Art in Venice
Prestigious events from January to April 2009
Here are presented a few cultural trails for whoever returns to Venice, and for whoever decided to enjoy the lagoon city immersed in peacefulness after the holiday season.
At the Murano Glass Museum it is currently ongoing the exhibition “Murano 1797 – 1859. From the collections of the Glass Museum – Murano”. It belongs to a sequence of exhibitions “Rediscovering museum”, born with the aim of rediscovering and valuing the collections that are normally not shown to the public but have great meaning for the city. The museum displays about a hundred glass masterpieces, selected from the worldwide most important collection of Murano works.
Linked to this, another event is pertaining to glass. Until January 25 it will be possible to visit “KUNIAKI KUROKI – The Rimpa and Hiroshige. Japanese aesthetic expressed through glass”. The exhibition, displayed between Ca’ Pesaro, the Modern Art International Gallery and the Oriental Art Museum, shows about eighty glass works signed by the Japanese artist Kuniaki Kuroki, realized within the last twenty years as interpretations of masterpieces of a number of Japanese artists from the XVIII and XIX centuries.
With the beginning of 2009, the Correr Museum starts the celebrations for the Futurism centenary and it dedicates a personal to Depero, titled “Works of the Fedrizzi Collection”. The exhibition shows ninety-five works including oils, temperas, ink and charcoal designs, wooden and coloured fabric carvings, decoration projects, realized between 1914 and 1956. Among the masterpieces displayed, you also find Libro imbullonato (1927) or Nitrito in Velocità (1922).
The Venice Cassa di Risparmio, Venezia-Campo San Luca branch, shows “Venice 1915-1918. Images from the city at war”. Until April 20, 2009, through the works of art made available thanks to conspicuous historic and photographic funds and to the collections of Museums, it will be possible to reason out in front of the effigies of the city during the Great War.
From January 10, in Venice it will be displayed a double exhibition: “Zotti&allievi”. At the Correr Museum and contemporarily at the Magazzini del Sale, will be mounted two tribute-exhibitions dedicated to the great artist Carmelo Zotti, born in Trentino but adopted by Venice. The two exhibitions will involve two Ministries of Culture, four municipalities, three institutional departments, five exhibition sites, six curators and twenty apprentice-artists. A year after his death, a big exhibition will be held at the New York Chelsea Art Museum; contemporarily a retrospective will be dedicated to the master at the Correr Museum and a second exhibition will be dedicated to his pupils of the Venice Academy.
Finally, after 20 years of renovation Palazzo Grimani will be open to the public again, with Ganimede and Bosch’s diptych. One of the masterpieces from the late Mannerism, it was originally a patrician residence with a Venetian-Byzantine structure, that was repeatedly transformed in the XVI century through powerful decorative changes. It was bought in 1981 by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities with the aim to make of it the new site of the Archaeological Museum. It is now re-opening its doors as museum of his own self and of the XVI century civilization.
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