Museo di Palazzo Grimani
Pittura/Panorama - Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler – 1952-1992
At Palazzo Grimani, until November 17, the exhibition Pittura/Panorma Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler – 1952-1992, is organized by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Venetian Heritage, in association with Gagosian and curated by John Elderfield. The exhibition focuses on the relationship in Frankenthaler’s development of the pittura and the panorama: the interplay of works like easel paintings, although made on the floor, and large, horizontal paintings that open onto shallow but expansive spaces, in the way that panoramas do.
Helen Frankenthaler - For E.M. - 1981
Photograph - Ernst Haas/Masters/Getty Images – Courtesy Hellen Frankenthaler Foundation
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), career spanned six decades, she has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century and was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters. Frankenthaler is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow.
Helen Frankenthaler
in her studio at East 83rd Street and Third Avenue - New York - 1969
Helen Frankenthaler – Riverhead - 1963
John Elderfield - curator
Helen Frankenthaler – Maelstrom - 1992
Photograph - by Rob McKeever copyright - 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. courtesy Gagosian
Helen Frankenthaler – Overture - 1992
acrylic on canvas - 177.8 x 238.8 cm
acrylic on canvas - 177.8 x 238.8 cm
Copyright - Reg Lancaster/Hulton Archive/Getty Images – courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
This exhibition at Palazzo Grimani is the first presentation of Helen Frankenthaler’s work in Venice since its appearance in 1966 at the American Pavilion of the 33rd Venice Biennale. Covering a forty-year span of Frankenthaler’s career from the early 1950s to her richly atmospheric canvases of the early 1990s, it features fourteen panoramic paintings, all from the collection of the Foundation.
Helen Frankenthaler – center - clockwise from bottom left - Lady Dufferin and Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Jules Olitski, gondolier, Anthony Caro, John Kasmin, and Richard Smith
Venice – Italy - 1966.
Venice – Italy - 1966.
American Art in the 1960s - documentary still – 1972
Director - Michael Blackwood
Director - Michael Blackwood
Photograph -Matteo De Fina - Courtesy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities - Polo Museale del Veneto
Museo di Palazzo Grimani
Domus Grimani – 1594-2019
At Palazzo Grimani, until May 2021, the exhibition Domus Grimani 1594-2019 is curated by Daniela Ferrara, director of the Polo Museale del Veneto and Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of Venetian Heritage. This exceptional exhibition celebrates the return to Palazzo Grimani of the collection of classical statuary that once belonged to the Patriarch of Aquileia, Giovanni Grimani, and was housed in the family palazzo until the end of the sixteenth century, when the Patriarch donated it to the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia on his death, this collection now returns home after more than four centuries.
Photograph -Matteo De Fina - Courtesy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities - Polo Museale del Veneto
Domus Grimani – 1594-2019
The Tribuna, an actual chamber of antiquities, is the inner sanctum where Giovanni Grimani received his most illustrious guests. Visitors to the exhibition will see the Tribuna as it was in Giovanni’s day, thanks to the installation of two temporary architectural niches. The collection of statuary left Palazzo Grimani in 1594 after Giovanni passed away, he had chosen to donate his priceless collection to the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, therefore the statues were transferred to the entrance hall of the reading room in the Biblioteca Marciana, which was later renamed Statuario della Repubblica. Over the next two years, the entrance hall is under-going extensive restoration, as a result of which all the statues had to be removed. Hence the opportunity to organize Domus Grimani 1594 – 2019, bringing the Grimani Collection back to its original setting in the family palazzo.
Domus Grimani – 1594-2019
The Tribuna
Photograph -Matteo De Fina - Courtesy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities - Polo Museale del Veneto
Domus Grimani – 1594-2019
Museo di Palazzo Grimani
Sandro Kopp – Meyecelium – New Paintings
Meyecelium, until October 10, is an
exhibition of new work by Sandro Kopp. Each painting is a portrait
of a single eye of one of the artist’s friends and family, painted from life
over the course of the past two-and-half years, surrounded with precious metals
- gold, silver, platinum - that further ennoble the paintings and establish a
relationship with image-making traditions from ancient Egypt, to Byzantine icons, to the golden mosaics of Torcello and San Marco.
Museo di Palazzo Grimani
Sandro Kopp – Meyecelium – New Paintings