contessanally: Palazzo Grimani - Domus Grimani - The Room of the Doge - Georg Baselitz - Archinto

Museum of Palazzo Grimani - Santa Maria Formosa

Domus Grimani - The Room of the Doge

Georg Baselitz - Archinto

Exhibitions

In the beautiful rooms of Palazzo Grimani two exhibitions are on show until November 27. On the piano nobile of the museum, the exhibition entitled Archinto, is curated by Mario Codognato, and produced by Gagosian in collaboration with Venetian Heritage, in which twelve paintings hang on the eighteenth-century stucco frames, that until the nineteenth-century, were occupied by portraits of members of the Grimani family; these paintings were made expressly for the Sala del Portego, they are the new works by German artist Georg Baselitz, one of the most significant artists of his generation. They will remain on long-term loan to the museum. Simultaneously in the Room of the Doge, Domus Grimani, the new project, a result of the collaboration between the director of Veneto's Regional Directorate for Musuems, Daniele Ferrara and the director of Venetian Heritage, Toto Bergamo Rossi, which relocates Greek and Roman sculptures of the Grimani collection to their Renaissance splendour.

Installation View

Georg Baselitz - Archinto

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Georg Baselitz

In Archinto, Baselitz pays homage to Venice and its rich artistic tradition, re-establishing historical continuity while also signalling a rupture between the Renaissance portrait tradition and its contemporary equivalents. The title of the exhibition and its works allude to Titan's enigmatic 1558 portrait of a partially veiled Cardinal Filippo Archinto. Bringing the old Master's sensibility into the present-day context, Baselitz's spectral paintings continue his exploration of printmaking techniques and allude to the perennial artistic theme of human mortality.

Installation View

Georg Baselitz - Archinto

Georg Baselitz - Surrealismus die Filzluge

Surrealism The Felt Lie - 2020

Toto Bergamo Rossi

director - Venetian Heritage - co-curator Domus Grimani

The new set-up of the Room of the Doge - Sala del Doge - which is decorated with ancient and precious marbles, and is one of the most spectacular and evocative rooms of the palazzo, returns to it's Renaissance splendour thanks to the relocation of the Greek and Roman sculptures of the Grimani collection. Through a thorough study of historical sources, including the inventory of Giovanni Grimani's possessions, historical descriptions and photographs discovered in the library of the National Gallery in Washington - the curators Daniele Ferrara, director of Veneto's Regional Directorate for Museums, and Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of Venetian Heritage Foundation, were able to relocate twenty sculptures inside the room. Eleven more sculptures are placed in the adjoining rooms.

Installation View

Domus Grimani - The Room of the Doge