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Prendergast in Venice

This exhibition will assemble for the first time the major works by American artist, Maurice Prendergast, during two trips to Italy (1898-99 and 1911-12): a body of work that is one of the most attractive and revealing in the story of American art. The exhibition brings together approximately seventy-five of his Italian watercolors, oils, and monotypes as well as photographs, films, guidebooks, and travel advertisements that situate the work within the new visual culture that Americans had embraced by 1900. The presentation of Prendergast’s works in Italy where they were created offers a new point of interest, and contributes to the comprehension of what characterized Modernism in the early 20th century and of the role Prendergast played in the development of Modern art in America. The exhibition is organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in partnership with The Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Dorsoduro 704, Venezia
www.guggenheim-venice.it
10.10.2009 – 3.01.2010

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Schiavon Art Team hosts Angelo Rinaldi

Sparta-100 x 100 anno 2004 mx Schiavon Art Gallery is hosting, in its new location in Venice, Artworks by the Great Artist Angelo Rinaldi.
Angelo Rinaldi was born near Padua, and studied Arts in Italy and abroad. His first exhibition was in 1965, and soon after he devoted himself to sculpture and design too, cooperating with important firms manufacturing furniture, glass, pottery, household articles.
Since 1970 he has been present at design and contemporary art exhibitions in Italy and abroad. By invitation he attended several exhibitions and biennials, among which Kortrijk biennial, where the Italian delegation presented Queen Paola of Belgium with one of Rinaldi’s works. Together with Novello Finotti, Igor Mitoraj, Roberto Fallani, Marina Karella, Kurt Laurenz Metzler, Yvan Thayer and Do Vassilakis Konig. in 1996 he joined “Artisti Artefici”, a movement founded by Paola Crema Fallani.
The luminous sculptures of Angelo Rinaldi and other artists of the movement have been exhibited at Loggia dei Rucellai and at Arts and Design Academy in Florence, and in the exhibition World of Light in Verona. In 2000 he took part in “The Path of Glass”, a worldwide project of Sartirana Arte Foundation of Sartirana Lomellina (PV). In cooperation with Italian Embassies and Italian Culture Institutes abroad, the worldwide project has already been hosted in important museums in the capitals of India, Croatia, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Albania, Morocco, Turkey, Greece and Slovenia, and it will continue its travel round the world.
In the same year Angelo Rinaldi was invited to the Religious Jubilee events “Tradition and Innovation” of the National Institute for foreign trade, that from Rome went to some important art towns. Within the Jubilee exhibitions he was invited to the Laurus event “Projects on Sacred: Art and Architecture for the Jubilee” sponsored by Florence municipality, provincial county, Tuscany regional council, Architects national council, European Parliament, Chilean embassy at the European Community. In the year 2000 the great exhibition “Transparent solid” took place in Villa Pisani in Strà -Venezia.
In 2004 he joined De Man versed(d)/(t) of Antwerper with two jewels “Adam and Eve” . In 2005 SANPAOLO IMI institute ( official sponsor of 2006 winter Olympic games in Turin) committed the artist a collection of 350 drawings to represent the event. Some of these works have been hosted at the Italian culture institute in Zagabria, where the previous year paintings and drawings called “Fragmenta” could be admired. In December an exhibition of his luminous sculptures took place in Israel, and from there in Istanbul and Dubai. In 2006 he was present at the travelling exhibition “DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENERATIONS” (from futurism up to the present day)at the Mohamed Mahamoud Khalil Museum (Cairo – Egypt) by Italian embassies in cooperation with the Italian Culture Institute at Cairo and Italian embassy at Cairo. In 2007 there was an exhibition of luminous sculptures at the Italian Embassy in Seul – Corea, in Dubai , and at Doa in the Arab Emirates.