www.venezia.net Events 1 Visit Venice Fall 2013 on cover RUDOLF STINGEL by 2 Indice: ART / EXHIBITIONS Pag. 3 MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE Pag. 14 SPORT AND FOLKLORE Pag. 16 3 Events: ART / EXHIBITIONS staggering 52 drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci which is on show from 29 August --- 2013 at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in LEONARDO DA VINCI. Venice. THE UNIVERSAL MAN Thanks to the exhibition LEONARDO Until December 1st, 2013 DA VINCI. THE UNIVERSAL MAN, the Gallerie dell’Accademia first of its kind for thirty years, the last was back in 1980, the public at the Gal- lerie dell’Accademia in Venice will have the chance to admire an entire collec- tion of exceptionally rare works by the Master which have been preserved in the Cabinet of Drawings at the Gallerie dell’Accademia since 1822, consisting of 25 graphic works which are not usu- ally shown to the public. These will be exhibited alongside another 27 prestig- ious works on loan from Italian muse- ums such as the Royal Library of Turin, the Uffizi in Florence and the National Gallery of Parma, as well as from im- portant European collections: the Royal Collection Trust Windsor Castle, the British Museum in London, the Louvre and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. This is a unique opportunity not to be missed. The drawings must remain A unique chance to see Leonardo’s stored in special air-conditioned cel- drawings at the Gallerie dell’Accademia lars for a long time before and after ex- in Venice posure to the public. This is a rule that must be adhered to in order to preserve This extraordinary exhibition includes a such precious and fragile masterpieces. www.venezia.net Events 4 The works on display include the Vit- works between New York and Merano, ruvian Man, Dancing Women, the Por- where he was born. His work has been trait of a Woman in Profile in Windsor, at the centre of one-man exhibitions in Sketches for The Battle of Anghiari, many international institutions. Studies on Weaponry and preparatory sketches for great masterpieces like the The project is part of a programme of Last Supper, the Nativity and Christ Car- monographs of great contemporary rying the Cross. artists, opened in April 2012 with Urs Fischer (“Madame Fisscher”), and pre- --- sented in alternative and addition to the Rudolf Stingel thematic exhibitions of the François Pin- From 7th April to 31st December ault Foundation collection. 2013 Palazzo Grassi – François Pinault The “Rudolf Stingel” exhibition will stay Foundation open in Palazzo Grassi until 31st De- cember 2013, for the duration of the 55th Biennial of Contemporary Art: for the occasion, there will also be a new exhibition in Punta della Dogana from 31st May 2013. --- ROY LICHTESTEIN SCULPTOR Until November 23th, 2013 Vedova Founation Open until 23 November 2013, at the Magazzini del Sale (Salt Warehouses) in Organised by the artist himself - with Zattere in Venice, home of the Vedova the coordination of Elena Geuna - the Foundation, is the exhibition Roy Li- exhibition dedicated to Rudolf Stin- chtenstein – Sculptor. For the first time gel, opening 5th April 2013, will extend in Italy over 45 pieces from one of the throughout the building’s entire exhibi- geniuses of American Pop Art, including tive area, involving entrance hall and drawings, collages, maquettes, models the first and second floors. It will be the and sculptures in bronze. first time that the entire museum area is dedicated to a single artist. Characteristic of Lichtenstein‘s work is its rendering as “two-dimensional” like a Rudolf Stingel, born in 1956, lives and painting, to flatten the volume as would www.venezia.net Events 5 happen in a collage. From this come the This famous woodblock print by Hoku- ceramic figures which, starting from a sai known as the GREAT WAVE will be two-dimensional source, paper, are or- shown for the first time in Venice at the ganised into three-dimensions to form a Ca’ Pesaro Museum of Oriental Art from head or a stack of cups or an explosion. 8 September to 3 November 2013. Similar procedures bring to life his ”pro- file” sculptures from 1976 and up until Copies of this multicoloured woodblock his death in 1997, where the depth and print are in many European collections shadows of the object are put on the of Japanese art and this one, in particu- same plane, as if they were crushed and lar, among the most refined, has been compressed onto a single surface. lent by the Oriental Museum Chiossone in Genoa and will be on display for the Opening Hours first time along with a series of 36 views 10.30 am – 6 pm of Mount Fuji. Closed Tuesdays Alongside the Great Wave the exhibi- Full Ticket 12 € tion also features a plaster model of the Hokusai’s masterpiece from the Anteros --- Tactile Museum of Ancient and Modern HOKUSAI. THE GREAT WAVE Painting, Francesco Cavazza Institute Until November 3, 2013 for the Blind in Bologna, to allow for Museum of Oriental Art tactile exploration of the work by all visi- tors. This event will also be an occasion to present 24 printed books by Hokusai and his students to the public for the first time in collaboration with the Mu- seum of Oriental Art, the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Stud- ies at the Università Ca’ Foscari, and the Art Research Center at the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto, which led to the digi- tal and photographic cataloguing of this The famous colour print The Great Wave collection of 727 woodblock prints- for a Of Kanagawa by Hokusai is on display total of 860 images and 276 books – for a for the first time at the Museum of Ori- grand total of 12,200 images ñ which are ental Art in Venice kept in storage at the Museum of Orien- tal Art in Venice. www.venezia.net Events 7 --- cal beekeepers, hopefully in perpetuity. DENATURED HONEYBEES + MU- The experiences of the beekeepers will RANO by Judi Harvest be documented in photographs, state- Until Novembre 23, 2013 ments, and ephemera. These items are Scola dei Tiraoro e Battioro displayed as a component of the exhibi- The exhibition DENATURED: Honeybees tion. + Murano is committed to raising aware- At the core of DENATURED: Honeybees + ness of a global threat to nature and a Murano is an installation comprising 90 local threat to heritage. The intention hand-made Murano glass vessels. Each is to achieve this goal by foregrounding will be a unique form. Forty-five of the the shared beauty and utility of honey vessels will be filled with honey harvest- and glass. The exhibition will engage ed in the Veneto (and Murano, once the two locations: the exhibition site, which hives are thriving). is the Scola dei Battioro e Tiraoro in the --- VENICE BIENNALE 55th International Art Exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico 1st June – 24th November 2013 This festival will take place from 1st June to 24th November 2013 in the Gar- dens and the Arsenal (preview 29th, 30th and 31st May 2013), as well as in various places around Venice. It is enti- tled “Il palazzo enciclopedico” (The En- cyclopaedic Palace), after Marino Auriti’s 1955 project that patented an imaginary museum containing all of humanity’s knowledge, bringing together the big- gest discoveries of humankind, from the center of Venice on the Grand Canal, and wheel to the satellite. the glass factories and adjacent fields in Murano. In March 2013, beehives and a As Massimiliano Gioni, new curator of bee-friendly garden will be installed in the Art Sector of the Biennial, explained, an existing field of indigenous wildflow- “today, deluged as we are by informa- ers in Murano on the grounds of the Lin- tion, the attempts to structure knowl- ea Ariana glass factory. These hives will edge into omni-comprehensive systems remain in place and be cared for by lo- seems even more necessary and even www.venezia.net Events 8 more desperate. The 55th International Richard Avedon. Art Exhibition will explore these flights of imagination in an exhibition that – as No Seconds Comfort Food and Photog- Auriti’s Palazzo Enciclopedico –com- raphy is an unexpected exhibition jour- bines works of contemporary art and ney that begins with the “Deep Fried historical findings, discovered objects Gadgets” series to culminate, through “ and artefacts.” Band Riders” and the choices of the pop stars, in a reflection on food and impris- --- onment with “ No Seconds”, famous Henry Hargreaves - No Seconds shots dedicated to the last supper of the Comfort food and Photography American sentenced to Death. Until November 24th, 2013 San Servolo Island Free Entry At the Museum of Madness of San Ser- How to arrive to San Servolo: The island volo Island in the Venice Lagoon is open is easily reached with the public trans- until November 24th, 2013, the first port system of ACTV using line 20 from San Zaccaria, monument stop (it may takes 10 minutes). --- Venini - Martinuzzi 1925/1931 Until Decembre 1st, 2013 Cini Foundation In Venice the second exhibition dedicat- ed to the history of the Venini glassware at Cini Foundation European solo exhibit of the New Zea- lander photographer, famous for his re- search on photography and food Henry Hargreaves. He has since established himself as a full time photographer known for fun, creative, provocative and memorable images. Henry found himself modeling for the world’s most prestigious fashion houses and work- ing with such photography icons as Ste- phen Meisel, Mario Testino, and the late www.venezia.net Events 9 --- The exhibition Napoleone Martinuzzi. SEGUSO. Art Glass 1031 - 1973 Venini 1925-1931, curated by Marino From May 18th to September Barovier, will open to the public on the 29th 2013 island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice Glass Museum, Murano on September 8th, 2013.