From May to September 2008

Venetians Villas 

Last 20th May 2008 the 13th edition of ‘Concerts in villa’ started with a three-day exhibition for the piano in Villa Erizzo in the centre of Mestre, organized by the ‘Friends of Music’ of Mestre, in collaboration with the Town Hall of Venice and the Town Council of Mestre- Carpenedo as well as the support of the Tourism Promotion Institute of Venice.
The review, divided into eight dates, will give the opportunity to the public to travel from villa to villa, from Carpenedo, namely the favourite vacation resort of the earliest Venetians, to the great connections of the Terraglio and the Riviera del Brenta. In these places, often still immersed in miraculously safe green areas, you can enjoy the cultural and joyful atmosphere of the ancient parties in villa, with internationally known musicians, programmes of the great classical tradition, in addition to innovative proposals and merry buffets after the concerts.

PROGRAMME
20 may 2008
Villa Erizzo - Mestre - P.le Donatori di Sangue,; ore: 17,30
Premio Venezia 2007 – 1° classificato
musiche di CHOPIN, LIGETI, LISZT, SCHUBERT

Mercoledì 21 may 2008
Villa Erizzo - Mestre - P.le Donatori di Sangue,; ore: 17,30
Premio Venezia 2007 – 2° classificata
musiche di ALBENIZ, DEBUSSY, LISZT

22 may 2008
Villa Erizzo - Mestre - P.le Donatori di Sangue,; ore: 17,30
In collaborazione con la Feltrinelli Ricordi Media Stores & Associazione Musicale Dino Ciani
musiche di ALKAN, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, LISZT, MOZART

01 june 2008
Villa Malvolti - Carpenedo - via Trezzo, 56; ore: 17,30
Moni Ovadia, voce
Carlo Boccadoro

07 june 2008

San Gallo Theatre, 22ndMay – 30th June 2008

Since 22nd May you have had the opportunity to visit a wonderful exhibition going back over the adventure of one of the most famous theatre tailor’s in Venice. In 2008 Stefano Nicolao, namely one of the most prolific representative of the Venetian creativity, celebrates his 25th year of activity in Venice and his 33rd year of activity as theatre tailor. The years from 1983 up to now have been a continual succession of prestigious national and international cooperation, from Venice to the Tibet and the Costume Institute of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The films ‘Marco Polo’, ‘Farinelli’, ‘Elizabeth’, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, the works ‘Don Carlos’ at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, ‘Madame Butterfly’ at the Fenice, and  others, represent just a small part of the impressive production of costumes of Nicolao’s Atelier, corresponding to a work made by starting by an iconographical and historical study, where textiles and costumes are designed, created, produced and handled by observing pictures of past times, descriptions, original parts and studies on fashion.

17th May -6th July 2008

In view of a complex strategy for increasing the value of glassware art, since Saturday 17th May 2008 Ca’ Pesaro has been holding the exhibition Sconfinamenti (Border violations) Exit – Entry and it is open to the public and can be visited with the museum ticket until 6th July 2008. Sconfinamenti exit-entry is an installation by Angelo Zennaro, and it was conceived and planned for Ca’ Pesaro. Completely hand-made by means of glass-melting technique, it represents a unique work of art in its genre for its dimensions and modalities of settlement in the architectural context. It is made of 24 glass many-coloured layers for a total surface of 24 square metres. Brittle and delicate, it is a work of art in which layers and images overlap and one is placed on top of the other one, involving the whole environment of Ca’ Pesaro: being observable from outside, it interacts with the water of the Canal Grande as well as with the light, leading our attention to the monumental Longhena entrance hall.

Glass Museum
from may 29, 2008 to september 30, 2008

FareVetro is the first exhibition organised at the Museum as the result of this partnership. Coordinated by Silvio Fuso and open to the public from 29 May to 30 September 2008, the show brings together more than one hundred examples of the art of the glass-maker. Either created specially for the event or drawn from the ‘historical’ collections of the eleven companies concerned, these are a spectacular demonstration of how techniques and design have developed within full respect of the very specific language of glass. All produced on Murano, the exhibits illustrate the skill of the master craftsmen, showing how technical and aesthetic experimentation can go together. Some the fruit of collaboration with modern artists and designers, others a return to traditional forms, each piece reflects changing tastes and the variety of production within the island’s various factories.
The exhibition will be held in the various spaces of the museum: the garden, the

мебелиMay 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 dollsмебели.

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

11th May 2008
Venice Lagoon

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.

May 4, 2008
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In the past centuries the Sensa  feast has played an important role in social and political life of 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.

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Villa Widmann - Foscari, Mira
Friday 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2008
from 10.00 to 18.00 

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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.
In The Cafeteria and the Campiello of the beautiful complex of the Villa, one of the jewels of the late Baroque and Venetian old summer residence of the nobles, there  will also be qualified companies in creating gastronomic specialities. It will be the opportunity to spend a moment of relaxation in a place rich in art and history framed by lush green park.
In honour of the Great Wine Festival of the entrance to Villa will be reduced to 4 euros.
For information: Horeca Brenta tel 041 5102386 - Patrick Salmaso 339 8244133 - Michele Lovo 346 0116945