contessanally: Venice - Gallerie dell'Accademia + Casa dei Tre Oci - Affinita' Elettive

Gallerie dell'Accademia

Affinita' Elettive

The exhibition - Affinita Elettive - Elective Affinities - until June 23 - at the Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci on the island of Giudecca, bring together a selection of paintings and drawings from Museum Berggruen - Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which are on display in Italy for the first time. These forty extraordinary works by Picasso, Matisse, Klee, Giacometti and Cézanne are "joined in dialogue" with those by Giorgione, Sebastiano Ricci, Pietro Longhi, Giambattista Tiepolo and Canova at the Gallerie dell’Accademia.

Pablo Picasso - Le Chandail Jaune - 1939

The title of the exhibition - Affinita Elettive - was chosen to evoke and underline the potential dialogue that arises from the meeting of these two important collections from similarities in iconography to subject matter. The title is inspired by the famous novel of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a writer who spent time in Venice during his travels to Italy.

Pablo Picasso - Coupe de Fruits avec Poires et Pommes - 1908

in dialogue with

Nicolaes Van Verendael - Allegory of Vanity - 1679

The exhibition is curated by Giulio Manieri Elia and Michele Tavola, Director and Curator of the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, and Gabriel Montua and Veronika Rudorfer, Head of and Curator of Museum Berggruen in Berlin, one of the most important European state institutes of modern art, named after the Paris-based art dealer and collector Heinz Berggruen - 1914-2007. In the year 2000, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz - Prussian Cultural Heritage - managed to purchase Berggruen’s collection for the Nationalgalerie with funding from the German government and the state of Berlin.

Henrie Matisse - Sauteuse de Corde - 1952

in dialogue with

Giorgione - Giorgio da Castelfranco - La Nuda - 1508c.

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Veronika Rudorfer - Curator of the Museum Berggruen

Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar with Green Fingernails is shown alongside Giorgione's La Vecchia - very different works linked by an intimate relationship with the sitter.

Pablo Picasso - Dora Maar aux Ongles Verts - 1936

in dialogue with

Giorgione - Giorgio da Castelfranco - La Vecchia - 1502-1503c.

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Gabriel Montua - Head of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Hana Streicher

Pablo Picasso - Dora Maar aux Ongles Verts - 1936

Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of the Hereafter - 1505-1515c.

in dialogue with

Paul Cesanne - Juenne Fille aux Cheveux Denoues - 1873-1874

Paul Klee - Rot-Stufung - 1921

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Barbara Klem and Petra Schaefer

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Cristina Beltrami

Pietro Longhi and the Mise-en-Scene of Domestic Life in Venice - 1741-1752

in dialogue with

Pablo Picasso - Arlequin Assis - 1905

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Fabrizio Plessi and Mario Codognato

Seen at the Gallerie dell'Accademia

Ziva Kraus and Andrea Avezzu

photo - Massimo Pistrore - courtesy Gallerie dell'Accademia - Museum Breggruen - Neue Nationalgalerie

Alberto Giacometti - Femme de Venise IV - 1956

in dialogue with

Antonio Canova - sculptures - 1804-1807

Casa dei Tre Oci - Breggruen Institute Europe

Elective Affinities - Works on Paper

The Elective Affinities exhibition continues at the Casa dei Tre Oci - until June 23 - on the island of Giudecca with works on paper from the graphic collection of the - Gallerie dell'Accademia - in dialogue with works from the - Museum Breggruen - which include works by Klee, Picasso, Cezanne and Matisse. This neo-Gothic palace, designed as a home and studio by the artist Mario de Maria was built in 1913, has recently been reopened to the public after major restoration works to become the new headquarters of the - Berggruen Institute Europe - a place of study and international discussion, hosting exhibitions, workshops and symposiums.

Casa dei Tre Oci - Breggruen Institute Europe