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

20th -22nd June 2008-03-18 San Giuliano Park, Venice Mestre

The Heineken Jammin Festival 2008 will be held at San Giuliano Park this year too. The headliners of edition 2008 will be the Sex Pistols, Linkin Park, Vasco Rossi and The Police. There will be also Alanis Morissette, Marlene Kuntz, Iggy P& the Stooges, Counting Crows, Chris Cornell and many others.
The area will be equipped like last year: two stages for the stars and the minor artists, areas for relax, entertainment, sport activities and internal campsite. The Councillor of Mestre Town Council, Massimo Venturini, has also announced that other two campsites outside the Park will be organized. Roberto De Luca, the President of CdA of Milano Concerti, has promised that for this year edition he wants ‘the impact on the town to be positive’ and for such reason the HJF will have a lower capacity limit than the one of last year, in order to contain the influx of fans, such as a reduction. In view of the arrival of thousands of fans, the organizers have planned a reasonably priced hospitality for everybody and they are creating a single ticket in cooperation with Trenitalia and ACTV, namely the local companies of public transport.
The tickets will cost 42 Euros + advance sale charges for a day and a three-day ticket will cost 96 Euros + advance sale charges.

Calendar
20-06-2008
h.10,00 a.m. gates opening
from 3.00 p.m. performances of Heineken Jammin Festival Contest’s winners.

IGGY & THE STOOGES

Last 11th March 2008 the presentation of Architecture Biennale 2008 “Out there. Architecture Beyond Building’’ took place. Like the very title of this exhibition suggests, according Aaron Betsky (photo), the new director of such sector, architecture is not building, on the contrary, buildings are frequently the tomb of architecture. The Biennale, then, must not be just a collection of works of art, just an exhibition, but it must be a cultural event involving everybody and thus playing a role inside society: it must get us to meditate and create opportunities for dialogue and change of ideas.
It is for this reason that we maybe expect an Architecture Biennale sui generis ‘with no buildings, no photos, no cards’. Even if, for the time being, just at times, we can find, thanks to some wealthy purchasers, some architectural works of art which, by means of sensuality and sensitivity, give form to the surrounding environment, yet it is true that we can enjoy ideal spaces in films, in art, -”There is much more architecture in a film by Antonioni than  in Garretta!”. We can watch these spaces grow around us in the carefully planned landscapes that are our last true public spaces.
Then architecture could be considered – Aaron Betsky said- above all as a ‘way of figuring out what we need to build and what to unbuild. Architecture could be, first of all, experimentation, we need a sort of architecture that does not solve problems, but poses, frames and articulates them”.
In such Biennale, thus, the Arsenale will be the right location for experiments, where visitors will have the opportunity to

There is a new section on this website where you will find all our Special and Last Minute offers.

You can access this page when you click on
Venice Hotels Special Offers

Just fill in the form with your date of arrival and departure and you will get the best hotel prices or extra bonuses.
The first results you’ll see are Last Minute offers, which are always very convenient and most of all they’re an exclusive offer for www.venezia.net friends.
Thanks to this new section of our website, which is rapidly growing, our hotels can provide you with get more services and special assistance and services .

from march 15, 2008 to july 21, 2008
Fortuny Museum

Including clothes, accessories and trompe-l’oeil creations, the eighty-plus pieces in this show are all made of paper.

Demonstrating the extraordinary skill and unmistakable talent of the Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, the exhibition also offers an unusual account of the world of Mariano Fortuny, with the evocative works organised within his palazzo-museum to illustrate significant figures and episodes in his life.

Conjuring up the climate within which Fortuny lived and worked, this ‘exhibition-installation’ reflects all the various facets of the talent of a contemporary artist who is also a designer, and director. It reveals the different ways in which she has been inspired by Mariano Fortuny’s intellectual heritage and by the museum which perpetuates it.