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DISCOVER AND ENJOY
This month’s round-up of shows and art exhibitions in Venice, with a focus on the Architecture Biennale 2021.
VENETIA 1600. Nascite e Rinascite ART at Palazzo Ducale • until 25 March 2022
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HYPERVENEZIA PHOTOGRAPHY
at Palazzo Grassi • until 9 January 2022
The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection GLASS ART
at Le Stanze del Vetro (Island of San Giorgio Maggiore) • until 22 November
Domus Grimani. La Sala del Doge and “Archinto” by Georg Baselitz ARCHITECTURE
at Museo di Palazzo Grimani a Santa Maria Formosa • until 27 November 2022
SECOND ACT by Maarten Baas INSTALLATION at Fondaco dei Tedeschi • until 21 November
STOP PAINTING an exhibition by Peter Fischli CONTEMPORARY ART
at Fondazione Prada • until 21 November
BRUCE NAUMAN. Contrapposto Studies CONTEMPORARY ART
at Punta della Dogana • until 9 January 2022
MARIO DE BIASI. Fotografie 1947-2003
PHOTOGRAPHY at Casa dei Tre Oci • until 9 January 2022
VENETIA 1600. Nascite e Rinascite
Palazzo Ducale Appartamento del Doge
Antonio Canal (known as Canaletto) Piazzetta San Marco con la Loggetta e la Libreria, 1730-1740 Roma, Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica
PALAZZO DUCALE, UNTIL 25 MARCH 2022 THE SIXTEEN CENTURIES OF VENICE
ART 421-2021. This year Venice celebrates its 1600th anniversary with a monumental exhibition in the place that symbolises the power and glory of the Serenissima: the Doges’ Palace in St Mark’s Square. A great illustrated story that aims to tell the myth of Venice through the centuries, with a scenographic layout divided into 12 sections. Visitors can retrace the salient stages of the history and identity of Venice, which has been called upon several times to redesign its future, through works and documents by the greatest artists who have worked in the lagoon over almost a millennium – Carpaccio, Bellini, Titian, Veronese, Tiepolo, Rosalba Carriera, Guardi and Canaletto, right up to Canova, Hayez, Appiani; and then Pollock, Vedova, Tancredi, Santomaso – but also the many architects, talented men of art, writers and musicians who have accompanied its development. The last room is an invitation to reflect on the future, on safeguarding the heritage of this city and on the search for sustainability.
VENETIA 1600. Nascite e Rinascite Palazzo Ducale - Appartamento del Doge. San Marco, 1. www.palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/venetia-1600-nascite-e-rinascite
PALAZZO GRASSI, UNTIL 9 JANUARY 2022
IMMERSIVE JOURNERY IN THE LAGOON CITY
HYPERVENEZIA. Palazzo Grassi. Campo San Samuele, 3231 www.palazzograssi.it PHOTOGRAPHY An exhibition specifically dedicated to the city of Venice on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. A show presenting for the first time to the public the #VeniceUrbanPhotoProject conceived and realised by Mario Peliti, who since 2006 has been mapping the city in an ambitious archive of photographs of the city of Venice, which to date has reached over 12,000 shots, all in black and white and with no people around.
A MUSEUM WITHIN A MUSEUM
Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia Campo della Carità, 1050. www.gallerieaccademia.it Two new monumental halls have recently been set up at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, offering a new exhibition itinerary dedicated to painting in Venice and the Veneto in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A precious selection of works, some of which have never been exhibited before, or never been admired in their current form, are the result of restoration work carried out for the occasion. Among the restored masterpieces is Tiepolo’s “Chastisement of the Serpents” (see photo), a canvas over 13 metres long from the Venetian Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano.
LE STANZE DEL VETRO (ISLAND OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE), UNTIL 22 NOVEMBER
GLASS ANIMALS
GLASS ART The “The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection” exhibition at “Le Stanze del Vetro” will retrace – in an original and fascinating way – the history of 20th-century Murano glass from an unusual angle: the glass animal. The over 750 works of art – representing, among others, elephants, hippos, cats, giraffes, bears, parrots, fish, turtles, foxes and tiny, lamp-worked life-sized insects – belong to the personal collection that Pierre Rosenberg, art historian and former Director/President of the Louvre in Paris, put together over thirty years. https://lestanzedelvetro.org Photos © Enrico Fiorese
CHURCH OF SAN LORENZO, UNTIL 17 OCTOBER
INVITATION TO DANCE
PERFORMANCE How to reconcile the activity of an artist with her political commitment to nature? The Dominican-born choreographer and dancer Isabel Lewis responds with an initiative that involves performers and visitors in dance, song and music in the 16th-century Church of San Lorenzo and outdoors in the surrounding areas. The exhibition performance, entitled O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A., invites to a “dance across the Ocean” by teaching movements that adapt the body to the flow of sound as if one were being pulled across the waters of the Ocean.
O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A. Every Friday and Saturday, 3pm-8pm at Ocean Space Campo S. Lorenzo, 5069. www.ocean-space.org
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
This is one of the most important museums of European and American art of the twentieth century in Italy. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice and presents her personal collection, masterpieces from the Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof collection, a sculpture garden as well as temporary exhibitions. With the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the Galleria di Palazzo Cini and Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana it is connected in the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, a unique cultural itinerary along eight centuries of art.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701. Online ticketing is mandatory. www.guggenheim-venice.it
PH © MATTEO DE FINA
DIALOGUE BETWEEN ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY
ARCHITECTURE Two new projects reinforce the dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary, in a unique place in the architectural and historical-artistic panorama of the city. The refurbishment of “La Sala del Doge”, which will return to its Renaissance splendour, and the “Archinto” exhibition featuring new works by German artist Georg Baselitz, some of which were created specifically for the Palazzo, will remain on loan to the museum. This is the first time in Venice that we have seen such a collaboration between a contemporary artist and a state museum.
DOMUS GRIMANI. La Sala del Doge and “Archinto” by Georg Baselitz Museo di Palazzo Grimani a Santa Maria Formosa. Castello, 4858. polomusealeveneto.beniculturali.it
FONDACO DEI TEDESCHI, UNTIL 21 NOVEMBER
WHEN THE CURTAIN OPENS, WHAT WILL WE SEE?
INSTALLATION In the inner courtyard of Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a luxury department store and cultural centre for the city of Venice, visitors become spectators, participants in an experience with an uncertain outcome, like the one experienced during the pandemic. Four long red curtains, suspended from the fourth floor, the courtyard and the water gate conceal a performance whose plot is unknown. “Second Act” is the name of this site-specific installation by Dutch artist and designer Maarten Baas (in collaboration with set designer Theun Mosk), on the occasion of the Architecture Biennale. On the fourth floor you can also visit “Sweepers”, an exhibition that is part of the famous Real-Time Clocks series.
SECOND ACT by Maarten Baas (in collaboration with Theun Mosk). Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Calle del Fontego dei Tedeschi (Rialto Bridge). www.dfs.com
© MARCO CAPPELLETTI PH
FONDAZIONE PRADA, UNTIL 21 NOVEMBER
REJECTION OR REINVENTION OF PAINTING?
CONTEMPORARY ART Described by Swiss artist Peter Fischli as “a kaleidoscope of repudiated gestures”, the project explores a series of specific ruptures within the history of painting in the last 150 years. It intends to understand if a further development is taking place today and if the current digital revolution can also cause a new crisis of painting or, on the contrary, contribute to its renewal. The artist devised this exhibition as a plurality of different narratives told by himself in the first person, with more than 110 artworks by over 80 artists.
“Stop Painting” an exhibition by Peter Fischli Fondazione Prada. Santa Croce, 2215 (Ca’ Corner della Regina). fondazioneprada.org
PUNTA DELLA DOGANA, UNTIL 9 JANUARY 2022
THE CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTS OF NAUMAN
CONTEMPORARY ART “Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies”, curated by Carlos Basualdo and Caroline Bourgeois in close collaboration with the artist himself, is part of the series of monographic exhibitions organised by Palazzo Grassi with the active participation of the artist at the heart of the show. The major exhibition dedicated to Bruce Nauman (1941, Indiana, USA) is an homage to one of the major figures of the contemporary art international scene and to his constant exploration of the artist studio as a space where creation takes place, of the body through performances and of sound. The unique exhibition at Punta della Dogana brings together older works and the most recent ones, some of which have never been exhibited in Europe before. The exhibition in Venice is focused on a series of recent video installations that Nauman has developed in the last five years and are related to a single channel video from 1968, “Walk with Contrapposto.”
Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies. Punta della Dogana. Campo San Samuele 3231 / Dorsoduro, 2. www.palazzograssi.it
PHOTO © MARCO CAPPELLETTI
THE PALACE OF DOGE GRIMANI IS REBORN
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 1600th anniversary of the birth of Venice, Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, the 18th-century residence of the humanist doge Pietro Grimani, opens to the public. The precious 16th-century building on the Grand Canal will guide visitors on a journey through the paintings in the Grimani Albero d’Oro family’s collections, as well as unpublished photographs by Patrick Tourneboeuf, which tell the story of the palace before and after the work. Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. San Polo, 2033. www.fondazionealberodoro.org
PHOTOS © UGO CARMENI
WORK IN PROGRESS AT THE GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA
The world’s largest collection of Veneto art has reopened in recent weeks, returning visitors to the corridor designed by Andrea Palladio (after two years of restoration): an absolute premiere while awaiting the completion of the new exhibition layout. The rearrangement work will gradually lead to the opening of new sections, such as the room dedicated to the reconstruction of the ceiling of Palazzo Corner Spinelli, painted by Giorgio Vasari, the opening of a room dedicated to the Bassano canvases, the setting up of a new room for the exhibition of graphic masterpieces from the Cabinet of Drawings, one of the richest collections in Italy, with no less than 20 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. The Gallerie dell’Accademia has also announced that British Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor will be the first British artist to be honoured with a major exhibition at the museum. The exhibition, postponed from 2021 because of the pandemic, will be presented during the Venice International Art Biennale in 2022, opening on 20 April and running until 9 October 2022.
Gallerie dell’Accademia Dorsoduro, 1050 (Campo della Carità). www.gallerieaccademia.it
Ph © MARIO DE BIASI - Fellini e Masina, Venezia, 1955
CASA DEI TRE OCI, UNTIL 9 JANUARY 2022
AUTHOR’S GLANCES
MARIO DE BIASI. Fotografie 1947-2003 Casa dei Tre Oci. Giudecca, 43. www.treoci.org PHOTOGRAPHY An extensive retrospective devoted to one of Italy's greatest photographers, a tireless narrator of the world, Mario De Biasi. 216 photographs, half of them previously unpublished, recount major historical events, exotic journeys, portraits of powerful and famous people, scenes from everyday life or anonymous faces, right through to conceptual and abstract works. Considered a “neo-realist photoamateur”, De Biasi is a witness to a 20th century that today seems distant - his images of Italy with its desire for rebirth after the devastation of war, or certain memorable views of New York are famous - but also capable of an intimate look at nature and people.
EDITOR'S TIP
11 MUSEUMS, 1 TICKET
The Museum Pass is a combined ticket that offers access to all the permanent collections of Venice’s civic and affiliated museums. The Pass is valid for 6 months and allows one entry per museum site.
Full price ticket €35 > This ticket is valid for: the Museum of St Mark's Square (Doge's Palace, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana), Ca' Rezzonico-Museum of 18th-Century Art, Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo and Museum of Textiles and Costumes, Carlo Goldoni's House, Ca' PesaroInternational Gallery of Modern Art + Oriental Art Museum, Glass Museum in Murano, Lace Museum in Burano and Museum of Natural History, Palazzo Fortuny.
Info & Reservations: www.visitmuve.it Call center 848 082000. From abroad +39 041 42730892.
OUT OF TOWN
© CARLO BORLENGHI PH
GULF OF TRIESTE, 10 OCTOBER
THE GREATEST REGATTA IN THE WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT The “iconic regatta” that takes place every year in the Gulf of Trieste on the second Sunday in October is a sailing challenge that has become a symbol of yachting history. On a 13-nautical mile course, crews battle it out in a marine area between Barcola and Miramare with the finish line in Piazza Unità d’Italia (start at 10.30am). Cancelled last year due to the Bora wind, this year it comes with some novelties: the return to the “open number” of entries with no limit on the number of participants, a new organisation of the spaces on land at Porto Vecchio as a location for cultural and artistic events that will start as early as 1st October, and larger spaces for exhibitors.
Barcolana 53. Gulf of Trieste (2 hours from Venice). www.barcolana.it
VERONA FIERE, 17-19 OCTOBER
OUT OF TOWN
WINE EXPERIENCE
FAIR The international wine and spirits exhibition, which has been held in Verona annually since 1967, is taking place this year in a special edition: Vinitaly Special Edition will bring together all the main players in the sector of wine and will help you discover the entire Italian wine scenario market in a single venue. It is an opportunity to discover, try out and evaluate the entire offering, to ask producers, distributors, and institutions direct, detailed questions.
Vinitaly Special Edition Fiera Verona (1 hour from Venice) www.vinitaly.com
CREDITS: PHOTO ENNEVI-VERONAFIERE
Giardini
UNTIL 22 NOVEMBER
A DESIRE FOR ARCHITECTURE
Arsenale
ARCHITECTURE The 17th International Architecture Exhibition is titled How will we live together? and is curated by architect, educator, and scholar Hashim Sarkis. The exhibition includes 112 participants from 46 countries, with a growing delegation from Africa, Latin America and Asia and with comparable representation of men and women. It is organized into five scales, three are exhibited in the Arsenale and two in the Central Pavilion (Giardini): Among Diverse Beings, As New Households, As Emerging Communities, Across Borders, As One Planet. A part of the Exhibition is titled How will we
play together?, a contribution by 5 international participating architects who have designed a project dedicated to children’s play, on exhibit at Forte Marghera. 62 National Participations bring to life the historic Pavilions in the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice, with 3 countries taking part in the Biennale Architettura for the first time: Grenada, Iraq, Uzbekistan. The Italian Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale, sponsored and promoted by the Ministry of Culture, is curated by Alessandro Melis who presents “Comunità resilienti”.
17th International Architecture Exhibition How will we live together? Giardini, Arsenale, Forte Marghera. Open 10am-6pm. Closed on Monday. www.labiennale.org
THE TITLE
PH © JACOPO SALVI How: Speaks to practical approaches and concrete solutions, highlighting the primacy of problem-solving in architectural thinking. Will: Signals looking toward the future but also seeking vision and determination, drawing from the power of the architectural imaginary. We: Is first person plural and thus inclusive of other peoples, of other species, appealing to a more empathetic understanding of architecture.
Live: Means not simply to exist but to thrive, to flourish, to inhabit, and to express life, tapping into architecture’s inherent optimism. Together: Implies collectives, commons, universal values, highlighting architecture as a collective form and a form of collective expression. ?: Indicates an open question, not a rhetorical one, looking for (many) answers, celebrating the plurality of values in and through architecture.
By Hashim Sarkis, curator
Italian Pavilion
Displaced Empire
© MARCO ZORZANELLO PH
The World Turned Inside Out
© MARCO ZORZANELLO PH
Maison Fibre
THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
The Jury, chaired by Kazuyo Sejima, will award the official prizes. The Awards Ceremony will take place on Monday 30 August 2021.
SPECIAL GOLDEN LION
Lina Bo Bardi, the Italian architect, designer, scenographer, artist and critic naturalized as a Brazilian citizen, is the recipient of the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam of the 17thInternational Architecture Exhibition.
© PIERO BARDI PH
AN EXHIBITION WITHIN THE EXHIBITION
Following the call by the curator of the Biennale Architettura 2021, Hashim Sarkis, to envision a space
at the centre of the exhibition where all participants can come
together, Studio Other Spaces and the project co-designers have proposed a multilateral contribution on the mezzanine of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.
2021 EVENTS IN ITALY Find the next year calendar on www.whereitalia.com/venice
OCTOBER
2-10/10 | Milan | Milano Wine Week. www.milanowineweek.com 7-10/10 | Milan | MIA Milan Image Art Fair @ Superstudio Maxi. www.miafair.it 9/10– 5/12 | Alba (Piedmont) | International Alba White Truffle Fair. www.fieradeltartufo.org 10/10 | Trieste | Barcolana. www.barcolana.it 10-12/10 | Milan | World Routes. www.routesonline.com 12-13/10 | Milan | SMAU. www.smau.it 14-18/10 | Turin | International Bookfair (33rd edition). www.salonelibro.it 15-24/10 | Perugia | Eurochocolate. www.eurochocolate.com 17-19/10 | Verona | Vinitaly (54th edition). www.vinitaly.com 22-26/10 | Milan | TuttoFood. Milano World Food Exhibition. www.tuttofood.it and Host Milano. host.fieramilano.it
NOVEMBER
5-7/11 | Turin | Artissima 28th edition. www.artissima.art 5-9 /11| | Merano (Trentino-Alto Adige) | Merano Wine Festival. www.meranwinefestival.com 17-21/11 | Milan | BookCity Milano. bookcitymilano.it and Music Week. www.milanomusicweek.it 21/11 | Venice | Festa della Salute. venice.whereitalia.com 25-28/11 | Milan | EICMA International Motorcycle and Accessories Exhibition. www.eicma.it End of November | Venice | Teatro La Fenice – Opening of the Opera Season. www. teatrolafenice.it
DECEMBER
7/12| Milan | Teatro alla Scala – Opening of the Opera Season: "Machbeth" by Giuseppe Verdi (conductor: Riccardo Chailly). www.teatroallascala.org
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