Venice – Brenta’s Riviera, Mimmo Paladino at Villa Pisani
From june 2 to november 2, 2008
The exhibition Mimmo Paladino at Villa Pisani is set in the magnificent Villa and in the garden, which will be a sort of prestigious stage for the sculptures and paintings of the Italian artist, along a magnificent tour showing the most charming corners of Villa Pisani, from Tiepolo’s room, to the Stables, from the Orangery to the Coffee House and to the wonderful Maze of hedges, one of the few still preserved in Europe.
The artist planned a tour with more than seventy masterpieces, from the well-known “Dormienti ai Sette Scudi”, from the tower in terra cotta, to the statues exhibited at the MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) in Rovereto, besides those expressly developed for this exhibition. He is the author of the famous salt mountain in Plebiscito Square in Naples, of the mosaic for Ara Pacis in Rome and of the permanent installation at the Hortus Conclusus in Benevento, where his works combine in a harmonic contraposition with fragments of Roman columns, capitals and broken gables. In his thirty-year career Paladino developed a timeless sign language, able to have a profound contact with the heritage of the past. Horses in essential stark lines, human shapes waiting, details suggesting cultures and environments of the most ancient and profound Italic civilization, form the lexicon of his works used by the artist to enhance the mysterious and charming atmosphere of the baroque garden of Villa Pisani.
San Gallo Theatre, 22ndMay – 30th June 2008
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.
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.
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.
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.
simultaneously to the Museum of Contemporary Photography Cinisello Balsamo-Milan the first staff in Italy Victor Burgin.
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.
