Venice, exhibitions: exceptional exhibition of traditional Japanese dolls at the Museum of Eastern Art
May 17 to 25, 2008
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As part of celebrations for 140 years of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature at Ca ‘Foscari of Venice, thanks to collaboration with the Asia Eastern Department of Studies and Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome from 17 to 25 May held at the Museum of Eastern Art in Venice, an exceptional exhibition of traditional Japanese Ôno Hatsuko dolls.
Ôno Hatsuko (1915-1982), after a debut as an artist painting in Western style, she discovers the world of doll and learns the different teacher Iesato Michiko’s techniques for creating . The style of this artist, inspired by an innate poetic sense, highlights feelings and atmospheres with refined taste and witty, which reveals his passion for his creatures and the depth of emotions in the plastic pose . With attitudes, expressions of the faces, colors and the materiality of tissues, with streamlined and slender lines in space, designed with sensitivity lively visions that seem come outside the prints of the floating world (ukiyoe). Made in poses and attitudes always evocative, with refined combinations of fabrics, hairstyles, objects and accessories, artist Ôno’s dolls seem to revive in a delicate Japanese past… now lost.
simultaneously to the Museum of Contemporary Photography Cinisello Balsamo-Milan the first staff in Italy Victor Burgin.
Fabrizio Plessi represents from long time, in the panorama of contemporary art, an important reference. His experiments have placed him in the protagonists of the videoart, expressive form of which he was a pioneer. Lately the creative research of Plessi has focused on the potential of lava, seen as liquid fire and mediated through the digital image. From April 26, 2008 is on display at the Gallery Contini near Campo Santo Stefano.
The Vogalonga is the well known regatta which since 1974 has taken place in Venice on a Sunday in May. Born in order to protest against the water traffic along the Canal Grande and the necessity to protect the lagoon town from the wave-motion caused by the boats with outboard motors (a phenomenon which brings about the erosion of the foundations of the most beautiful Palaces), nowadays it has lost its protesting character and has become an evocative sports celebration you must not miss. From the morning a thick stretch of multi-coloured boats gather in St. Mark’s Basin. From here the 32 km rowing race starts and it moves as far as the islands of the Northern Lagoon in order, then, to go back to the Canal Grande. Everybody, along the canals, supports and greets the participants who, in the latest years, have been of any nationality. Actually it is an amazing and very folk Feast you must not miss.
Venice, it has been one of the most important and sumptuous celebrations , which became legend, myth and history of the city. The famous festival, in which the Doge on the Bucintoro, launched a ring off the waters of San Pietro di Castello, the famous Wedding with the sea, still celebrated by the city authorities: a reconstruction of many boats and of the the Bucintoro boat will sail along the San Marco dock, the Mayor of the city then throws the ring in Laguna to symbolize the marriage with the sea. Historically the Sensa is the result of an overlap in time of rites and civil and religious events, today they prefer to give the meaning of celebration of the Sea and then feast of the city that draws from its relationship with the sea, reason for living.
At the Great Festival of Wine, 25 and April 26 large Italian wineries will meet at Villa Widmann of Mira (Venice) to show and give a taste of the best quality wine. A selected number of producers from all regions of Italy will display their best productions of vintage 2007 and the most prestigious reserves.
While fans awaiting the Cannes Festival official program, voices are already beginning to move about the Venice exhibition, scheduled in Lido di Venezia from 29 August to 6 September 2008. Could be the 2 beautiful actors, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, to open the dances with the comedy “Burn After Reading” by Ethan and Joel Coen, fresh winners of ‘Oscar with “This is not a country for old”. The new Coen’s movie is a comedy: a former CIA agent who loses the manuscript of his memoirs. The manuscript in CD format is intercepted by two employees of a gym, believing fo having in their hands boiling material , they bring to an auction the CD to get money with which they will pay some surgery always dream. Since initially could go to Cannes, ti has disappeared from the last tam tam and seems to take the route of Venice, even alone. The film will open on September 12 in America.
18 to 21 April 2008
The name Bochaleri dates back to 1300, when the workers of Venetian ceramic, a refined production appreciated all over Europe, organized in a corporation known as the Scutelarii first and then in Bochaleri. This ancient art, suppressed by a Napoleon decree in 1806, has survived history and oblivion thanks to the efforts of artisans who through the years have conserved and handed down jealously the secrets of the production of tankards and their fine decorations. This year too, close to the Festa of the Sensa, the ‘I Bochaleri’ association is organizing a true fair in Campo San Maurizio from April 25th to May 1st. Visitors can watch all the phases of production and decoration of the ceramic, and children, in particular, may create little objects in clay under the supervision of the expert ‘bochaleri’.
The ‘‘Belle Ferroniere’’, namely Leonardo’s masterpiece, is going to be the testimonial of the exhibition ‘The Louvre. Masterpieces in Verona. Leonardo, Rffaello, Rembrandt and others. Portraits and images’ which, on 19th September, will open at the Gran Guardia of Verona. The exhibition is the first one of a four-year project which starting from next autumn to 2011 wants to take, yearly, never seen masterpieces, coming from the greatest museums in the world, to Verona. Five are the sections of the exhibition itinerary, the first one of them will be just dedicated to the Portrayal of a society. The impressive setting up is made of about 140 works and it is part of an display project that until 2011 will see Verona holding never seen masterpieces coming from the most important museums in the world, actually from Louvre, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, from the Museum Rodinin Paris to Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and Kroller Muller Museum in Otterlo.
