In 1999 the first American-style Casino was born in our country. Venice Casino at Ca’ Noghera, which opened after the shutting down of the very famous one at the Lido, contains the best of American games, but it is located inside a building which had been restored for such use but not refined enough. This year the plan for the rearrangement of the whole area will start: it is a rearrangement that will certainly concern the gaming house too.
Within 2009 Tessera is starting works for a stadium with thirty-thousand covered seats and annexed shops, trade areas, restaurants and a brand-new Las Vegas-style casino as well as a hotel with at least 350 rooms. Such buildings will be connected by a bridge and the calls for bids for the assignment of the construction of the two edifices will be shortly assigned – the Mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciari has assured. Thanks to these interventions at last the new gaming house will be able to compete seriously with the one at Nova Gorica. The total maquillage of the area of Tessera envisages works on more than two million square metres of ground.

The Southern Lagoon, namely the ‘water park’ of Venice, is full of secrets that, for not a long time, everybody has been able to visit thanks to the new sailing service ‘ATN Laguna Sud’. This area, contained between the lagoon town and Chioggia, Lido islands, Pellestrina Isle and the Riviera del Brenta, still nowadays represents a coffer of biodiversities and it is furrowed by some not-to-miss itineraries for the lovers of bird-watching but also for those who want to discover Venice in a very original way.
During the voyage you can catch sight of the marks of man on strands and islets which have been inhabited since ancient times. Actually they were used as grounds for hunting and fishing activities, as well as for fish breeding and the military defence of Venice. During the itinerary, then, you can run into the ancient shelters for fishermen: the so-called ‘casoni’, such as the casone Millecampi, with its fishing balance, the casone of Valle Averto and the casone Prime Poste. Very educational particularly is the visit to Valle Zappa. Here man breeds sea bass, sea breams, eels and crabs, that will end up on the stalls of Rialto as well as the other fishing markets of the Veneto. The tour Southern Lagoon just here shows the secret casolare, which is little known even among the inhabitants of the lagoon isles: we are speaking of the refined Hunting Casone of Valle Zappa, built in 1925 with a style reminding us the one of northern Europe residences. It is a very unusual presence but which, despite its showy windows and the refined details, is wonderfully inserted into the landscape. The journey can touch, according to its duration and the type of the chosen route, Chioggia or Pellestrina Isle. A guide explains the natural characteristics of the lagoon and its fishing dales and entertains the guests with short stories and ancient legends about hunting and fishing.

Palazzo Mocenigo
from march 29 to june 1, 2008

Marisa Bronzini (1920 – 2007) undisputed maestro and delicate weaver, is one of the leading exponent of the Contemporary Textile Art.
This homage presents more than thirty art works which go over her artistic career during the whole XX century.

The exhibition takes place in the Musuem where on the ground flour you can see tapestries and other works of big dimensions, while on the first flour there are more than twenty beautiful textile sculptures.

Moreover a selection of contemporary “Artistic Rugs”, coming from Sardinia, installed on the first flour, pays homage to Marisa Bronzini’s exceptional craft and artistic competences.

2008 will be a remarkable year for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: the museum is organizing a full calendar of conferences, meetings, educational workshops, temporary exhibitions, free guided visits, a movie program inspired by Peggy’s life and a concert during the summer, to celebrate 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Beginning with the subjects of the temporary exhibitions, Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s and Carlo Cardazzo. A New Vision for Art, the program intends to underscore the importance of the relationship between Peggy and American art, and additionally her influence on the Venetian artistic landscape between the 50s and the 60s, highlighting two different sides of a unique artistic passion that marked the life of this outstanding American patron.
The program is supported by the Veneto Region (Regione Veneto) and benefits from the patronage of the City of Venice. All the events have been made possible thanks to the contribution of Hausbrandt, Hotel Gritti Palace, Safilens and Trend.

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

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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.