from november 1, 2008 to march 1, 2009
Museo Correr

The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia are opening the celebrations marking the centennial of futurism – that will have its climax in the great exhibition at the Correr in June 2009 – with an invaluable foretaste, dedicated to Fortunato Depero (1892-1960).
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Fedrizzi family, who not only agreed to the collection, belonging to Giuseppe Fedrizzi (1918-1979) and amassed over the years during his friendship with the artist and his wife Rosetta, but who have also agreed to leave it to the Venice Civic Museums, as a long-term loan to Ca’ Pesaro.
It includes over eighty works created between 1914 and 1956 – oils, temperas, ink and charcoal drawings, collages, advertising sketches, intarsia in wood and coloured fabrics, furnishing projects – with famous masterpieces such as the Bolted Book (1927) or Nitrito in

3rd October to 16th November 2008
St. Apollonia Cloister

In the exhibition rooms of the Diocese Museum in Venice the French sculptress Pascale Loisel’s exhibition, ‘Conversations’, has been taken place since 3rd October. It is a collection of about forty bronze and resin artworks of different sizes, realized in order to pay homage to the life of the artists and masters most loved by Loisel, from Rodin to Giacometti, Bacon, Schiele, Duchamp, Music and Ida Barbarico, by means of a constant reference not only to sculpture but also to painting as well as interpretation, as a symbol of that kind of freedom being an extremely important element of modern sensitivity. At first sight her sculptures give back their features, namely they look like portraits. But a second slow and persisting observation, on the contrary, reveals concealed contents beyond outward appearances. For instance, in the portrait of Francis Bacon the matter is engraved just like in the deformed and upsetting visages of the English artist, while Egon Schiele’s body is tormented like the protagonists of his paintings, Marcel Duchamp’s face reveals the

18th October – 2nd November 2008
Brolo Art and Culture Centre, Mogliano Veneto

Last Saturday the Brolo Art and Culture Centre in Mogliano Veneto inaugurated the group exhibition that offers us the opportunity of admiring the finalist thirty masterpieces of the painting section related to the International Art Prize Arte Laguna, namely an art competition which – in such edition – has confirmed its position as the most attractive on a national level, by overcoming the competing 3.300 works of art coming from all over the world.
The exhibition, open until 2nd November 2008, recreates with a good approximation, by means of the selected artworks, a representative outline of the evolution which has involved the most traditional of the media. The different trends alternate by hints, starting from the experimentations close to realism, in order to reach the limits of technique as far as the sectors in which definitions are useless, passing through material artworks, going beyond the limits of  graphics and concepts, representing what strikes, provokes, the politically incorrect, the pop and low brow world: an

20th September – 19th October 2008
Lagoon Park in Venice – Thetis Space – Biennal
From 20th September to 19th October 2008 it is possible to visit the Lagoon in a definitely original way. As a matter of fact the Lagoon Park Institution, in scope of the event Lagoon Park Shelter, namely a series of floating emplacements (which have been defined ‘ shells as shelters’ by those who created them in scope of the Architecture Biennal) located in strategic and panoramic points of the lagoon, organises guided tours on some small very picturesque boats, namely the ‘bragozzi’, among the scenic wonders of the urban archipelago of Venice. The tour starts from the Certosa Island, then it reaches the Vignole, Forte St. Andrea, St. Erasmo, while the morning tour reaches the Lazzareto Nuovo, St. Francesco del Deserto and St. Giacomo