Teatro Fondamenta Nuove

24 July – 26 August 2007

Tuesday – Satuday 20:00h
Friday – Saturday 16:00h
Sunday 17:00h

The English Theatre in Venice opens at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in July with a production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.

Theatre Workout Ltd was created in March 2006 by Adam Milford, an experienced actor with several years’ of training and professional theatre and film acting experience. His first professional role was as Peter Pan, and most recently starred in a national tour of Romeo & Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing. Adam has performed with 1157 Performance Group, and appeared in films directed by Chris Morris and supported by Quentin Tarantino.

Theatre Workout employs trained, professional actors with an extensive knowledge and experience of theatre. We draw on these skills and experiences to provide a truly unique experience for you OR your group.

200m from Fondamenta Nuove Vaparetto Terminal
13, 41, 42, 51, 52 & LN

10 minutes walk from Rialto Bridge

tickets from 20€

Palazzo Mocenigo
from june 7 to september 2, 2007

Again the Fiber Art at Palazzo Mocenigo, with a new international exhibition of contemporary art based on the use of textiles, yarns and fibres. Within such Fiber Art, these materials become part of a genuine creative act. Works of art in their own right, the end results are entirely contemporary in both design and structure.
Again ‘minitextiles’, minature pieces measuring 20×20x20cm; these have been selected in 2006 by an international jury including Luciano Caramel, Ugo La Pietra- Accademia di Brera e Hiroko Watanabe – Tama Art University, Tokyo within the Miniartextil Show in Como (first held in 1991 and now in its sixteenth year), a genre which was initially launched by Nazzarena Bortolaso and Mimmo Totaro of ‘Arte&Arte’.

But the Venice exhibition presents also three large-scale installations by Akio Hamatani, Naomi Nakashima e Kiyonori Shimada: Akio Hamatani (1947,Osaka) presents Orbit 6 (1400×230x300 cm), a vessel made by yellow rayon yarns; Naomi Nakashima (1956, Tokyo) invades the room with hundreds of frogs in silk organdie; Kiyonori Shimada (1964, Okayama), installs Echo with the Ancient Times, an imposing sculpture in red nylon, composed by 52 items, 90×250x50 cm each.

An original musical piece has been composed by Francesco Mantero for the exhibition: a wrapping sound to involve the visitor in a sonic web

All Museums in Venice

“Atonement” by Joe Wright to be the opening film of the 64th Venice Film Festival  
 
Atonement -directed by Joe Wright, starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan and Vanessa Redgrave- will open the 64th Venice Film Festival, to be held at the Lido di Venezia from 29th August to 8th September 2007, directed for the fourth time by Marco Müller and organised by the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Davide Croff. Produced by co-chairmen of Working Title Films Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster, the screenplay is by Christopher Hampton adapted from the bestselling novel by Ian McEwan.  The film will be presented in competition with a world premiere on the evening of 29th August in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema.

The decision to open the 64th edition with Atonement, the second film directed by Joe Wright (his first being Pride & Prejudice), confirms the pioneering vocation of the Venice Film Festival and its ability to work as a true “talent scout” festival. Intercepting the most innovative developments in the film world as and when they happen, and revealing the new trends and currents in contemporary cinema, the Festival discovers and presents the protagonists of cinema of the future. Atonement will be released in UK on 14th September, in the US on 7th December and in Italy on 21st September.  Universal Pictures International distributes the film internationally.

The director of the 64th Venice Film Festival, Marco Müller, has declared: “In the year of its 75th anniversary, the

64th Venice Film Festival

August 29th to September 8th, 2007

Bernardo Bertolucci has been awarded the 75th anniversary Golden Lion, the special award set up this year to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival (1932-2007). The 75th anniversary Golden Lion will be awarded to the director during the evening of the awards ceremony, on September 8th.
As part of the celebrations for Bertolucci, the barely shown but major documentary, La via del petrolio (1966), will be screened, in the version restored by the Cineteca Nazionale and ENI, along with the masterpiece Bertolucci presented at the Festival in 1970, The Spider’s Stratagem, in the newly restored version by the Cineteca Nazionale.

“Bernardo Bertolucci began his exceptional career over 40 years ago in Venice”, declared the Biennale’s President, Davide Croff, “and we are proud that he should have accepted this unique award, linked to the history of the Festival. Bertolucci is a great Italian director, who has had the courage to give a cosmopolitan dimension to his personal inspiration, combining industry requirements with a boundless love for cinema. For this reason, he embodies various aspects and characteristics of the Venice Festival in en emblematic manner, and is thus the ideal candidate for the 75th anniversary Golden Lion.

by the Biennale site

29th August – 8th September Venice Lido

The Venice Film Festival celebrates its Jubilee (1932-2007). Founded on 6th August 1932 at Venice Lido, the oldest film festival in the world celebrates its 75th anniversary this year during the 64th edition of the Festival which will be held at Venice Lido from 29th August to 8th September 2007, directed for the fourth time by Marco Muller and organised by the Biennale of Venice chaired by Davide Croff.
The 50th anniversary in 1982 saw an international Jury composed entirely of film directors (women and men), and the same formula has been adopted for the 75th anniversary of the 64th Venice Film Festival. Invited to chair it is the film-maker who, in the whole history of the Festival, has won most major awards, making, thus, a place for himself among the protagonists of world-wide cinema: the Chinese director Zhang Yimou – winner of two Golden Lions, in 1992 with The story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si) and in 1999 with Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao), one Silver Lion in 1991 with Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) and one Coppa Volpi for the best female actress (Gong Li, in 1992, for The Story of Qiu Ju).
Two great figures from American cinema, producer Bill Mechanic and director Gregg Araki, have been selected as presidents of other two international juries of the 64th Venice Film Festival, respectively for

St.Mark’s Basin
The Feast of ‘Redentore’, one of the most ancient popular Venetian feasts, is celebrated every year on the third Sunday of July: it is the most appreciated and felt by the Venetians who, following a rite which has been repeated for four hundred years, meet in St.Mark’s basin in order to wait for and admire the midnight fireworks.
Though more than four centuries have passed from its consecration, the Feast of Redentore keeps on taking place on the same places and according to the same modalities; still nowadays, in fact, the town is linked to Giudecca by means of a bridge supported by modern floating platforms. The characteristic of popular feast has remained intact: the Venetians are the real protagonists of this feast together with their boats which are exquisitely adorned, the roof-terraces and the squares lit by thousands of lights.

Junghans Theatre, Giudecca 494
6th June – 8th July from 2.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.
10th July – 30th September from 6th p.m. to 10.00 p.m.

Theatre Junghans will house – from 6th June in parallel with the 52nd International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale – Blood of Poet, by Lech Majewski: he is a poet, film-maker and video artist known all over the world. His video works have been shown in the Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Art of Atlanta and Buenos Aires and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. One of Majewski’s retrospectives was presented at the MOMA, New York and now it will be moved to the National Gallery, Washington.
In Junghans Theatre Majewski will present Blood of Poet, a unique cycle of 33 correlated videos and some photos which show the memories of childhood of a poet at odds with himself and the rest of the world, remembering the days when he was shut away in  a psychiatric ward.
Majewski had already dealt with such theme in other important works of his such as Basquiat Wojaczek, by visually representing and questioning the creative consciousness of the artist and the role-playing that occurs between childhood and adulthood.
Through the process of remembering proposed by Majewski the video cycle rejects dialogue and chronology. The collected short films are correlated and overlap with one another and ask the viewer to develop a new method of interpretation as well as to conceive of new narrative intersections.

For information Junghans Theatre 041-2411974

Peggy Guggenheim Collection
from 6th June to 2nd September 2007

All in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys
This exhibition, created by Nancy Spector, the curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, will examine the affinities between the two artists who, though belonging to a different generation and geography, share lots of aesthetic and conceptual concerns. Such exhibition will focus on the metaphorical use of materials, the artists’ interest in metamorphoses, their choice of using narrative structures and the relationship between action and the documentation of their work. The works on show will be chosen by the Permanent Collection of Guggenheim Museum and they will be accompanied by a double selection of drawings and vitrines of the two artists, such as, for example, Barney’s multiple sculpture Chrysler Imperial (2002) and Cremaster 3, as well as Beuy’s installation Terremoto (1981).

Palazzo Fortuny
9th June – 7th October 2007

The idea of such great exhibition, conceived thanks to the cooperation between the City of Venice – Venetian Civic Museums and Axel Vervoordt – examines the relationship between art, time and their power of display, representing a breadth of various periods, places, trends and languages.

Over 300 objects are on show, ranging from rare and extremely precious archaeological materials to contemporary installations: they will be sourced from Axel Vervoordt’s large and eclectic collections, from the Venetian Civic Museums and from other public and private collections. The works of over eighty artists will include Francis Bacon, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, James Turrell, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol.

Artempo aims to explore time and…

Diocese Museum, St. Apollonia Cloister

16th December 2006 – 30th september 2007
The marvellous exhibition rooms of the Diocese Museum in Venice, St. Apollonia Cloister, hold, from December 16th 2006 to June 30th 2007, the exhibition ‘Durer Workshop’, promoted by the Diocese Museum in Venice and Arhemisia.
Albrecht Durer is perhaps the greatest example of Renaissance Art in Europe, representing an ideal passage between the Italian school and the Northern one. Considered as a great artist both as a painter and a designer, he owes his fame to his etched works and he stands out in the history of art of all times just thanks to his formal and technical innovations in his graphical art.
This exhibition, run by Sebastiano Guerrera and Gianmatteo Caputo, represents the occasion for admiring Durer’s graphical production. There are more than 100 works, among the greatest etchings and xilographies, most of all on religious subjects, coming from private collections, which allow us to understand the interpretation of the Italian classical and Renaissance world by such artist, world which was studied in depth during his journeys to Italy. On such occasions the knowledge of Belllini’s, Mantegna’s and Leonardo’s works led him to study in depth and develop his creative genius.
This exhibition shows all his most popular and known graphical works such as, for instance, the Great Xilographical Passion, whose original title is ‘Passio Domini nostri Jesus’, realized between 1492 and 1499 and published in 1511. In this series we can notice the influence of the study of the human body and the development of the techniques of perspective; we can, thus, witness the evolution of his style and the improvement of his designs and modelled works, that cause a deep emotional impact.