Vollard (1866 – 1939) was a pioneer in Europe between art dealers, he had an essential role in the development of the modern art until the first decades of the XX century. For example he organized the first personal exposition of Paul Cézanne in 1895.

And he has been one of the firsts who gave to a young Picasso the chance to display his works when he arrived in Paris.
This complex relationship ended 40 years later with the death of Vollard.

The exposition has been promoted by Gamm Giunti and include the complete eerie of 100 incisions of the Suite Vollard and the “Minotauromachia”. The last opening date is the 8th July 2012.

To promote the event there will be many extra opening, shows, events and didactic laboratories, but also guided tours and concerts. The purpose is to promote love and respect for the italian and all its aspects.

Please remember that many activities must be booked, even if free of charge. So please take a look at the Veneto Brochure to be sure to not miss an event that you may like!!! Remember that all the State Museums of Italy will be free of charge, not only the venetian ones!!!

This new event, “Artisti in Vetrina 2012“, is promoted by the Deutsch-Italian cultural association, the international group TheSeven, Confesercenti and the city hall administration.

To be honest, this is not a really “new” thing. “Artisti in Vetrina” is the union of trade and art, as it has always been in Venice since the beginning of its history. But we were loosing this connection, so we can consider it as a new proposal. We hope that it will not be the last!

The area that has been more sensible to this initiative is San Polo, with more than 30 participating shops. Also some Art Galleries are participating, this means that it has been seen as an opportunity to increase the synergy between different kind of art, and not as a new competitor.

Don’t miss the opportunity, you will have the chance to see “Artisti in Vetrina 2012″ just until April 30th!!! You can download the list of artists and shops by clicking here.

One of the main theme of the exhibition is the collaboration of Klimt with the architect and interior designer Josef Hoffmann. They firstly meet in Vienna where the shared clients, commissions and friend. In this period they tried to create the “total work of art” (called “Gesamtkunstwert”), that can be admired in its highest point in the Beethoven Frieze (1901-1902) and in the decoration of Brussels’ Stoclet Palace.

For more information about the exhibition you can surf www.mostraklimt.it (both in english and in italian) or call +39 041 9636808

The aim of the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa with this exposition is to show the hidden identity of Venice, far from its touristic side and closer to the its real spirit: a big meltin’ pot of different culture and ideas (as it was in the past!).

Venice is considered a “city of love” from everybody, and this exhibition try to show different aspects of the love itself and the idea of freedom which is connected to itself. In fact Venice in the past has been able to accept many diversity, much more than any other city in Italy and in the world. And this hidden side of the city can be seen by all those who are able to see behind its touristic mask.

The young artists involved in this project are: Antonio Bigini and Rachele Maistrello, Tomaso De Luca, Sabina Grasso, Andrea Romano and Annatina Caprez.

The exhibition will be enriched by an interdisciplinary catalogue also contains the critical contributions of some participants in the “A Special Day”: the editors Pier Luigi Tazzi, Filipa Ramos e Camilla Seibezzi, the artist Chiara Fumai, the sociologist Luca Trappolin.

“I, you, him, her”
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito
Dorsoduro 2826, 30123 Venice
Until the 26th of March 2012
from Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 – 17:30
Monday and Tuesday close
Phone: +39 041 5207797
www.bevilacqualamasa.it

You will admire many garments that now belong to the history of fashion, some models of Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy (in Italy for the first time!) worn by Diana Vreeland and loaned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

There will be also some articles by Balenciaga (from Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum), other creations from the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent and precious clothes that have marked the past century’s fashion (from prestigious private collections and archives, including heads of Chanel, Schiaparelli, Missoni, Pucci and costumes of Ballets).

During the same day (10th March), the Iuav University of Venice organizes an International Conference with the London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London) and the Centre for Fashion Studies (Stockholm University), dedicated to the discipline of Fashion Curating.
This conference will be attended by leading names of the most important international fashion Museums: Akiko Fukai, Kaat Debo, Atefano Tonchi, Harold Koda, Alexandra Palmer and Amy de la Haye.

Spring at Palazzo Fortuny: Diana Vreeland. After Diana Vreeland
From the 10th of March to the 25th of June 2012
Palazzo Fortuny
San Marco 3958, 30124 Venezia
Phone: +39 041 5200995 – Fax: +39 041 5223088
Info: info@fmcvenezia.it
www.museiciviciveneziani.it

The mosaic in question “The Dome of Creation“, located in the west and north sides of the atrium of the basilica, show a cycle of 26 mosaics from the Old Testament, representing, the creation of the world, the first men, original sin and the expulsion from paradise.

The exposithion is held at Ca ‘Pesaro, and is represented by following the steps that characterize the artist: “the views of Venice“, “the journey in the Mediterranean” and the “bird’s eye views (vedute a volo d’uccello)”.
the exhibition includes a section dedicated to the relationship with some of his illustrious contemporaries, Modigliani, Medardo Rosso and Raoul Dufy.
Of them are exposed portraits and caricatures created by the artist, and a selection of portraits and still life’s made during the course of his artistic career.

Sponsored by the Foundation’s Civic Museums of Venice and the Regione del Veneto, followed by Silvio Fuso, Giovanni Soccol, Elisa Prete and Cristiano Sant, the exhibition want to rediscover and celebrate the artists related to the founding site of Ca ‘Pesaro and Venice, among the 800 the twentieth century.

Small biography:

Gennaro Favai was born in Venice in 1879, son of the publisher Louis and Countess Teresa Albrizzi, expressed, since an early age, a passion for art.

After the expulsion from the Art Accademy, the artist Vector Zanetti Zilla took him in his studio, with whom he studied Venetian painting of fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through copies of the experiences of teachers and materials and painting techniques.
In 1904 he participates to the world exposition of Saint Louis, where he was awarded with bronze medal, in the same year made the first of a series of long and short stay trips to Paris, where on several occasions he exhibit by “Salons of the Societe Nationale” and “Societe Internationale de la Peinture à l’eau“.

In 1907 he exhibited also for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 1908 participates in the “Permanent exhibition of arts and industries of Venice” at the Palazzo Pesaro organized by Nino Barbantini.
That was much appreciate by the critique , the famous critic Charles Louis Borgmeyer dedicated an article in the pages of “Fine Art Journal”.
During the 1914 trip to London, in the occasion of the exhibition at Coupil Gallery, integrates its vision of the landscape with the conception of light and space, he met the painter and illustrator Frank Brangwyn, with whom he began a long association. In the same year he met in Paris Kievits Maria, daughter of the Dutch Ambassadeur in France, multilingual writer, whom he married in 1918.
The stay in Taormina and Syracuse (1915-17), followed by the long stay in Capri from ‘19, are critical for the development of a new idea of the landscape.
He moved to Positano, graphic artist enriched the corpus of sketches and watercolours of the Amalfi coast, published under the title ” Golfo di Salerno, Costa amalfitana come fu vista da Gennaro Favai ” (1925) and followed by collecting 56 drawings of the Capri Island (1930).

At the end of 1930 he travelled to New York, following his return from a stay in Algiers, which significantly enriches his repertoire landscape.
Returning to Venice, he devoted himself to engraving techniques and in particular to the lithographic washes; since the ’40s gradually withdrew from public life, but his house is a meeting place for artists and writers, musicians and intellectuals.

The latest production is characterized by fleeting views of the lagoon city, aerial shots of the towers.
He died in Venice in 1958.

Gennaro Favai – Visions and Horizons 1879-1958.
Until the 31st of March 2012  
Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art 
Santa Croce, 2076 – Venice
More info: http://capesaro.visitmuve.it

 
Once you reach Punta della Dogana, the statue of a bull sits on a barge, which left its moorings, it will reach the center of the basin, thus celebrating the symbolic “sacrifice of the Bull”, allowing us to greet this magnificent Carnival and wait for the renewed appointment next year.

The Rowing of Silence
From Rialto to San Marco Basin
Info: http://www.carnevale.venezia.it/programma_dettaglio.php?id=1842