Venice - Lifestyle: Dinner Al Fresco in a Venetian Campo Photo Shoot

Venice - Lifestyle: Dinner Al Fresco in a Venetian Campo photo Shoot. When at a dinner I met a group of Americans  - friends of friends - who where in Venice not only to photograph a food and travel story, but also were having their young and talented chef (The Pines and Willow - Brooklyn) fly in to cook for their Italian friends, I couldn’t resist the urge to invite myself along too.

Above. The picture perfect setting; two table were set up outside our hostess’s house in a campo in Santa Croce.

 

Lifestyle - Dinner Al Fresco. Hostess Pamela Berry Morassutti Vitale and chef John Poiarkoff are getting ready as assistant photographer Monique Baron looks on whilst renowned food and travel photographer Andrea Gentl, who is one half of the photo duo Gentl and Hyers, edits photos of the days shoot on the vegetable gardens of the lagoon, from where all the vegetables came for the dinner.

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photograph courtesy MUVE

The  Venetian Orti. All the food served was picked or foraged on the islands of Sant’Andrea and Sant’Erasmo,  just two of the Lagoon’s many vegetable gardens situated on islands, all the other ingredients were also sourced locally.

Above. The ink and watercolor painting will be shown in the Doge's apartment in the Palazzo Ducale in the exhibition entitled Water and Food in Venice - A history of the Lagoon and the City, the exhibition coincides with EXPO 2015 and its key theme “Feeding the planet. Energy for Life”.

Piero Brustolado

Case, orti e terreni vacui della «commissaria» presso il ponte Piccolo alla Giudecca – post 1474

ink and watercolor on paper

Archivio di Stato di Venezia

 

Water and Food in Venice - A history of the Lagoon and the City

Palazzo Ducale - September 26, 2015 – February 14, 2016

http://palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/exhibition-water-and-food-in-venice/2015/08/16300/stories-from-lagoon-and-city/

 

  

The Chef. John Poiarkoff is the executive chef at The Pines and Willow in Brooklyn, he flew in especially to cook all the fresh seasonal local food for the dinner party and photo shoot.

“John's cooking is seasonally driven and built around local ingredients. Modern, with high end techniques but rustic and approachable.”

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Photo Shoot 

Perine Renard is photographed by travel and food photographer Andrea Gentl as she captures the evening’s mood.

The Table is Set

Hostess, art director Pamela Berry Morassutti Vitale with her daughter Anna Morassutti Vitale

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 Emma Farrell brings glasses to the table

Alba Morassutti Vitale

The Table is Set

Gently cooked then chilled mantis shrimp (canocchie) with young red onions, sea beans, purslane, wood sorrel peperoncino, and an emulsion of a broth made from their heads and shells

 

 

In The Kitchen

Chef John Poiarkoff and restaurant entrepreneur (Willow, The Pines, Brooklyn) and architect Carver Farrell

“Every year we cook a dinner in the mountains of upstate NY and source all the ingredients within 25 miles. This year we decided to join a group of friends and cook it Venice instead. So all the ingredients we used were sourced locally (vegetables from Sant Erasmo, fish from the sea etc. It was a great challenge and fun to meet local farmers, fishermen and winemakers!”

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In The Kitchen

 Grilled Orata with peppers, tomatoes, capers, flowering yarrow, and wild bay leaf oil

 

 

Venetian Al Fresco Dinner Party

Dusty, Julian and Winifred Richards

 

Venetian Al Fresco Dinner Party

"Granchi" crab salad with cherry tomatoes, wild strawberries and tarragon

 

 Venetian Al Fresco Dinner Party

 

  Anna and Pamela

  In the Kitchen

A Madonna and Child Mexican Retablos hang on the kitchen wall

 

 

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Venice – Island of San Giorgio Maggiore: Fondazione Giorgio Cini – Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection – Map of the New Art

 

Venice – Island of San Giorgio Maggiore: Fondazione Giorgio Cini  – Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection – Map of the New Art. Imago Mundi brings to Venice a positive image of the world. In the current climate of arrested utopias, attacks on cultural heritage, assaults on imagination and knowledge, Luciano Benetton’s global art project presents the exhibition Map of the New Art, until November 1, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, offering an art without borders that breaks the silence, transcends differences, pushes civilization towards new horizons. Representing the five continents, the exhibition includes collections from more than 40 countries and native peoples, for a total of 6,930 artists with 10x12 cm works. With a quality and quantity of protagonists (renown and emerging), artworks, languages and ideas that make it both original and unique.

Above. Luciano Benetton.

http://www.cini.it/en/events/imago-mundi-luciano-benetton-collection-map-of-new-art

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Photograph by Manfredi Bellati

Fondazione Giorgio Cini  – Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection – Map of the New Art. The architect Tobia Scarpa was responsible for the special exhibition structure, designed as a welcoming space, which, in a long sequence of images presented by country, emphasizes the richness of the collections and, at the same time ensures visibility of the individual paintings. Thanks to the exhibition stands that close like the pages of a book, the structure is also easy to transport and install, supporting the itinerant aims of the collections.  The exhibition includes collections from more than 40 nations and native peoples representing the five continents: 10×12 cm artworks by 6930 artists.

Collections in this Exhibition: Algeria, the Kalahari Bushmen, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda/Rwanda/Burundi (AFRICA); Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the United States and Indigenous Native Americans (AMERICAS); Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Jordan, North Korea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tibet (ASIA); Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (EUROPE); the Aboriginal artists of Australia (OCEANIA).

 Photograph by Manfredi Bellati

 

“This exhibition has a very special significance”, says Luciano Benetton. “In a certain sense, the vast numbers of artists present reproduce the world I would ideally like. A world without borders and without political, ideological or religious barriers. Where people work for beauty. And where diversity and freedom of expression are seen as a great wealth. I often say that if it were up to artists, there would be no wars. This is why every new artist, collection, people and nation of Imago Mundi adds a creative and impassioned piece to that map of the new art which we hope will come to include the lands of Utopia, of hope and of peace.”

Above. Luciano Benetton was interviewed in front of the Map of the Colours of Culture by Roman artist Pietro Ruffo for Imago Mundi – watercolor ink and paper cut puts laid on canvas. 

 

Tibet – Made by Tibetans

Nyima Dhondup

Mind of Love

2013

Tibet

curator Paola Vanzo and artist Nyima Dhondup

 

Syria – Syria Off Frame

Ammar al Beik

Love Locks of Syria

2015

 

Syria

Video artist Zaher Omareen, curator Donatella Della Ratta and Artist Ammar al Beik

 

Syria – Syria Off Frame

Zaher Omareen
Syria Pixels
2015

 

Italy – Praestigium Italia I and II

Alvise Bittente

A La Carte, a Target Touch Screa…

2014

 

Sweden – Archive of Visions and Actions

Helena Hildur W.

Response to Invitation

2015

 

Jenny Bergstrom and artist Jan Ryden

 

Sweden – Archive of Visions and Actions

Jan Ryden

Garden for Hypotheses

2015

  Photograph courtesy Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection

Sweden – Archive of Visions and Actions

Paula von Seth

Up They Soar, Swarms of Nebulae

2015

 

Photograph courtesy Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection

 

Sweden – Archive of Visions and Actions

Ingalena Klenell

The Kiss

2015

 

Fondazione Giorgio Cini  – Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection – Map of the New Art. Outside the Foundation Giorgio Cini, visitors are greeted by an installation designed by Tobia Scarpa formed of five flags (each displaying a work representing one of the five continents) in a symbolic welcome to the global and creative territory of Imago Mundi.

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