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.

“At 8 usual place & Voyage to Italy”
May 9-July 27, 2008
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

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It’s  opened from  May 9, 2008 at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice and simultaneously to the Museum of Contemporary Photography Cinisello Balsamo-Milan the first staff in Italy Victor Burgin.
Victor Burgin has always taken forward in parallel the artistic practice and theoretical. Even when, around 1990, he joined the photographic language to traditional digital video, has continued to fuel the theoretical debate on image due to a timely exploration of new audiovisual technologies and a constant and careful analisys on the evolution of media companies. In his artistic production Burgin uses elements from different fields experiential: from advertising to journalism, from art to psychoanalysis, from fashion to the magazine.
The project that the Museum of Contemporary Photography Cinisello Balsamo (Milan) and the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice have made sees production by the artist of a new video: “At 8 usual place “, inspired by the final sequence

from April 26 to September 30, 2008
Gallery Contini, Campo Santo Stefano

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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.
It is a cycle of works made with black basalt stones from Turkey. The stone contains images of lava, which seems to vibrate almost was animated. In fact, the lava is only evoked and to give life to this effective fiction are hidden videos below the surface of rough blocks. For decades the artist implements this evocative fiction, humanizing modern technology, with water and fire, the bricks and trees, just like Michelangelo was turning, for example, the marble in a lively Moses.
The exhibition of “sculptures” is supplemented by a thirty-design projects, however, formally autonomous and suggestive.

Tania Danieli

25th April – 1st May 2008
Campo St. Maurizio

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.
The exhibition holds the lead of being the first one in Europe for getting such a borrowing from Louvre Museum. Subdivided into five sections it will propose, among lots of works of art, Botticelli’s, Tiziano’s, Goya’s, El Greco’s, Ribera’s, Ingres’s, David’s, Holbein’s, Cranach’s, Veronese’s, Rembrandt’s, Fragonard’s masterpieces.
And also Velasquez and Durer, Botticelli’s ‘Sacred Motherhoods’, Bronzino, Filippino Lippi, Carracci, Poussin, Vouet. The allegorical portraits of Tiziano and Rubens. To go on with Raffaello, Gericault, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Van Dick, Guido Reni, Georges de la Tour, Ingres, Guercino, Bernini.

Palazzo Mocenigo
from march 29 to june 1, 2008

Marisa Bronzini (1920 – 2007) undisputed maestro and delicate weaver, is one of the leading exponent of the Contemporary Textile Art.
This homage presents more than thirty art works which go over her artistic career during the whole XX century.

The exhibition takes place in the Musuem where on the ground flour you can see tapestries and other works of big dimensions, while on the first flour there are more than twenty beautiful textile sculptures.

Moreover a selection of contemporary “Artistic Rugs”, coming from Sardinia, installed on the first flour, pays homage to Marisa Bronzini’s exceptional craft and artistic competences.

2008 will be a remarkable year for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: the museum is organizing a full calendar of conferences, meetings, educational workshops, temporary exhibitions, free guided visits, a movie program inspired by Peggy’s life and a concert during the summer, to celebrate 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Beginning with the subjects of the temporary exhibitions, Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s and Carlo Cardazzo. A New Vision for Art, the program intends to underscore the importance of the relationship between Peggy and American art, and additionally her influence on the Venetian artistic landscape between the 50s and the 60s, highlighting two different sides of a unique artistic passion that marked the life of this outstanding American patron.
The program is supported by the Veneto Region (Regione Veneto) and benefits from the patronage of the City of Venice. All the events have been made possible thanks to the contribution of Hausbrandt, Hotel Gritti Palace, Safilens and Trend.

Palazzo Franchetti
8th March -27th July 2008
The Masterpieces of Mario Tarangoni’s collection

Palazzo Franchetti in Venice has made a choice: the art collection. Last year the self-portraits from the Uffizi were exhibited. This year it is the time for another collector, namely Mario Tarangoni, a man of the Twentieth century who dealt with banks and business, who had a personal idea about the Italian painting of the Nineteenth century and with a probing patience, curiosity, passion and method, brought together a wide range of small masterpieces. Small for their dimensions, small for their intimate, sentimental, poetic character. Actually, they are great for the new look we can have at the most beautiful season of our modern artistic history.
Mario Tarangoni, who was a great middle-class man of the Thirties, had been the director of the Bank of America and Italy in Genova; he did not used to buy to invest. When he bought something, he bought as he was urged by that kind of curiosity we can at best define by means of the expression ‘falling in love’. The refined anthological collection related to the Tuscanian Nineteenth century, exhibited at Palazzo Franchetti, acquires a relevant scientific importance because it creates a perspective that, though not unknown, is, with no doubt, unusual as far as the movement of the macchiaioli is concerned. A new perspective, a point of view which are invented and experimented by a cultured collector who had read books, studied and evaluated critics, historians, art dealers, but who, then, ultimately, had been able to examine by means of his eyes and to decide with his mind and his heart.       

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