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San Servolo Island in Celebration

ludos — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:54:08 +0000

During next month many artists and celebrations will take place at San Servolo Island.
Benedictine monks lived on this island from at least the eighth century and for almost five hundred years.
They were joined later by nuns escaping from the convents of Saints Leone and Basso on the island of Malamocco, which had been destroyed by a seaquake. At the beginning of the 15th century the nuns departed, but they were soon replaced by a few dozen other nuns, who were fleeing the Turkish invasion of Crete.

However, by the beginning of the eighteenth century, only a few were left, and soon thereafter the Senate of the Republic of Venice designated San Servolo as the site of a new military hospital, needed due to the continuing war against the Turks. Later the hospital was used to care for the mentally ill.

The Celebrations:

On July 09th 2010 the Island welcome Luma Lourenço, a passional brazilian singer and compositor who presents her project “Sings the World”.
Luma is able to reconcile naturally jazz and latinoamerican music, simply accompanied by Paolo Vianella at the piano.

Information and reservation: Dinner and show, entrance on payment.
tel: +39 0412765001
info@sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it
www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it

On July 16th 2010 you will be able to assist at the concert of Laura Copiello and Claudio Conforto in a show called: “Nina – Omaggio a Nina Simone”
after a few years of the death of the “freedom singer” Nina Simone, a homage to one a the most significative voices of the last century and to a woman always engaged in the
fight for equality. A path through her most important songs.

Information and reservation: Dinner and show, entrance on payment.
tel: +39 041 2765001
info@sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it
www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it

On July 23rd 2010 an orchestra of 3 virtuosi are united for Misch Masch (klezmer balcanico).
Veronica Canale, Luigi Parise and Guido Rigatti propose a tasting of the Eastern Europe music.
Hebrew melodies, transilvanian dances, romanian voices, horas, make a perfect eastern melting pot.

Information and reservation: Dinner and show, entrance on payment.
tel: +39 041 2765001
info@sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it
www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it

On July 28th and 30th 2010 the jazz will be the only sound of San Servolo.
Lead by Serge Alzetta, dancer, choreographer and foundator of the Ecole Superieure de Danse of Nice (France), and by Geneviève Blanchard,
teacher of the school.
The goal of the school is to spread the culture of the jazz dance using tchnicity and liberty as the Jazz music.

Information and reservation: Dinner and show, entrance on payment.
tel: +39 041 2765001
info@sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it
www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it

On July 30th 2010 at 08:30 pm with Sandra Mangini and Alessio Benetti you will be able to assist at the Peregrinazioni Lagunari, which are
fables and traditional venetian songs.
This itinerary by boat for the patient and affectionate investigation of what remain of a traditional culture.

Information and reservation: Dinner and show, entrance on payment.
tel: +39 041 2765001
info@sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it
www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it

TO REACH THE SAN SERVOLO ISLAND TAKE THE VAPORETTO N°20 AT SAN ZACCARIA – MONUMENTO. TIME OF JOURNEY: 10 min.

Mariano Yunta Lopesino – Eyes in the Depth

ludos — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:52:54 +0000

22 Paintings with oil realised between 1984 and 2010 and in the middle the most important work of Yunta : “La Promessa di velazquez” (”the promise of Velazquez”) conceived as a “votive” paintaing, is a homage to the “Las Meninas” by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) considered by the artist the most important Master of all times.

The deep admiration for this artist contributed to the interest that Yunta shown during al his artistical carrier, considering and representing the space as material basis of his composition.
The method that he used is really original and loved all around the world and received a lot of prestigious prizes.

The paintings exposed represent un study about the manipulation of the perspective: Yunta challenge the visitor in the inheritance of the cubism.
As Braque and Picasso, he proposes to the spectator in such a position to render distant the represented subject. Yunta represents as abstract a common subject: also if composed by simple forms that reflect the architectural logic of the project, the subject of the paintings is disolved in a mass of superimposed levels maintained together by ribbons of brushstrokes. This illusion of mouvements is an quaint element of the Yunta’s works, made by elegant brushstrokes and important technical esecutive capacities that are able to give to two-dimensional objects the illusion of the mouvement inside of a spatiotemporal continuity that is just the mirror of the experiences of the artist’s life.

Information:

Free Entrance at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista of Venice

La Figura il Nudo e la Poesia – Rassegna di arti visive Opera di Vanni Quadrio

ludos — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:49:30 +0000

Until July 08th 2010 at the Françoise Calcagno Art Studio of Venice, Francesca Mariotti, Ilaria Calanca and Elena Camoni present you the exhibition “La Figura, il Nudo, la Poesia” (”the Figure, the Nude, the Poetry”).

The collectivity gather the works of seven artists, four painters and three scuptors who face the theme of the figure in its “Beauty and Poetry”. Faces and nudes who express happyness and torment, frivolity and depth of the life.
An homage to the human figure as an artistical classic subject from which the Visual Arts of each period have taken inspiration and a starting point to an observation or a particular ability.

This exhibition is also a moment of Poetry, in order to understand the human body in its intimate essence without taking off its own intrinsic grace. In the shown works, the figure is sung between material and colours, irony and drama;
the physical features are never vulgar, and the body is reppresented becomes metaphor elegantly transported by the nudity of the soul.

Artists: Patrizia Magnanti – Rosie Lawrence – Anna Tazzari – Daniela Marchioni – Rosita Di Pietrantonio -
Vanni Quadrio – Giovanni Castagnino.

Information:

Campo del Ghetto Nuovo 2918

Françoise Calcagno Art Studio

tel: 041 52 46 039

info@calcagnoartstudio.com

Safet Zec – The Power of the Painting – Museo Correr

ludos — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:23:22 +0000

The exhibition presents more than 100 works, oils, painting in tempera, pencils drawings, squirts and preparatory works, big paintings and small canvas – Some of them never exposed to the public and realised in the last ten years of activity of the Bosnian artist, dramatic and masterly character of the modern figurativism.

Endowed with a precocious and straordinary talent, Zec calls important ancestries as Tintoretto and Palma il Giovane or Caravaggio and Freud; it shows the linguistic security of the ancient masters and, together, the anxiety of looking for a lonely investigator and the craze of the experimentation.

The quatity and the quality of his production finished and not finished is incredible, but the transparency is just crystal-clear, the total control, individually shiny and rational.
Again, Safet Zec is perhaps the most important representative of a people’s tragic thoughts.

Until July 18th 2010
Museo Civico Correr
San Marco

From 10.00 am to 06.00 pm (last entrance 05:00 pm)

Telefono organizzatore Musei Civici Veneziani call center 848082000
Musei Civici Veneziani
call center (+39) 041 42730892
info@fmcvenezia.it
www.museiciviciveneziani.it

The Theatre of the World – Aldo Rossi

ludos — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:22:36 +0000

Until July 30th 2010, the exhibition, cured by Maurizio Scaparro, has been set up in the Porch of ca’ Giustinian, restaured main palace of the Biannale of venice, directed by Paolo Baratta. After 30 years of its realisation a second reading has been proposed of the famous project of Aldo Rossi for the theatre of the world, floating building anchored at the Punta della Dogana,

realised in 1979 in occasion of the exhibition called: “Venice and the scenic space”, used in 1980 by the Theatre Sector for the first edition of the Venice Carnival and transported by water in the 1980 summer to the festival of Dubrovnik.

“The project for the Theatre of the world – explained Aldo Rossi – was defined by three facts, the possibility to have an available space precise also if not precisable, the way to place ourselves as volume according to the venetians mouvements., being on the water. Its appears evident that being on the water is the principal feature, a raft, a boat: the borderline of the construction of Venice”.

The curator of the exhibition, Maurizio Scapparo, has declared: “I’ve never could imagine that 30 years after, today, we would remember the extrodinary adventure of the Theatre of the World of Aldo Rossi, wanted by me and Paolo Portoghesi in the 80’s, sign of the interdisciplinity of the Biennale”.

Information:

Free Entrance

Madonnina con Bambino di Ca’ Foscari

ludos — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:18:56 +0000

The “Madonna con Bambino” (”Holy Mary with Child”) is a mural painting discovered, or better discovered again, during the renovating works of Ca’ Foscari finished in 2005 and situated in the main hall of Palazzo Giustinian dei vescovi, set in a niche over a wooden door.

This mural painting which has accurated details has been hidden for years b a huge rose garden. During the renovation of the Palace the painting came back to light and has been protected by a cover plate in glass.

The work had a first renovation in the 60’s and had been removed and transported on a wooden support.
The Madonnina with her kind face has immediately solicited the curiosity of the cafoscarini and began a real and new research.

From which period is the painting ? Who is the painter ? What kind of evolution has had in the times ? These and other requests have guided the investigation.

The painting exposed outside for a long time is situated in the main hall of Ca’ Giustinian where the façade of the XV century, the well dated of the Renaissance and the uncovered stairs in Gothic style create around the painting a frame which has influenced the researchers inducing them to consider the work from a Tiziano’s follower.

After the renovation of the 60’s cured by Mrs Menin Giuseppina, on May 28th 2010 at 11:00 am, the “Madonnina di ca’ Foscari” went back in the laboratories to then go back in her internal niche in the main courtyard of Palazzo Giustinian.

Manlio Alzetta in Scoletta San Zaccaria

ludos — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:18:36 +0000

You will be able to see this exhibition until september with many changes of works in exposition.
Organised by the “Centro d’Arte San Vidal – U.C.A.I. of Venice” in Campo San Zaccaria near by the prestigious and old Church, the manifestation has as title “Arte Estate a San Vidal” (”Art in Summer in San Vidal”) and shows 48 artists who propose their
works in which different languages, fascinating styles, sing life and nature, stories from yesterday and futuristic thoughts overwrought by fears and hopes that the modern society rattle without rest.

The organisers wanted, as in the previous editions, to focus the attention on one Artist who has left trail of an important humanity doing of his own Art a stepping stone for messages capable to fix almost the more sensible persons in a clot of feelings which propose a future a little bit brighter than the present.

This year the choose is fallen on a name well known in Venice. His memory is still alive for the friend and for all the people who knows Art: Manlio Alzetta (1920/2000).
He has been a very eclectic artist (painter, sculptor, poet, artistic critic) and he left unforgettable works with oil and watercolour in which our lagune is seen as a hanging world in the memory of the time, where everything appears motionless surrounded in an metaphysical light capable to enlighten not only things but also their minds.

His painting are the rhymes of a poem written
thousand years ago and only the sensibility mixed with the experience of a real artist could give life again and show us all this
without falling in the obvious.

He never fogot the humble people and the daily effort in the labour as his Venice. Never “too much” his painting can be defined “simple and essential” both in the landscapes and in the utilisation of transparent coulours which appear as flying thoughts.

Arte&Arte at Palazzo Mocenigo

ludos — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:36:44 +0000

Until August 29th Arte&Arte from Como in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
propose you an exceptional exhibition.
The Fiber Art, contemporary expressive form in which textiles are used as Art.

The exposition cured by Luciano Caramel presents 54 minitexiles (20×20cm) realised by artists from 40 coutries.
In every possible access and materials, the yarn, the fiber, the textile are presented in a new autonomy and are today
updated by iconografic structures in continuous evolution.

Information:

Palazzo Mocenigo
Fondazione Musei Civici
Arte&Arte

Palazzo Mocenigo
Santa Croce 1992

Email: mkt.musei@comune.venezia.it
Web: www.museiciviciveneziani.it
from 10:00am to 04:00pm
closed on monday

Arte&Arte at Palazzo Mocenigo

MURAKAMI WORLD AT PALAZZO GRASSI. WHEN JAPAN MEETS VENICE.

ludos — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:29:38 +0000

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.

Wednesday June 09th ITADAKIMASU! The event will beging with a desting of japanese food at 12:30.

From 02:30 to 04:00pm ST-ART Kawaii! (4-11 years old) Origamimania! For the younger visitors a workshop

will be organise to discover, playing, the world of the Origami.

From 02:30 to 04:30pm ST-ART Manga! (from 11 years old) With Stefano Ascari, Francesca Colasante e Emanuele Tenderini/Venezia Comix. A journey in the manga Universe: the story, the narrative evolution and the graphic style.

From 05:00pm L’OPERA PARLA. ALTER-ACTION: The icons of the human body in the new japanese mass medias, with Maria Roberta Novielli.

From 06:00pm PALAZZO GRASSI SAKE TIME: The traditional japanese Happy Hour for the first time in a Venetian palace.

Thursday June 10th ST-ART Kawaii! (from 4-11 years old) The master Murakami offers the starting point to realise stuffed monsters. from 10:30-12:00pm.

From 10:30-12:30 ITADAKIMASU! Sushi Art with Akiko Kimura. The cooker Akiko Kimura reveals the secrets of the most famous japanese meal.

From 12:30 The Palazzo Grassi Café enriches its Menu with special plates of the japanese tradition.

From 02:30-04:30pm ST-ART Manga! (from 11 years old) Manga 02. Animals in movement. With Stefano Acari, Francesca Colasante and Emanuele Tenderini/Venezia Comix.

Friday June 11th ST-ART Kawaii!!! (from 4-11 years old) Kabuli Theatre: Everybody to Theatre! Incredible Masks and make-up to discover the magic world of the japanese theatre.

From 12:30 ITADAKIMASU! You will be able to discover traditional japanese meals.

From 02:00-04:00pm ST-ART Manga! (from 11 years old) Manga 03. Robot and mechanical monsters. With Stefano Ascari, Francesca Colasante and Emanuele Tenderini/Venezia Comix.

From 04:00pm THE WORKS TALK: SPECIALGUEST TAKASHI MURAKAMI FROM NIHONGA TO THE SUPERFLAT. Takashi Murakami meets Nobuo Tsuji, Chancelor of the Tama University of Tokyo. Intoduced by Angela Vettese.

From 07:00 PALAZZO GRASSI SAKE TIME: The traditional japanese Happy Hour for the first time in a Venetian palace.

Information:

Palazzo Grassi

Campo San Samuele

Vaporetto Stops: San Samuele (line 2), Sant’Angelo (line 1)

041 5231680

Murakami - Palazzo Grassi

Exhibition “Sebastiano Ricci. The triumph of the invention in the Venetian XVII century”. Until July 11th.

ludos — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:38:18 +0000

This initiative is considered the most important of the acivities that Regione del Veneto and the Foundation Giorgio Cini (through the Regional Committee) have organised to celebrate, after 350 years of his birth, the figure, the genius and the works of Sebastiano Ricci, ingenious precursor of the Rococo in Italy and in the most important european centers.

Begun in december 2009 with the international meeting at the Foundation Giorgio Cini, “Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734)”, the celebration will continue during 2010 with other initiatives. The exhibition, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, with as curator the Istitute of Art History of the Foundation Cini and directed by the Professor Giuseppe Pavanello.

The exhibition joins together some “bozzetti” (paintings, sculptures, drawings) able to represent an original aspect of the protean and spectacular genius of Sebastiano Ricci, at the base of this formal, technical, stylistic revolution tied to the news of the Rococo. In exhibition you will be able to compare bozzetti of other important artists of the early XVII century Venetian school as Antonio Pellegrini, the young Giambattista Tiepolo, Gaspare Pittoni, Antonio Molinari, Giambattista Piazzetta.

Fondazione Cini
From 11 – 19, closed on Tuesday
Ticket: € 9,50
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
arte@cini.it

Sebastiano Ricci