Thursday, October 20, 2016

Possagno - Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova Venice International Foundation Gala Dinner

 
Possagno - Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
Venice International Foundation Gala Dinner
"Entering the Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova in Possagno is a kind of journey into the world. For there, are jealously guarded the Canova plaster casts, unique works of their kind, from which the extraordinary marbles took shape, made for popes, kings, emperors, ambassadors and collectors from all over the world and which today are on show in major museums: from Paris to Vienna, from Saint Petersburg to Rome, from London to over the oceans.”
Franca Coin

After appointments last year in Venice, at the Gallerie dell'Accademia and the Museo Correr, the "Project Canova", this year, the Venice International Foundation’s member’s fundraising annual gala dinner was held with an impressive guided candle tour of Canova’s plaster casts at the Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, birthplace of the Neo-Classical sculptor, in Possagno.





Franca Coin, in her dual capacity as President of the Venice International Foundation and the Canova Foundation in Possagno greets the mayors of Asolo, Mauro Migliorini, and Possagno, Gianni De Paoli and Cristina Dall'Est.

  Photograph courtesy the Venice International Foundation
 

Antonio Canova
and
The Venice International Foundation
The Venice Foundation began to devote itself to Canova in 2012 by partially financing the five rooms entirely dedicated to Antonio Canova in the Correr Museum in Venice. In time, the magic and the beauty of the Neo-Classical genius’s works so fascinated the members that together with the help of it’s American “sister” Friends of Venice Italy Inc. decided to extend the project to the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, which, together with Venice in Peril Fund, financed the reopening of seven rooms, of which three dedicated entirely to Canova. Therefore in a project dedicated to Canova, it was natural to include the Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, in Possagno, birthplace of the Neo-Classical sculptor, and home to his extraordinary collection of plaster casts.
Above. Antonio Canova – Self Portrait - Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova.

 
   Mario Guderzo, director of the Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova and  Andrea Bellieni – director of the Museo Correr in Venice




Gianfranco and Vittoria Zoppas, Piergiorgio Coin and Mita De Benedetti


 

Flavia Faccioli, Marco Cappelletto and Annabella Bassani

   
Clara and Paolo Cantarella


 

     Muriel Nussbaumer, Franca Coin, Francesca Noto and Gianni De Paoli 

 

Giacomo Cavallucci and Inma Cavallucci de Dalmases

  Photograph courtesy the Venice International Foundation
 
Antonio Canova - Tersicore ed Euterpe – 1799
Tempera on paper
Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
As usual, the Venice International Foundation gala dinner evening was the opportunity to raise funds for the restoration work on Canova’s 1799 Tersicore and Euterpe, which will be on display in the exhibition "Canova and the Dance" at the Bode Museum in Berlin from 21 October.
http://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/canova-und-der-tanz.html


Tonci Foscari, Franca Coin and Barbara Foscari

 
 Serena and Otello Lando, Muriel Nussbaumer

 
Marco and Cristina Bottari with Renato and Teresa Pellicioli

 
Guido and Giulia Venturini

 
Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova – Leeds Venus – 1817-20
Marble
Leeds City Art Museum
Giovanni Alliata di Montereale admires the magnificent Canova marble sculpture of Venus emerging from the bath on loan from Leeds City Art Museum in England. The Leeds Venus was sculpted for an English nobleman in 1817-20. It majestically takes final stage of the exhibition that coils within the museum, where the visitor can admire and examine all the “Venuses” that Canova sculpted. 

 
Giulio Molaioli

   
Andrea Tomat


Ornella Visentin


Costanza Di Nucci

 
Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova – Ala Nuova
The Dinner
The dinner was held in the new wing of the Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova at the end of the room Antonio Canova’s plaster cast of the significantly named La Beneficenza plaster cast.

 
Franca Coin, in her dual role as President of the Venice International Foundation and the Canova Foundation in Possagno welcomes guests before the dinner.

 
Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova – Ala Nuova
The Dinner
In the New Wing of the Gipsoteca, which is normally used as an exhibition space, suspended from the ceiling the works of Giulia Berra, Punti di Sospensione winner of the competition Concorso di Scultura Antonio Canova organized by Guerrieri Rizzardi and the Fondazione Canova Onlus - Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova.

   
The Menu

 
The Centerpiece



Graziano Visentin, Ruggiero and Marina Capodivento


Silvia Borini and Giuseppe Caivano

 

Cristina and Francesco Imparato

 

    Guido Pennisi, Clara Cantarella, Mita De Benedetti and Paola Pennisi

 

Fiora Marelli
 
 

Homage - Canova and the Dance
The evening ended with a Tango created especially for the event by Francesca Vettori and Leonardo Brunelli of the Scuola di Tango Argentino Tangohol di San Zenone degli Ezzelini, a modern tribute inspired by the gift of a dance that Canova received from Duchess of Bedford, in 1817 upon consignment at Woburn Abbey of the marble group The Three Graces commissioned by the Duke for his wife.

 

Francesca Vettori and Leonardo Brunelli




The Meringrappa
The dessert infused with grappa was created by Villa Razzolini Loredan di Asolo, dedicated to the nearby Monte Grappa created in memory of the centenary of the Great War.



Canova, Canova and Canova forever...!!


 



 



  

 






 

 
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