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Leonardo at the Accademia Galleries.

The image of this “Italian Embassador” is found on euros coined in Italy. “Leonardo’s Man” has constituted part of the treasures of the Accademia Galleries, Venice, since 1822. From its dark chamber, in the shadows of the design cabinet, it had exited only five other times in half a century: 1966, 1980, 1992, 1999, 2002, and always for very brief times. Paper and ink suffer from light, from changes in temperature and humidity.
In art history, this design is known as the Vitruvian Man, because Leonardo da Vinci based it on the Treatise of Architecture by the Roman Vitruvius. The proportions between the parts of a building respond to the same laws of beauty and harmony which apply to the human body. Certainly, it has become a manifesto of the Renaissance, of its proud confidence in human reason, pivot-point and conscience of the universe.
«Leonardo. The Vitruvian Man between art and science»
Until 10 January 2010 Accademia Galleries
Info www.leonardo.uomovitruviano.it
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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

Schiavon Art Team hosts Angelo Rinaldi

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.

Schiavon Art Team
Dorsoduro 869
30123 Venezia
for info: schiavonvenice@gmail.com
From Dec 1st 2009 to Jan 31st 2010
Free Entrance

In-finitum by Axel Vervoordt

The eclectic Belgian collector Axel Vervoordt, with the exposition In-finitum, hosted at Palazzo Fortuny until 15 November, faces the category of the Infinite, from that which is not finite until the unlimited, exploring this concept through Art, Science and Philosophy.

The emotional impact is strong and what strikes the visitors the most is the large number of interpretations of this concept and the amount of links between artistic expressions from different epochs and cultures. The exposition, investigating the concept of the “infinite”, leads visitors into a kind of spiritual journey.

Now, in one of the rooms, Concetto spaziale n° 59 by Lucio Fontana encounters Natura morta by the Master of Hartford, active in Rome between 1590 and 1610 circa, and another Natura morta by Giorgio Morandi, painted in 1958, while from the heights of the ceiling un mobile by Alexander Calder silently observes the scene.

«In-finitum»
Until November 15 at Palazzo Fortuny
Info www.museiciviciveneziani.it

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Vedova Museum

The exhibition dedicated to Emilio Vedova is unique in the method in which viewers see the paintings.  The museum hosts the great Venetian artist’s canvases, by means of a mechanical arm  that takes them with a circular movement, from the store room where they are kept, to the exhibition room.

The public can admire the paintings as they “float” in the air before them. The exhibition space was planned by architect Renzo Piano in the first among nine Magazzini del Sale, ancient store rooms used as salt containers at the time when Venice was still a Republic.  The mechanism thought out by the architect is unique: the works are concealed in a store room at the end of the building so as to be received “in a dimension of eternity”, as Germano Celant artistic and scientific supervisor of the Foundation dedicated to Emilio and Annabianca Vedova explained.  No nails are therefore used, as the works are collected ten at a time thanks to the mechanical device that takes them to the exhibition room.  Here they remain suspended in the air for a couple of hours at different levels, giving the visitors time to admire them from every view point, even from behind.  Every two hours the device changes the layout and the works leave the room with a slow, circular movement to be replaced by the next paintings.  This is the first art exhibition whose works are displayed in a dynamic way and the layout may be changed.  All this, thanks to a mechanical system and automated devices.

This project by Renzo Piano is an actual and proper tribute to his friend, Vedova whose passion for curves and movement is well known.  Both aspects are exploited by the exhibition.  In order to make the experience even more spectacular, the pavement was inclined in such a way as to consent a change of prospective fro the onlooker. Besides displaying a series of figurative works from the 1930s till the geometrical period, Plurimi and discs, the museum will provide a space dedicated to the comparison between Vedova’s and others’ art.

Address: Magazzini del Sale, Fondamenta delle Zattere
Times: from Tuesday to Sunday from 11.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.
Entry: free in June 2009
Web: www.fondazionevedova.org

Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation
Address: Dorsoduro 46 30123
Telephone: +39 041 5226626
Fax: +39 041 5239060

Source:  www.veneziasi.it

Punta della Dogana

Punta della Dogana - François Pinault Foundation

Well known works selected from the Francois Pinault Collection by artists such as Jeff Koons, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Cy Twombly, Takashi Murakami and Jake & Dinos Chapman – are shown alongside works by emerging talents such as Matthew Day Jackson, Adel Abdessemed, Wilhelm Sasnal, Rob Pruitt, Richard Hughes, Nate Lowman, Mark Bradford and Kai Althoff.

Open every day from 10 am to 7 pm.
Closed every Tuesday. Closed the 24, 25, 31st December, 2009 and the 1st January, 2010.
Last entrance at 6 pm.

Source: www.palazzograssi.it

Peggy Guggenheim Museum

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum was inaugurated in 1980 and presents Peggy Guggenheim’s personal collection of 20th century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibition.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is owned and operated by the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, which also operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

Collection:
Permanent collection
The core mission of the museum is to present the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim herself. The collection holds major works of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European abstraction, avant-garde sculpture, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. These include Picasso (The Poet, On the Beach), Braque (The Clarinet), Duchamp (Sad Young Man on a Train), Léger, Brancusi (Maiastra, Bird in Space), Severini (Sea=Dancer), Picabia (Very Rare Picture on Earth), de Chirico (The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet), Mondrian (Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938 / Compositon with Red 1939), Kandinsky (Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross), Miró (Seated Woman II), Giacometti (Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking), Klee (Magic Garden), Ernst (The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride), Magritte (Empire of Light), Dalí (Birth of Liquid Desires), Pollock (The Moon Woman, Alchemy), Gorky (Untitled), Calder (Arc of Petals) and Marini (Angel of the City).

Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Sculpture Garden

The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Sculpture Garden and other outdoors spaces at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents works from the permanent collections (by Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Ernst, Flanagan, Giacometti, Gilardi, Goldsworthy, Holzer, Marini, Minguzzi, Mirko, Merz, Moore, Ono, Paladino, Richier, Takis), as well as sculptures on temporary loan from foundations and private collections (by Calder, Graham, Hamak, Marini, Plessi, Smith).

Gianni Mattioli Collection
The museum exhibits twenty six masterpieces on long-term loan from the renowned Gianni Mattioli Collection, including famous images of Italian Futurism, such as Materia and Dynamism of a Cyclist by Boccioni, Interventionist Demostration by Carrà, The Solidity of Fog by Russolo, works by Balla, Severini (Blue Dancer), Sironi, Soffici, Rosai, Depero. The collection also includes important early paintings by Morandi and a rare portrait by Modigliani.

The museum also exhibits works of art given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for its Venetian museum since Peggy Guggenheim’s death, as well as and long-term loans from private collections.

Current events:
MASTERPIECES OF FUTURISM AT THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
February 18 – December 31, 2009

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: GLUTS
30 May – 20 September 2009

WIM DELVOYE. TORRE
June 3 – November 22 2009
From June 3 to November 22 2009 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s latest creation, Torre: a Cor-Ten steel tower, with ogival windows, tracery and turrets in the International Gothic style, on the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, overlooking the Grand Canal.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection
704 Dorsoduro, I-30123 Venezia
Open daily 10am-6pm (closed Tuesdays and December 25)
tel +39.041.2405411

Source: www.guggenheim-venice.it