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VENICE BIENNALE 53rd International Art Exhibition.Making Worlds. Open through 22 November. VENICE BIENNALE
53rd International Art Exhibition.
Making Worlds.
Open through 22 November.
53rd edition of the number one contemporary art event in Italy.
The show, centering on a theme conceived by its director, Daniel Birnbaum, combines two exhibition spaces ...
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'Prendergast in Italy' at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Oct 10 2009 - Jan 3 2010
For the first time in Italy, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection pays tribute to the American artist Maurice Prendergast (St. John’s, Canada, 1858 – New York, USA, 1924) hosting the exhibition “Prendergast in Italy” (October 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010).
Maurice Prendergast spent his youth in Bosto ...
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Gardenal. Travel Stories, City Projects. Open until 10 May.
A solo show of the Mestre artist whose career spans over thirty years, on view in the exhibition halls on the museum’s ground and first floors (Hall 10) and presenting some sixty works including paintings, installations, performance art and public art projects, all produced in the last ten years. Or ...
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Nigra sum sed formosa. Religion and Beauty in Christian Ethiopia. Open until 10 May 2009.
First sizable Italian exhibition dedicated to one of the oldest Christian civilizations in Africa.
The show, presented as an organic and fascinating story, revolves around a few historical personalities, including the celebrated Queen of Sheba – who was the inspiration for the famous verse Nigra ...
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Carlo Cardazzo. A New Vision of Art. Extended through 1 March 2009
Carlo Cardazzo.
A New Vision of Art.
Exhibition dedicated to the Venetian patron of the arts, collector, publisher and gallery owner who was one of the leading figures in the history of Italian art, reconstructing his collection which in the 1930s and 1940s was considered to be among the most i ...
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GEORGE BARBIER 1882-1932. The Birth of Art Deco.
Open through 5 January 2009.
First ever exhibition dedicated to the illustrator, decorator, theater costume and fashion designer, and famous exponent of French Art Deco. Over two hundred works, including paintings, drawings, articles, pochoir, photographs, books, manuscripts and films – coming from ...
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18th Century Images from the Rava' Estate.
Publications, books and engravings.
Until January.
On view on the second floor of the museum is a display of works from the collection of Aldo Ravà (1879 -1923), Venetian collector and scholar of 18th-century art and literature. Curated by Piero Correr.
CORRER MUSEUM
Napoleonic Wing, St. Mark’ ...
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GEORGE BARBIER 1882-1932 - The Birth of Art Deco. Open through 5 January 2009
GEORGE BARBIER 1882-1932.
The Birth of Art Deco. Open through 5 January 2009.
First ever exhibition dedicated to the illustrator, decorator, theater costume and fashion designer, and famous exponent of French Art Deco. Over two hundred
works, including paintings, drawings, articles, p ...
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EDUARD ANGELI - VENICE - Correr Museum - Through December 8th
EDUARD ANGELI - VENICE.
Open to the public through 8 December.
On view are the latest works of the Austrian artist, a leading figure in the contemporary art world and a resident of Venice since 2001.
The solo show offers paintings on rough jute fabrics or on paper, created with coal, ...
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Carlo Cardazzo: A New Vision of Art.
Carlo Cardazzo: A New Vision of Art.
Guggenheim Collection, 31 October 2008 – 9 February 2009.
Exhibition dedicated to the Venetian patron-of-the-arts, collector, publisher and gallery owner, one of the leading figures in the history of Italian art.
Info, tel. 041.240.54.11 ...
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International Exhibition of Architecture 14 September to 23 November 2008.
International Exhibition of Architecture.
Out There: Architecture Beyond Building.
Biennale Gardens and Arsenale:
14 September to 23 November 2008.
Eleventh edition of the important bi-annual exhibition dedicated to architecture and, specifically, to contemporary design an ...
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A World of Paper: Isabelle de Borchgrave meets Mariano Fortuny - through July 21st 2008
Isabelle de Borchgrave meets Mariano Fortuny. Open to the public until 21 July 2008.
More than eighty dresses, unique for being made of paper, as well as accessories and trompe-d’oeil, are on display in Venice at the charming residence-atelier of Mariano Fortuny, demonstrating the skill and talen ...
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6TH INT'L CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL - 14-29 June 2008
The 6th International Festival of Contemporary Dance by the Venice Biennale will this year “talk about” beauty: with performances, workshops, meetings and a
video installation accompanying the event. The program runs 14th to 29th June in Venice. With Beauty, director Ismael Ivo extends his researc ...
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FAREVETRO. Creativity and Technique in a hundred works. Opening, Wednesday 28 May.
FAREVETRO. Creativity and Technique in a hundred works. Opening, Wednesday 28 May.
Open to the public 29 May through 30 September.
First exhibition produced by VETROVETRO, a new association of eleven important Murano glassworks founded with the aim of supporting and spreading the
glassmaking ...
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Santomaso and the Abstract Option - Cini Foundation through July 13th 2008
Santomaso and the Abstract Option
GIORGIO CINI FOUNDATION
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Open through 13 July 2008
Twenty-five years after the last Venetian exhibition of Santomaso’s works, this great show celebrates the Venetian Abstract master’s 100th birthday ...
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LAWRENCE CARROLL - Open through 4 May 2008.
A series of site-specific installations – specially created for the nine rooms on the museum’s second floor where they are on display – offer a look at the latest artistic quests of the Australian-born artist who has been living and working for a while now in California and lately also in Venice. Vi ...
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ACCADEMIA GALLERIES: LATE TITIAN AND SENSUALITY IN PAINTING Open through 20 April 2008
LATE TITIAN AND SENSUALITY IN PAINTING.
Open through 20 April 2008.
Arriving in Venice following its great success in Vienna is the exhibition dedicated to the 16th-century great Veneto artist’s last years. Product of the a collaboration between the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Special Venet ...
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Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797
Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797.
Until 25 November 2007.
This important exhibition explores the intense and elaborate relationships between the Serenissima Republic and the Muslim world. Paintings, glass, pottery and metal art works, as well as jewelry, textile and prints, illustr ...
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Enzo Cucchi, paintings and drawings. Open through 7 October
Over a hundred paintings and drawings coming from important European and American museums in an important retrospective (open to coincide with the Biennale Exhibition) of one of the leading Italian contemporary artists.
Presented by the Venice Civic Museums, the show covers the artist’s career fr ...
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51st International Contemporary Music Festival. Oltre la linea - Beyond the Line.
51st International Contemporary Music Festival. Oltre la linea / Beyond the Line.
Biennale Venues: 4-13 October 2007.
Director, Giorgio Battistelli. Presented by the Venice Biennale. Venice Biennale, tel. 041.521.87.11. ...
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VEDOVA - Monotypes. Until 2 September at PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
VEDOVA – Monotypes. Until 2 September.
A small but significant exhibition celebrates within the Venetian temple of modern art the Venetian master who has passed away recently. On view are a number of works from two monotype series, among the last produced by the artist who was a leading figure in ...
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All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys at PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys.
Open until 2 September.
An exploration – through works coming mainly from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s collection – of the artistic and conceptual affinities between two artists belonging to different generations an ...
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Venice takes flight
Arts & entertainment: In a special report from the world's biggest arts jamboree, Adrian Searle reveals what the Venice Biennale has to teach us.
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52nd Venice Biennale launches European contemporary art season
The world's oldest and most prestigious contemporary art fair opens Sunday in Venice, kicking off what promises to be the European art season of the decade as four premier events align in an unusual convergence that is generating extraordinary buzz.
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KUNIAKI KUROKI. The Rimpa and Hiroshige. Japanese Esthetics Expressed Through Glass.
Open until 25 January 2009.
Exhibition of glass art works by Japanese artist Kuniaki Kuroki.
Presented by Madeinitaly.it of Venice.
CA’ PESARO
INTERNATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
Santa Croce 2076
Boat line 1 to San Stae
Open (museum and shows): 10am – 5pm (last admission, 4pm). Closed Mo ...
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EDUARD ANGELI - Venice.
Open through 8 December.
On view are the latest works of the Austrian artist, a leading figure in the contemporary art world and a resident of Venice since 2001.
The solo show offers paintings on rough jute fabrics or on paper, created with coal, chalk and with a meticulous use of color. The subje ...
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DEPERO. Works from the Fedrizzi Collection. - Extended through 3 May 2009.
DEPERO. Works from the Fedrizzi Collection
Extended through 3 May 2009.
Show presented by the Venice Civic
Museums as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations o ...
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ITALICS. Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008. Open to the public, 27 September to 22 March 2009.
The collection of over 250 works offers a new thematic point of view that is arguably provocative, and at times polemical, of Italian art in the last forty years. Leaving out a number of key works of that period, the show is an in-depth exploration of the true essence of the artistic panorama presen ...
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