1st May – 25th July 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Since 1st May 2010 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice has been exhibiting ‘Utopia Matters. From the Brotherhoods to the Bauhaus’’. On display there are more than works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, design items, photos and printed matter which aim at examining the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western thought and practice, by

from 13th September to 24th October 2009

The 15th edition of ‘The places of Baldassare’’ Galuppi and Music Festival started on 13th September 2009. It is a Music Festival which offers us the opportunity to listen to sublime classical music concerts, of the Eighteenth century repertoire but not only that, in very particular places in Venice and its estuary. Among the new locations to be visited there is the Sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Apparizione on the island of Pellestrina, the Hotel Ausonia and Hungaria, which will offer the ideal

Collateral event 53rd International Art Exhibition
4th June – 15th August 2009 Sant’Apollonia Cloister

A vergin, her teeth, two great artists. This is the strange mix proposed by ‘Saint Apollonia, Omar Galliani and some teeth by Andy Warhol’, that is a collateral exhibition of Biennale held at Saint Apollonia Cloister, where the Diocese Museum of Venice is located. The story with macabre features of the martyr Saint

24th May – 1st November 2009
Villa Pisani Stra

Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo PALADINO, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto. These are the not-to-be-missed artists who will be present with their works of art at Villa Pisani from 24th May to 1st November 2009 for the “Classics of the Contemporary” exhibition. In a constant dialogue between Classic and Contemporary the spaces of the Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani at Stra (Venice), will host the installations by the ten involved artists, through an itinerary enlightening the most evocative corners of the Villa, from Tiepolo’s Salone to the

27th July – 2nd August 2009

The Second edition of the Venice Jazz Festival, scheduled from 27th July to 2nd August and organized by the Veneto Jazz, is full of important events which will take place on the dry land in Mestre too. Of course, like last year, everything will be enriched with a long list of minor events throughout Venice. The festival will be crowned with a spectacular event in the sumptuous setting of St.Mark’s Square: the concert of the singer-songwriter Paolo Conte and the Symphonic Orchestra of Venice (31st July): a special production that presents elements from the Orchestra of the La Fenice Theatre, accompanied by the artist’s large band directed by Bruno Fontaine. The Theatre La Fenice, namely the temple of world wide music, will be the stage for prestigious events, such as the concert of the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (28th July) and the double concert of the saxophonist Charles Lloyd in a quartet, as well as the one of All Star Band of Richard Galliano, namely the world star of accordion (29th July), accompanied by Gonzalo Rubalcaba (piano), Richard Bona (double bass), Clarence Penn (drums and percussion instruments).

CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

27TH July – Ferretto Square (Mestre) h. 9.30 p.m.

24th April – 15th June 2009
Giudecca 795 Gallery

Since 25th April the Giudecca 795 Gallery in Venice has been given exclusivity in Italy of Cholla’s art, namely a really original American artist: he is a horse! On display thirty extremely coloured watercolours painted by the ‘artist’ that paints spontaneously without any training by holding the brush in his mouth and picking the colour by himself. He is even described as a huge and semi-wild horse, so it is still more amazing that he is able to paint tiny and delicate watercolours with small and graceful movements.
Cholla’s paintings were displayed in the USA, from San Francisco to New York, and now they will be displayed in overseas countries. In Italy the success for this wonderful Mustang aged 23 arrived

The Sms Venice 2009 Campaign has already started with Madeleine Peiroux ‘s concert of last February and with the Venice Baroque Orchestra’s one which will be held at the Scuola di San Rocco on the 5th April 2009. Nonetheless the  clou of the events will take place this summer!

2th April 2009.
Last Saturday at Palace Ducale the ‘Sms Venice 2009’ project was presented in order to contribute to the collection of funds for the safeguard of the artistic and architectural properties of Venice, an event which last year made Elthon John and Giovanni Allevi be present in St. Marq’s Square. Besides the town council authorities at Palace Ducale there was also the testimonial of the campaign of this year, namely Jim Kerr, the leader of the pop group ‘Simple Minds’, who will perform in a concert in St. Marq’s Square next 14th July. The Sms Venice’ project started in 2008 owing to the joining of purposes of the Venice Town Council, the government department responsible for monuments and other treasures and Fran Tomasi & Associati. Among the aims of the campaign 2009, the restoration of some parts of the Chiesa dei Gesuiti, of the San Giorgio Maggiore’s one, of Rialto Bridge, of the Scuola di San Rocco and S. Giuseppe Church.
Also this summer Venice will turn, then, into a lively and dynamic town, a

In the end, notwithstanding a hard choice by the panel of judges, given the incredible quantity of wonderful masks, more then 70, the judges, directed by the Oscar award Gabriella Pescucci, have decided to give the Prize for the best mask to a group of eight Germans disguised on the theme ‘China in Marco Polo’s days’.
Among fancy dresses representing hot-air balloons, paintings by De Chirico, packs of cards, Inca, traditional Russian dresses, a mask related to La Fenice Theatre and the unfailing Cinderella, in the end the extraordinary fancy dresses and hairstyles with Chinese temples and red lanterns have won.
Two special mentions have been awarded also to a woman disguised as a painting by De Chirico as well

from november 29, 2008 to january 25, 2009

Involving the collaboration of both Ca’ Pesaro museums – the International Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Oriental Art – the exhibition comprises some eighty works by the Japanese artist Kuniaki Kurioki (Suki, province of Miyazaki, 1945).

Produced over the last twenty years, these draw upon the unchallenged masterpieces of Japanese art. One source of inspiration is the art of Ogata Kōrin (Kyoto, 1658-1716), a painter and lacquer-worker whose art exemplified the seventeenth-century Rimpa tradition of decoration, which was itself inspired by the art of the Heian period (794-1185). Another is The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, a famous set of coloured wood-cuts created in the years 1833-34 by Utagawa Hiroshige (Tokyo, 1797-1858); enjoying a previously unknown level of popular success, these works formed a sort of ‘travel diary’ in images recounting a journey along the Tōkaidō, the coastal road between Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and Kyoto.

In both cases, Kurioki sets out to interpret rather than replicate the art of former ages. Using his mastery of

The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation has always paid a great attention to young artists. And it does that by carrying out its mission by which, for a century, it has awarded its ateliers to the worthiest artists. It is from here that ‘Opera 2008’ derives, namely a final exposition of the seven young artists and the two groups that made use of ateliers Blm in 2007/2008. besides, this year the foundation celebrates two important anniversaries: first of all the centenary of the expositive activity of such Institution, started in 1908. Since 2008, then, the ateliers have finally reached number twelve, as it has been confirmed in the memorandum of association of the Foundation. Curated by Mara Ambrozic and Stefano Coletto, the ‘Opera 2008’ exhibition is divided into two sections. In the first one there