Venice: Ca Pesaro – Giuseppe Panza di Biumo - American Dialogues exhibition

 

Venice: Ca Pesaro – Giuseppe Panza di Biumo - American Dialogues exhibition.  At CaPesaro, until May 4, the exhibition, American Dialogues edited by Gabriella Belli and Elizabeth Barisoni with the exhibition project by Daniela Ferretti, is a tribute to Giuseppe Panza di Biumo one of the most important Italian collectors.  A man who with his passion and insight in Contemporary art, created one of the most interesting collections. The exhibition includes a selection of masterpieces collected in the early years of his activity, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop art, from Conceptual art to Minimal art.

Above: On back wall:  Allan Graham – Mudra, 1988, oil wax linen, one of two pieces. On the right side: Max Cole - Delta III, 1982, acrylic on canvas.

 Photo by Filippo Formenti, Milano – courtesy Ca Pesaro

Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza di Biumo at the Leo Castelli Gallery - New York, 1975.

Giuseppe Panza di Biumo - American Dialogues. Forty works by 27 artists are on loan from the Guggenheim in New York and MOCA in Los Angeles, the two American museums which preserve the most important nuclei of the Panza di Biumo collection with works by Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Franz Kline, Donald Judd, Mark Rothko, Dan Flavin, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Serra and many other members of the modern American art scene.

Above: In the foreground: Lawrence Carroll - Untitled, 1999-2000, oil, wax, canvas on wood.  On the back wall: Robert Rauschenberg - Kickback, 1959, Oil, enamel, wood, fabric, clothing, paper, photos on canvas.

 

 Joseph Kosuth – Nine Paintings with Word as Art – 1966

Oil on canvas, nine grey canvases with white words

Lawrence Weiner – Beside Itself cat. No. 229, 1970, typological characters (silks-screened onto wall), in English, installation.

Giuseppe Panza di Biumo - American Dialogues. Works by Jonathan Seliger, 1993-1995, various materials. In the foreground: Late Edition, 1995.

 

 

Giuseppe Panza di Biumo - American Dialogues. Richard Long - Untitled 1967, 420 wooden twigs.

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Venice: Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi - The City of Venice Pays Tribute to Ottavio Missoni

Venice: Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi - The City of Venice Pays Tribute to Ottavio Missoni. In the Teatrino of the Palazzo Grassi museum, on the Day of Remembrance for the Foibe Massacres, that took place during and after WWII, the City of Venice paid tribute to OttavioMissoni, Dalmatian exile, Olympic hurdler, fashion entrepreneur and artist.

Above: Tai Missoni on his barge Timoteo, anchored on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice, with Italian film director Ermanno Olmi and his wife Rosita Missoni.

 

Tribute to Ottavio Missoni:  Angela Missoni reads a text written for the occasion by Claudio Magris and Luca Missoni also read a memory of his father  written by Enzo Betiza. The event was coordinated by Edward Pittalis, and introduced by Alexander Cuk, president of the Venice Committee of the Associazione Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia. The speakers included;  Rosita Missoni, Giorgio Varisco, Paolo Scandaletti, Mariuccia Casadio, Maria Luisa Frisa and Angela Vettese.

Giacomo Missoni and Francesco Maccapani Missoni

 Ottavio Missoni fashion entrepeneur and artist at work.  Still taken from Rosanna Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of Dalmatia according to Ottavio Missoni".

 

 Luca and Angela Missoni

 

 

Maria Luisa Frisa, course director of Fashion Design and Multimedia Arts at IUAV and Angela Vettese, councillor for Cultural Activities and Development of Tourism to the city of Venice.

 

Matteo Marzotto with Federica and Giorgia Marangoni

Ottavio Missoni Olympic hurdler. Still taken from Rosanna Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of Dalmatia according to Ottavio Missoni".

  Christophe Gayral and Carla Alvera

 

The Dalmatian coastline. Still taken from Rosanna Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of Dalmatia  according to Ottavio Missoni".

 

Nori Starck, Matteo Corvino, Servane and Giovanni Giol

 

Enzo di Martino and Attilio Codognato

The backdrop: a slide of Missoni jersey fabric appropriately showing Italy and the Dalmatian coasts.

 

Alberto Damian, Franca Goppion, Manfredi Bellati and Giovanni Gregoletto

 

Valentina and Lorenzo Marangoni

 

Rosita Missoni received the Leone d’Oro commemorating Ottavio Missoni

Harry’s Bar: a toast. Francesco Da Mosto, Angela Missoni and Pietro Bortoluzzo

Harry’s Bar: a toast. Luca Missoni

Mariuccia Casadio and Beniamino Marini

  Harry’s Bar 

HIGH FIVE

Still taken from Rosanna Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of Dalmatia according to Ottavio Missoni".

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Venice: Tre Oci - Sebastiao Salgado – Genesis exhibition

 

Venice: Tre Oci - Sebastiao Salgado – Genesis exhibition.  Sebastiao Salgado is the most important documentary photographer of our time.  At  the Tre Oci, until May 5, on the Giudecca island, he presents his new photographic work, Genesis, made during the course of the last ten years. A passionate look tended to emphasize the need to protect our planet, to change our way of life, to take on new behavior, more respectful of nature and what surrounds us, and to gain a new harmony.

 

Curator Lelia wanick Salgrado and Sebastiao Salgrado

 

Photograph courtesy Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images

Sebastiao Salgado – Penisola di Valdes, Argentina, 2004

 

Photograph and copyright by Manfredi Bellati

Venice: Tre Oci - Sebastiao Salgado – Genesis exhibition.  It is a journey through landscapes and seascapes.   The discovery of peoples and animals that have escaped the embrace of the contemporary world. The proof that our planet still includes extensive remote regions, where Nature reigns in the silence of its immaculate magnificence; in tropical rainforests, in the savannas, in the vastness of the scorching deserts, between mountains covered by glaciers and lonely islands. Regions that are too cold or dry for anything except the most resistant forms of life.   Areas that are home to ancient tribes and animal species whose survival is based precisely on the insulation.

 

Photograph courtesy Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images

Sebastiao Salgado – Arizona, USA, 2010.

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Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Themes and Variations, The Empire of Light exhibition

Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Themes and Variations, The Empire of Light exhibition. At the PeggyGuggenheim Collection the fourth exhibition with the curatorial formula, Themes and Variations entitled The Empire of Light (until April 14), brilliantly curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. The project, offers a fresh perception of familiar and less familiar works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection through a multi-layered dialogue between Modernist masters and contemporary artists, thanks also to loans from other collections. Within the same spaces, paintings from the 19^th- and 20^th-century avant-gardes confront thematically with works produced in the aftermath of the Second World War and up to the threshold of the contemporary.

Above: Rene Magritte, Empire of Light, ca. 1953-54, oil on canvas, from this painting the exhibition takes its name. 

 

Themes and Variations, The Empire of Light. Seminal paintings by masters such as Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, and Lucio Fontana are displayed next to paintings and sculptures in a vivid contrast and comparison, provoking viewers to look beyond the customary categories of the 20^th century avant-garde, culminating in contemporary work by Gabriele Basilico, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Ruff, Kiki Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Piotr Uklański.

Above:  Gabriele Basilico, Roma 2007 - Ponte Cestio (07A10-77), 2009, pure pigment print - And - Henri Matisse, Pont Saint-Michel, 1903, oil on canvas.

 Photograph courtesy PGC

Edgar Degas Jeune Fille Etendue et Regardant un Album, ca. 1889, pastel on paper (private collection, New York) - And - Kiki Smith, Sleepwalker with Owl, 2004, ink on Nepalese paper (Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan).

Curator Luca Massimo Barbero in front of Ellsworth Kelly, 42nd, 1958, oil on canvas.

 

Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 2002, polished stainless steel and lacquer – And – Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept Expectations, 1967, waterpaint on canvas.

 photograph courtesy PGC

Salvador Dali, Untitled, 1931, oil on canvas – And – Philippe Halsman, Salvador Dali’s “Leopard Skull”, 1951, modern giclee print, Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos.

 

Collectors Adamaria and Marco Carbonari with Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s Philip Rylands in front of David Hockney, Three Trees near Thixendale, Summer, 2007, oil on eight canvases.

 

Themes and Variations – Homage to Fausto Melotti.  The final section of the Themes and Variations exhibition is a tribute to Italian art by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and specifically to Fausto Melotti (1901-1986), with works by this poetic sculptor such as Contrappunto II, Orfeo Dimentico, Chiave di Violino. Appropriately Melotti titled several of his sculptures Theme and Variations, whence derives the title of this series of exhibitions, since the first in 2002.

Above: Fausto Melotti, Theme and Variations I, 1968, brass.

 

Detail – Fausto Melotti, Denominator, 1970, brass.

photograph courtesy PGC

Fausto Melotti photographed by Ugo Mulas, 1968, copyright all rights reserved Eredi Ugo Mulas.

 

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