Until June 11th, during the meeting with Takashi Murakami, Palazzo Grassi proposes the event “Murakami World”. Three days will be dedicated to Artc and japanese culture. From the gallery to the restaurant you will be able to discover the japanese culture and enjoy the japanese food with delicious sushi, maki, sashimi and so on.
Until June 23rd 2010 you can see in the Swiss Institute of Venice in Campo Sant’ Agnese an exposition of Stefan Burger: “Irene, The sinkable show” (Irene, la mostra affondabile). The new works have been on order of Salvatore Lacagnina and product by the Swiss Institute of Rome.
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The works of the venetian artist Silvano Rubino will be exposed until July 18th at Palazzo Tito, head office of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. “In equilibrio tra due punti sospesi” is the title of the exposition that the artist has especially created for the exposition spaces of Palazzetto Tito.
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Jazz is back in Venice with two free concerts at L’Avogaria Theather! The event is promoted by Theolonius Monk School and the Association Caligola.
The first concert will be held tomorrow 27th June at 21:30 by the Duo Pietro Tonolo (tenor sax) and Giancarlo Bianchetti (guitar). The second will be held the 3rd June, always at 21:30, by the Nigredo Trio : Nicola Fazzini (sax), Alessandro Fedrigo (bass and special effects) and Carla Alberto Carnevali (drums and computer).
These two concerts are Free of Charge, so if you want to partecipate is better to reserve a place (the theather is very small, about 100 places!!!).
For more information and reservations please contact:
Caligola Association
Tel. 041 962205
info@caligola.it – www.caligola.it .
L’Avogaria Theather
Corte Zappa, Dorsoduro 1617
Venice
Tel 041 5209270
The 12th edition of Biennale of Architecture will begin soon. It will be open from August 29th to November 21st and its vernissage on the 26th,27th and 28th of August at the Giardini, the Arsenal and in many points of the city. Thousand of visitors will be able to admire the projects of architects from all over the world!
The event will be managed by the architect Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman to conduct this international appointment. She just received the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010. There will be two main projects within the 12th Exhibition: “Architecture Saturdays” and “Destination Biennale di Venezia. Universities meet in architecture”.
Architecture Saturdays is an initiative organized by the Biennale and consists in a serie of meetings with architects, critics and figures from the world of architecture in Italy and abroad. Thirty-five years after the first architecture exhibition to be held by the Biennale di Venezia. “Architecture Saturdays” intends to explore the history of the exhibitions that have been held since then, inviting the directors of those editions to a meeting with the public. Each Saturday there will be a meeting, moderated not only by the current director, Kazuyo Sejima, but also by each director of the preceding editions of the Exhibition.
With “Destination Biennale di Venezia. Universities meet in architecture”, the Biennale turns to universities and educational institutes, offering a visit to the Exhibition planned and organized by the institutions and representing a significant didactic and training experience.
www.labiennale.org/
Architecture Section
Tel: +39 041 5218711
Fax: +39 041 5218812
aav@labiennale.org
Ca’ Giustinian, San Marco 1364/A
30124 Venezia
When also aperitif becomes art!!!
Every monday of May comes back the formula “HappySpritz”.
After the big sucess of the last year, comes back at the Collection Guggenheim the rendez-vous with “Happyspritz Guggenheim”, the aperetif “of art” which attracted more than 4 thousand people the past spring, people who wanted to share a moment culturaly stimulating in the garden of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.
Every monday of May from 07:00pm to 09:30pm, the Peggy’s house will open again its own doors to the young people and not only, for a rendez-vous dedicated to art, music and Spritz the famous venitian drink. The formula doesn’t change: the entrance cost is 7 euro (free only for possessors of the Young Pass, the Guggenheim Membership and the under 26) and offers the possibility to visit the collection and the temporary exposition called “Utopia Matters. From the brotherhoods to the Bauhaus”, with 2 spritz offered and the music of a dj.
Every monday of May (17, 24, 31), from 07:00pm to 09:30pm at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Contact: 704 Dorsoduro, I-30123 Venezia
Open daily 10am-6pm (closed Tuesdays and December 25)
tel +39.041.2405411
info@guggenheim-venice.it
Vegetal fibres as characters of the Architecture Exposition in Venice.
For the first time in the history of the Biennale, the african state of Rwanda will have this year its own space of exposition!!!
Characters: The vegetal fibres. Between tradition and innovation.
The commissioner (and co-curator with Bettina Shol-Sabbatini), will be Mr. Morpurgo. The exposition is entitled “Moebius” and will be located in the Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, a few steps from Campo Santi Apostoli, and in the Magazzini Ligabue 7 in the Dorsoduro Sestiere. Cultural exchanges will be made with italian students and people from Rwanda, a people profoundly attached at the handicraft.
Contact: Fondazione Claudio Buziol
Palazzo Mangilli -Valmarana
Cannaregio 4392
30121 Venezia Italy
+39.041.5237467
www.fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org
This is an exceptionall event you cannot miss!!!
Just for a very small group and just on reservation it will be possible to visit the restauration of the facade of Ca’ Rezzonico. The tour will be held saturday 24th April at 10:00am and Wednesday 28th April at 10:00am and 16:00 pm.
The restoration are now finished and the site-structure will remain in front of the facade just for few weeks. Few inches will divide you from the complex decoration of the building!!! You will be able to recognise the difference between the Barocco and Rococò periods (Longhena started the construction of the building in 1649, but Massari finished it in 1756) and to understand the whole life and “adventures” if this gougeous palace.
The visit is offered by Musei Civici Veneziani and will be divided in two parts: a class lesson held by Mario Cherido and the visit of the site. It’s just on reservation, for more information please call +39 041 2700370 . Please remember that the site inspection will require a specific clothe and physical skills.
Palazzo Bru Zane is the centre of the Musique Romantique Francaise, a reference for the study and performance of XIXth Century French music.
Until the 19th May 2010 many shows will be held in this fabulous building, located just behind the Church of Frari, in a very venetian area of the city.
This program, Il Pianoforte Romantico, will explore the music trends of the French music during the XIX century with symphonic concerts but also with more intimate atmosphere of chamber music.
The complete program can be found in the official website of Palazzetto Bru Zane: www.bru-zane.com , as well as all the information to buy the tickets.
The 25th of April there will be the performance of To Rococo Rot, a famous electonic/post-rock deutsch band active since the half of the’90.
Founded by the drummer Ronald Lippok and his brother Robert (guitar and electronics), this trio (at the bassguitar there is Stefan Schneider) will propose a nice fusion of instruments and electronic sounds. They are here to promote their new album Speculation, available from the past March.
To celebrate this new album is possible to download the track Working Against Time directly from the website of Domino: www.dominorecordco.com/uk/news/22-01-10/free-mp3-from-to-rococo-rots-speculation/ .
You can find the ticket of the concert on the website of Fondamenta Nuove Theatre www.teatrofondamentanuove.it .
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