VERONA, PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE
15th March – 29th June 2008

The exhibition, that will open on 15th March 2008, is organized at the Palazzo della Ragione in Verona and it testifies, by means of paintings, glassware and photos from the Collection of Venice Foundation, the one-hundred-year-old relationship between Venice and the Biennale.
It is a story represented by about fifty paintings, among which the works by Boccioni and the Ciardis, De Pisis and Carena, Casorati and Depero, Cagnaccio of San Pietro and Marussig, Vedova and Santomaso, Pizzinato, Tancredi and Plessi stand out.
A story rich in art events, cultural arguments, political revolutions and even sensational scandals, since the foundation, which took place in 1895, of the greatest Italian cultural institute, able to involve, every two years, more than 70 foreign countries, going through the ‘noisy’ arrival of the Futurists in Venice in 1910, the explosion of the America Pop Art in 1964, the student protest of ’68, the statutory renewal of 1973, until the events of our days.
The exhibition itinerary is made up also of about thirty Murano glassworks, placed in the historical Venetian Pavillion, among which we can find, beside those of legendary glassworkers, the works of well-known artists and designers such as Tapio Wirkkala, Carlo Scarpa and Paolo Venini. This exhibition opens with a selection of photos of the greatest protagonists of the art of the Twentieth century, who are often portrayed at work during the organization of their exhibitions at the Biennale; these photos derive from the photographer Graziano Arici’s archives and De Maria’s ones, of Venice Foundation.
Opening time: from Tuesday to Sunday 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Close on Mondays, except 24th March and 2nd June 2008