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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Possagno - Museo e Gypsotheca Antonio Canova - Canova e Potere - La Collezione Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Possagno - Museo e Gypsotheca Antonio Canova
Canova e Potere - La Collezione Giovanni Battista Sommariva

In the charming hillside town of Possagno, northwest of Venice, home to Antonio Canova, now the Museo e Gypsotheca Antonio Canova, the exhibition Canova e Potere - La Collezione Giovanni Battista Sommariva – until September 3 – was conceived by Vittorio Sgarbi and is co-curated by Elena Catra and Moira Mascotto, director of the museum. Canova and Power - The Collection of Giovanni Battista Sommariva exhibition pays homage to the great maestro by reconstructing the prestigious relationships that the artist had with the greatest exponents of the political and the cultural panorama of the time, highlighting the indissoluble bond existing between art and power. Sought after and admired on an international scale, Canova had in fact as clients the most influential personalities of contemporary Europe: sovereigns, popes and nobles from the various European courts up to the United States of America.

Antonio Canova - Discobolo – Palamede - 1796

Pietro Bettelini – Giovan Battista Wicar – Palamede – fronte – 1804

Co-curator Elena Catra

Thomas Lawrence - Portrait Antonio Canova - Possagno 1815 - Venice1819

The exhibition investigates for the first time the complex figure of Giovanni Battista Sommariva and his precious collection which included nine works, five of which are important marbles, by Canova himself as well as those by Francesco Hayez, Bertel Thorvaldsen and Pierre Paul Prud'hon, some of which are exceptionally gathered here for the occasion.

Andrea Appiani – Portrait of Giovanni Battista Sommariva – 1813

Antonio Canova – Maddalena Penitente – 1795

Antonio Canova Maddalena Penitente - 1798-1799

Louis-Leopold Boilly

Napoleon Granting the Legion d’Honneur to the Sculpture Pierre Cartellier at the Salon of 1808 – 1808

“I have favorably positioned your little Apollo in a salon in the form of a gallery which I have in my residence in Paris and where I have also placed my most beautiful paintings.”

Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Collector

Extraordinary is also the presence of the marble work depicting the Apollino, from the Collezioni Comunali d’Arte of Bologna, exhibited for the first time to the public in all its renewed beauty after the restoration supported by the Canova Museum and carried out by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze. The paintings and sculptures from public and private collections, both national and international, also give prestige to the exhibition.

Antonio Canova – Apollino - 1797

Moira Mascotto

Co-curator and Director of the Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova – Amore e Psiche che si Abbracciano - 1787c.
Domenico Pellegrini – Ritratto di Filippo e Costanza De Marinis

come Amore e Psiche – 1790

Alessandro Papafava – Lettere di Alessandro Papafava a Francesco Papafava – 24 marzo e 8 maggio – 1804

Francesca Papafava dei Carraresi and Marcello Zannoni

Pompeo Calvi – L’interno dello studio di Canova a Roma – 1880

Bartolomeo Paoletti – Cofanetto con 34 cammei in gesso opera di

Bertel Thorvaldsen e Antonio Canova – 1820-1830c.

Paolo Mariuz, Vittorio Sgarbi - President of the Museo e Gypsotheca Antonio Canova - and Amerigo Restucci

Lunch Al Fresco

After the press preview, on the first day of Spring and on a beautifully sunny day lunch was served in the garden under a Pine tree, brought from Rome by Canova himself over two hundred years ago.

Filippo Canal, Martina Massaro, Roberto De Feo

Paolo Mariuz

Paola Bonifacio and Fabio Zonta

The Cat’s Whiskers

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Friday, December 16, 2022

Venice - Palazzo Loredan - Giochi di Sponda - Double Act - A Contemporary Glass Collection - Exhibition

"Collection: a group of accumulated objects of the same nature, valuable, curious, or otherwise interesting, if only subjectively. That is the Zingarelli Italian dictionary’s definition, and it strikes me as droll that the close – “if only subjectively” – expresses the true and profound meaning of every collection!

I started buying glass objects when I was just a little girl, in Trieste, my hometown."

Serena Coloni

collector

Palazzo Loredan - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

Giochi di Sponda - Una Collezione di vetro Contemporaneo

Double Act - A Contemporary Glass Collection

The exhibition Double Act curated by gallerist Caterina Tognon and collector Serena Coloni which was on show at Palazzo Loredan in Campo Santo Stefano told the story of her collection established between 1990 and 2020 that is still unique in Italy in documenting the International Studio Glass art movement. The exhibition itinerary testified the work of 53 international artists with a corpus of 106 works in glass made between the 1950s and the present in Venice, as well as in academies and glassworks in Bohemia, in European research centers, and in the studio-furnaces of American, Canadian and Australian artists.

Laura de Santillana

"From 1991 to the present my work has been a long journey in the company of Serena. Together we have created a splendid collection, hers, and a solid gallery, mine, both alone in dealing with contemporary glass in Italy in those decades."

Caterina Tognon

gallerist

The collection reflects the friendship between a gallerist and a collector who have cultivated a shared passion for the city of Venice and artistic glass. It bears witness to an artistic practice resting on the encounter between free creativity and the rules of an ancient craft.

Cristiano Bianchin

Bruna Esposito

Alessandro Diaz de Santillana

Maria Grazia Rosin

Silvia Levenson

Richard Meitner

Ettore Sottsass

Massimo Nordio

Danny Lane

Barbara Bloom

Daniela Schonbachler

Richard Marquis

Ivan Mares

Borek Sipek

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Conegliano - Palazzo Sarcinelli - Ron Galella - Paparazzo Superstar - Retrospective Exhibition

Photograph and copyright - Manfredi Bellati

Conegliano - Palazzo Sarcinelli

Ron Galella - Paparazzo Superstar

At Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano, Northwest of Venice, the exhibition Ron Galella, Paparazzo Superstar, until January 29 - curated by Alberto Damian and produced and organised by Sime Books and the City of Conegliano. Ron Galella was the most famous paparazzo in the history of photography and this exhibition brings together over 180 portraits of celebrities, actors, musicians and artists from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, selected from the more than 3 million shots that make up the immense archive of the photographer: the photographs, mostly in white and black, are accompanied by the story that tells how they were made, allowing you to discover the background of the iconic shots.

Alberto Damian

curator

"my obsession and my personal Mona Lisa!"

One room of the exhibition is dedicated to Jackie Kennedy Onassis, defined by Galella as "my obsession and my personal Mona Lisa" to whom the famous image called "Windblown Jackie" was considered by Time Magazine as "one of the 100 most influential photographs of all Time."

Joy Smith

Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Ron Galella

Windblown Jackie

New York City - 7 October 1971

"My top two selling photographs - John Lennon and Mick Jagger and Windblown Jackie - have one thing in common, none of the subjects knew they were being photographed."

John Lennon and Mick Jagger - with May Pang

L.A. - 13 March 1974

Second Annual American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards

honoring James Cagney at the Century Plaza Hotel

"Although my photos are still, they all have movement!"

Nally Bellati

Ron Galella

Milan - 28 September 2004

Photology Gallery

The Magazine Covers

Richard Burton and Elisabeth Taylor

"When Sophia Loren arrived at the after party for the "Dr. Zhivago" premiere... I photographed her at her table. Finishing up my take, I asked her what she found fascinating about the star's Omar Sharif. 'His eyes!" she said making an expressive gesture. "I though the Italians had the most beautiful eyes; now I think the Egyptian have!"

Sophia Loren

New York City - 22 December 1965

Dr. Zhivago - Premiere Party at the American Hotel

"A year after Marlon Brando punched me in Chinatown, he scheduled a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

to announce the benefit for Native American Indians. This time I came prepared wearing a helmet.... this photo the following week,

this soon-to-be-iconic shot ran in People magazine....

this photo and the photo of me taken with Jackie - see above - by Joy Smith have become the two most famous and requested pictures of me with a celebrity."

Paul Schmulbach

Marlon Brando and Ron Galella

New York City - 26 November 1974

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel