Venice: Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation Gala Dinner

2012

Brava Franca

Venice: Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation. The annual gala fund raising dinner and lottery of the members of The Venice International Foundation gathered once again in the gardens of Ca Rezzonico.

Above. The administrative council of The Venice International Foundation, Francesco Molinari, Gabriella Belli, director of all the museums of the Musei Civici di Venezia, the president, the driving force and  the soul of The Venice Foundation Franca Coin, Flavia Faccioli, Guido Venturini and Giustina Destro, hand two big cheques to Daniela Ferretti, director of Palazzo Fortuny for the Missione Fortuny, the conservation and restoration of works by Mariano Fortuny housed in the museum itself. 

 

Mariano Fortuny -The Bayreuth Theatre model.

   
Mariano Fortuny -The Theatre Drawings album.

Missione Fortuny HELP!!!  Just a couple of the works that need urgent restoration and preservation; The Bayreuth Theatre model and the Theatre Drawings album. You too can help preserve these historic works by Mariano Fortuny with micro donations. For more information go to: The Venice Foundation.

 

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner. Actor, author and director  Marco Paolini is the winner of the coveted Premio Cotisso Venice Foundation 2012 prize, Franca Coin and Michela Signori.

 

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner.  A vintage gondola is on display on the ground floor of Ca' Rezzonico, the palazzo houses a museum of 18th century Italian paintings and Venetian decorative art.

Giulio Malgara and Paola Parmeggiani

Margherita Errera 

John and Fausta Eskenazi, Manfredi Bellati and Mita De Benedetti 

Armando and Chiara Peres

 

 

Alessandra Althoff Pugliese

Francesco Molinari and Manuela Luca Dazio  di Castelnuovo

Annabella Bassani

 Carlo Cappai, Tonci Foscari and Alessandra Segantini

Nereo Destro and Piergiorgio Coin

Franco and Barbara Fontana

Juanita Sabbadini, Giulia and Guido Venturini 

Daniel Berger

Gianfranco and Mimma Mossetto

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner. A hunky pure block of glass is the Premio Cotisso Venice Foundation trophy kindly donated by glass expert and designer Giordana Naccari. This year it was assigned to actor, author and director Marco Paolini. 

 

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner - The Marco Paolini monologue.  Marco Paolini is the recipient of the Premio Cotisso Venice Foundation 2012 prize.  He is an Italian stage actor, theater director, dramaturge and author. His performances usually consist of monologues with frequent use of the Venetian language, irony and satire. Inspired by Dario Fo he is an Italian exponent of narrative theatre.

Marco Paolini and Gabriella Belli

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner - the table setting.  Each centerpiece is a hand-made Venetian landmark, like the Rialto Bridge, made in the artisanal workshop of Signor Blum in the heart of Venice. The wood is cut following the drawing's shape from a single wood panel. 

Mariapia Catalano and Alessandra Mancino

Marina Snow and Alessandro Zoppi

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner. Carpaccio di Tonno agli Agrumi con Alzatina di Gamberi e Fiori Eduli.

Leslie Genninger and Alessandra Zoppi 

Giorgio and Ilaria Miani

Maria Luisa Frisa and Mario Lupano

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner – The Lottery. A lottery was held during the dinner.  Prizes were generously donated by friends and member of The Venice International Foundation.

Michela Aliata di Montereale won a cashmere blanket.

Ca Rezzonico – The Venice International Foundation dinner – The Lottery. Cesare Verona of the Aurora Pen Company donated a beautiful fountain pen which was won by Marino Folin.

Above – detail.  The “tools” of the family business, Cesare Verona’s buttonhole is the gold nib of a fountain pen and he sports a gold pen as a tie clip, although his actual Marinella pink tie is placed in his jacket pocket.

Giovanni Alliata di Montereale
 

The Fortuny men: Pietro Lunetta, Giuseppe Ianno’ and the owner of the Fortuny fabric company Maury Riad.

 

The Venice International Foundation’s president Franca Coin, hands out the Fortuny lottery prize.

 

Pave’ d’Ombrina alla Mediterranea

 

Roberto D'Agostino

Marina Faccioli

Vittorio and Tatiana Tabacchi

  Luigi Barbelloto and Giordana Naccari

Millefoglie di Fragoline con Giardino di Petali di Rose

 

Venice: Palazzo Grassi – Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.

Venice: Palazzo Grassi – Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition. At Palazzo Grassi the Urs Fischer, Madame Fisscher, exhibition is on view until July 15. Madame Fisscher offers a journey through Urs Fischer’s artistic career from the nineties to today. His work, characterized by humor, penchant for paradox, and virtuosity of execution, employs simultaneously an extraordinary diversity of media and materials. It calls into question the history of art and sculpture, our relationship to the body, the notion of time and the status of the object.

Above. Madame Fisscher installation.

 

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.  Urs Fischer’s art, which privileges polysemy and complexity, avoids any academic weightiness or univocal interpretation. With its combination of illusion and reality, violence and humor, his creative universe appears both logical and absurd. The artist creates unstable equilibriums, whose meaning seems to be constantly shifting. The exhibition’s title itself, “Madame Fisscher” (after the title of the work installed in the museum’s atrium), points to this rejection of a unique interpretation. Does it refer to the artist, his companion, his mother, or perhaps to Madame Tussaud and her famous wax museum? Eliciting in turn - and sometimes simultaneously - surprise, doubt, puzzlement, and concern, the exhibition unfolds precisely in this logic of indetermination and movement.

Above: The artist with Old Pain, plaster, pigment, screw, polyurethane glue, wire – John Kaldor Collection, Australia.

 

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.  Untitled, 2006, Carved polyurethane, plaster, acrylic paint, screws wire, 5 parts. Il Giardino dei Lauri, Citta della Pieve.

 

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition. In Dubio Pro Reo, 2007, found cabinet, found stool, found bowl, epoxy glue, polyurethane glue, Dimitris Gigourtakis Collection Athens. “Mr. Watson – Come Here – I want to See You.”, 2005, electric motor, control unit, electric cable, light bulb, wire. Edition of 2, Private Collection. Clouds, 2002, polystyrene, wire theathre spotlight with pink gel.  Private  Collection.

  

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition. Urs Fischer sculpture installation.
 

Francois Pinault

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.  Spinoza Rhapsody, 2006. Mackintosh Staccato, 2006. Untitled, 2010. A Thing Called Gearbox, 2004.

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.  Meme, 2012.  acrylic primer, polyester filler, two-component polyester body filler, urethane primer, polyester paint, acrylic polyurethane matte clearcoat, 2 parts, Private collection.

 

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.  Blanched, 2011 and Boiled, 2011, milled aluminum panel, acrylic primer, gesso, acrylic ink, acrylic silkscreen medium, acrylic paint, Private Collection.

 Urs Fischer and Francois Pinault

 

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.  Untitled, 2011, paraffin wax mixture, pigment, steel, wicks. Edition of 3 -1AP, Francois Pinault Foundation.

 

Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.   Caroline Bourgeois, curator of the exhibition sits behind the Cappillon, 2000 installation.