7^th – 21^st July 2008

St. Mark’s Square is the centre of Venice, or the favourite destination of each tourist, thanks to its unique whole of monuments we can admire: the Basilica, the New and Old Procuratie, the Napoleonic Palace and its historical cafés. From today, by clicking the digital image of a tile of Palazzo Ducale on one’s mobile phone, it will be possible to contribute to the preservation and upkeep of St. Mark’s Square in Venice. Such initiative, called ‘Sms Venice’  is part of that programme according to which a series of summer concerts have been planned by the Venetian Town Hall for the Marciana area, running from 7^th to 21^st July 2008.

This year five concerts will be held in St. Mark’s: the series will be opened on 8^th July with Momix’s performance, Elton John’s one is planned for 9^th July; we are looking forward to the performance of the great pianist Giovanni Allevi on 14^th July and of Gilberto Gil on 15^th. The show will end on 22^nd with a concert for Emergency: the singers will be Joan Baez and

8^th June – 21^st September 2008

On 8^th June the usual summer initiative was started by Aperol, namely the partner of Intrapresae Guggenheim Collection, which for a long time has accompanied and freshened the Sundays of the people visiting the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

From 8^th June to 21^st September, all Sunday mornings, Piero Ballarin, a creative Venetian barman, will offer the well-known ‘spritz’ to those who will decide to spend a part of their day among Picasso’s, Kandinsky’s Pollock’s, Chagall’s, Magritte’s and De Chirico’s masterpieces.

People will have the opportunity to visit the temporary exhibition Coming of Age. American Art from 1850 to 1950 which will be held by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection from 28^th June to 12^th October. Winding inside the renewed venues of the Venetian museum, this exhibition, with more than seventy works of art among which paintings and sculptures, will display a

14 - 29 June 2008

The 6^th Festival of Contemporary Dance of Venice Biennal, directed by Ismael Ivo and entitled Beauty, this year is going to propose twelve performances – five of which to be world premiered – a workshop of chorographical training whose results will be an experiment of production for four young choreographers and a video-installation visible for the whole period of the festival. The festival will be held in the venues  of the Arsenal and at the Malibran Theatre and it will be introduced by a symposium to discuss the theme of beauty, together with dancers and choreographers as well as studiers, writers and journalists.

PROGRAMME
Beauty Symposium
Meetings and lectures
Entrance to the Corderie – Arsenale
14 June, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. / 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

David Michalek (USA)
Slow Dancing [European premiere] video-installation
Entrance to the Corderie – Arsenale
14 - 29 June, 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. (closed on 18 and 23 June)

Ballet National de Marseille (France)
Métamorphoses [Italian premiere]
Teatro alle Tese – Arsenale
14 - 16 June, 8 p.m.
15 June, 10 p.m.

Bonachela Dance Company (UK)
Square Map of Q4 [Italian premiere]
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
14Man will casinos und da lässt man sich von seiner Vernunft nicht dazwischen kommen. June, 10 p.m.
15 June, 8 p.m.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company (USA)
Beauty and the Brut / Bloom / This is the Story of a Girl in a World [Italian premiere]
Teatro Ma

23rd May -15th June 2008

At the Bugno Art Gallery in Campo San Fantin a one-man exhibition by Joe Tilson have been held since 23rd May: Tilson in Murano. This original and eclectic English artist is displaying, until 15th June, his glass works of art that represent the fruits of a work of observation carried out for two years in the kiln of Silvio Signoretto in Murano. His glass sculptures transmit symbolic signs in space, absorbing ancient characters as well as words of a mythical past. Such complex operation wants to show how contemporary art is able to make ancient historical expressions topical again.

Tania Danieli

From june 2 to november 2, 2008

The exhibition Mimmo Paladino at Villa Pisani is set in the magnificent Villa and in the garden, компютриwhich will be a sort of prestigious stage for the sculptures and paintings of the Italian artist, along a magnificent tour showing the most charming corners of Villa Pisani, from Tiepolo’s room, to the Stables, from the Orangery to the Coffee House and to the wonderful Maze of hedges, one of the few still preserved in Europe.
The artist planned a tour with more than seventy masterpieces, from the well-known “Dormienti ai Sette Scudi”, from the tower in terra cotta, to the statues exhibited at the MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) in Rovereto, besides those expressly developed for this exhibition. He is the author of the famous salt mountain in Plebiscito Square in Naples, of the mosaic for Ara Pacis in Rome and of the