exhibition includes approximately 120 works (paintings, sculptures, drawings and artefacts) ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day that want to reveal the influential power of art through the ages. Among the impressive masterpieces you will find works by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Giorgio de Chirico, Francesco Clemente, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Gustave Moreau, Gustave Doré, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray and Andy Warhol and many others.

For Your Eyes Only is organised by Peggy Guggenheim Collection together with the Kunstmuseum Basel where the exhibition will be held from September 21st 2014 to January 4th 2015.

Opening hours
10 am – 6 pm
Closed on Tuesday and December 25th

Tickets
Adults: €14
Senior visitors over 65 yrs.: €12
Students under 26 yrs.: €8 (with current student ID)
Children under 10 yrs., members: free

24th May 2014 Palazzo Cini opens to the public again presenting Tuscan and Ferrarese masterpieces from the Vittorio Cini Collection.

In the sixtieth anniversary year of the Institute of Art History, the Giorgio Cini Foundation has decided to open his doors to the public. From May 24th to November 2nd 2014 visitors will have the great opportunity to admire this extraordinary site with its marvellous collection of Tuscan and Ferrarese paintings, including works by Giotto, Guariento, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo and Dosso Dossi. However, the idea is to allow public the chance – for at least six months a year – of seeing the marvellous pieces of the collection kept in the splendid gallery of the sixteenth-century building .

For the occasion the Bronzino masterpiece ‘Ritratto di Giovane con Liuto’ from the Uffizi Gallery will be on display in Venice until the restitution of ‘Doppio Ritratto di amici‘ by Pontormo, which is now in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi for the great exhibition ‘Pontormo e Rosso Fiorentino. Divergenti vie della “maniera“(Florence, March 8th – July 20th 2014). The loan is part of a significant collaboration between the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Galleria degli Uffizi and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi involving exchanging works between institutions and thus creating a cultural bridge between the two italian art cities of Venice and Florence.

Situated halfway between the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Cini opens up after great works for lighting and conservation improvement, giving back a more accessible exhibition itinerary without affecting the intimate atmosphere of this museum house in which Vittorio Cini once resided.

Beside the around 30 paintings exhibited, visitors have the opportunity to appreciate the antique furnishing and art objects on the first piano nobile that recreate the building’s original character and the personal taste of his great collector, alongside some fine pieces of applied arts such as the complete porcelain table service made by the 18th-century Venetian manufactory of Cozzi, ivory plaques and caskets by the Workshop of the Embriachi, Renaissance enamels, jewellery and terracotta sculptures.

Opening Times: 11-19 (closed on Tuesday)

Tickets: € 10,00
 Special price for Peggy Guggenheim collection visitors €7,00

For further information click here

21 Collateral Events will enrich the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, which will take place from June 7th 2014 for 6 months in Venice.

The Venice Biennale has released a list of 21 Collateral Events that will involve many prestigious sites around the city, alongside the official exhibitions at the Giardini and the Arsenale. Selected by Rem Koolhass and supported by non-profit national and international institutions, those events would be a great opportunity to explore a wide range of extra contributions from countries all over the world (especially China, with 5 projects) as well as local contributions.

Many events could be mentioned. For example, Moscow participates with the first retrospective in Italy of Mikhail Roginsky (Mikhail Roginsky. Through the Red Door), the father of Russian Pop Art, that will be held at Ca’ Foscari. The main purpose of this project is draw attention to the fundamental component of the art of painting that is based on advantage of its inherent notions: color, form and construction.

At Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi (Campo Sant’Agnese), Switzerland presents for the third year the Salon Suisse, an ambitious programme of talks and events focusing on questions around urban development in Switzerland and the increasing pressure of urbanization worldwide.

An opportunity to appreciate architecture conceived by different cultural backgrounds is Time Space Existence at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora. The exhibition presents architects from 6 continents, brought together in an extraordinary combination.

In other words, Venice Biennale is announced to be once again a real urban phenomenon, that would engage every corner of the city.

Visit the official website to know all about the collateral events of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition.

Want to know all about exhibitions, cultural events and much more in Venice? Our magazine Visit Venice Spring Summer 2014 is online!

Inside you will find all the exhibitions, cultural and sport events to not be missed in May and June 2014, as well as suggestions for your day trips.

The most highly awaited event is definitely the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, but other remarkable events enlive the venetian scenery such as the Irving Penn exhibition at Palazzo Grassi and the Carlo Saraceni exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia (Academy Galleries).
Venice will welcome you also with his folklore and traditions: discover the Vogalonga and the Festa della Sensa, the most important events to be held in this period in the lagoon.

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On Saturday 31st May and on Sunday 1st June the annual fabulous marriage of Venice with the sea.

Every year, at the end of May, Venice celebrates his love and close relationship with the sea in a symbolic marriage ceremony where the lagoon city, represented by the mayor and the patriarch, throws a golden ring into the water to celebrate the union between the city and the sea. This is ‘Festa della Sensa’, an ancient celebration that used to be held by the Venetian Republic on the day of Christ’s Ascension (‘Sensa’ is actually the Venetian dialect word for ascension). Every year on that day the Doge on his state barge, the Bucintoro, sailed to Sant’Elena. The Bishop was waiting to bless him on a boat with gilt sides and to emphasise the Serenissima Republic’s dominion over the sea, the Festival culminated with a kind of propitiatory rite: the Doge threw a gold ring into the water.

Since 1965 Venice has began to celebrate again the Ascension Day with a magnificent water parade of traditional rowing boats from San Marco to Lido leaded by the “Serenissima” boat, a unique experience to take part. Today the event has become a great moment in the heart of venetian people being the festival of the city itself and a way to bring to life its thousand years history and traditions.

The suggestive celebration is followed by a rich programme of collateral events (free entrance).
Among those the Venice Wind Art (the Kite International Festival) will take place from 28th May to 1st June.
From 17pm of Saturday 31st May, Fondamenta della Misericordia will be the special setting for a public art event where venetian inhabitants will interact with the contemporary artistic expressions.
On the other hand, from 19.30 the Arsenale will host an incredible performance of body painting, the 7th event organised by ‘Venice Revealed‘.
Last but not least, on the same day the atmosphere of this venetian tradition is intensified by the ‘Concert for the Festa della Sensa‘ that will delight you from 20pm at the Ateneo Veneto.

For more details about the event and the programme visit the website.

Next Saturday public museums will be open until midnight with a special price of 1 euro!

Have you ever thought about visiting a museum in the night? Next Saturday you will have this chance! 17th May is the European Museum Night 2014, there’s not a better evening for a stroll around the city having the opportunity to enter in one of the museums that take part to the initiative. The European Museum Night, sponsored by the MiBacT invites you to discover hundreds of museums exceptionally open at night, from 20pm to midnight, for a symbolic price of € 1,00. A unique opportunity to visit the collections in a different and unusual way.

In Venice, just the Venice Academy Gallery participates to the initiative by welcoming the public from 20pm to 00. For just 1 euro you will have the opportunity to appreciate a very rich collection of Venetian paintings from the Bizantine and Gothic fourteenth century to the artists of the Renaissance: Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto and Tiziano until Gianbattista Tiepolo and the Vedutisti of the eighteenth century, Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, Longhi.

Other interesting initiatives are organised in Venice surroundings. Here some tips for you.

TREVISO
Treviso invites you to visit the Saint Catherine’s Civic Museum. On the occasion visitors can discover the technique of production and decoration of the splendid ceramic works which will be displayed for that night. The entrance is free with reservation.

POSSAGNO
For the Museum Night, Possagno opens the Canova Museum‘s doors to young people. Guided tours, live music and a corner bar will delight your night together with the masterpieces of the most important Neoclassical sculptor: Antonio Canova.

CONEGLIANO
Conegliano gives the opportunity to visit the Civic Castle Museum until midnight paying just € 1,50. Free guided tours are organised at 21pm and at 22pm (reservation is heartily recommended. Telephone 0438/22871)

For more details about the initiative, please visit the official website.

A walk-around wine tasting, mini-cultural courses and food shows. On 18th May, from 10am to 10 pm, Conegliano celebrates his world-famous gem: the Prosecco Superione.

Looking for a sparkling weekend? A day trip to the Conegliano and Valdobbiadene region, just few kilometers from Venice, can be the perfect decision for next Saturday. Every year, at the third weekend of May, the area of Conegliano celebrates his world’s most popular D.O.C.G. sparkling wine (Prosecco) with a special event: Vino in Villa.

Vino in Villa is an opportunity to get to know Prosecco Superiore in its natural habitat, meet the producers, taste the several wine labels (about 300) as well as other typical products of the area in the Gastronomic Garden. All that in an enchanting setting, the beautiful XIII century castle of San Salvatore in the small village of Susegana surrounded by hills covered in hand-crafted vineyards, a fascinating landscape that is a candidate to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Beyond the walk-around tasting, the Consortium’s Permanent Viticultural Workshop also organises three mini-cultural courses of tutored wine tasting (at. 1.30, 3 and 6pm) with teachers from the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Academy, which can be booked on that day. And for the first time the event will host the contest for the best sommelier of the Veneto Region.

This year the event propose to visitors more opportunities to discover this famous region. Among these is the exhibition entitled “Un Cinquecento Inquieto” at Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano with works of art from XVI century of the area.

For the occasion, during the month of May the area’s top restaurants offer the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Menus combining the sparkling wine with the delicious local cuisine and seasonal seasonal ingredients such as asparagus, nettles, morlacco cheese and wild herbs.

For more information visit the official website.

Event opening hours: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Entrance fee: € 15 – Deposit for your Riedel glass: € 5
Reduced entrance fee for members of the trade: € 10
Reduced entrance fee for those who book online: € 10

May 2104 – Discover another side of Venice with “Isole in Rete, the Venetian Lagoon Festival”

The best way to appreciate the authenticity of Venice is a tour around the small islands of the Venetian Lagoon, where Venice reveals his less touristic but more picturesque side. Sunday 11st May and the next Sunday 18th May will be the perfect chance to discover these little gems of Venice taking part in “Isole In Rete, The Venetian Lagoon Festival” 2014. For the event a special navigation line will take you around the lagoon with a special price of € 3,oo.

Several the activities proposed: excursions by boat or by bicycle, typical sport activities of the lagoon, promenades through historic or naturalistic places, conferences and meetings, entertainment and guided tours. A special section of the events is also dedicated to the children proposing funny educational workshops, recreational activities in the gardens of Castello and even a treasure hunt through history and archeology in Torcello. On the other hand, adults can visit the Museum of Torcello, circumnavigate the “Palude della Rosa”, have a stroll in the park of the Certosa Island, discover the defending system of Venice, a complex of natural realities and architectures, and much more.

Not only culture and nature but also food: the restaurateurs will propose some tasty alternative lunches with typical dishes. The Isole in Rete menus will be available under request.

Actually, the programme of the Festival is very rich and it is possible to create your personalized programme following the events published in the online blog and moving from a place to another with the special navigation line. Buying on board the Isole in Rete Pass you can navigate all the day with only € 3,00 (free for children under the age of 6 years).

Please notice: the pass cannot be used in the others ACTV lines.

For further information about the programme and the navigation line visit the website

Passion and tradition in the lagoon of Venice: Vogalonga Rowing Race 2014

Every year at the end of May Venice celebrates his love and close relationship with the sea in two events: the “Festa della Sensa” on May 31st and the “Vogalonga” that will be held on Sunday 8th June.

2014 is the 40th anniversary of the most famous non-competitive race of Venice, the “Vogalonga”, a 32 kilometers regatta born in 1974 as a protest against the growing use of motorboats and big ships that cause damage to the historic city. Today the protest has turned into a fascinating event in which more than 5000 Italian and foreigner rowers take part.

Participants will gather in St Mark’s Basin, opposite the Punta della Dogana, and a cannon blast will signal the start of the race which continue along an evocative route offering picturesque glimpses of characteristic places of the lagoon, returning then to Punta della Dogana. But the “Vogalonga” in Venice has become a special event not only for sport lovers, who train all year to participate, but also for citizens and tourists who meet along the canals to cheer and eat all together.

40th edition of the “Vogalonga” will be certainly a success, more than last edition that has seen the attendance of about 5000 rowers and 1000 boats. Beside citizens of Venice, one fifth of the number of participants, a great number of foreigner people from all over Europe but also from USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

To be part of the “Vogalonga 2014” and participate you have just to enroll in the official website here

The International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Theatre and Contemporary Music organized by the Venice Biennale and the 14th International Architecture Exhibition for the first time at the same period.

As announced during the press conference for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, dance, theatre and music events will be included in the program of the Architecture Venice Biennale 2014. The Corderie dell’Arsenale will host most of the activities of the Festival in special areas which have been designed and created by the curator of the Architecture Exhibition, Rem Koolhaas.

This unique event will be launched by the 9th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, realized in collaboration with the Fondazione Prada and directed by Virgilio Sieni, that will run from 19th to 29th June. However, some performances will take place before the real inauguration in the form of works in progress at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, starting June 5: they will consist in previews of productions that will make their debut in their final version as part of the Dance Biennale. The Corderie will also be the special venue for the first “Appunti del Vangelo secondo Matteo” (Notes on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew): a special project by Virgilio Sieni that will debut at the Teatro alle Tese over the first three weekends of July, as epilogue of the Festival. This year, for the Dance section, The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to Steve Paxton, whereas Michele di Stefano wins the Silver Lion for Innovation.

Theatre will be protagonist in August when the Biennale College – Theatre 2014 will propose workshops and labs following the project of Àlex Rigola. The events will take place from 30th July to 10th August 2014.

Finally, the 58th International of Contemporary Music Festival directed by Ivan Fedele, will run on 20-21 September to follow from 3 to 12 October 2014. The Festival will be launched with an homage to Steve Reich, the Golden Lion for Lifetime of this edition.

Spring begins with 3 new exhibitions in Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.

Spring has arrived in Venice and April 2014 has began with the inauguration of three remarkable contemporary art exhibition that worth to be seen. We are talking about The Illusion of Light and Irving Penn, Resonance at Palazzo Grassi and the new art installation by Wade Guyton at Punta della Dogana.

THE ILLUSION OF LIGHT

The inauguration of the two exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi has been a great success as it happened for the Rudolf Stingel’s one last year. The exhibition, curated by Caroline Burgeois, explores the physical, aesthetic, symbolic, philosophical and political stakes of an essential dimension of human experience that has also bee a fundamental element of art: light. Therefore, light is really the protagonist of this exhibition. As the visitor enter in the famous Palace on the Grand Canal, he found his-self surrounded by a blinding and ancestral light that makes him disoriented. Actually, he will find out that it is a suggestive art installation where there seems to be no space, no time and no prospective. The visit can continue upstairs through the works of 18 artists from the 1960s to today which explore and display the aesthetic value of the light such as ‘Le Salon Noir‘ by Marcel Broodhaaers.

IRIVING PENN, RESONANCE

Completely different is the exhibition on the 3rd floor of Palazzo Grassi ‘Irving Penn, Resonance‘, a unique event that brings together 130 photographs taken between the end of the 1940s and the mid-1980s and shown to the public for the first time in Italy.

The exhibition path encourages a dialogue between works different in subject matter and period of time such as photos from the series ‘small trades‘ taken in France, England and Usa in the 1950s, portraits of celebrities but also ethnographic photographs of the New Guinea aborigines and people of Dahomey.

Opening times: from 10 am to 19 pm
closed of Tuesday

Tickets: Palazzo Grassi + Punta della Dogana 20 €
Palazzo Grassi OR Punta della Dogana 10 € (only a museum)

For further information visit the website here

Once again the Teatro La Fenice of Venice will reminisce the outstanding patrimony of venetian music and not only

The second edition The Spirit of Music in Venice Festival will take place in the enchanting setting of Venice from 27th of June to the 27th of July 2014. Various the events organized in occasion of this Festival. Among those one of Igor Stravinskij masterpiece, The Rake’s Progress (la carriera di un libertino) will be staged in the picturesque Courtyard of Ducale Palace and a new production of the Eritrea by Francesco Cavalli will be represented at Ca’ Pesaro Museum. There will be also 4 significant events dedicated to the ballet at the Teatro la Fenice and several live concerts dedicated to French music, Baroque music as well as to contemporary music will light up the courtyard of Palazzo Ducale.

An important role in the rich programme of events is played by The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinskij, an opera in three acts and an epilogue that was performed for the first time on 11 September 1951 in Venice and which demonstrate the very close relationship between the author and the city where he is buried. The Rake’s Progress, which inaugurate the Festival on 27 June 2014, will be in a co-production with the Opera of Lipsia under the direction of Damiano Michieletto.

Together with the Stravinskij work, the Festival propose a new production of the Eritrea by Francesco Cavalli, first performed in 1652 at the Teatro Sant’Aponal in Venice. The Eritrea, in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and with the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, can be appreciated on 8, 10 and 11 of July at the Ca’ Pesaro Museum.

For what concerns ballet, the Gala’ Internazionale di Danza will be host in the Sala Grande on 15 July. In the same place, on 16 and 17 of July, the No Gravity Company will present the Trilogia La Divina Commedia – Inferno, Cantica e Paradiso, an incredible show in which dance, mime, music and special effects are combined. Moreover, on 16 and 17 of July the Dance and Visual Arts project will come back after two years at the Teatro La Fenice.

Highly recommended are also the appointments with the concerts by La Fenice Orchestra on 9 and 12 July at Palazzo Ducale, a unique location for a unique event.

For further information visit the official website here

Glass works by two important artists, the Santillanas, are on display at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio.

The “I Santillana” exhibition, with works by Laura De Santillana and Alessandro Diaz De Santillana, was inaugurated on 6 April 2014 on the island of San Giorgio, Venice. The exhibition is part of a cultural project by the Cini Foundation and Pentagram Stiftung entitled “Le Stanze del Vetro” (The Glass Rooms), which promotes contemporary glass artists.

The narrative model has been changed from that of previous exhibitions (Carlo Scarpa and Napoleon Martinuzzi, “Fragile”). The preference here was to create an exhibition tour that develops a dialogue and comparison between the diverse poetries of two artists. In this case, they are sister and brother, Laura De Santillana and Alexander Diaz De Santillana, from a legendary dynasty that includes their father, Lodovico Diaz De Santillana, and their grandfather, Paolo Venini. Throughout their artistic careers, both have explored the potential and innumerable expressions of glass, but in absolutely individual and personal ways.

The exhibition features approximately 170 works, including sculptures and works in glass from the 1980s up to the present, together with a series of new works specially designed and created for the Venetian exhibition. This is not a joint production, but an exploration of the language of the two artists, one focused on transparency and colour, and the other dedicated to work on flat and reflective surfaces, in which colour disappears.

The eight rooms containing the artists’ works, some individually and others displaying them in comparison, are emotively linked by the central corridor, “La Rue”, conceived of as a biographical account in which the individual artistic careers of Laura De Santillana and Alexander Diaz De Santillana meet to reflect on the theme of memory.

Free admission

Opening hours: from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm, closed on Wednesdays.

“Dream and reality. Viktor Popkov 1932-1974 “opens the programme of events dedicated a year of Italy-Russia tourism. Free entry.

Until 27 April 2014 the Ca ‘Foscari University, home to the most famous university as well as the grand Venetian palace on the Grand Canal, will host the exhibition that for the first time presents an anthology of the work by the famous Russian painter Viktor Popkov to Italian visitors.

Viktor Popkov, the most representative Russian artist of the mid-900, has been repeatedly protagonist of art biennials of Venice and major exhibitions in Paris in the 60s. It is perhaps the first time, though, that his anthology crosses the borders of Russia. After the exhibition in Moscow, “Dream and Reality” now lands in Venice with 45 of his most significant works for which the shots by photographer Igor ‘Pal’min, master of Russian photography, will serve as the perfect counterpoint. The show, after Venice, will move to the West Wing halls at Somerset House, London from 22 May to 24 June.”

On 8 March, not by chance Women’s international day, the Fortuny Museum in Venice reopened its doors to the public with 5 important exhibitions dedicated to art, fashion, design and photography, all in the name of women artists. It is the so-called Spring at Palazzo Fortuny that offers ample space for international artists and photographers from different eras: the photographer Dora Maar, the portraits by Anne-Karin Furunes, glass works by Ritsue Mishima, the great international photographers of the Mario Trevisan collection, the precious brooches of Barbara Paganino. The exhibition is open until 19 July 2014 and it gives an extraordinary opportunity to visit the studio of Mariano Fortuny.

THE AMAZONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
COLLECTION by Mario Trevisan
GROUND FLOOR

The exhibition on the ground floor of the Museo Fortuny offers the opportunity to view a significant anthology of photographs taken from the mid-800 up to the present day, by key women photographers including Julia Cameron, Margaret Burke White, Dora Maar, Lisette Mondel, Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin. Photography is a field in which women excel brilliantly. The images belong to the devoted collector Mario Trevisan, who granted their display in the extraordinary setting of Palazzo Fortuny.

DORA MAAR
DESPITE PICASSO
FIRST FLOOR

For the first time in Italy, this retrospective is dedicated to Dora Maar, an influential artist and photographer, best known for her tumultuous relationship with Pablo Picasso. The exhibition project by Daniela Ferretti and Vittoria Combalìa wants to reveal the outstanding talent of Dora Maar, who used to see Brassai and Henri Cartier-Bresson, regardless of her relationship with Picasso. On display at Palazzo Fortuny are approximately one hundred works, including some photographs taken during her working relationship with Pierre KEFER.

RITSUE MISHIMA TRANS FORM
BARBARA PAGANIN OPEN MEMORY
FIRST FLOOR

In the midst of the works by Dora Maar displayed on the first floor of Palazzo Fortuny, the extraordinary glass sculptures by Ritsue Mishima also stand out; the artist is inspired by the forms of nature and the light reflections in her work. Her glasses are transparent and colourless and expand light in an incredible way.

The cases display the jewellery of Barbara Paganin, who is inspired by the emotions of her past and from borrowed memory, thus suggestive in her portraits of miniature nineteenth-century brooches, porcelain mascot animals, mice, hippos, rabbits, a small compass, a chess queen.

ANNE-KARIN FURUNES
SHADOWS
SECOND FLOOR

The bright second floor of Palazzo Fortuny hosts the works of the Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furunes, who used archive photos of Mariano Fortuny for her large canvases. At a first fleeting glance, what we see in the work is a painting featuring a photographic portrait covered with hundreds of perfectly applied holes of different sizes. But only if you see the work from a distance you will be able to see a face, initially only fuzzy but that becomes clearer and clearer.

Opening times

Until 14th July, 2014: from 10 am to 18 pm (ticket office 10 am – 17 pm)
Closed on Tuesday and 1st of May

Tickets 10€

The 2014 edition of the Architecture International Exhibition will run for six months and will involve all sectors of the Venice Biennale (cinema, dance, theatre and music)

Many new features at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale entitle FOUNDAMENTALS, launched a few days ago by the President of the Venice Foundation, Paolo Baratta, and this year’s curator Rem Koolhaas.

THREE EXHIBITIONS MAKE UP THE 2014 BIENNALE
Firstly, this Venice Biennale will focus on architecture research, thus retracing the history of modern times from past to present and beyond to the future. Three distinct but complementary exhibitions will make up this research framework: ABSORBING MODERNITY 1914-2014, which will involve the national pavilions; ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE, in the central pavilion, is the exhibition made by the curator while the Corderie dell’Arsenale will host MONDITALIA, the ideal stage for a single theme: Italy, with theatrical performances and events that include architecture, politics, economics, religion and industry.

THE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE WILL LAST SIX MONTHS
The first major change concerns the duration of this year’s event. The 14th International Architecture Exhibition will start on 6 June 2014, no longer in September to conclude in late November as it did in the past. It will last 6 months.

INVOLVEMENT OF ALL THE AREAS ATTENDING THE VENICE BIENNALE
This prolonged exhibition means that you can imagine an Architecture Biennale where all other sectors of the Biennale like Cinema, Dance, Music and Theatre can contribute and integrate, and not only complement, the theme addressed by this year’s exhibition: through a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the architectural elements shared by all cultures, we seek to extend the applications of architecture beyond its traditional parameters. The heads of the dance, cinema, music and theatre sectors are called to participate actively trying to engage with the public in a familiar dimension of architecture.

NATIONAL HALLS WILL EACH DEVELOP THE THEME SUGGESTED BY THE CURATOR
Another important change is the fact that the various national pavilions, whose attendance is a prerogative of the Venice Biennale (this year these will be no less than 65, 11 of which are here for the first time), were not only notified of the theme adopted by curator Rem Koolhaas, but have also been called upon to develop a specific theme of their own. All pavilions are therefore engaged in a substantial part of the research. Each of them will display the process of annulment of national features to adopt a single, almost universal global architectural language.

MEETINGS ON ARCHITECTURE + WEEKEND SPECIALS
The last important novelty consists in the “Meetings on Architecture” that will feature the special “Weekend Specials” programme for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, conceived as an integral part of the MONDITALIA section: this will include lectures, workshops, performances and discussions that will take place during the six months of the exhibition.

Flight of the Angel: An unmissable event of the Carnival of Venice 2014

Volo dell’ Angelo or “Flight of the Angel” as it is popularly known, is a traditional event that happens in the Carnival of Venice, one of the most oldest and colourful festivals in Italy. Considered to be the highlight of the Carnival of Venice, ‘Flight of the Angel’ attracts tens of thousands of visitors from across the world every year.

History of the event

During the mid 16th century, a Turkish acrobat walked on a rope from a boat tied in Riva degli Schiavoni, a waterfront promenade at Castello, to the top of St.Mark Bell Tower, one of the most popular landmark attractions in Venice. From the tower, he then continued his feat to the Doge’s Palace Balcony as a honour to the Doge, who was then in charge of the city. This marked the beginning of what is today the most famous event of the Carnival of Venice. The event, then known as the “Flight of the Turk” was performed only by professional acrobats. However, over the years, even common people came forward to showcase their ability and bravery.

Once an acrobat, clad in angel wings, flew along a rope from the bell tower to the palace square. The flight was so impressive that the doge himself presented a gift to the acrobat who did this stupendous feat. From then onwards, the event was renamed as the “Flight of the Angel“. But the name didn’t last for long. In 1759, an acrobat angel accidentally fell over the crowd during the flight. After this shocking incident, instead of humans, wooden doves were used in the event. Hence it was known as the “Flight of the Dove“. For centuries, this ritual continued with wooden doves. Again in 2001, wooden doves were replaced by humans, bringing back the old ritual of the flight of the angel paying homage to the doge with renewed gusto and vigour.

Carnival of Venice, 2014 Edition

This year, Julia Nasi, the winner of the previous edition of the Marie Contest, will be the Angel of the flight in the Carnival of Venice. It would be a breathtaking sight to watch the flight of the angel flying from atop the tower against the strong wind blowing from the sea. There will also be parades and historical reenactments, adding more excitement and revelry to the flight. The flight of the angel concludes with the Angel and the Doge embracing each other, marking the beginning of the festivities of the Carnival of the Venice.

240 stunning images of the Hearth and Nature by Sebastiao Salgado on display in Venice at Casa dei Tre Oci

GENESI, an exhibition that brings together more 240 shots by Sebastiao Salgado, the photographic project the great photographer was involved in fore more than 10 years, will be on display at the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice until 11 May 2014,

This collection of black and white images taken from thirty reportage expeditions throughout the world has been curated by Salgado?s wife, Leila Wanick. The exhibition is divided into five sections, each of which has been assigned its own wall colour within the Casa dei Tre Oci, as if dividing the globe into five parts.

The ground floor starts with the Amazon, Venezuela, Brazil and the Pantanal, the lungs of the planet and the natural habitat for an infinite number of animal and plant species. It continues on the first floor with the most northern part of the planet, the North Pole and the Colorado zones, and with the Sanctuary section dedicated to the islands of Papua New Guinea and Madagascar, places that are home to very special biodiversity.

On the last floor we find the section dedicated to Africa, marked out by bright red, and then the section that encompasses all the images of the far south of the planet, such as Argentina, the Antarctic and its islands.

The aim of this photographic exhibition is no doubt to raise awareness among visitors of the beauty of our planet and everything that we risk losing through unprecedented urbanisation and the systematic destruction of resources. All of society must take responsibility for change, because we need greater awareness of nature and everything that surrounds us.

Opening Hours

From 10am to 7pm

Friday 10am to 9pm

Tuesday Closed

Tickets

10,00 €

The Panza Collection and its masterpieces set to disembark at the Venice International Gallery of Modern Art

The Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art will open the 2014 exhibition season with a show dedicated to the intelligence and extraordinary work of the “talent scout” Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and his collection of priceless masterpieces by masters of American painting from the post-World War II period.

The exhibition in Venice will display a carefully selected set of artworks ranging from abstract expressionism to pop art, and from minimal to conceptual art, ending with the third collection put together from the 1980s onwards.

Like Peggy Guggenheim and Ileana Sonnabend, Giuseppe Panza di Biumo selected and actively supported a small number of artists who would only receive full recognition in later years, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Franz Kline, Donald Judd, Mark Rothko, Dan Flavin, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Joseph Kosuth and Richard Serra.

The exhibition is structured around 40 works by 27 artists originating from the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the MOCA in Los Angeles, the two institutions that have house the most important nuclei of the Panza collection since the Region of Piedmont missed the opportunity to take possession of them in 1983.

Opening Hours

10am – 6pm

Ticket for the Museum

10€

The Venice Arsenale comes to life during the 2014 Venice Carnival

The 2014 Venice Carnival has many new treats in store for us. In addition to exceptional visuals curated by the renowned Disney cartoonist Giorgio Cavazzano, the star of this year’s Carnival will be one of Venice‘s landmarks: the Arsenale. The “Serenissima’s” historic dockyard will be presented with a new theatrical backdrop, which will be created in collaboration with Teatro la Fenice, and will be ready to greet the Carnival masks every night of the festival week.

THE SHOW ON THE DOCK

For six nights during the 2014 Venice Carnival, playful lights and fountains, music and roving entertainment will be introduced by a show directed by Davide Rampello commemorating the history of the Arsenale in a performance incorporating dance and narration that will be stage on the Darsena Grande (the main dock).

FREE TRANSPORT SERVICE TO THE ARSENALE

A series of colourful boats further adorned by the presence of orchestras and street artists will set sail from the San Marco area and transport the excited public to the Venice Arsenale. The bank where everyone disembarks will be transformed into the Bank of Wonders and the visitors will be greeted by food and wine stands and artists who will guide them towards the dock with their performances.

Every evening after 6 PM, once the afternoon mask parades in Piazza San Marco have finished, a wondering marching band led by stage conductors will move along with artists on stilts towards the boarding area.

Other specially decorated boats will then leave from Rialto and Piazzale Roma to complete the special service, while the public transport service while also be enhance with the addition of a “Bacini” stop, which will allow the public to access the north part of the lagoon.

AFTER SHOW

At the end of the show created by Davide Rampello, which takes inspiration from the famous fire at the Arsenale in 1569 and the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the festival will continue late into the night within three Tese dell’Arsenale (boathouses) that have been specially set up as a Lounge Bar, with internationally renowned DJs.

Fernand Leger, great artist, eyewitness and interpreter of the second industrial revolution at the Museo Correr in Venice

Just as the shocking news is breaking that the Fernand Leger painting in the Guggeheim Collection is a fake, the Museo Correr in Venice is opening a major exhibition dedicated to the works of this artist and his extraordinary experience within the European artistic avant-garde. This is the largest exhibition on the vision of the contemporary city as seen by the French painter and his circle of friends and co-experimenters such as Duchamp, Picabia, Robert Delaunay, El Lissitzky, Mondrian and Le Corbusier and comes directly from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it was conceived last spring.

The exhibition focuses on “The Vision of the Contemporary City” pursued by Leger and other artists who had first hand experience of the radical transformations that were shaping the everyday throughout the world with the advent of the second industrial revolution, capturing the increasingly frenetic rhythm of life.

As such, the city is depicted as a dizzying kaleidoscope of colours and rhythms, the landscape is fragmented and contrasts between soft and linear shapes give a thickness and depth to splendid paintings, posters and films.

Divided into five sections (The Metropolis Before the Great War, The Painter of the City, Advertising, Entertainment, Space), the works presented include more than 60 by the French artist, including the extraordinary painting “La Ville” (The City), the piece that launched the his experimental phase, exceptionally granted on loan by the Philadelphia Museum together with a collection of 25 other important art works.

Opening Times: Every day from 10 AM to 6 PM

Tickets: Full price 13, Discounted 10

Our magazine Visit Venice – Winter 2014 with all the events of the Winter season in Venice, can be downloaded online for free! You can download it on your Ebook Reader, Tablet, Smartphone, and take it with you!

Inside the magazine you will find further insight, about the enlargement of the Accademia Gallery and the fabulous restoration of Palazzo Mocenigo – and Costume Museum of Perfume. You will also find a list and a brief description of the main shows to visit in Venice until the end of March 2014.

Visit Venice in Winter 2014 can not miss appointments with the Carnival of Venice.

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Venice Box is a perfect way to visit Venice and our Museums

VeniceBox gives free admission to museums, churches, foundations of Venice and reduced admission to exhibitions and cultural events

The city of Venice is even more convenient and easy to visit with a Venice Card: the official City Card, valid for 7 days from first use, which guarantees you:

• free entrance to museums
• free use of Vaporetto and public Transport
• Free welcome kit with a Venice map-guide
• Discount coupon for Shops and Restaurants

This is the list of the museums that can be visited with the Venice Card

Doge’s Palace

Museo Correr

National Archaelogical Museum 

Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

For more info click here 

Ice Skating in Venice: Campo San Polo, from December 2013 to March 2014

The modern ice rink that cheers up the Venetian winter every year in Campo San Polo, in the heart of the historic centre, opens on 7 December 2013. It will remain active every day throughout the winter until the end of carnival (4th March 2014). Of course, it is possible rent the equipment (skates) on site or bring your own.

Afternoons are dedicated to children, and the evenings are filled with music and figure skating shows. All around the rink you will find a Christmas market type village of stands with wine, food and typical craft products.

Opening Hours
From Monday to Friday
3 pm – 7pm

Saturday and Sunday
11am – 9pm

Prices
From 6€ to 10€

VENICE CARNIVAL 2014: the WONDERFUL and FANTASTIC SIDE of NATURE in a fairy tale CARNIVAL – THE FANTASTIC FOREST

The 2014 Venice Carnival will be a great festival dedicated to the fabulous, the marvellous and the fantastic: a Carnival composed of fantasy and nature. The objective will be to use individual and urban masks to inspire the public at the party to rediscover the importance of the fantastic, whether popular or cultured, esoteric or didactic, in the relationship between humans and the environment.

In Venice, the 2014 will Carnival be represent a veritable encyclopaedia of fantasy: a huge morphological map of human creativity free from constraints and happy to explore nature and its mysteries, taking the form of shapes, sounds and attitudes, free to travel through the minds of our ancestors as well as those of our children. For the city of Venice and its numerous cultural institutions, it is an opportunity to contextualise the presence of the fantastic the Veneto and lagoon region: from the Cansiglio woods to the peaks of the Alps, from the vegetable plots and orchards of Garda to the lagoon valleys, from the islands of the ultramarine East to the Armenian, Turkish and Greek Fondaci (combined inns and market-places).

Carnival of Venice highlights:

Friday 14th February: Prologue, Valentine’s Day

Saturday 15th February: Opening of the Venetian Festival with a show, Cannaregio

Sunday 16th February: Boat pageant – Grand Canal – Cannaregio

Saturday 22nd February: The traditional “Festa delle Marie”

Sunday 23rd February: Flight of the Angel

Saturday 1st March: Float parade, Marghera

Sunday 2nd March: Flight of the Eagle and Flight of the Donkey, Mestre

Tuesday 4th March: Flight of the Lion and Prize Giving Ceremony for the “Maria” of the Carnival 2014

From 22nd February to 4th March: Best Masked Costume contest

Franco Fontana’s photographic work will be on display at the Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, from 15th February, 2014

From 15th February, 2014, at the Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, there will be the first major retrospective devoted to Franco Fontana. On display will be over 130 photographs that tell the story of his long international career in photography.

FRANCO FONTANA. FULL COLOUR, promoted by the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts is arranged and produced by Denis Curti from Civita Tre Venezie.

Franco Fontana‘s visual language is characterized by bright colours, so vibrant as to appear unreal, rhythmic compositions of overlapping lines and planes, patterns built with light. He was among the first in Italy to align himself with conviction and determination with colour, and makes it the protagonist, not as a means but as a message, not accidental, but as an actor and attracted by the material surface of the city, portions of walls, layers of history, details of life sculpted by light. Fontana arranges the landscape as if he were a portrait painter.

Divided into several thematic sections, the exhibition suggests the landscapes of the early (60s) through various researches dedicated to urban landscapes, swimming pools and the sea.

The long career of Franco Fontana is studded with worldwide accolades, awards and honours, more than four hundred exhibitions in which his photographs have been exhibited, and published in more than forty volumes.

Opening Hours

Monday – Sunday from 10.00 to 19.00

Closed Tuesdays

Information and reservations Tel.+39 041 8620761

Sebastião Salgado and his most impressive photographic work, GENESIS, disembark in Venice, at the Casa dei Tre Oci, starting from 1st February, 2014.

Genesis, the great exhibition of photographs by Sebastião Salgado, the result of ten years work, is a superb unprecedented photographic tribute to our planet. The 300 photographs on display in Genesis, from 1st February, 2014 at the Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, are the result of 8 journeys throughout the world and will be presented in five headings according to geographic location (At the southern limits, Natural sanctuaries, Africa, Northern lands, The Amazon) that will transport the visitor in discovering the nature of our planet in all its glory.

The world tour, which began in the spring of 2013 at Ara Pacis in Rome, from 1 February to mid-May 2014 will be in Venice at the Casa dei Tre Oci, the fascinating space in the Giudecca Island that thanks to the Foundation of Venice Project, is the site dedicated to photography on its three floors overlooking St. Mark’s basin. From here Genesis will continue its journey in further stages that will reach all the major cities of the world.

New Year’s Eve in Venice will be all in white: White Venice 2014, a magical evening with music, entertainment and fireworks in St. Mark’s Square.

New Year’s Eve in Venice, Italy, is tinted with white: thousands of ice lights will illuminate the magical St. Mark’s Square and the Lagoon. A great show, a night of music, entertainment and dancing in which to spend the last hours of the passing year together and welcome in a bright new 2014.

A large white stage will be the centerpiece of the square. Special illumination will create lighting effects similar to a large ice star. To involve the public and carry everyone into the New Year they will be hosted by a White Bunny, Micol Ronchi, Miss White Rabbit.

Then to help to break the “ice” the hot soul voices of Alessia and Giorgia Lucchetti accompanied by the sound of Natural Grove, the White Band, which through a repertoire that ranges from Bruno Mars to Michael Jackson, will create a thousand shades of colour for New Year’s Eve night in Venice.

The Stroke of Midnight will be crowned by a suspended dance on the stage, the inevitable Bellini cocktail, the spectacular fireworks show in St. Mark’s Basin and the music of Mister White, DJ Maci, who will accompany you until late in the night in St. Mark’s Square, to dance and welcome in the New Year.

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME FOR NEW YEAR IN VENICE – 31st December, 2013

• 22:30 The show starts with music from the Natural Grove Band …. hosted by Miss White Rabbit: Micol Ronchi

• From 23:15 a toast for everyone with Bellini Canella

• 0:00 Countdown to welcome 2014

• 0:15 Fireworks display in St. Mark’s Basin

• 0:30 DJ-set with Mister White, DJ Maci

For information: call Hellovenezia +39 041 2424

For New Year the usual additional public transport services will be available. Stay tuned for updates.

The Avant-garde fin de siecle à Paris on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

An impressive exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice will offer the public the opportunity to admire hundreds of extraordinary masterpieces by Paul Signac, Pierre Bonnard, George Seurat and Maurice Denis, just to name a few.

The exhibition “The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon and their contemporaries”, curated by Vivien Greene, 19th-and Early 20th-Century Art curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, explores the artistic scene of fin-de-siècle Paris, a city that provided the setting for many political upheavals and strong cultural transformations at that time.

The objects of the analysis are greatest avant-garde artists of the late nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the neo-impressionists, innovative painters who looked to scientific theories on colour and perception to create optical effects on their pointillist canvases. These include Les Nabis, who renounced the easel in favour of various innovative techniques such as prints and magazine illustrations, and the Symbolists, who abandoned the world of facts, preferring the fantastic, the outward appearance of the tumult of psychological landscapes, choosing the spiritual over the material, and the ethereal over the concrete.

Opening hours

Daily 10 am – 6 pm

Closed Tuesdays and December 25

Ever wanted to admire a painting by Canaletto in the place that it was painted, alone and in the middle of the night? Now you can!

Those who want to experience art in an original and unique way may be interested to hear that from 10 November 2013 it will be possible to admire a masterpiece by Canaletto depicting a view of the Basilica della Salute in the very place the artist painted it, at the Abbey of San Gregorio in Venice.

Using methods never tried before in Europe, for almost fifty days, that is, until 24 December 2013, the “Gero Qua Canaletto” exhibition around this magnificent painting will give art lovers the chance to experience more than just a simple visit, but rather an encounter, an intimate and emotional moment. This sensation will accompany you through the evocative, magical spaces of the medieval Abbey of San Gregorio, culminating in the magnificent corner hall with a truly unique view over the Basilica della Salute, the Grand Canal and the Basin of San Marco. Closed to the public for many years, this room will host Canaletto’s canvas, providing an unequalled comparison between the canvas and public space, between unreal and real, history and modernity.

This is all accompanied by a video made by the auteur Francesco Patierno (preview here).

This experience is truly unique in terms of both its form and its price. The Canaletto can be enjoyed 24 hours a day and by a maximum of eight people per hour, through advance reservations only. It ranges from €400 to enjoy an hour on your own in the middle of the night to €35 per person for a visit during the day.

To reserve tickets, contact the following numbers:

848 690 570 or 06 399 674 50

canaletto@coopculture.it

www.coopculture.it

A rare opportunity to see the masterpiece by Titian on display in Venice at Palazzo Grimani

From 1 November 2013 to 26 January 2014, the wonderful Palazzo Grimani Museum in Venice will host one of Titian’s most celebrated works, the portrait of a lavishly dressed young woman adorned with jewels: La Bella.

This masterpiece is of the utmost importance to renaissance painting, and was recently restored by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and then kept in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. La Bella is being displayed at Palazzo Grimani thanks to an exchange of art works between public museum institutions. In fact, the Superintendancy of Venice has loaned the Visions of the Hereafter by Hieronymus Bosch, normally kept Palazzo Grimani, to the ‘Renaissance Dream’ exhibition being held at Palazzo Pitti for several months. So it was that the Superintendancy of Florence reciprocated by offering La Bella.

Titian’s La Bella will be placed in the hall known as the Tribuna (known as the Antiquarium in historic times, or the antique study), the heart of the Grimani family’s archaeological collections with perhaps the most evocative atmosphere of the whole museum. The room’s marble decorations and over-head lighting will do justice to the painterly quality and colours the recent restoration has returned to this extraordinary painting.

A Museum of Costume and perfume open in Venice from November 1, 2013:  Palazzo Mocenigo

After a radical restyling and enlargement of the exhibition spaces, from November 1, 2013 reopen in Venice the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo. The site has been completely renovated in terms of presentation, in the quality of the museographical offering – thanks to the fundamental input of Pier Luigi Pizzi, internationally renowned architect and set designer – in the display layouts and as regards the services offered the public.

The new layout of Palazzo Mocenigo, involving 20 rooms on the palazzo’s piano nobile, faithfully reproduces the arrangement of an aristocratic Venetian residence, and shows the evolution of trends in fashion, costume and fabrics, with the aim of highlighting historical and scientific aspects of the 18th century.

The costumes, a selection of garments with a particular stress on Venice, are displayed together with a number of fragments of antique textiles, a collection of precious Renaissance glass, the evocation of an alchemical laboratory through the display of instruments used to distill perfumes, and a collection of rare flasks of various periods from Murano’s Museo del Vetro and from the Drom Collection in Munich.

A NEW DISPLAY DEDICATED OF PERFUMES

The exciting new layout concludes with an extraordinary new display dedicated to the history of perfumes and essences. The project is the result of a collaborative effort between the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Mavive, the Venetian firm owned by the Vidal family, which is  not only the principal partner and proponent of a major act of patronage stressing its deep links with the city of Venice and aimed at revealing and promoting a thousand-year-old vocation that has Italy and Venice in particular as being among  the main centres of the world’s perfumery tradition.

Opening times

From 1st November to 31st March: 10 am – 4 pm (ticket office 10 am – 3.30 pm)

From 1st April to 31st October: 10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4.30 pm)

Closed on Mondays, December 25th, January 1st and May 1st

ENTRANCE

Full € 8

Concessionary € 5.50

In Venice there is a yet exceptional museum, scarcely known and thus almost a secret, which contains unique old Venetian boats. The world of traditional Venetian boats is a common cultural heritage which would have disappeared were it not for the proud Venetian association, with the dantesque name, ‘Arzanà’ (Arsenal in dialect), which, for ten years, has safeguarded, preserved and studied it. Once upon a time a huge variety of boats sailed up and down the Venetian canals. In 1600 there were nearly 10,000 boats in the Laguna – gondole di pirata, gondola di cassata, caorline, sandali, etc. With the advent of the first motor boats, the heritage of traditional boats was in danger of being lost.

In order to prevent typical Venetian boats from falling into oblivion (when they were no longer functional the boats were disused and became fire wood) the Arzanà Association acquired the old Squero ‘Casal dei Servi’ in Cal delle pignatte, Cannaregio which they transformed into an exceptional little ‘living museum’. For those with some spare time and a curiosity for the world of Venetian boats, a visit is obligatory (to book a visit to the museum email associazionearzana@gmail.com)

The Squero was the place in which smaller boats were constructed in Venice. Casal dei Servi is one of the most famous because here, at the end of the 18th century, the process for constructing gondolas was renewed with the modification of the boat’s structural characteristics.

You will find a unique collection inside the museum. The furnishings of old artisanal workshops, from that of Remer to that of Corder (which both made oars and nets), and forty historical boats, including the last peat, a traditional Venetian cargo boat, can be found inside the museum.

One of the strongest pieces in the collection is the gondolin da fresco, the only example in the world which remains in perfect condition. This type of gondola, used for ‘strolls’ on the water in the summer, was often made less weighty so that it would be able to go faster.

Discover the Arzanà with Guided tours between past and future, “From the Naval History Museum at the squero Casal”!

For more information about how visit Arzanà:

(+39) 331 74 60 148 (lunedì – venerdì 9 – 13)

squerocasal@gmail.com

Our quarterly magazine VISIT VENICE Fall 2013 is now online.

Inside you will find all the information about the exhibitions, shows, events that take place in Venice from October to December 2013.

Take a look of our magazine here (or click on the link below)

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The Venicemarathon is an all-round sporting event. Besides the 42 km race from Stra to Venice, important exhibitions are also being organised, as well as other interesting events, which will take place alongside the marathon, such as Exposport and Animalamaratona.

THE COURSE of the Venicemarathon

The race starts in Stra (a small town approximately 25 km west of Venice), at the beginning of the Riviera del Brenta, a beautiful area close to the canal where the rich and noble Venetians built their holiday homes in the eighteenth century.

The finish line is located in the historical centre of Venice, in Riva Sette Martiri.

The first part of the course, along the Riviera del Brenta, runs through a setting rich in history, culture and landscapes, characterised by numerous Venetian residential houses on the riverside.

The marathon goes through the centre of Marghera and Mestre, and then runs for a further 2 km inside the San Giuliano Park, reaching Venice via the Ponte della Libertà (a flat straight road nearly 4 km long).

The athletes run alongside the Giudecca Canal to Punta della Dogana, where they cross the Grand Canal on a pontoon bridge, built specifically for the marathon.

After passing through St. Mark’s square (high water permitting …), by the Campanile and Palazzo Ducale, the marathon reaches its finish line located in Riva Sette Martiri.

On 4 October 2013, the International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Venice Biennale gets underway.

The 57th International Festival of Contemporary Music, organised by the Biennale, will be held in Venice from 4 to 13 October 2013. There will be two spectacular long-awaited performances: Stockhausen’s Helicopter String Quartet, performed by Arditti at 1500 meters above sea level amid the propeller rollers of 4 helicopters, and Glorious Percussion by Sofija Gubaidulina with the Orchestra of Teatro la Fenice and Percussions de Strasbourg.

On schedule also are interesting events dedicated to space and voice: you will hear 3D sound thanks to WFS technology, “musica della materia” (music of material) with tools created by Luca Congedo, and the vocal acrobatics of David Moss, Le Cris de Paris, and Neue Vocalsolisten.

The programme also includes great soloists, including Christophe Desjardins, Francesco D’Orazio, and the younger Marco Fusi, Michele Marelli, Daniele Roccato. There will be orchestras, both prestigious and recently-acclaimed ensembles; concerts theatrically integrating electronics, voice and video with the /nu/thing group whose playlist includes the animated shorts by Usavich, which demonstrate – alongside mainstays Stockhausen and Berio – how many new names there are from younger generations that testify to the vitality of today’s music.

For the Music Festival show schedule, go to the official website here

Ticket prices

€ 20 full price
€ 16 concession
€ 13 groups
€ 10 students
€ 5 secondary school student groups

Sunday, September 22, 2013 take place in Venice “NordicwalkinVenice“, the non competitive marathon sponsored by Nordic Walking Mestre.It’s a sporting event, which sees even now attended by nearly 1000 runners from Italy and abroad, but also a different way to visit and discover Venice.

PROGRAMME

Saturday, September 21:

From 10 a.m.: “Nordic Walking Open Day” at San Giuliano Park in Mestre; instructors will give Nordic Walking lessons to the public for free. Guided walks in the context of cultural and natural beauty of the Lagoon will also be made.

Acceptance of the last entries and delivery of the walk number and materials until 06.00 p.m.

Sunday, September 22:

From 08.00 a.m.to 08.45 a.m.: meeting in Venice, in front of the Railway Station to pick up the walk number and materials.

Staggered Start at 09.00 a.m.: Walkers will be assigned to different starting groups (priority according to the application date).

Finish line at Giardini di Sant’Elena, where free water-buses will be ready to take the walkers back to the start.

MAXIMUM WALKING TIME: 4 hours

The famous colour print The Great Wave Of Kanagawa by Hokusai is on display for the first time at the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice

This famous woodblock print by Hokusai known as the GREAT WAVE will be shown for the first time in Venice at the Ca’ Pesaro Museum of Oriental Art from 8 September to 3 November 2013.

Copies of this multicoloured woodblock print are in many European collections of Japanese art and this one, in particular, among the most refined, has been lent by the Oriental Museum Chiossone in Genoa and will be on display for the first time along with a series of 36 views of Mount Fuji.

Alongside the Great Wave the exhibition also features a plaster model of the Hokusaiís masterpiece from the Anteros Tactile Museum of Ancient and Modern Painting, Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind in Bologna, to allow for tactile exploration of the work by all visitors.

 This event will also be an occasion to present 24 printed books by Hokusai and his students to the public for the first time in collaboration with the Museum of Oriental Art, the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies at the Università Ca’ Foscari, and the Art Research Center at the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto, which led to the digital and photographic cataloguing of this collection of 727 woodblock prints- for a total of 860 images ñ and 276 books – for a grand total of 12,200 images ñ which are kept in storage at the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice.

A unique chance to see Leonardo’s drawings at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice

This extraordinary exhibition includes a staggering 52 drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci which will be on show from 29 August 2013 at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.
Thanks to the exhibition LEONARDO DA VINCI. THE UNIVERSAL MAN, the first of its kind for thirty years, the last was back in 1980, the public at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice will have the chance to admire an entire collection of exceptionally rare works by the Master which have been preserved in the Cabinet of Drawings at the Gallerie dell’Accademia since 1822, consisting of 25 graphic works which are not usually shown to the public. These will be exhibited alongside another 27 prestigious works on loan from Italian museums such as the Royal Library of Turin, the Uffizi in Florence and the National Gallery of Parma, as well as from important European collections: the Royal Collection Trust Windsor Castle, the British Museum in London, the Louvre and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

This is a unique opportunity not to be missed. The drawings must remain stored in special air-conditioned cellars for a long time before and after exposure to the public. This is a rule that must be adhered to in order to preserve such precious and fragile masterpieces.
The works on display include the Vitruvian Man, Dancing Women, the Portrait of a Woman in Profile in Windsor, Sketches for The Battle of Anghiari, Studies on Weaponry and preparatory sketches for great masterpieces like the Last Supper, the Nativity and Christ Carrying the Cross.

The Lost Treasures of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice for the first time on display at the Ca’ d’Oro 

This exhibition on display until 29 September 2013 brings together several precious Treasures from the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Venice and financial and organisational support from the Venetian Heritage association and Vhernier.

On display are an important collection of important eighteenth-century liturgical objects in silver which were recently discovered in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice. In 1943 (just before the Nazis arrived) two elderly Jewish religious leaders from the Spanish and the Levantine Synagogue stored a selection of precious religious pieces in a secret hiding place. These objects were found accidentally a few years ago when the Synagogue was being renovated.

The exhibition Lost Treasures of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice is a travelling exhibition which after having been on show at Sotheby’s in New York and also at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, has now arrived at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at Ca’ d’Oro in Venice, where the pieces were delicately restored in their laboratories by the consortium RE.CO. Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (silver) and Sansovino Restauri (wooden objects).

At the Museum of Madness of San Servolo Island in the Venice Lagoon is open until November 24th, 2013,  the first European solo exhibit of the New Zealander photographer, famous for his research on photography and food Henry Hargreaves. He has since established himself as a full time photographer known for fun, creative, provocative and memorable images.  Henry found himself modeling for the world’s most prestigious fashion houses and working with such photography icons as Stephen Meisel, Mario Testino, and the late Richard Avedon.

No Seconds Comfort Food and Photography is an unexpected exhibition journey that begins with the “Deep Fried Gadgets” series to culminate, through “ Band Riders” and the choices of the pop stars, in a reflection on food and imprisonment with “ No Seconds”, famous shots dedicated to the last supper of the American sentenced to Death.

Free Entry

How to arrive to San Servolo: The island is easily reached with the public transport system of ACTV using line 20 from San Zaccaria, monument stop (it may takes 10 minutes).

The films of Orizzonti Section will be available for viewing around the world in streaming

For its 70th edition, the Venice Film Festival from 28 August to 7 September at the Lido also goes digital, making it possible to watch some films in streaming from any computer. The no less than 17 feature films and 14 short films that animate the Orizzonti section, and represent the most innovative aesthetic and expressive trends in world cinema, can be seen by the public in streaming thanks to the Web Theatre. Screenings will be held in conjunction with the official presentations of the films in the Lagoon. 

Tickets for these shows are already on sale online (€4) The capacity of the Web Theatre is 500 seats and screenings, which will be unique for each of the scheduled films, will be posted on a protected site operated by Festival Scope on behalf of the Venice Film Festival. 

70 Future Reloaded 70 filmmakers from around the world have been invited to create a short film for Venice Film Festival

For the seventieth anniversary of the Venice Film Festival, 70 renowned directors have been asked to make a short film: 70 – Future Reloaded

On the occasion of the 70th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, the Biennale has launched an extraordinary project called 70 – Future Reloaded: 70 filmmakers from around the world have been invited to create a short film lasting between 60 and 90 seconds to celebrate the anniversary. All short films will then be screened during this year’s Film Festival in Venice, which takes place at the Lido from 28 August to 7 September 2013.

Naturally, those taking part will be great directors, either established or young directors with great talent, who have participated at least once during the past two decades in one of the previous editions of the Venice Film Festival. Future Reloaded is both a collective tribute to the Festival (the first festival in the world to reach the milestone of 70 editions) and a reflection on the future of cinema, filtered through the personal sensitivity of each director.

The list of directors participating in the initiative is constantly being updated and you can see it on the Biennale site at this address. The list includes Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Schrader, Shekhar Kapur, Abbas Kiarostami, Isabel Coixet and Walter Salles.

1 September 2013: The Historical Regatta take place on the Grand Canal in Venice Italy

The Historical Regatta, one of Venice’s most famous traditional and sporting events, takes place this year on 1 September. The event is programmed to start at 16.00 on the Grand Canal with the splendid procession of sixteenth-century boats and their crew members dressed in period costume; then, starting at 17.30, there are the exciting boat races among gondolini, caorline and pupparini, competing to the rhythm of splashing oars. 

Today there are four races divided in terms of age and type of craft. The best known and most exciting of these is the “Campioni su Gondolini” race, where a series of small, sporting gondolas fly down the Grand Canal to the finishing line at the famous “machina”, the spectacular floating stage located in front of the Ca’ Foscari palace.

PROGRAMME OF (HISTORICAL REGATTA) REGATA STORICA 

SUNDAY 1st SEPTEMBER 2013

4:00 pm HISTORICAL AND SPORT WATER PAGEANT

parade along the Grand Canal by historical crafts with costumed crews, boats and gondolas of the Venetian rowing associations (Voga alla Veneta).

4:50 pm YOUNG ROWERS’ TWIN-OARED PUPPARINI REGATTA
 
Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari 

5:10 pm WOMEN’S TWIN-OARED MASCARETE REGATTA

Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto between Riva de Biasio and San Marcuola), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari

5:40 pm SIX-OARED CAORLINE REGATTA

Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto in front of the Santa Lucia railway station), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari

6:10 pm TWIN-OARED GONDOLINI REGATTA

Course: the Castello Gardens, St. Mark’s Bay, Grand Canal, Rialto (around the paleto in front of the Santa Lucia railway station), and back down the Grand Canal to finish at Ca’ Foscari

Sunday 1st September

CONCERTS ON THE GRAND CANAL

4:00 pm Campo della Salute: concert by Coro Serenissima

4:00 pm Campo San Stae: concert by Banda Musicale di Tessera

3:00 pm Campo San Vio: concert by Banda Musicale di Pellestrina

Open until 23 November 2013, at the Magazzini del Sale (Salt Warehouses)  in  Zattere  in Venice, home of the Vedova Foundation, is the exhibition  Roy Lichtenstein – Sculptor. For the first time in Italy over 45 pieces from one of the geniuses of American Pop Art, including drawings, collages, maquettes, models and sculptures in bronze.

 Characteristic of Lichtenstein‘s work is its rendering as “two-dimensional” like a painting, to flatten the volume as would happen in a collage. From this come the ceramic figures which, starting from a two-dimensional source, paper, are organised into three-dimensions to form a head or a stack of cups or an explosion. Similar procedures bring to life his “profile” sculptures  from 1976 and up until his death in 1997, where the depth and shadows of the object are put on the same plane, as if they were crushed and compressed onto a single surface.

Opening Hours 
10.30 am – 6 pm
Closed Tuesdays

Full Ticket 12 €

Until 8 September 2013, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice offers the chance to discover the beginning of the artistic career and the first works, little known in Italy, of the American artist Robert Motherwell. In fact, the retrospective ROBERT MOTHERWELL is devoted to him: THE FIRST COLLAGES that trace the career of a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism and papier collé.

44 works are on display, coming from major museums and private collections around the world, all dating back to the first decade of his artistic career, and all strictly collages or works on paper.

The exhibition is also a tribute to Peggy Guggenheim. Friendship, patronage, motivation and promotion are all aspects of that generosity that characterizes the support Peggy gave to Motherwell and other American artists at the beginning of their careers.

Opening hours : Daily 10 am – 6 pm 
Closed Tuesdays and December 25

Tickets
Adults: €14
Senior visitors over 65 yrs.: €11
Students under 26 yrs.: €8 (with current student ID)
Children under 10 yrs., members: free

Arthouse films and documentaries competing for the Leone d’oro (Golden Lion) at the Venice Film Festival

This year the  Venice Film Festival, now in its 70th edition, offers a rich and varied program of arthouse films. Expected at the Venice Lido are great international movie stars of the calibre of George Clooney, James Franco, Zac Efron, Matt Damon  and Scarlett Johansson.

 21 films and documentaries are vying for the Golden Lion prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival.

Among the competing titles standing out from the competition are the latest works from  Terry Gilliam (“The Zero Theorem”), Stephen Frears (“Philomena”), Philippe Garrel (“La jalousie”), Errol Morris (“The Unknown Known”) and the new animated film by the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki “Kaze Tachinu.” Great expectations for the surprise directors: James Franco with Child of God, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, Kelly Reichardt with “Night Moves” and the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan with “Tom à la ferme”, in the running for the Queer Lion, the Golden Lion for the best gay film at the 70th Venetian event.

ES-STOUH (LES TERRASSES) of Merzak Allouache (Algerie, France)

L’INTREPIDO di Gianni Amelio (Italia)

MISS VIOLENCE of Alexandros Avranas (Greek)

TRACKS of John Curran (UK, Australia)

VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA of Emma Dante (Italy, Suisse, France)

TOM À LA FERME of Xavier Dolan (Canada, France)

CHILD OF GOD of James Franco (Usa)

PHILOMENA of Stephen Frears (UK)

LA JALOUSIE of Philippe Garrel (France)

THE ZERO THEOREM of Terry Gilliam (UK, Usa)

ANA ARABIA of Amos Gitai (Israel, France)

UNDER THE SKIN of Jonathan Glazer (UK, Usa)

JOE of David Gordon Green (Usa)

DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN ogPhilip Groning (Germany)

PARKLAND of Peter Landesman (Usa)

KAZE TACHINU of Hayao Miyazaki (Giappone) 

THE UNKNOWN KNOWN of Errol Morris (Usa)- docufilm

NIGHT MOVES of Kelly Reichardt (Usa)

SACRO GRA of Gianfranco Rosi (Italia) – docu film

JIAOYOU (STRAY DOGS) of Ming-Liang Tsai (Taipei , France)

In Venice the second exhibition dedicated to the history of the Venini glassware at Cini Foundation

The exhibition Napoleone Martinuzzi. Venini 1925-1931, curated by Marino Barovier, will open to the public on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice on September 8th, 2013. It is the second exhibition dedicated to the history of the Venini glassware company promoted by Le Stanze del Vetro, a long-term cultural initiative launched by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung, devoted to the study and the promotion of the art of glassmaking in the twentieth century.

During the period of his collaboration with Paolo Venini, Martinuzzi designed beautiful objects whose shapes are inspired by classical design, but through the use of innovative techniques and of glass paste. There are about 200 works on display, covering the most significant glass production of the ingenious sculptor from Murano.

The exhibition reconstructs Martinuzzi‘s whole production chronologically: from transparent elegant blown glass to works with an unprecedented opaque texture, from the experiments with pulegoso glass (a semi-opaque or translucent glass with a rough surface due to tiny bubbles formed by using special ingredients) to pieces with deep, dense colors.

The exhibition also explores the relationship between Martinuzzi and the poet Gabriele d’Annunzio who commissioned the Murano artist to make not only sculptures but also works in glass. To illustrate their special bond and the artistic vision shared by these two personalities, the exhibition includes a reconstruction of one of the rooms in the Vittoriale by stage designer Pierluigi Pizzi, with some of the most significant works that Martinuzzi designed for the poet.

From 10 am to 7 pm
closed on Wednesdays

Free Entry

One of the most interesting events on the occasion of the 55th International Art Exhibition is, without doubt, the display of the 21 finalists of the Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2013, at Palazzo Contarini Polignac.

Created in 2009 and promoted and supported by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre of Kiev (Ukraine), this international art prize aims to recognise, identify and support the future generation of artists in the world.

For this important opportunity presented on the occasion of the event, the 21 artists are asked to create brand new works best suited to the grand interior of Palazzo Contarini Polignac.

The international panel for selection of the competitors is impressive, with the likes of Daniel Birnbaum, Okwui Enwezor, Yuko Hasegawa, Ivo Mesquita, Eckhard Schneider, Robert Storr and Ai Weiwei. The mentors of the award, too, include Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami.

A great show dedicated to Marc Quinn at the Cini Foundation in Venice

Marc Quinn is the exclusive star of the exhibition open to the public at the Giorgio Cini Foundation from 29 May 2013.

The “Marc Quinn” personal exhibition of works by the great and arguably best known exponent of the generation of Young British Artists is one of the most important shows dedicated to him with more than 50 works on display, including sculptures, paintings, sketches and other objets d’art, 13 of which have never been viewed before.

In the outdoor exhibition space, arranged by Germano Celant and designed especially for the island of San Giorgio, you can also admire a tribute to nature which sees art as an element that is both intrinsic and mysterious: the seven giant shells in The Archaeology of Art series are perfectly symmetrical shapes formed of miniature creatures without brains which appear to follow an order apparently far greater than themselves. Lastly, from the basin of San Marco, you can see the large sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005).

Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day

Free entry

The Ca’ Pesaro Museum in Venice is proud to present the Ileana Sonnabend Collection

As of June 1 2013, the Ca’ Pesaro Museum in Venice will feature works from the Ileana Sonnabend Collection. These include an extraordinary range of works representing the various movements of the early to mid 20th century, including NeoDada, Pop Art, Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptualism and Neo Expressionism, as well as contemporary photographic art.

Ileana Sonnabend was one of the greatest and most influential promoters of the arts of the second half of the 20th century who, with true pioneering spirit, made American art recognised in Europe and European art in America.

At the exhibition you can admire acclaimed masterpieces like Figure 8 by Jasper Johns (1959), and Interior (Combine painting) (1956), Payload (1962) and Kite (1963) by Robert Rauschenberg, an artist that Ileana, together with Leo Castelli and Alan Solomon, brought to the Venice Biennale in 1964.

In addition to these masters are the great exponents of the various forms of Pop Art which Ileana Sonnabend helped bring to the fore well before the current classifications: the form associated with Abstract Expressionism – there are two stunning works by Jim Dine, and Roast Beef (1961) by Claes Oldenburg – and the current form associated with the culture of the media, with various works by Roy Lichtenstein, including Little Aloha (1962), as well as Balcony (1961) by James Rosenquist, Still life #45 and Seascape #4 by Tom Wesselmann and, above all, an incredible core of eight works by Andy Warhol, not least Nine Jackies (1964) and Triple Rauschenberg and Campbell’s Soup Can (Turkey Noodle), both of 1962.

Opening hours: from 10 am to 6 pm (ticket office 10am–5pm). Closed on Monday

TICKETS – Entrance with museum ticket: Full price: 10 euro

Venice Feast of Redeemer (Festa del Redentore) : stunning fireworks display on the Venice Lagoon

Over the weekend of 20/21 July 2013 you will be able to live all the magic of the Festa del Redentore in Venice, which perfectly combines religion – the pilgrimage to the church on Giudecca island – and folklore, with the stunning fireworks display on the Lagoon.

On Saturday evening, like every year, there will be thousands of boats flooding the basin of San Marco and hordes of visitors on the banks eating and waiting, with bated breath, for the fireworks to flare up at midnight and create dazzling reflections on the surface of the Lagoon and on the facades of the palazzi.

The tradition of the Redentore dates back to 1577 when a basilica was built on Giudecca Island in thanksgiving for deliverance from a major outbreak of the plague. This was the famous Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Il Redentore: a pilgrimage church designed by Palladio now reached by crossing an impressive pontoon bridge spanning 330 metres. In addition to the legendary firework display, the celebrations include a solemn ceremony presided over by the Patriarch and a religious procession, and the weekend is rounded off with a gondola regatta as part of the “Voga alla Veneta” Rowing Season.

The programme

SATURDAY 20 JULY 2013

19:00 Opening of the votive bridge connecting the Rafts to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on Giudecca Island.
23:30 Fireworks display in the basin of San Marco.

Associated events:
Concert of traditional Venetian music performed by the Tessera Music Band at the Fondamenta dei Gesuiti

SUNDAY 21 JULY 2013

Redentore Regattas – Giudecca canal:
16:00 Children’s twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
16:45 Twin-oared “pupparini” boat regatta
17:30 Twin-oared gondola regatta
19:00 Holy Mass at the Redentore Church on Giudecca island

Associated events:
21:00 “Venezia Rivelata” (Venice Revealed), a project by Alberto Toso Fei and Elena Tagliapietra
a reading and body painting performance at the Pescheria di Rialto.

Anthological exhibition dedicated to Anthony Caro at the Correr Museum in Venice

The first major Italian exhibition  – after the one held in the Mercati Traianei in Rome in 1992 – will be held in the Correr Museum in Venice, which overlooks a view of rare beauty on Piazza San Marco. This exhibition is dedicated to one of the best living sculptors: Sir Anthony Caro (New Malden, Surrey, 1924).

The famous British artist, who has played a fundamental part in developing 20th century sculpture, returns to the lagoon with approximately 30 masterpieces covering fifty years of his career, after his previous participation to the Venice Art Biennales in 1958, 1966 and 1999. These include some important brush and ink-on-newspaper drawings stretching back to the beginning of his career. The visitor will be able to admire a collection of Paper Sculptures and, most importantly some of his most famous large steel masterpieces, such as Red Splash (1996), Garland (1970), Cadence (1968/1972) to the more recent Venetian and River Song (2011-2012).

This unique event will allow visitors to retrace the career of this artist genius: from his first works, developed under the influence of his teacher Henry Moore, to the extraordinary innovation process that he began in the Sixties (The Whitechapel Gallery prefatory in 1963), right up to his more recent experiences.

Opening hours: 10 am – 7 pm (ticket office 10 am – 6 pm)

TICKETS

Entrance with museum ticket or with single ticket (only for the exhibition)

Single ticket (exhibition only): 8 euro

Thanks to the Monteverdi Vivaldi Festival baroque music in prestigious locations in Venice throughout the Summer 2013

The events organised by the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music for the Monteverdi Vivaldi Festival 2013 will continue on 29 June, 2013 in the newly refurbished Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi in Venice. These events include several baroque music concerts in symbolic Venetian locations. Guests this year include many musicians from the Middle-East (Turkey, Morocco and Israel), from France and Northern Europe. The aim is to trace an itinerary to discover Venetian baroque music and the important influences it has experienced from foreign countries.

Musical events will continue until 22 September, 2013 in prestigious locations in Venice, from the San Giovanni Evangelista School to Palazzo Contarini Polignac, from Ca’ Zenobio to the Teatro La Fenice.

For the complete programme of the concerts (in eng) click here

An abundance of jazz music in many beautiful lagoon locations: this is the Venice Jazz Festival

This is the 6th Edition of the Venezia Jazz Festival, one of the main summer events in Venice, and will be held from 13 to 28 July, 2013 in glamorous locations in the lagoon city: world-class jazz performers will be taking part including Keith Jarret, Chick Corea and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. This year’s event schedule includes literary afternoons, jazz aperitifs and much more.

The biggest names in jazz will be playing in Venice this summer 2013: from KEITH JARRETT at the Teatro La Fenice to CHICK COREA AND THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA at the Teatro Goldoni, from SAVERIO TASCA TRIO MEDITERRE to Peggy Guggenheim Collection to SHAI MAESTRO at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi.

The first edition of the Europe Music Award for Young Talent (E.M.A.Y.T) in collaboration with the Goethe Institut, Ankara International jazz Festival and the Parigini Paris Saint Germain festival will be held during the event confirming the festival’s international relevance.

For the complete Programme click here

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Othello” at the Courtyard of Palazzo Ducale in Venice

One of Giuseppe Verdi’s most beautiful works, OTHELLO, will be staged in Venice this summer, on Wednesday 10, Sunday 14 and Wednesday 17 July 2013 at 21.30, by the Fondazione La Fenice in the picturesque setting of the Courtyard of Palazzo Ducale. Tickets for this unique event are already on sale on the theatre site.

In the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the doors of Palazzo Ducale in Venice reopen to opera, taking up a tradition of particular historical and artistic importance that dates back to the 1960s. As part of a summer concert season that was held regularly in the  Courtyard of the Palazzo from 1949 to 1967, on three occasions (in 1960, 1962 and 1966), the Fenice offered a memorable production of Nino Sanzogno’s Othello, directed by Herbert Graf, with the extraordinary participation of Mario Del Monaco, Tito Gobbi and Marcella Pobbe.

Conducted by Korean Myung-Whun Chung, who will also conduct Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in the same days at Palazzo Ducale, Othello will be staged in a setting conceived by director Francesco Micheli, set designer Edoardo Sanchi and costume designer Silvia Aymonino for the inauguration of Teatro La Fenice’s 2012-2013 season, a setting created to serve a dual use in the theatre and in Palazzo Ducale, that the Fenice will also stage in April on tour in Japan. The Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice (Chorus Master Claudio Marino Moretti) will be joined by the Piccoli Cantori Veneziani and a prestigious international cast.

Click here for more information about OTHELLO!

At Grimani Palace in Venice Ritsue Mishima Glass Work

The exhibition IN GRIMANI.Ritsue Mishima Glass Work will remain open until 29 September 2013, in the halls of the main floor of the Museum of Palazzo Grimani. side event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. For the first time, one of the most beautiful Venetian palaces, hosting an extraordinary collection of frescoes from the sixteenth century, opens its doors to contemporary art.

 Ritsue Mishima, born in Kyoto and living in Venice since 1989, links artistic expression with glass processing techniques. The Japanese artist expresses herself with glass in a contemporary language, through the craftsmanship culture of Murano’s glass masters, who “forge” and shape her ideas. Her experience with Murano’s glass gave birth to the glass sculptures exhibition entitled IN GRIMANI Ritsue Mishima Glass Work, designed and built especially for Palazzo Grimani‘s halls, which once housed the collections of the illustrious Venetian families and today are a source of fascination and inspiration for the author.

The exhibition consists of 30 large-scale works and 5 installations, designed specifically to communicate with the museum and its exceptional decoration. Among the latter, a large glass case designed by the artist holds 38 precious, minuscule works.

The magic of the White Night in Venice Laguna returns once again this year

On 22 June 2013, it will be held a new edition of Art Night. The event, conceived and coordinated by the University of Ca’ Foscari in collaboration with the Municipality of Venice, aims to involve all those dealing with art and culture in the city. For one night, 22 June, Venice changes its face: the city of history and the past reveals its most engaging, lively and stimulating side. The inflow of youngsters driven by Art Night will spread throughout the city. During Art Night, the usually quiet squares and streets burst with people and ideas throughout the night.

The list of institutions taking part in the third edition of the Venetia’s art night is confirmed by the breadth and quality of participants and offerings. Each will strive to offer exceptional events and opening with guided tours, concerts and readings. The program, which is available at www.artnightvenezia.it, will be further refined until the very last moment.

A common thread will underlie all ART NIGHT 2013 events: a homage to female talent under any form. To that end, the schedule will be enriched with specific performance, dance and film events.

For the complete Programme click here

Venice Biennale 2013: an incredible journey in contemporary art and collective imaginary

This year, the 55th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte  organised by the Biennale di Venezia and curated by the young art critic Massimiliano Gioni, opens its doors on 31 June 2013 and remains open until November 24. This year’s exhibition, entitled IL PALAZZO ENCICLOPEDICO [the encyclopaedic palace], unfolds between the Giardini and the Arsenale, and is presented as an outstanding labyrinth of ideas and emotions erected on thousands of works of art from over 150 artists: a vast temporary museum that examines the ways whereby images are used to organise knowledge. The common thread that unites all these artists is the imagination and its products, removing all chronological boundaries or distinctions between professionals and amateurs, between insiders and outsiders.

The 55th International Art Exhibition opens at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini with a presentation, inside a temple-like structure, of the Red Book of Jung, an important reflection on inner images and dreams that pervasively undertones this year’s Esposizione Internazionale di Arte. The exhibition brings together numerous examples of works and figurative expressions that present different approaches to visualise knowledge through representations of abstract concepts and manifestations of supernatural phenomena.

Imagination is also put to work through writing and drawing, both frequently recurring themes in the exhibition: alongside works of contemporary artists, we find also visual experiments of some important authors of the twentieth century, such as Jean Louis Borges and Franz Kafka, to name a few. The whole exhibition is also a tribute to books, understood as a sadly and slowly declining medium but also a place for self-discovery.

In the Arsenale, the trail becomes even more labyrinthine although it is progressively arranged from natural art forms to artificial ones (mostly video).

The viewer of 55th International Art Exhibition can enjoy a totally unique experience, building indeed an entirely personal reading path going back and forth within the halls, with no time for boredom.

For the Exhibition RUDOLF STINGEL, François Pinault invited the artist to devise, in absolute freedom, an installation involving the totality of the spaces at Palazzo Grassi, in Venice Italy.

The exhibition Rudolf Stingel unfolds over the atrium and both upper floors of Palazzo Grassi, a space of over 5,000 square meters. For the first time, Palazzo Grassi will devote the entirety of its space to the work of a single artist. It includes a site-specific installation as well as recent creations and previously unseen paintings. This will be Stingel’s largest ever monographic presentation in Europe and his first solo exhibition in an Italian museum since his mid-career retrospective at MART in 2001.

The project, conceived by the artist expressly for Palazzo Grassi, spreads over all the rooms of the building, where a carpet with oriental patterns covers, for the first time, the entire surface of the walls and floors.

The installation is part of Stingel’s artistic research, which has always been directed towards the analysis of the relationship between the exhibition space and artistic intervention: for the artist, the carpet is a medium through which painting relates to its architectural context. Interested in the redefinition of the meaning of “painting” and of its perception, Stingel places the “carpet” at the core of his poetics. It bears witness to the passage of time and people and is also a source of inspiration, with its variety of typologies and textures, for successive series of paintings.

Vogalonga Experience – A new way to discover Venice in Italy

The Vogalonga is a 30km paddling/rowing race through the city of Venice and the lagoon up to Burano. Almost all rowed or paddled boats can participate, and there’s even a separate category for kayaks. There are usually well over one thousands boats in the race, of many types. All participants are issued a diploma of participation.

The Vogalonga is not a competitive race and there are no winners. The numbers of participants has swelled to thousands over the years from all over the world.

You can be part of Vogalonga on May 19, 2013!
You can register until May 16. All the necessary bases and routes of the race are on the official website of this important event.

See below a Video from Vogalonga Race 2012!

On 1st June 2013, the exhibition Not Vital: 700 Snowballs, curated by Alma Zevi, opens to the public on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The exhibition is sponsored and promoted by Pentagram Stiftung, a Swiss private foundation dedicated to the study of glass.

700 Snowballs is an installation consisting of 700 individually blown glass balls which bear striking resemblance to snowballs suspended in air. The snowballs rest directly on the floor, evenly and randomly spread. As each snowball is hand-blown by Vetreria Pino Signoretto in Murano, no two are identical – just as natural elements are never exactly repeated.

The installation creates a place of meditation, evoking the metamorphic, transformative and cyclical processes of nature. The luminous and reflective qualities of glass simultaneously reflect both the dense and yet ephemeral nature of snow. This mirrors the tension between the organic form and the inorganic material, between the durability of the artwork and the fragility of the elements it evokes.

In 2012, Pentagram Stiftung launched Le Stanze del Vetro in partnership with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, also on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. 700 Snowballs, alongside the exhibition Fragile? concurrently on view at Le Stanze del Vetro, brings the visitor through a comprehensive mapping and understanding of the use of glass in contemporary art.

There are a total of one hundred and fifty photographs by Tomaso Filippi on show until 30 November 2013 at Villa Pisani in Stra near Venice. The extraordinary exhibition, “Venice from the 19th to the 20th century. In photographs by Tomaso Filippi“, on show in one of the most beautiful venetian villas on the river Brenta, is further enriched by thirty stereoscopes – a technique for creating and viewing images with the illusion of three-dimensionality invented in 1832 which can be considered the precursor of 3D –that give the illusion of being “inside” Venice in the transition between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth century.

The original photographic material produced by such an exceptionally public figure as Tomaso Filippi paints an extraordinary picture in terms of quality and originality of Venice and the surrounding area and bears witness to the rapid transformation which makes photography the perfect communication tool

The exceptional “Manet. Return to Venice” exhibition, open from 24 April to 18 August 2013 at the Doge’s apartments inside the Doge’s Palace in Venice is the result of an important collaboration between the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Fondazione Civici Musei di Venezia.

The Exhibition “Manet. Return to Venice” at the Doge’s Palace has the precious task of taking a highly scientific approach to the great French painter Manet, one of the most brilliant interpreters of the renewal of visual arts in the second half of the nineteenth century, for the first time ever in Italy.

The original exhibition Manet. Return to Venice presents a collection of works that have never been shown together which have been generously loaned from the Musée d’Orsay, such as Angelina (1865), La Lecture (1865/1866-1873), Le Fifre (1866), Le Balcon (1868-1869), Sur la plage (1873), Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé (1876), Lola de Valence (1862- 1863, modified after 1867), with the latter having been superbly restored for the occasion.

These masterpieces are joined by other important paintings from the United States, Great Britain and Germany as well the extraordinary participation for the occasion of the painting Olympia (1863), also owned by the Musée d’Orsay, which has never left France before. This is a fundamental work of art to understand the critical approach of the exhibition which focuses on the Italian soul of Manet, in juxtaposition with the Venus of Urbino by Titian, on loan from the Uffizi which was an inspiration for Manet’s paintings.

Opening hours: from Sunday to Thursday, from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm – Friday and Saturday, from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm (ticket office closes 1 hour before)

Full price ticket: € 13,00

Tribute to Agatha Ruiz de la Prada at Correr Museum in Venice

The exhibition “Fashion Vocations: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada” was inaugurated on 8 March 2013, International Women’s Day, in the splendid setting of the “ballroom” of Museo Correr in Venice, paying tribute to the creations of the spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.

For the exhibition at Museo Correr in Venice, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada proposes models from the Spring-Summer 2013 collection presented during the retrospective fashion show at the last edition of Mercedes Benz Fashion week in Madrid and displayed on that occasion on golden mannequins.

Dresses that animate an imaginative and colourful “dance party” in which the protagonists are the shapes, colours and genius of this artist, who combines glamour, fashion and avant-garde design in a completely original way. Thirty-one models that reinterpret the icons dear to the designer, including the “cage” dress, and the “umbrella”, “heart” and “star” dresses.

Opening hours: until March 31st 10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4 pm); from April 1st 10 am – 7 pm (ticket office 10 am – 6 pm).

Teatro la Fenice – Programming 2013

The Teatro La Fenice has a new online site that is much easier to navigate and with completely renovated contents that gives you easy access to information on programming, promotions and artistic projects of the Foundation, as well as to buy tickets online with the new print at home ticketing system. Click on the link above and take a look to learn more.

For the Venetian theatre’s programming until 2014, it is sufficient to download the Information Brochure, especially rich in content and news, by clicking teatro-la-fenice

Dance Biennale 2013 – The activities of the Dance Biennale 2013, directed from 2013 by Virgilio Sieni, LIVING IN THE WORLD – TRASMISSION AND PRACTICE, start on 2 May and end on 28, 29 and 30 June with 3 consecutive days from morning till night in different areas of Venice, during which the public can enjoy presentations of short choreographies, all unpublished, which are the outcome of the different courses of training and creation that are the theme of the Dance College Biennale.

Abitare il mondo (Living in the World) – Transmission and Practices is the title of the three-year programme of new director Virgilio Sieni. For 2013, it includes a series of training and creation courses on the language of contemporary dance that ends in short shows – single fragments, or in diptych form – open to the public in the last 3 days of June. Every day, from morning until night, the spotlight will be on an area of the city of Venice, or polis, crossed by the creations of the Dance College Biennale. Each area, with its fields, squares, courtyards and cloisters, palace halls, theatres and arsenals, will become an integrated system of places, seen in relation to the process of creation, but also crossed by the public in a journey from the intimacy of enclosed spaces leading to the choralism of open spaces and vice versa. There will be more than 20 spaces involved in the poleis of San Marco and the Arsenal: from Ca’ Giustiniani, home of the Biennale, the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, Teatro La Fenice and the Ateneo Veneto, to Campo San Vidal, Campo Pisani and Campo S. Stefano; from Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Teatro alle Tese and Tese dei Soppalchi to Calle del forno, Fondamenta della lana, Riva dei 7 Martiri, Giardini, etc. ..

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is planning a busy schedule of exhibitions for 2013. It will range from informal postwar Italian painting to late 18th century Parisian neo-impressionism, passing through the abstract collages of one of the leaders of American abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell.

POSTWAR: ITALIAN PROTAGONISTS

After the huge success of the retrospective dedicated to Giuseppe Capogrossi, which attracted an impressive 110,000 visitors, 23 February 2013 saw the opening of “Postwar: Italian Protagonists”, an exhibition which, by means of a path unfolding through single-artist galleries, aims to reread the idea of Italian art, starting from overcoming the Informal through the work of five artists such as Fontana, Dorazio, Castellani, Scheggi and Aricò. These artists developed a highly personal revolutionary language, leveraging the power of colour and monochrome symbology in order overcome the abstraction until then unknown to them. The exhibition will remain open until 18 April.

KIDS CREATIVE LAB

Immediately afterwards, it will be the turn of young people: from 24 April to 6 May, the museum will host the gigantic, brightly-coloured collective installation from the Kids Creative Lab, an original project involving art and fashion created by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in collaboration with OVS, the best-known Italian fast fashion retailer. The protagonists of this unusual and entertaining work of art are the creations of the primary school children from all over Italy who took part in the initiative, getting involved in the creation of three-dimensional felt volumes that will be assembled in the great sculptural work that will come to life in the museum galleries.

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: EARLY COLLAGES

26 May will see the opening of an exhibition dedicated to Motherwell’s collages: the exhibition explores the origin of the artist’s style and his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique in 1944, which he describes as “the greatest of our [art] discoveries”. During the 1940s, Motherwell produced both collages of abstract figures and pure abstractions, and from 1955 onwards, the surrealist influences prevailing in these early works paved the way for the distinctive style of his maturity, firmly rooted in abstract expressionism.

THE AVANT-GARDES OF FIN-DE-SIÈCLE PARIS: SIGNAC, BONNARD, REDON, AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES

From september 28, 2013 will see an exhibition of circa 100 paintings and works on paper drawn from notable private collections. The focus will be on the French avant-gardes of the late nineteenth century, with special attention to the Neo-Impressionist, Nabi, and Symbolist movements. Major artists will be examined in depth: Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Felix Vallotton, and Odilon Redon. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by scholars Bridget Alsdorf (Princeton University), Marina Ferretti Bocquillon (Musée des Impressionnismes), and Gloria Groom (Art Institute of Chicago).

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Closed Tuesdays and December 25

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In Palazzo Grimani (Venice, Campo Santa Maria Formosa), an interesting Review of renaissance and baroque music concerts, organised by the School of Ancient Music in Venice and entitled LE MUSICHE DEI GRIMANI (the music of the Grimani family), started in January of this year and will last until June 2013.

Palazzo Grimani is not only particularly suitable for music from the architectural and acoustic points of view, but it also played a crucial part in the history of music in general and of that in Venice in particular.

In the 1600s, the Grimani family were among the first to dedicate a theatre – the San Giovanni e Paolo – to public works; they then built the most sumptuous of all of Venice’s theatres, the San Giovanni Grisostomo; in the 1700s, they dedicated their San Samuele Theatre to melodrama. This brought them into contact with many famous musicians (from Monteverdi and Cavalli, to Handel, Hasse and Galuppi).

The twelve music programmes, each an hour long, are accompanied by an historical research on the musical environment of the Grimani family and on their connection to the various repertoires, which will be presented as an introduction to the concert. The pieces will be performed under the care of the teachers of the School of Ancient Music of Venice and guest musicians and played on original instruments or exact copies, played how they were in the past. The scores have been taken from facsimiles of the originals or, where unavailable, scientifically accurate editions.

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Venice Biennale – 55th International Art Exhibition will take place from 1st June to 24th November 2013 in the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as in various places around Venice. It is entitled “Il palazzo enciclopedico” (The Encyclopaedic Palace), after Marino Auriti’s 1955 project that patented an imaginary museum containing all of humanity’s knowledge, bringing together the biggest discoveries of humankind, from the wheel to the satellite.

As Massimiliano Gioni, new curator of the Art Sector of the Biennale, explained, “today, deluged as we are by information, the attempts to structure knowledge into omni-comprehensive systems seems even more necessary and even more desperate. The 55th International Art Exhibition will explore these flights of imagination in an exhibition that – as Auriti’s Palazzo Enciclopedico –combines works of contemporary art and historical findings, discovered objects and artefacts.”

“Just like in the theatres of the memory designed in the 1500s by the Venetian Giulio Camillo – interior cathedrals in which to order knowledge into images – the “Il Palazzo Enciclopedico” exhibition will try to outline the cartography of an image-world, creating a bestiary of the imagination.”

The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will be presented once more in a dual form. After 116 years of the Biennale, the current Exhibition follows the format that was definitively defined in 1999 and then confirmed and perfected over the following years: a great International Exhibition directed by a curator chosen especially for this purpose and the National Participations. As usual, the National Participations will have their own exhibitions in the legendary Pavilions in the Gardens, as well as in the historical city centre of Venice.

The “PAESAGGIO ITALIA” (Italian landscapes) exhibition in Palazzo Franchetti in Venice will remain open until 12th May 2013, promoted by the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Arts and Humanities and dedicated to the work of Maurizio Galimberti: an out-of-the-ordinary anthological work on the theme of Italian landscape, a portrait expressed through the Instants Artist’s Polaroid experiments. The retrospective presents over 150 images, some of the great Italian photographer’s most significant shots; a synthesis of the research he began in the early 1990s, which rediscovers and narrates our country. For the first time, a large exhibition and a book document the never-before-seen Grand Tour.

The exhibitive journey sets itself up as an imposing kaleidoscope of images, made up of unique, unrepeatable shots recounting the journeys and digressions of Maurizio Galimberti, transfiguring the world through new eyes, communicating to the spectator the experience of transformation and renewal matured by the artist in these twenty years of work on the landscape.

Thanks to the wide variety of composite possibilities explored, his Polaroids become a treasure box of infinite views, allowing our country to be unexpectedly reread and rediscovered. Architecture, cities and landscapes are all offered up in the form of single Polaroids: “mosaics”, modified Polaroids in a Duchampesque ready-made, pop version representing those methods of technique and expression that the artist has always preferred. That artist who, for the occasion, offers us a world premiere – an experiment with the new film Impossible, first reproduction in black and white.

The exceptional exhibition programme presented by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia for 2013 is complex and varied.

The rich schedule envisages no less than 32 events between Temporary Exhibitions and Major Exhibitions, all based on civic collections for the Rediscovered Treasures cycle and the inauguration of new itineraries and exhibition nuclei for the permanent collection.

The programme starts in March with an exhibition dedicated to Agatha Ruiz de la Prada (March, 5 – May, 8, 2013) and then moves on to a magnificent retrospective focused on Manet: “Manet. Return to Venice” (April, 24 – August, 18, 2013)  is a unique exhibition designed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the special collaboration of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, co-produced with the Sole 24 Ore Cultura – with Commissioners Guy Cogeval and Gabriella Belli, curator Stéphane Guégan and layout designer Daniela Ferretti – to investigate the Italian soul of Édouard Manet’s painting which boldly explores the contemporary situation and paves the way for Impressionism. Alongside the sublime Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet – a work that has never left France before –the exhibition at Palazzo Ducale will also display the most sensual of the goddesses painted by Titian: the so-called Venus of Urbino, a masterpiece of Renaissance art and a source of inspiration for the great French artist.

Between May and June, thirty prestigious works from the Sonnabend collection of New York (from Jasper Johns to Robert Rauschenberg, from Andy Warhol to Richard Serra, and from Jeff Koons to Roy Lichtenstein) will enrich the permanent itinerary of Ca ‘Pesaro (From June, 1, 2013). It continues with Anthony Caro at the Correr Museum and Tapies at the Fortuny Museum, and the beautiful glasses by Seguso at the Glass Museum.

Not to be missed is another important event in October, when the spotlight will again be on the International Gallery of Modern Art of Ca ‘Pesaro for another prestigious event with the art of the late twentieth century and the exceptional personality of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. “The Panza Collection“, promoted by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia in collaboration with the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and The Panza Collection in Lugano, will bring a selection of pop art, minimalist and conceptual art masterpieces to Italy from 5 October 2013 to 12 January 2014.

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After the incredible success of the exhibition dedicated to “Carlo Scarpa Venini”, visited by more than 46,000 people, the Cini Foundation continues with its “The rooms of glass” project, designed with the objective of enhancing twentieth century glass art with two new major exhibition events: the first will be “Fragile?” by Mario Codognato, starting on 8 April 2013, while in late summer there will be an exhibition dedicated to the creations of renowned artist Napoleone Martinuzzi for the Venini glassworks between 1925 and 1932.

The exhibition “FRAGILE?” will feature more than 30 artworks by some of the most interesting international artists of our time who have experimented with industrial and found glass – from MarcelDuchamp and Joseph Beuys, to Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Giovanni Anselmo and Jannis Kounellis, to name a few. This exhibition is part of Le Stanze del Vetro project, a joint collaboration between Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung, developed with the aim of promoting the appreciation of and research in glass made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition will be open until 28 July 2013.

In the context of Venetian glassmaking and its peculiar artisan connotations, “Fragile?” aims at taking a different, yet equally important, aspect into account, namely the use of glass as a found object, with specific metaphorical and linguistic features. “Fragile?” displays the creations of some of the most interesting artists of our time, who used glass with diverse and contrasting intentions: from the provoking gesture of Marcel Duchamp of shutting the air of Paris in a transparent ampoule, to the tragic lyricism of Joseph Beuys’s  glass fragments as a witness to the ferociousness of earthquakes, from the transformation of industrial objects into poetical individualities by Luciano Fabro to the ironic explosion of car windscreens in a Pipilotti Rist video.

Seen as a whole, the works and artists exhibited in “Fragile?” translate the infinite potentialities of glass into unprecedented dialectics which inevitably have to do with our daily existence, as a constitutive element of contemporary artistic language.

“Fragile?” will gather works by, among others: Michael Craig-Martin, Ceal Floyer, Carsten Nicolai, Lawrence Weiner, Monica Bonvicini, Keith Sonnier, Giuseppe Penone, Rachel Whiteread, Luciano Fabro, Mona Hatoum, David Hammons, Claire Fontaine, Cyril de Commarque, Barry le Va, Joseph Kosuth.

Following the great success of the Elliott Erwitt PERSONAL BEST exhibition, the Casa dei Tre Oci of Venice presents, from Februrary 1st to May 12th 2013,  a world premier retrospective of one of the greatest Italian photographers: Gianni Berengo Gardin.

The most complete anthological exhibition of the master. A unique and unmissable exhibition of 130 photos, curated by Denis Curti (artistic director of the Casa dei Tre Oci), who accompanied him on an immense analogical journey among the hundreds of black and white photographic prints that make up his immense archive, to reread all his shots, including those unpublished or rediscovered.

Gianni Berengo Gardin considers this exhibition the most representative of his career. On display are more than 130 analogue prints that trace his work as a reporter and are the mirror of an artist who has made ethics his banner.

130 photos that retrace the career of the great Italian master who more than any other has been able to recover and renew the visual language of our country: Venice and Milan, the psychiatric institutions and the Basaglia law, the Venice Art Biennale and the gypsies, the fundamental reportage entitled Inside the Homes and New York, Vienna and Great Britain, his extraordinary experience with the Touring Club, which inspired him to discover the most hidden corners of our country, and the photos that have until now remained unpublished and are being presented here for the first time.

An observant narrator of everyday life, in all its multiple aspects and its evolution, he is an artist who has immortalised the history of Italy in more than a million shots.

Hours
Everyday 10.00 – 7.00 pm
Tuesday closed

Admission
9,00 € full fare
7,00 € reduction: for groups of over 15 people, students, over 65 years,
holders of special agreements, residents of the City of Venice.

In 2013, the Carnival of Venice is now even better with the DANCE NETWORK; throughout the carnival period, parties, dinner and disco evenings will take place in five special locations: Capsula – Casino of Venice, Palazzina Grassi, Hotel Hilton Molino Stuky, the San Gallo Theatre and Dock 117 on Tronchetto. The programme includes 16 unmissable events.

On Saturday 2 February 2013 at Capsula will be “Anonima Veneziana”, a costume party letting you discover the charms of masked seduction. Giovedì Grasso (“Fat Thursday”) on 7 February 2013, also at Capsula, with a party to kick-start the carnival’s sprint finish. Also, on Friday 8 February 2013, at the San Gallo theatre, will be “Decadenza”, the theatrical party of Alexander Toesca, who’ll be the DJ and director of a decadent baroque soirée.

On Saturday 9 February, prepare for a burst of creativity at the masked party of Capsula, Chapeau 2.0. This theme party insists you show off your most unusual and original headgear. At the same time, one of the biggest names in international dance is coming to the Venetian Lagoon: Luciano, DJ and producer of Cadenza Vagabundos, the record label that epitomises electro music. From 11 pm, Dock 117 on Tronchetto will be hosting a great night of dance with a DJ mixset by Luciano supported by other DJs. The Venice Carnival will also be celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the record label Cadenza, with a birthday after –tea party starting at 8 pm on Sunday 10 February 2013 at Capsula.

Mardi Gras, 12 February 2013, will be the grand finale with simultaneous parties in all Dance Network Carnival locations in Venice.

The Venice Carnival 2013 is dedicated to colour: the title of the carnival this year is, in fact, “Vivi i colori – Live in colour”. The events will unfold from 26 January to 12 February 2013 and, alongside the theme of colour, the programme is taking the approach of last year, dedicating a great amount of room to cultural events and involving key institutions, from the city museums to Venice’s churches and buildings.

You have an enormous number of shows in store all over the city: daily events including theatre, music, the circus, gastronomy and cinema. Of course, the 2013 Carnival will not neglect the traditional events such as the Volo dell’Angelo (“the Angel Flight”), the Festa delle Marie (“Marie Contest”) and the Festa Veneziana in Cannaregio, not to mention the usual twists and turns as the carnival unfolds.

Again this year, the traditional GranTeatro in St Mark’s Square will be set up for the carnival, a unique setting in the world’s most famous square, where you’ll be able to take on a leading role in the carnival’s events.

The theme of the Carnival of Venice 2013 is colour, explains artistic director Davide Rampello, “because there is no city on earth where its colours are brought out better than when reflecting off the water of Venice’s canals and lagoon. The Carnival of Venice 2013 will be the Carnival of colour, as each colour conveys and arouses an emotion which each one of us associates to a particular mood. This experience of colour is one that is thoroughly cultural; religious, national or mythological traditions all associate themselves with colours that can be magical, miraculous, satanic or sacred. The Carnival is the festival of cultures par excellence, especially in Venice, being the first cosmopolitan metropolis in Europe.”

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Two ice skating rings, double the fun. Open every day, all day, during the Carnival. On Campo San Polo and on Piazza Ferretto. During the evening there will be a live music performances and dj sets for the visitor’s entertainment.

In Venice historical Center there is a 450 square metre egg-shaped rink, surrounded by a ‘village of stalls’, a traditional Christmas/Carnival market, with locally made arts-and-crafts items and food and wine.

Opening hours: Mondays to Thursdays from 3 pm to 7 pm, Fridays from 3 pm to 9 pm, Saturdays from 11 am to 9 pm, Sundays from 11 am to 7 pm. There will be special prices and special season tickets (10 entries) and ice skates to rent.

Sissi’s myth is commemorated in Venice with the inauguration and the opening to the public of the rooms reserved to the Princess Sissi in the Imperial Apartments of the Royal Palace in Venice, in S. Mark’s Square, after a restoration of nine estraordinary spaces.

Princess Sissi sojourned for 38 days in the Imperial Apartments in the Royal Palace, in occasion of her first visit in Venice in 1856, the visit recalled in the fourth episode of the famous film by Ernest Mirischka. Then, Elisabeth chose Venice to live after the death of her daughter Sofia, between October 1861 and May 1862.

The nine rooms now opened to the public, give back to light decorations by Giuseppe Borsato, ornamentations by Giovanni Rossi, golden stuccos. New tapestries have been collocated in the rooms, close to the original ones, expressly realized and donated by Rubelli – Venice. To recall the original atmosphere, precious fittings dated to the Napoleonic period and in Imperial style have been collocated in the Apartments.

Come back to life the Empress’ Audience Room and the Studio, the Empress’ bedroom with its delightful boudoir and the Antechamber. The Empress’s Bathroom is personalized by a decoration representing “The Goddess protecting the Arts“, with a face recalling the beautiful Empress. Also, of great impact for richness of decorations, tapestries and furnishings, the “public” spaces,as the Dining -room for week-day launches,the Lombardy-Venetia Throne Room and the Oval Room.

Opening Hours

from April 1st to October 31st

10 am – 7 pm (ticket office 10 am – 6 pm)

from November 1st to March 31st

10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4 pm)

This exhibition at Fortuny Museum in Venice is the result of a long research on the iconographic and aesthetic influence of Richard Wagner and the ‘Wagnerism’ on the visual arts in Italy between the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th, a theme that was never before the object of focused studies or exhibitions. Mariano Fortuny was one of the leading protagonists in this field, and his entire Wagnerian cycle – comprising 47 paintings owned by the museum –, together with numerous engravings, will be displayed for the first time.

His works, some of which were never exhibited before and many restored for the occasion, will be compared to those of other Italian artists, such as Lionello Balestrieri, who was inspired by the characters and scenes in Wagner’s operas, whose bicentenary birth will be celebrated in 2013. The exhibition will be enriched by a wide-ranging documentary section and by a series of focuses on illustration, caricature and poster design. An unseen gouache by Mario de Maria, consisting of a preparatory sketch for a famous portrait of Wagner’s stepdaughter will be displayed for the first time.

To round off the exhibition and document the influence of Wagner’s work on contemporary artists, there will be an interesting selection of visual works by important artists such as Antoni Tapies, Bill Viola, and Anselm Kiefer.

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A magnificent exhibition of the work of Giuseppe Capogrossi is on show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice until February 10th. The exhibition, entitled “CAPOGROSSI: A RETROSPECTIVE” consists of over sixty works, including paintings and works on paper. It shows the various strands in the pictorial development of this artist,
one of the most famous figures on the post-war scene, together with two other masters of contemporary Italian art: Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana.

The exhibition’s curator, Luca Massimo Barbero, has depicted the artistic progress of Capogrossi with scrupulous attention, starting with an analysis of his original symbolic alphabet which identified this Roman artist with the climate of the times. This was an Italy which was thriving and optimistic, caught up in the middle of an economic boom in those “miracle” years of the 1950s and 1960s.

The entire course of Capogrossi’s career is on show in this retrospective, enabling the visitor to rediscover one of the most original exponents of Italian visual art, internationally acclaimed from the moment that his very personal symbolic style was first exhibited.

A display of photographs by Lynn Davis, still considered one of the foremost photographers on the American scene, is on show at the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, St. Mark’s Square, until January 13th 2013. The exhibition presents us with one of her most amazing collection of images, all centred on the theme of man’s sacred places: monumental tombs in the middle of the desert, temples
rising like stalagmites out of the plain, sacred figures emerging from mountainsides.

Lynn Davis was a pupil of the legendary photographer, Berenice Abbott, and a friend of Robert Mapplethorpe, the “maudit” photographer on the New York stage during the 1980s. Davis endeavours to seek out “timeless” places in her work: locations which now, as in the past, communicate a sense of the absolute to us human beings.

The exhibition at the Archaeological Museum has an added significance: the photographs do not only interact with the viewer, but also with the actual exhibits on display in the museum, which also in an ideal sense form part of Lynn Davis’ research.

From now until February 17th 2013, the Correr Museum is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the work of Francesco Guardi. The show provides a complete overview of the various phases of Guardi’s eclectic artistic output, from his early figurative works through the famous interiors to the evocative views of Venice and the whimsical fantasies of his middle and later years.

A collection of over seventy paintings and about fifty drawings demonstrate the intimate, understated character of this work: characteristic of an artist who only history has recognized as one main exponents of 18th century Venetian art. Indeed, after his death in Venice in 1793, Francesco Guardi sank into oblivion. It was only thanks to a famous exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in 1965, that he came to be re-evaluated and appreciated by both critics and the viewing public.

The exhibition opens with two paintings portraying the artist himself: one by Giuseppe Bertini shows Guardi selling his paintings in St. Mark’s Square; the other is by Pietro Longhi. They indicate the lack of information and documentation that survives in relation to an artist who certainly did not enjoy during his lifetime the fame that he has achieved today.

This extraordinary exhibition includes a unique selection of works from some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including the Brera Art Gallery, London’s National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: six of which are being shown in Italy for the first time.

The American painter Tom Parish has come back to Venice, as part of his continuous peregrination between the real city and the one depicted on canvas. In one of the rooms of Venice’s Museo Diocesano – Sant’Apollonia, from September 14th 2012, he presents his second Italian exhibition Canti Silenziosi di Venezia /Silent Songs of Venice, selected recent works on a well-established theme in which – it’s fair (altro…)

An extraordinary exhibition with more than seventy garments from the world’s most famous collections, fashion houses and costume designers is open at the Palazzo Mocenigo Museum in Venice until 6 January 2013. Textures of fashion – Women and style at the Venice Film Festival is an event offered by the Study Centre for the History of Textiles and Costumes in Venice. This is a unique opportunity to admire the costumes of great films shot in the lagoon city compared with the current fashion which
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Gallerie dell’Accademia

Until 2 December 2012, as part of an ad hoc exhibition (The Titian never seen. The flight into Egypt and great Venetian painting), at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, visitors can admire see the outstanding work conserved for centuries overseas in which Titian first discovers nature: “The Flight into Egypt” of 1507. It took 12 years of accurate restoration by the Hermitage to bring back the colours, the light, the details, the revolutionary force of this work, carried out for Andrea Loredan and his new palace on the Grand Canal, Ca’ Vendramin Calergi, which now houses the Casino.

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The Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932-1947 exhibition opens on Wednesday 29 August on the island of San Giorgio on the occasion of the 13th International Exhibition of Architecture of Venice. Through more than 300 works, the exhibition, organised by Marino Barovier, offers the opportunity to trace the creative itinerary of the Venetian architect (altro…)

Until 30 September 2012

The NEOREALIST ECHOES IN POST-WAR ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition opened in July in the enchanting setting of Palazzo Grimani in Venice’s Campo Santa Maria Formosa. It offers a selection of 63 images from the Historical Archives of the La Gondola Photographic Club, which received an important recognition in 2010: the Special Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Venice declared the 5316 photographs preserved in the Archives of the famous Venetian Club of exceptional historical and artistic interest. La Gondola was founded as an association
in 1948 and has seen photographers of the stature of Gianni Berengo Gardin, Fulvio Roiter, (altro…)

20 July – 3 August 2012

The VENICE JAZZ FESTIVAL opens on 20 July 2012. Organised by Veneto Jazz and boosted by the success of recent years, the event is now in its fifth edition in the Lagoon. Until 3 August 2012, prestigious locations such as the Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Goldoni, the garden of (altro…)

Until 25 November 2012

The picturesque Palazzo Ca ‘Corner della Regina, headquarters of the Prada Foundation on the Grand Canal in Venice, is once again open to the public thanks to “The small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata“, an exhibition prepared by Germano Celant.

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The American, Michael Mann, director, screenwriter, producer and one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American cinema – will be chairing the jury at the 69th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September 2012),

Michael Mann is famous for having created some of the most successful (altro…)

23 June 2012 is the Night of Art in Venice when thanks to Art Night 2012, conceived and coordinated by Venice’s Ca’Foscari University in conjunction with the city municipality, more than 80 venues, including Art Galleries, Museums, Foundations, Buildings, Italian and foreign Universities and Libraries will remain (altro…)

From July 22nd to October 14th 2012

After achieving great success in Switzerland and Rome, the “Tiepolo Nero” exhibition is coming to Venice, specifically to the halls of the Ca’Rezzonico, the Museum of Eighteenth Century Venice. It offers a unique opportunity to admire all the graphic works by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) together, and, for the first time, the plates belonging to the (altro…)

16 June – 16 September 2012

Thanks to the Monteverdi Vivaldi Festival 2012, from 16 June to 16 September Venice will be transformed into the capital of baroque music, with no fewer than twenty concerts listed on the calendar. The title of the event promoted by the “Venetian Centre for Baroque Music” will be “The Fury of Youth”. The concerts will be held in magnificent locations: Teatro La Fenice, Ca’ Foscari University, the Venetian Institute for Science, Literature and Art, the Prada Foundation, the Pinault Foundation, Ca’ Zenobio, Palazzo dal Mosto, and Palazzo Pisani Moretta, to name just a few.

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8 – 24 June 2012

From 8 to 24 June 2012 dance will take centre stage in Venice with “Awakenings“, the 8th International Festival of Contemporary Dance for the Venice Biennale, celebrating and reawakening life and creativity.

For two weeks, various locations (ranging from the Arsenal to numerous churches and theatres) will spoil us for choice with shows, performances, installations – including 5 world debuts, and 5 Italian debuts – as well as conferences, workshops and masterclasses with some of the leaders from the contemporary scene.

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18 May / 30 August 2012
The Doge’s Palace, Sala dello Scrutinio, Venice

In tribute to the America’s Cup, the qualifying races for which were organised in Venice, the prestigious collection of portolans and nautical charts from the Correr Museum will be on display at the Doge’s Palace, including more than fifty extremely rare examples of nautical cartography dating from the 14th to the 18th century. Original instruments, once (altro…)

The most important Regattas, ACWS Venice Championship Racing, valid for the America’s Cup will take place from Thursday 17 to Sunday, May 20, 2012 in Saint’ Mark Bacin.

But The America’s Cup at Venice is not all about regattas. There is also a full programme of events and social appointments (altro…)

Palazzo Grassi – François Pinault’s Foundation
from 15 April to 15 July 2012

A real model lounges in a sparsely decorated room as part of Urs Fischer’s “Madame Fisscher“, a monograph exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy  until 15 July 2012. Fischer is the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the billionaire art collector François Pinault’s Palace on the Grand Canal.

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Until 20 May 2012
Torre Massimiliana, Sant’Erasmo Island

Open until 20 May 2012 in the Torre Massimiliana of Sant’Erasmo, a lush and seldom visited island of the Venetian Lagoon, is the graphicnovel.it exhibition, which is the hub of a little-known form of art in Italy, despite there being many authors born in Italy who have gained international recognition, particularly in France. The Graphic Novel is the artistic and literary movement which (altro…)

From 6 April to 8 July 2012
Palazzo Franchetti

From 6 April 2012, at the “PICASSO and VOLLARD. The genius and the art dealer” exhibition, for the first time in Italy, you’ll be able to admire, in the wonderful rooms of the Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal, the 150 works that illustrate in depth the long and thwarted ties between the art dealer Ambroise Vollard and he who would become the greatest artist of the twentieth (altro…)

From 30 March to 15 June 2012
Casa dei tre Oci – Giudecca Island

From 30 March to 15 June 2012, in the enchanting setting of the CASA DEI TRE OCI – International Photography Centre, on Giudecca Island, you’ll be able to admire 140 photographs by Elliott Erwitt, which are among the most famous and prominent of his entire career.

As a member since 1953 of the Magnum Agency, founded at the end of the Second World War by a group of photographers including Henri Cartier- (altro…)

Sunday 15 april 2012

A non competitive walk for everybody, young and old, school parties, families, through calli (the streets) and campielli (squares): a special way to discover Venice.

Two routes are available through all the major sights and wonderful spots of Venice: you decide to run… or walk as you like, seeing all the (altro…)

From March 31st to July 8th 2012
Ca’Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art 

On the occasion of the major Gustav Klimt in the mark of Hoffmann and the Secession exhibition celebrating in Italy the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth and held at the Museo Correr, the International Gallery of Modern Art Ca’ Pesaro will be presenting an exhibition dedicated to the influence of the great painting on Italian art in the early 20th century, culminating (altro…)

Our Magazine VISIT VENICE – Spring 2012 is on line!!

Everything happens in Venice (Exhibition, Feast, Regatta) during spring 2012 in a practical magazine.

You can download or print our Magazine.

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Correr Museum
From 24 March to 8 July 2012

On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt, and a century after his acclaimed participation in the Venice Biennale (1910), the Viennese artist returns to the lagoon as the protagonist of an extraordinary exhibition, which will be held in the display rooms of the Correr Museum from the 24th March to the 8th July 2012. The exhibition is the result of a joint production of the Foundation of Civic Museums of Venice and the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, in collaboration with ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE and the Arthemisia Group. (altro…)

24 February – 6 May 2012
The Doge’s Palace

The first dossier exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, opening on the 24th February 2012, will be dedicated to Celebrations at the Doge’s Palace: on show will be the valuable prints drawn by Canaletto and engraved by Giambattista Brustolon, works which are well-known even to the general public and which were mostly set in the Doge’s Palace itself. The subjects of the prints can (altro…)

From 10 March to 25 June 2012
Fortuny Palace

A wonderful exhibition dedicated to Diana Vreeland, fashion icon, famous fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, editor in chief of Vogue and special consultant for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will be opened on the 10th March 2012 at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice .

The first individual exhibition dedicated to the extraordinary and complex figure of Diana Vreeland (Paris, 1903- New York, 1989) will (altro…)

From 12 to 20 May 2012

The stars of the world’s longest running sporting tournament, the America’s Cup World Series will be sailing the waters of the Venice Lagoon from 12 to 20 May 2012. The general program for the event was presented this morning at the Borsa Italiana del Turismo (BIT tourism trade fair) in Milan.

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February 2nd to 26th, 2012
Palazzetto Tito

A collection of creative reworkings of legendary Moleskine notebooks by artists, architects, designers, illustrators and writers active on the international scene can be seen at Palazzetto Tito of Venice until February 26, 2012.

The Show MyDetour – Travel Notebooks is part of an international Moleskin project dedicated to young artists, students, the creative community and everyone who loves to paint, illustrate, write and create freely in their notebooks.

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Until 21th, February 2012

The 2012 Venice Carnival was inaugurated by the opening in Saint Mark’s Square of the “Wine Fountain” stage machinery designed by the chief designer of La Scala of Milan, Angelo Lodi. The fountain, which will remain open until February 21, 2012, was created in honour of an old custom: taverners used to sell their products in Saint Mark’s Square right in the shadow of the Bell Tower of Saint Mark to keep the valuable wine cool, which is the origin of the Venetian expression “ombra de vin” to indicate the (altro…)

From August 29 to November 25, 2012
Giardini and Arsenale

Several days ago, during a meeting with representatives of the 41 countries participating in the 13th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition, David Chipperfield, the new Director of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale, personally announced the theme for this year’s Biennale, which runs from August 29 to November 25, 2012 at the Giardini and the Arsenale (opening (altro…)

Until 21th, February 2012

Since February 4th, a massive 9-meter-high wooden has been positioned on a floating barge in Venice for Carnival 2012. This new symbol of the carnival festival, a spectacular giant machine designed by renowned artist, sculptor and Venetian mask maker Guerrino Lovato, is intended to resurrect one of the oldest Venetian traditions related to the history of the city and Carnival.

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Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
December 17th 2011 – March 11th 2012

A major retrospective was inaugurated on Saturday, December 17th, in Venice, at the Museum of Ca’ Pesaro, aimed at discovering, tracing back and documenting, through more than two hundred works – including paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings – the creative career of Gennaro Favai (Venice 1879-1958), a Venetian artist who succeeded (altro…)

From November 24th 2011 to February 26th 2012
Academy Galleries

The exhibition “A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto. Paintings from the Hermitage at the Academy Galleries” was opened in November 24th 2011 in Venice. It was made possible by the exceptional loan granted by the Museum of St. Petersburg to the Venetian galleries of two paintings rarely – if ever – seen before in Italy, namely: “the Portrait of Spouses” and the “Madonna delle Grazie“.

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From February 4th to 21st 2012

THE GRAN THEATRE IN ST. MARK’S SQUARE
From 11 to 21 February 2012 

This year too, on the occasion of Carnival 2012, a big Stage will be set up in St. Mark’s Square. The “Grand Theatre” will be the heart of one of the most famous events in the world. Besides the traditional shows, such as the “Angel Flight”, the “Festa delle Marie” (or “Feast of Marie”) and the “More Beautiful Mask”, it will also host performances of the most innovative companies, including (altro…)

From January 2012

The Bevilacqua – La Masa Foundation is planning for 2012 an intense calendar of very interesting exhibition events.

It will start on February 2nd 2012, with two exhibitions: the one to be opened at the Gallery in St. Mark’s Square, a collective end-of-stay exhibition of the young artists currently assignees of studies; and the other, to be presented in Palazzetto Tito, a collection of (altro…)

From November 16th 2011
Cini Foundation

On November 16th 2011, at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio (Venice), at 11.30 am, the new ELONORA DUSE ROOM was officially presented to the public, a new permanent space dedicated to the memory of the great Italian actress.

The project stems from the desire to turning the Eleonora Duse Archives of the Giorgio Cini Foundation into a “place” open to the public (altro…)

From December 17th 2011 to April 1st 2012
Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Palazzo Franchetti

At Palazzo Franchetti, the seat of the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Venice, an exhibition entitled “Photography in Japan (1860-1910) is being held since Saturday, December 17th 2011. Masterpieces”. It is the first retrospective ever organized in Italy dedicated to the great Japanese and European (altro…)

From 26th December 2011 to 6th January 2012

A thick programme of theatre shows for everybody will entertain old and young, locals and tourists during the Christmas holidays and New Year’s Eve in Venice and Mestre.

The underlying theme will be the circus and clowns.

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Until 30th April 2012
Murano Island, Venice

On 9th December 2011, on the Island of Murano, in the Museum of Glass, the exhibition “1861-2011: UN’ISOLA, UN’ARTE, UN MUSEO” [one island, one art, one museum] was inaugurated. It is a great retrospective exhibition on the art of glass-making, which allows visitors to learn about the history and life of this Venetian island, famous all over the world for its glass works of art. In 1861 an archive that held information on the long history of glass making in Murano was created. The (altro…)

Open until 21st February 2012
Campo San Polo


On Wednesday 9th December, in Campo San Polo, the largest ice skating rink ever set up in Venice was inaugurated. It will be open to the public until Venice Carnival end, 21st February 2012.

There is a 450 square metre egg-shaped rink, surrounded by a ‘village of stalls’, a traditional Christmas market, with locally made arts-and- (altro…)

Until 1st January 2012
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Until 1st January 2012 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is the venue of the third edition of Massimo Barbero’s curated project “Themes&Variations”. It will be held in the halls of the Gallery dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The masterpieces of the museum are thematically and scientifically compared to pieces of art created by more modern artists from other collections. The aim is to guide visitors and help them fully understand the work of the (altro…)

Celebrating New Year’s Eve in Venice is, without doubt, one of the most romantic ways to spend the last day of the year.

This year – like in the last few years – there will be a great Love Celebration in St Mark’s Square.

The arrival of the new year will be celebrated by a lovely, choral group kiss followed by a toast and fireworks, which will light up the Venice Lagoon and create a spectacular pattern of colours reflected in the water.