Venice: The 2015 Photographic Exhibition Season - Tre Oci

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Venice: The 2015 Photographic Exhibition Season - Tre Oci.  At the Casa dei Tre Oci on the island of Giudecca, the 2015 photographic season opened (until April 12) with three different exhibitions. The successful format Giudecca Photography, is now in its third presentation.  A path of research linked on several levels and turns the  exhibition space into a genuine kunsthalle, once again proposing a visual pathway comparing contemporary languages with the great tradition of Venetian photography. The three different exhibitions are aimed at interpreting the essence of today’s photography in a logic that moves towards surpassing genres and transversality.  Photography that is capable of interpreting the idea of change without belonging to any established school of thought.

 

Tre Oci: Sguardi Privati. Sessanta Ritratti Italiani - Fotografie di Francesco Maria Colombo. Sixty portraits of Italian cultural personalities; Toni Servillo, Dario Fo, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peppe Barra, Claudia Gerini, Margherita Hack, Gillo Dorfles, Valerio Mastandrea, Luciana Savignano... Solids and voids. Silences and tremors. Though better known as orchestra director, Francesco Maria Colombo’s approach to photography is meditative, because he observes his subjects slowly, leaving them free to express themselves in the time and the space they prefer.

Above. Francesco Maria Colombo with a portrait of actor Ferruccio Soleri – Milan 2013.

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Tre Oci: Sguardi Privati. Sessanta Ritratti Italiani. These images seem to reveal to us the last act of a quest that follows, explores and flushes out his subject until the latter chooses to yield to the camera lens. In a certain sense these portraits express the idea of the inner drama and deep intimacy that the subjects chose to tell in photography.

Above. Francesco Maria Colombo - Allan Bay - food critic - Milano 2014 – copyright - Francesco Maria Colombo.

 

Sguardi Privati. Sessanta Ritratti Italiani - Francesco Maria Colombo

 

Architects Tonci and Barbara Foscari in front of a portrait of the writer Benedetta Craveri – Roma 2014 by Francesco Maria Colombo.

 

 

 Publisher Alessandro Tusset in front of a portrait of actor Toni Servillo - Milano 2013 by Francesco Maria Colombo.

Video artist Anita Sieff stands besides a portrait of the poet Guido Ceronetti – Milan 2013 by Francesco Maria Colombo.

 

Tre Oci: Sguardi Privati. Sessanta Ritratti Italiani – photographs by Francesco Maria Colombo. Patrizia Valduga – poet – Milano 2013. Franco Zeffirelli – director – Roma 2012.

Art historian Cristina Beltrami and La Biennale’s Fabio Pacifico stand in front of a portrait of actress Ambra Angiolini – Brescia 2013. Soprano Carmen Giannattasio – Milano 2013 - Francesco Maria Colombo.

 

Tre Oci: Sguardi Privati. Sessanta Ritratti Italiani – photographs by Francesco Maria Colombo. Claudio Parmiggiani – artist – Torrechiara 2014.  Set Designer – Benedetta Palli – Milano 2014.

 

Francesco Maria Colombo being photographed by  art historian Vittoria Crespi Morbio

 

Casa dei Tre Oci: Venetian Galleries and Photography: Bugno, Ikona, La Salizada, Giorgio Mastinu, Michela Rizzo, Upp. On the first floor of the Casa dei Tre Oci, the exhibition Venetian Galleries and Photography, which are actually six exhibitions, as each gallery has its own room.  They represent the six Venetian galleries that have always been operating in the photography field.

Above. Galleria Michela Rizzo, opened in 2004. Here it presents a selection of photographs by Gabriele Basilico, one of the most significant and internationally recognized, Italian photographers, that show two significant moments of his research: on the one hand the representation of the industrial world in a moment of the irreversible transformation of Milan, at the end of the seventies, and the other a reflection on the artistic history of Italy.

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Galleria Galleria Michela Rizzo: Gabriele Basilico – Venezia 2012 –dalla serie Italia. Capolavori del Rinascimento (progetto FMR-AR T'E').

 

Tre Oci: Ikona Gallery. The Ikona Gallery founded by Ziva Kraus in 1979, was the first gallery in Venice dedicated to photography. In this exhibition she presents well known photographers like; Helmut Newton, William Klein, Berenice Abbott, Lisette Model, Adolf De Meyer and Ferdinando Scianna. Besides these are some emerging photographers, including the young Venetian David Weber.

  Ikona Gallery’s Ziva Kraus

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Ikona Gallery - Daniele Duca - Caffe, 1995

Photographer Mark Edward Smith

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Giorgio Mastinu Fine Art Gallery. Giorgio Mastinu deals with modern and contemporary art, ranging from drawings, prints, photographs and documents. Here he presents a series of photographs from the Nineteenth century, to the 1970s. All images are anonymous, small format, and were collected over the years in different countries. The challenge is to make photography "without photographers", leaving only the essentials without using large formats or high-sounding names.

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Galleria Upp:  Rachele Maistrello - Untitled (Frieda) – 2011 - c-print.

Galleria Upp. The Galleria Upp alternates projects ranging from performance to painting, from installation to photography, with attention given to the more intimate and personal ethical and social dynamics. Here it presents the Polish artist Michal Martychowiec, photos on the dynamics of sedimentation and transformation of memory. Also in the exhibition the young Veneto artist Rachel Maistrello, whose work often brings photography closer to performance.

Above. Galleria Upp’s Caterina De Cesero in front of Rachele Maistrello – Red Hair – 2010.

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Galleria La Salizada. The  La Salizada gallery was founded in 2012 with an eye to the past,  bring to Venice photogrpahs from the archives of the Fratelli Alinari, as well as a perspective by organizing various cultural events with contemporary artists. In the exhbition it presents Luisa Menazzi Moretti, whose photographs are almost pictorial fragments of detailed consistency. And, Elio Ciol, one of the most important Italian photographers,  who for sixty years “writes” with light, focusing with particular attention to landscape.

Above. Galleria La Salizada - Elio Ciol
 - Prima del Temporale - Lestans 1963 copyright Elio Ciol.

   

Galleria La Salizada – Alberto De Giulio

 

Tre Oci’s Valeria Regazzoni and IUAV’s Maria Luisa Frisa

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L’Italia Positiva di Stefano Robino Exhibition - Photographer Stefano Robino with his works.

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Casa dei Tre Oci: L’Italia Positiva di Stefano Robino. Stefano Robino‘s L’Italia Positiva, photographs 1951-1969 is a retrospective of the reporter who became famous for his photographs  of the work environment, of FIAT Grandi Motori.

Above. Stefano Robino - Bimba ai Giardini – 1959.

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L’Italia Positiva di Stefano Robino - Stefano Robino - Alla Partenza della Cristoforo Colombo – 1957.

 

Lorenzo and Valentina Marangoni

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Sguardi Privati. Sessanta Ritratti Italiani – photographs by Francesco Maria Colombo. Golden Retriever Kima enjoys the exhbition.

 

 

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Venice: Artisan - Celebrity Printer Gianni Basso.

 

Venice: Artisan - Celebrity Printer Gianni Basso. Walking quickly down the Calle del Fumo (alley of smoke) to catch the vaporetto to Murano, my eye caught the window of Gianni Basso’s printing shop; it rested on the charming and old-fashioned Ex Libris and then on close inspection on the famous names printed on them, this tempted me to go inside, and explore.  Inside, is like going back a century, the atmosphere is captivating.    Around the small printing shop every available shelve and surface boasts samples of the beautiful cards and book plates Basso has hand printed for his illustrious celebrity clientele; actors, writers, royalty, composers, Noble Prize laureates, fashion designers, and the list goes on.

Gianni Basso Stampatore: 5306 Cannaregio, Venezia 30121 – tel: +39 041 523 4681.

 

Gianni Basso Stampatore. At the age of fifteen, Gianni Basso was trained in letterpress printing by the Armenian monks in Venice and today, thirty years on, he is passing on his trade to his son Stefano. 

 

Gianni Basso Stampatore. The window showcases his illustrious clientele; Marisa Tomei's name is printed below theater masks, whilst Ben Affleck’s sports an old fashioned camera and Hugh Grant’s is under a Lione di San Marco. The selection of animal plates from 1800s are housed in drawers.

 

Gianni Basso Stampatore. In keeping with his ancient craft, Basso only communicates via letter or by an operating 1950's phone and jokes that his fax machine is “a carrier pigeon.”  He doesn’t even do email or even accepts credit cards, you have to visit in person.

  Gianni Basso Stampatore – A selection of Ex Libris

Gianni Basso Stampatore.   In the very small shop, three of the six per-industrial printing presses. Some come from the monastery of the Armenian monks on the island of San Lazzaro, where Basso apprenticed. From 1717 until 1991 on the island the monks printed books of renowned accuracy and beauty.

Above. A detail of a Boston printing press as used by Benjamin Franklin.

 

Gianni Basso Stampatore. Antique 19^th and 20^th century cliches plates of engravings of Piazza San Marco.

 

Gianni Basso only uses Fabriano paper.

 

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Venice: Candida Hofer - Ca Pesaro - Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice - Exhibition

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Venice: Candida Hofer at Ca Pesaro - Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice - Exhibition.

Where: On the Grand Canal at Ca Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art in the new Spazio Dom Perignon.

What: The second appointment of Paradoxes, A Series of Unforeseeable Encounters between Classic and Contemporary Art from the museum’s historic collection. One of the leading exponents of the so-called Dusseldorf School, the Internationally renowned German photographer, Candida Hofer’s Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice exhibition.  The exhibition presents a selection of  photographs from her 2001 work, Douze-Twelve, commissioned by the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle of Calais, for which she photographed the twelve existing casts of Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais located around the world. And of which a large plaster cast can be seen inside the museum.

When: Candida Hofer’s Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice – until 29 March. The exhibition is curated by Gabriella Belli, with exhibition layout by Daniela Ferretti.

Above. Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice - The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York II – 2000 – C-print – 152x152 cm. Copyright Candida Hofer – Koln/VG Bild-Kunst – Bonn.

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Ca Pesaro: Auguste Rodin – The Burghers of Calais. Auguste Rodin’s impressive plaster version of The Burghers of Calais (1889).  The key work by the French artist was acquired by the Comune di Venezia at the 1901 Biennale and is on show on the first floor of the permanent collection. This well-known sculptural group, several times replicated by Rodin, has inspired Hofer, who has photographed the twelve casts by Rodin in their installations in various international public collections around the world.

Candida Hofer

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Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice - Kunstmuseum Basel II – 2000 - C-print – 152x152 cm.

Copyright Candida Hofer – Koln/VG Bild-Kunst – Bonn.

Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice: The dialogue with the sculpture renders topical all the creative energy of the past, offering us replicas of a masterly scenographic impact, powerful yet restrained, thanks to the strict perspective standards typical of the German photographer.

Above: Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington II – 2000 – C-print – 107x85 cmCopyright Candida Hofer – Koln/VG Bild-Kunst – Bonn.

 A view from the back windows of Ca Pesaro

 

 

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