Visit Venice Spring 2013 by www.venezia.net Indice: ART / EXHIBITIONS Pag. 3 MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE Pag. 17 SPORT AND FOLKLORE Pag. 17 Events: ART / EXHIBITIONS greatest Italian photographers: Gianni Berengo Gardin. --- The most complete anthological exhibi- Gianni Berengo Gardin. Stories of tion of the master. A unique and unmis- Photographer sable exhibition of 130 photos, curated by Casa dei Tre Oci - Giudecca Denis Curti (artistic director of the Casa Until May 12, 2013 dei Tre Oci), who accompanied him on an immense analogical journeyamong the hundreds of black and white photo- graphic prints that make up his immense archive, to reread all his shots, including those unpublished or rediscovered. Gianni Berengo Gardin considers this exhibition the most representative of his career. On display are more than 130 analogue prints that trace his work as a reporter and are the mirror of an artist who has made ethics his banner. 130 photos that retrace the career of the great Italian master who more than any other has been able to recover and renew the visual language of our country:Venice and Milan, the psychiatric institutions and the Basaglia law, the Venice Art Biennale and the gypsies, the fundamen- tal reportage entitled Inside the Homes and New York, Vienna and Great Bri- tain, his extraordinary experience with Following the great success of the Elliott the Touring Club, which inspired him to Erwitt PERSONAL BEST exhibition, discover the most hidden corners of our theCasa dei Tre Oci of Venice presents, country, and the photos that have until from Februrary 1st to May 12th 2013, a now remained unpublished and are being world premier retrospective of one of the presented here for the first time. www.venezia.net Eventi 4 An observant narrator of everyday life, in tes our country. For the first time, a lar- all its multiple aspects and its evolution, ge exhibition and a book document the he is an artist who has immortalised the never-before-seen Grand Tour. history of Italy in more than a million shots. The exhibitive journey sets itself up as an imposing kaleidoscope of images, --- made up of unique, unrepeatable shots Maurizio Galimberti recounting the journeys and digressions PAESAGGIO ITALIA of Maurizio Galimberti, transfiguring Until 12th May 2013 the world through new eyes, communi- Palazzo Franchetti cating to the spectator the experience of transformation and renewal matured by the artist in these twenty years of work on the landscape. Thanks to the wide variety of composi- te possibilities explored, his Polaroids become a treasure box of infinite views, allowing our country to be unexpectedly reread and rediscovered. Architecture, ci- ties and landscapes are all offered up in the form of single Polaroids: “mosaics”, modified Polaroids in a Duchampesque ready-made pop version representing tho- se methods of technique and expression The “PAESAGGIO ITALIA” (Italian that the artist has always preferred. That landscapes) exhibition in Palazzo Fran- artist who, for the occasion, offers us a chetti in Venice will remain open until world premiere – an experiment with the 12th May 2013, promoted by the Veneto new film Impossible, first reproduction in Institute of Sciences, Arts and Humani- black and white. ties and dedicated to the work of Mau- rizio Galimberti: an out-of-the-ordinary --- anthological work on the theme of Italian Fortuny and Wagner. landscape, a portrait expressed throu- Wagnerism in the visual arts in gh the Instants Artist’s Polaroid experi- Italy ments. The retrospective presents over From December 8th 2012 to April 150 images, some of the great Italian 8th 2013 photographer’s most significant shots; a Fortuny Museum synthesis of the research he began in the early 1990s, which rediscovers and narra- This exhibition is the result of a long re- www.venezia.net Eventi 5 search on the iconographic and aesthetic as Antoni Tapies, Bill Viola, and Anselm influence of Richard Wagner and the Kiefer. ‘Wagnerism’ on the visual arts in Italy between the end of the 19th century and --- the early decades of the 20th, a theme AMALRIC WALTER The redisco- that was never before the object of focu- very of the pâte de verre sed studies or exhibitions. 2nd February – 12th May 2013 Wagnerism was a true cultural fashion Glass Museum, Murano that, in its diverse expressions (literary, musical, and painting) enjoyed widespre- ad and profound diffusion. In the field of the visual arts it was one of the most typi- cal manifestations of the aesthetic style at the turn of the eighteenth century, betwe- en late Naturalism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Mariano Fortuny was one of the leading protagonists in this field, and his entire Wagnerian cycle – comprising 47 paintings owned by the museum –, together with numerous engravings, will be displayed for the first time. His works, some of which were never exhibited be- fore and many restored for the occasion, will be compared to those of other Ita- The secrets and creative innovations asso- lian artists (such as Lionello Balestrieri, ciated with pâte de verre, one of the most Giuseppe Palanti, Cesare Viazzi, Eugenio ancient and unusual ways of working Prati, Gaetano Previati, Alberto Martini, glass, is examined in a major exhibition Adolfo Wildt) who were inspired by the dedicated to the French artist, Amalric characters and scenes in Wagner’s operas, Walter (Sèvres, 1870 – Lury-sur-Arnon, whose bicentenary birth will be celebra- 1959) and his artistic production, with an ted in 2013. unprecedented and comprehensive range The exhibition will be enriched by a wi- of works. de-ranging documentary section and by Already mastered in the past by Egyp- a series of focuses on illustration, carica- tians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, ture and poster design. To round off the and also known to the great glassmakers exhibition and document the influence of of Murano, this technique lived through a Wagner’s work on contemporary artists, new flourishing period in France between there will be an interesting selection of the end of the 19th and start of the 20th visual works by important artists such century, at a time of great change in the www.venezia.net Eventi 7 visual, decorative and plastic arts. It was the 60s, offer an international audience a in this context that after many trials and rich vein of Italian creativity, predicated experiments, based in part on the studies on a new concept of the art of painting, and publications of such predecessors as that proposed the chromatic and symbo- Henry Cros and Albert Dammouse, that lic force of the monochrome as in both Amalric Walter succeeded in finding the visual and conceptual terms. mysterious “binder” that was jealously guarded by the masters. --- There are over 450 objects on show, orga- FRAGILE? nised chronologically, covering the entire Cini Foundation - San Giorgio production of the artist and highlighting Island the various themes tackled with this spe- From April, 8 to July, 28, 2013 cial technique. These are accompanied by paper documents, original photographs, unique pieces and objects with religious symbols, in which emerges the special al- chemy of his work, formed of sweetness, meditation, fantasy and colour. --- POSTWAR. ITALIAN PROTAGO- NISTS Peggy Guggenheim Collection February 23 – April 15, 2013 After the incredible success of the exhibi- tion dedicated to “Carlo Scarpa Venini”, Five postwar Italian artists, presented in visited by more than 46,000 people, the the exhibition galleries, with an original Cini Foundation continues with its “The selection of works that characterize the rooms of glass” project, designed with the art of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Piero objective of enhancing twentieth century Dorazio (1927-2005), Enrico Castellani glass art with two new major exhibition (b. 1930), and Paolo Scheggi (1940-1971), events: the first will be “Fragile?” by Ma- and with an additional ‘study’ exhibition rio Codognato, starting on 8 April 2013, of the work of Rodolfo Arico (1930- while in late summer there will be an 2002). An exhibition narrative that looks exhibition dedicated to the creations of afresh at the notion of Italian painting in renowned artist Napoleone Martinuzzi the period of the waning of Art informel, for the Venini glassworks between 1925 evident in the career of a master such as and 1932. Fontana. The other artists, deploying an emerging pictorial language peculiar to In particular, “Fragile?” will feature ap- www.venezia.net Eventi 8 proximately 30 works by some the most 2013 interesting international artists of our Ca’ Pesaro – International Galle- time who have also used the glass as their ry of Modern Art poetic medium – from Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys, up to Ai Weiwei, Da- mien Hirst, Giovanni Anselmo and Jan- nis Kounellis, to name just a few. The “Fragile?” exhibition takes into ac- count another equally important aspect of the use of glass in the visual arts of the 1900s and the century that has just be- gun: the use of glass as a found object, as a material of particular metaphorical In this Biennale year, Ca’ Pesaro will be and linguistic qualities. Rather than the offering a cycle of exhibitions in Room 10 precision or originality of the design of that focus on the city’s cultural produc- the artefact, what comes into play here tion through some of the major events of is the symbolic potential of the transpa- the late 20th century in Venice. rency, fragility and strength (Fragile?) of It will examine a fundamental group of imprecision and smoothness in the con- works which entered the Gallery’s col- struction of a situation that voluntarily lections in 1948, during the24th Veni- draws on the experience of everyday life ce Biennale. These are Trinité-sur-Mer and language of contemporary art.