VISIT VENICE Spring 2013 by Tania Danieli

Visit Venice Spring 2013

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Indice: ART / EXHIBITIONS Pag. 3 MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE Pag. 17 SPORT AND FOLKLORE Pag. 17

Events: ART / EXHIBITIONS

greatest Italian photographers: Gianni Berengo Gardin. The most complete anthological exhibi--Gianni Berengo Gardin. Stories of tion of the master. A unique and unmissable exhibition of 130 photos, curated by Photographer Denis Curti (artistic director of the Casa Casa dei Tre Oci - Giudecca dei Tre Oci), who accompanied him on Until May 12, 2013 an immense analogical journeyamong 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of black and white photographic prints that make up his immense archive, to reread all his shots, including those unpublished or rediscovered.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 Following the great success of the Elliott the Touring Club, which inspired him to Erwitt PERSONAL BEST exhibition, discover the most hidden corners of our theCasa dei Tre Oci of Venice presents, country, and the photos that have until from Februrary 1st to May 12th 2013, a now remained unpublished and are being world premier retrospective of one of the presented here for the first time.

www.venezia.net 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. --Maurizio Galimberti PAESAGGIO ITALIA Until 12th May 2013 Palazzo Franchetti

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 narra-

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tes 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. --Fortuny and Wagner. Wagnerism in the visual arts in Italy From December 8th 2012 to April 8th 2013 Fortuny Museum This exhibition is the result of a long re-

www.venezia.net search 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. Wagnerism was a true cultural fashion that, in its diverse expressions (literary, musical, and painting) enjoyed widespread and profound diffusion. In the field of the visual arts it was one of the most typical manifestations of the aesthetic style at the turn of the eighteenth century, between late Naturalism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau. 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, Giuseppe Palanti, Cesare Viazzi, Eugenio Prati, Gaetano Previati, Alberto Martini, Adolfo Wildt) who were 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. 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

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as Antoni Tapies, Bill Viola, and Anselm Kiefer. --AMALRIC WALTER The rediscovery of the pâte de verre 2nd February – 12th May 2013 Glass Museum, Murano

The secrets and creative innovations associated with pâte de verre, one of the most ancient and unusual ways of working glass, is examined in a major exhibition dedicated to the French artist, Amalric Walter (Sèvres, 1870 – Lury-sur-Arnon, 1959) and his artistic production, with an unprecedented and comprehensive range of works. Already mastered in the past by Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, and also known to the great glassmakers of Murano, this technique lived through a new flourishing period in France between the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, at a time of great change in the

www.venezia.net visual, decorative and plastic arts. It was in this context that after many trials and experiments, based in part on the studies and publications of such predecessors as Henry Cros and Albert Dammouse, that Amalric Walter succeeded in finding the mysterious “binder” that was jealously guarded by the masters. There are over 450 objects on show, organised chronologically, covering the entire production of the artist and highlighting the various themes tackled with this special technique. These are accompanied by paper documents, original photographs, unique pieces and objects with religious symbols, in which emerges the special alchemy of his work, formed of sweetness, meditation, fantasy and colour. --POSTWAR. ITALIAN PROTAGONISTS Peggy Guggenheim Collection February 23 – April 15, 2013 Five postwar Italian artists, presented in the exhibition galleries, with an original selection of works that characterize the art of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Piero Dorazio (1927-2005), Enrico Castellani (b. 1930), and Paolo Scheggi (1940-1971), and with an additional ‘study’ exhibition of the work of Rodolfo Arico (19302002). An exhibition narrative that looks afresh at the notion of Italian painting in the period of the waning of Art informel, evident in the career of a master such as Fontana. The other artists, deploying an emerging pictorial language peculiar to

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the 60s, offer an international audience a rich vein of Italian creativity, predicated on a new concept of the art of painting, that proposed the chromatic and symbolic force of the monochrome as in both visual and conceptual terms. --FRAGILE? Cini Foundation - San Giorgio Island From April, 8 to July, 28, 2013

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. In particular, “Fragile?” will feature ap-

www.venezia.net proximately 30 works by some the most interesting international artists of our time who have also used the glass as their poetic medium – from Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys, up to Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Giovanni Anselmo and Jannis Kounellis, to name just a few. The “Fragile?” exhibition takes into account another equally important aspect of the use of glass in the visual arts of the 1900s and the century that has just begun: the use of glass as a found object, as a material of particular metaphorical and linguistic qualities. Rather than the precision or originality of the design of the artefact, what comes into play here is the symbolic potential of the transparency, fragility and strength (Fragile?) of imprecision and smoothness in the construction of a situation that voluntarily draws on the experience of everyday life and language of contemporary art. Among others, “Fragile?” showcases the work of 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 and Joseph Kosuth. --Birolli, Santomaso, DeLuigi Vedova: Works from XXiV Venice Biennale From March 7th to April 28th

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2013 Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art

In this Biennale year, Ca’ Pesaro will be offering a cycle of exhibitions in Room 10 that focus on the city’s cultural production through some of the major events of the late 20th century in Venice. It will examine a fundamental group of works which entered the Gallery’s collections in 1948, during the24th Venice Biennale. These are Trinité-sur-Mer – Breton port (1947) by Renato Birolli (Verona 1905 – Milan 1959), Homage to Sara (1948) by Mario Deluigi (Treviso 1901 – Venice 1978), Interior (1947) by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice 1907 – 1990) and The ford (1948) by Emilio Vedova (Venice 1919 – 2006), which for the museum represent the start of its most recent history, coinciding with a broadening of its identity to include some of the most incisive works of the post-war period, with a focus that was at once international, national and local.

www.venezia.net --Fashion Vocation: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada From March 8th to May 5th 2013 Museo Correr

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and creative genius of this artist, who combines glamour, fashion and cuttingedge design in a wholly original manner. The initiative is part of the larger “DoVe – Donne a Venezia Creatività, economia e felicità” event promoted by the Assessorato, which sees a number of Venetian cultural institutions collectively involved in focusing on the role of women in society. --Rudolf Stingel From 7th April to 31st December 2013 Palazzo Grassi – François Pinault Foundation Organised by the artist himself - with the coordination of Elena Geuna - the exhibition dedicated to Rudolf Stingel, opening 5th April 2013, will extend throughout the building’s entire exhibitive area, involving entrance hall and the first and second floors. It will be the first time that the entire museum area is dedicated to a single artist.

The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Assessorato alla Cittadinanza delle donne and Assessorato alle Attività Culturali del Comune di Venezia are celebrating the 8th March with an exceptional representative, fashion designerAgatha Ruiz de la Prada, who will be displaying a selection of her creations in the Ballroom of the Correr. These garments will enliven a creative, colourful “fête dansante” in which the protagonists will be the forms, colours

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works between New York and Merano, where he was born. His work has been at the centre of one-man exhibitions in many international institutions. The project is part of a programme of monographs of great contemporary artists, opened in April 2012 with Urs Fischer (“Madame Fisscher”), and presented in alternative and addition to the thematic exhibitions of the François Pinault Foundation collection. The “Rudolf Stingel” exhibition will stay open in Palazzo Grassi until 31st December 2013, for the duration of the 55th Biennial of Contemporary Art: for the occasion, there will also be a new exhibition in Punta della Dogana from 31st May 2013. --Manet. Return to Venice From 24th April to 18th August 2013 Doge’s Palace Manet. Return to Venice is the name of the exhibition the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will host from 24th April to 18th August 2013 in the monumental rooms of the Doge’s Palace, planned with the special collaboration of the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of masterpieces by this extraordinary painter. The exhibition arises from a need to undertake a critical survey of the cultural models that inspired the young Manet

when he embarked on a career as painter early in life. These models, which have hitherto referred almost exclusively to the influence of Spanish painting on his art, actually included much Italian Renaissance art, as the Venetian exhibition will show: alongside his masterpieces, there will also be a series of exceptional studies inspired by great 16th-century Venetian paintings, from Titian to Tintoretto and Lotto in particular. The Venetian exhibition will also highlight his close links with Italy and Venice. Curated by Stéphane Guégan, with the scientific direction of Guy Cogeval and Gabriella Belli, the exhibition will be a major event. The project has been made possible thanks not only to the exceptional loans from the Musée d’Orsay, but also from many other international institutions.

www.venezia.net --Venice at the time of Manet, in photographs of the period From April 24th to September 15th 2013 Palazzo Ducale, Appartamento dogale e Sala dello Scrutinio

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the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia vast archives and in particular from the Archivio Fotografico Naya, focus on the experiences and routes Manet followed in a city by then resigned to its loss of any major political or economic role and already looking to reconstruct the myth of its historic and artistic past. --DISCOVERING VEDOVA From May 18th to October 13th 2013 Museo Correr e Ca’ Rezzonico An encounter with Vedova’s work always produces new, stimulating critical perspectives, especially if this occurs within monumental, historically rich spaces like the rooms of the permanent collections of the Museo Correr and of Ca’ Rezzonico, as is the case with the project by the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, curated by Germano Celant.

The major exhibition dedicated to Edouard Manet in the Doge’s Palace provides the opportunity to present the history and atmosphere of Venice in the mid-19th century, experienced by the French artist during his stays in the city. During these visits, the Frenchman was fascinated by the city and the history of its monuments and works of art, which influenced his own manner, leaving visible traces in his production. Prints, guides, publications and, especially, photographs of the period drawn from

The project rediscovers and at the same time stresses the work of Emilio Vedova and, with some of his most forceful works, makes possible a comparison with the glorious artistic history of Venice within two of its leading museums: Ca’ Rezzonico with its visionary works by Tiepolo, and the Museo Correr, which conserves exceptional examples of great Venetian art dating from the 16th to 18th century.

www.venezia.net --VENICE BIENNALE 55th International Art Exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico 1st June – 24th November 2013 This festival will take place from 1st June to 24th November 2013 in the Gardens and the Arsenal (preview 29th, 30th and 31st May 2013), 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 Biennial, 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

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imagination.” --SEGUSO. Art Glass 1031 - 1973 From May 18th to September 29th 2013 Glass Museum, Murano

This exhibition results from long research by Belgian scholar Marc Heiremans, an expert in the history of contemporary Murano glass, into one of the finest glass makers of the 20th century: “Seguso Vetri d’Arte”. Through a selection of masterpieces, it examines the evolution of a family business, a ‘dynasty’ specialising in working glass that made a vital contribution to the development of this art during the 20th century. The family forge, in whichAntonio Seguso, his son Archimede and his grandchildren work, became a company in the early 1930s during a period of great innovation, experimentation and manu-

www.venezia.net facturing design. Covering a chronological period ranging from the creation of the company to the period in which the members of the family separate, stimulated to try different, independent roads, the exhibition traces out the fundamental artistic contribution made by this famous glass maker. --Tapies. The Gaze of the artist From June 1st to November 24th 2013 Palazzo Fortuny

Antoni Tàpies’ ‘gaze’, his way of perceiving things, of looking around himself without limits of time and space, in a striving for answers about the universe, human nature, art, the mystery of life. A year after the deathof the brilliant Cata-

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lan artist (Barcelona, 1923-2012), a key exponent of international informal art, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Vervoordt Foundation pay tribute to him through a fascinating exhibition aiming to reveal the profound essence of the art produced by this major figure in 20th century art. The exhibition will include key works by the great artist himself, together with a group of works from his own collection and those of some of the most noted contemporary artists, invited specifically to explore the themes and ideas of Tàpies’ art. --Anthony Caro. Sculptures From June 1st to October 27th 2013 Museo Correr, Venezia The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr will be the setting for the first major Italian retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest of living sculptors: Sir Anthony Caro (New Malden, Surrey, 1924). The versatile British artist, who has made an important mark in the history of art since the 1960s, has radically “revolutionised” his art. After a strictly figurative beginning, under the influence of his teacher, Henry Moore, he drifted away from sculptural tradition to create revolutionary assemblages, welded and bolted together, painted in bright colours and positioned on the floor within the viewer’s space; these were abstract works but rich in ideal content. This new, fascinating sculptural language established him as

www.venezia.net a key figure in the development of 20th century sculpture alongside David Smith, Mark Di Suvero and Richard Serra. --ROYAL PALACE - Imperial Apartments in St.Mark Square Re- open after restoration Correr Museum

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) 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

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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.

www.venezia.net MUSIC, THEATRE, DANCE --LE MUSICHE DEI GRIMANI A REVIEW OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE MUSIC Until June 2013

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

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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. SPORT AND FOLKLORE --Vogalonga 2012 Sunday, May 19th, 2013 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. It’s all about being there. ---

www.venezia.net FESTA DELLA SENSA 11/12th May 2012 Every year Venice attracts millions of visitors to events that are famous the world over. The Festa della Sensa, is one of the city’s best known festivals that bring to life its thousand year history and its close ties to the sea and the art of “Voga alla Veneta” rowing. The Sensa (Ascension Day) Festival was celebrated by the Venetian Republic on the day of Christ’s Ascension. Sensa is the Venetian dialect word for ascension. It commemorates two important events in the life of the Republic: one on 9 May in the year 1000, when Doge Pietro Orseolo II came to the rescue of the inhabitants of Dalmatia, who were under the Slav menace. The second event took place in 1177, when, in the reign of Doge Sebastiano Ziani, Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa signed the peace treaty in Venice that put an end to the century-long diatribe between the Papacy and the Empire. The rite of the Wedding with the Sea used to take place on the occasion of the Ascension Day Festival. Every year on that day the Doge on his state barge, the Bucintoro, sailed to Sant’Elena, at the level of San Pietro di Castello Church. The Bishop waited to bless him

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on a boat with gilt sides. To emphasise the Serenissima Republic’s dominion over the sea, the Festival culminated with a kind of propitiatory rite: the Doge sailed to the channel between the lagoon and the sea and threw a gold ring into the water.

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