Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Venice: Palazzo Ducale – Acqua e Cibo a Venezia Exhibition

  Photograph courtesy Musei Civici di Venezia

Venice: Palazzo Ducale – Acqua e Cibo a Venezia Exhibition.  At Palazzo Ducale, right inside the Doge’s apartments, the beautiful exhibition Acqua e Cibo a Venezia, Water and Food in Venice, until February 14, curated by Donatella Calabi, with scientific coordination by Gabriella Belli. The detailed, heterogeneous exhibition is dedicated to Venice and the complex network of support systems that the city acquired over the centuries so it could develop, grow and prosper. The visitor is submerged in a highly in vocative and enthralling experience by the works on display which are accompanied by the “digital narration” of paintings, video-projections on 3D models of the lagoon, and virtual reconstruction.
Above. Pietro Longhi (attr.) – Banquet at Casa Nani on the Guidecca 1755 – oil on canvas - cm 130x97 - Venezia, Ca’ Rezzonico, Museo del Settecento Veneziano.



Palazzo Ducale - Water and Food in Venice.  The itinerary of the exhibition is divided into five thematic sections with the aim of underlining the unique nature of Venice, and the constant efforts its inhabitants made to make the city into the one we know it today.
Above. Detail, Drawing of the Venice Lagoon – 1763 – ink and watercolor on paper – conservative restoration 2015.

 
Curator Donatella Calabi

 
Section I - The Lagoon Changes.  The first section, The Lagoon Changes, uses 3D models to illustrate the morphological and hydraulic transformation processes of the territory that endemically conditioned not only food production, water supplies but also communication paths to and from the mainland. changes.
Above. Benedetto Bordone (1460-1531) – Vinegia (Venice) – in Isolario di Benedetto Bordone nel qual si ragiona di tutte l”isole del mondo (…), impresse in Vinegia, for Nicolo d’Aristotile, called Zoppino, 1534.

 

Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland. The second section, Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland, not only offers an overview of the difficulty of food production in lands washed by salty waters, but also describes retail and its protagonists frutaroli (greengrocers), pistori (pastry makers) and fishermen. Tintoretto’s monumental painting on loan from the Academy Galleries, (Jacopo Tintoretto, The Creation of the Animals, 1550-1553), above, also offers a sample of the species present in the amphibious Venetian environment, characterized by an incredible variety of fish and birds.

 
Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland 

Fishing net samples trattorello and tela costanza – forbidden by law and included as evidence of a crime in the file for legal proceedings against several fishermen – 1761 – canvas applied and glued on paper.

 
Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland

Gabriel Bella (1730-1799) - Fishing in the Orfano Canal

eighteenth century – oil on canvas


Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland

detail – Signboard of the Cook’s Guild 
  
1738 – oil on canvas

Photograph courtesy Musei Civici di Venezia

Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland

Pietro Longhi - La Polenta

1740 – oil on canvas - cm 61x50

Venezia, Ca’ Rezzonico, Museo del Settecento Veneziano

 

Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland

(Drawings of vases, cake tins, saucepans)

Opera di Bartolomeo Scappi maestro dell’arte del cucinare (…)
Venetia – Alessandro de’ Vecchi

1622 – halcography


Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland

Pietro Longhi workshop – Banquet in a Villa

second half of the eighteenth century – oil on canvas

 Photograph courtesy Musei Civici di Venezia

Section II - Water and Food in the Lagoon and on the Mainland

Giovanni Grevembroch (1731-1807) (attr.) – drawing of cabbage leaves
eighteenth century – watercolor- mm 310x218x55 (closed)mmm 310x445 (open)

Venezia, Biblioteca del Museo Correr


Section III - Banquets, Parades, Games and Festivals. The third section Banquets, Parades, Games and Festivals uses multiple archive sources to offer an overview of the theme of food from a social perspective. The local festivals, social events and occasions when food becomes a pretext for gatherings and comparison are illustrated with a series of representative paintings including Convito in Casa Nani alla Giudecca (Pietro Longhi - attr., 1775). 
Above. Gabriel Bella (1730-1799) – Dinner at the San Benedetto Theater for the Dukes of the North – 1782 – oil on canvas.  
 



Section III - Banquets, Parades, Games and Festivals
Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) – Wedding Banquet for the Duke of Polignac
end of eighteenth century – black pencil, brush, brown ink and colored watercolors  

Section III - Banquets, Parades, Games and Festivals
Veneto artist – Forze d’Ercole dei Castellani
1717 – oil on paper and canvas
  Photograph courtesy Musei Civici di Venezia

Section IV - Architecture and Food.  Architecture and Food then focuses on buildings that were used for the harvest and distribution of food resources: monasteries, military garrisons, hospitals and inns. These numerous documents describe a detailed system of exchange and rules that were part of the Venetian lifestyle and a guarantee of their prosperity (Insegna dell’arte dei Pestrineri, 16th cent.).  The virtual reconstruction of “Cantina Do Spade”, which still exists today in the district of San Polo in Venice, offers the visitor the opportunity to have an evocative experience of how a client asking for food and lodging was actually welcomed in the historical inn in 1754.
Above. (Case, orti e terreni vacui della “commissaria” di Piero Brustolado presso il ponte Piccolo alla Giudecca) - post 1474 – ink and watercolor on paper - mm 290x425; mm - Archivio di Stato di Venezia.

Section IV - Architecture and Food
(Sketch-map of the far northeastern part of the shores of Sant’Erasmo, with the marshlands opposite perspective view of the island of San Francesco del Deserto)
18 September 1687 drawing attached to the report by the lagoon proto Domenico Margutti – ink and watercolor on paper



Section IV - Architecture and Food
Gabriel Bella (1730-1799) – A Morning Walk to the Rialto Erberia
eighteenth century – oil on canvas
 


Section IV - Architecture and Food
Andrea Tirali – (Shop at Ponte della Pescheria at saint Mark)
18 August 1734 – ink and watercolor on paper


Section IV - Architecture and Food
List of food that has to be distributed everyday in the Pio Hospital of the Pieta
2 and 4 October 1712 – January 1713 – print on paper




Section V - Surrounded by Water. The fifth section, Surrounded by Water, describes the paradox of a city that, to quote Marin Sanudo, “is in the water and has no water”. The water supply system is described with a series of maps and iconographic images illustrating how water was transported from the mainland to the lagoon (Giovanni Grevembroch, Deficienza provveduta, second half of eighteenth century).
Above.  Andrea Zucchi (1679-1740?) – Elements Opposing One Another – in Bernardo Trevisan – Della Laguna di Venezia (…) – 1715 – chalcography.




Section V - Surrounded by Water
(Construction of a Cistern)
eighteenth century – pen and pencil on paper





Section V - Surrounded by Water
Giovanni Grevembroch (1731-1807) – Dei piu antichi pozzi di Venezia
1761 – interactive consultation
 
Section V - Surrounded by Water
Giovanni Grevembroch (1731-1807) – Deficienza Proveduta
In Gli abiti de Veneziani di quasi ogni eta con deligenza raccolti e dipinti nel secolo XVIII
Second half-eighteenth century – watercolored plate




 





 


Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Venice Fashion Night - 2015


Photograph by Roberto Rosa 2R Photo – courtesy Venezia da Vivere

Venice Fashion Night - 2015. Now in its third year, Venice Fashion Night, organized by the online magazine Venezia da Vivere was a night of fashion in Venice with events, parades, and performances to promote the Made in Veneto.  The consolidated format of events  took place in studios, hotels, boutiques, and museums, open for the occasion until late. Emerging brands, creative crafts and design,  engaged designers, fashion students, bloggers, models and photographers, and, the Venetian community of Instagramers who posted their photos live on the social network’s popular app.
Above.  The collection, Defense Personnel designed by Federica Zumerle and Francesca Napoletano in Piazza San Marco.


 
Venice Fashion Night – Events - Piazza San Marco. At the Caffe Lavena,in Piazza San Marco, Defense Personnel’s designers Francesca Napoletano and Federica Zumerle organized a makeshift backstage.


 
Piazza San Marco - Caffe Lavena – the Murano Chandelier

 
 
Venice Fashion Night – Event – Defense Personnel. In a makeshift backstage at Defense Personnel, upstairs in the Caffe Lavena, a view of the Basilica di San Marco.


Venice Fashion Night – Boutique Opening. At the Ponte di Rialto, Sotoportego degli Oresi, the renowned glass designers Marina and Susanna Sent opened of their third boutique in Venice.
Above. Tall thin bottles designed by Laura de Santillana and necklaces and other vase by the Sent sisters.

 

Marina and Susanna Sent

 
Venice Fashion Night – Raptus and Rose - Performance.  At the Hotel Metropole the hotelier Gloria Beggiato together with the Belluno based couture house Raptus and Rose’s creative director, Silvia Bisconti organized the fashion performance “A skirt, An Hotel, An Evening, A City”.
Above. Raptus and Rose the Couture Collection.


 
Raptus and Rose’s creative director, Silvia Bisconti


Venice Fashion Night – Hotel Metropole - hosts of the events: the Hotel Metropole’s Gloria Beggiato together with Venezia da Vivere’s editorial director Lorenzo Cinotti and it’s editor in chief, Laura Scarpa

 

Hotel Metropole – Oriental bar – Performance

In the Oriental Bar, barman Bruno Iaconis sprays Absinthe and Midori on the Bohemian Cocktail he created especially for the event; part Sherry and part Whisky.
 

  Raptus and Rose – Performance

Raptus and Rose’s premiere dressmaker Lucia Rosset puts the finishing touches on a skirt.

 
Raptus and Rose – Performance

Raptus and Rose’s Federica De Bona, paints all the fabric in the atelier, demonstrates her craft.

 
 Raptus and Rose

 
Venice Fashion Night – Hotel Savoia and Jolanda – Performance

Davide Zocca - From Eagles to Aviators: The Human Dream of Flying

 
 
 Fashion designer Davide Zocca
 
 
Davide Zocca - The Human Dream of Flying – Make-Up created by Daniela Grava

 
Make-up artist Daniela Grava

 
Venice Fashion Night – Hotel Londra Palace – Fashion Performance

Simone Rossi – Flawless Caption


 
 Fashion designer Simone Rossi

 Instagram photograph by Marco Valmarana

Made in Veneto 

Venice Fashion Night  2015 - Palazzetto Pisani  - Round Table – Made in Veneto. In the morning of Venice Fashion Night 2015 at the Palazzetto Pisani a round table was organized by Venezia da Vivere on the theme Made in Veneto. The discussion, between companies, media, designers, institutions and the department of Fashion Design and Multi-medial Arts at the Universita Iuav di Venezia was followed live via Instagram. The round table’s goal was to explore the unification of promoting fashion and creativity of the Made in Veneto to an international audience also through the web, social networks with the collaboration of institutions and universities. 


 
 
Marzia Narduzzi - CEO Pier Spa

 
 Sandro Zara - founder Tabarrificio Veneto
 

 
Sandro Zara and Barena Venezia’s fashion designer Massimo Pigozzo 


 
Director of the course in Fashion Design and Multi-medial Arts at the Universita Iuav di Venezia Maria Luisa Frisa talks to journalist Manuela Pivato


Le Case’Arte’s  Pas Leccese and fashion designer and artist Antonio Marras

 

Venezia da Vivere’s Lorenzo Cinotti and curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti

 



Palazzetto Pisani’s Gianni Battistella and Made in More’s designer Michela Vecchiato with one of her bags


 

Neo-director of the Carnevale di Venezia Marco Maccapani, Pas
Leccese and venetian historian, architect and author Francesco da Mosto

 
Caterina Bianchi Michiel and Valeria Regazzoni


 Palazzetto Pisani - Coffee Break

 

Al Duca d’Aosta’s Gigliola and Cristiano Ceccato

 
Venetian Dreams, Marisa Convento and fashion blogger Anna Turcato

 
Palazzetto Pisani.  Declare Independence’s designer Omar Pavanello, Rodolfo Zappala, fashion coordinator Al Duca D'Aosta Spa and Venezia da Vivere’s editor in chief Laura Scarpa

 
Palazzetto Pisani. Director of the course in Fashion Design and Multimedial Arts at the Universita Iuav di Venezia Maria Luisa Frisa wearing a skirt by Fausto Puglisi, sunglasses by Marco de Vincenzo and bracelets by Prada

 
 Palazzetto Pisani - Lunch

 
Paper Owl’s Stefania Giannici

 
Il Ballo del Doge’s Antonia Sautter

 
Emanuel Cestaro


 
Communication manager and co-author of My Pretty Venice, Elisabeth Rainer


Palazzetto Pisani - The View – Canal Grande