This exhibition held in Palazzo Zabarella in Padua, just a short train ride (30 min. only) from Venice, is the first to be dedicated to the extraordinary vicissitudes of the portrait, a painting genre that was traditionally considered to be minor but which, during the Nineteenth Century, was able to interpret the multiple aspects of that century with greater intensity than the more important genres such as historical and religious painting. It thus became the mirror of a history and humanity undergoing profound changes.
Canova and Modigliani, two internationally renowned protagonists but with absolutely different personalities, open and close this passionate tale in paintings in which both great names in history and the anonymous extras of a domestic epic appear. Painted and sculptured, of individuals and groups, with or without a setting, celebrative or introspective, these portraits all evoke the changes and restlessness of a society undergoing rapid transformation, interpreting the expectations of a country that was achieving political unity for the very first time. However, above all they also represent decisive changes in style, the artists’ efforts to become more modern, to testify reality in its incessant transformation from a new perspective.

From October 2nd, 2010 till February 27th, 2011
Palazzo Zabarella, via san Francesco, 27 - Padova
tel. 049 8753100
fax  049 8752959
info@palazzozabarella.it 

The Poetics of Written Space – Handwriting and calligraphy
Venice, Museo Correr
from october 2, 2010 to october 31, 2010

Museo Correr and the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani propose an educational itinerary through handwriting which is the synthesis of both traditional and contemporary visual communication.

The exhibition, presented by Monica Dengo, includes handwritten documents from the Museum Correr Library, in particular materials documenting the private and daily use of handwriting over the centuries, along with contemporary artworks of art that have in common the practice of writing by hand as image, bundle of written marks capable of communicating per se.

The show is organized in four parts:

- Historical: manuals, letters and private documents with handwritings from the 1500′s to the 1900′s from the Correr Museum;

- Contemporary: artworks on paper and artist’s books by contemporary artists working with Western, Islamic and Eastern calligraphy. Artists: Kitty Sabatier (France), Benno Aumann (Italy-Germany), Satsuki Hatsushima (England-Japan), Adriana Seri (Italy), Xin Ye (France-China). Hassan Massoudy (France-Iraq), Torsten Kolle (Germany), Mari Bohley (Germany), Cinzia Ruggieri (Italy), Birgit Nass (Germany), Ewan Clayton (England), Brody Neuenshwander (Belgium-USA), Carlo Buffa (Italy), Monica Dengo (Italy-USA), Akar Abdallah (France-Tunisia), Laurent Rebena (France), Michaela Keller (Switzerland), Norio Nagayama (Italy-Japan), Dominique Pinchi (France-Italy);

- Installation by Monica Dengo: I invite you to make the text your own.Text to touch, smell, listen and feel.

- Workshop: The works of students participating in the calligraphy workshop, held by Monica Dengo, will be exhibited in the show.

27 world premieres, 15 Italian premieres, 77 composers, 31 events including concerts, installations, audio-visual performances, choral music as well as workshops, seminars, meetings throughout the entire ten-day program, from September 23 to October 2 in Venice: these are the figures behind the 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music, titled Don Giovanni and the man of stone, and directed by Luca Francesconi.

In continuity with the commitment of the Biennale di Venezia towards the younger generations, the Music Festival will become the stage for prestigious groups but also for young and very young professional ensembles, such as MDI, the two wind and percussion ensembles from the Malmö Music Academy, and L’arsenale, that was asked to perform one of the most important pieces in the history of the Festival, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco n.2 by Luigi Nono, presented at the 1982 Music Biennale. This is the reason why the Festival promotes opportunities to discover and encourage the talent of the new generations, and has invited student artists and musicians – from the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice – to measure their skills and stimulate their creative originality in contact with the professional world of composers, singers, choirs, musicians, actors, set designers and directors, all involved in producing the inaugural event, Don Giovanni a Venezia.

Titled Don Giovanni and the man of stone, the Festival refers not only to the famous opera by Mozart, but to one of the central myths of western culture, the myth of Don Giovanni: within the conflict between human finiteness and its aspiration to eternity, between the body and the spirit, reverberates the relationship between the immortality of the work of art and the inexorable breath of time, between the written and the oral, between tradition and modernity. These themes weave through the 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music and find their synthesis in the opening event, the opera-installation Don Giovanni a Venezia.

Japanese advertising graphics has a time-honoured, inventive and rich tradition, unlike that of any other country. On this premise, in the St. Marks’ Square Gallery, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation is hosting the exhibition GRAPHIC DESIGN FROM JAPAN. 100 POSTERS 2001-2010. One hundred posters, selected from amongst the thousands of works submitted each year for the most prestigious awards, representing the best of Japanese graphics over the last ten years.

The tragedy of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki is remembered annually and with a great sense of responsibility by the major Japanese graphic designers with a series of posters entitled “Hiroshima Appeals”, one of the most significant awareness-raising campaigns in the sphere of graphic art. Some of these posters, the most representative ones from the last ten years, have been selected for the exhibition in memory of the thousands of direct and indirect victims of the explosion of the two atomic bombs.

The exhibition, featuring the most significant works produced over the last ten years both by great masters and more recent artists of promise, includes posters selected by a committee made up of two contemporary masters of graphic art, Kazumasa Nagai and Shin Matsunaga, in collaboration with the International Hokusai Research Centre, and are representative of the works produced by Tokyo’s main associations of graphic designers and art directors, such as the Art Directors’ Club (ADC), the Japan Grafic Designers’ Association (JAGDA) and the Type Directors Club (TDC). The initiative thus becomes a compendium not only of Japanese graphic creativity but also of the long and fruitful working relationship and cultural promotion established between Italy and Japan in this field for over thirty

After the success of the previous edition, the Flight Show-Festival of the Air is back again. The Expo Venice society, with the support of Prima Aviation, is proposing 3 days, from the 24th until the 26th of September, at Nicelli Airport, a programme chock-full of events.



Along with the exhibition areas and meetings, there will be the thrilling air show called Air Extreme, in which some of the best European pilots will execute flips and daring maneuvres, exciting the public and competing against each other in the freestyle tournament. What is more, on this special occasion, Nicelli Airport at Lido di Venezia will be open to General Aviation traffic and to ULM.

Der Karneval von Venedig ist das bedeutendste und großartigste aller venezianischen Feste, ein köstlicher Cocktail aus Tradition, Schauspiel, Geschichte und Überschwänglichkeit, der in einer einzigartigen Stadt angeboten wird, ein Fest, das jährlich Tausende von Personen aus aller Welt anlockt.

Der Karneval weist sehr antike Ursprünge auf, ist eine Feierlichkeit, mit der Winter verabschiedet und der Frühling begrüßt wird, ein Zeitraum, in dem scheinbar alles erlaubt ist, sogar die Illusion der bescheidensten Klassen, so wie die Mächtigsten zu werden, wenn auch nur mit einer Maske auf dem Gesicht.

Der offizielle Beginn des Karnevals von Venedig geht auf das Jahr 1296 zurück, als der Senat der Republik die Existenz des Karnevals durch ein Edikt, in dem der Tag vor der Fastenzeit zum Feiertag erklärt wurde, amtlich bestätigte.

Nach einer Unterbrechung, die fast zwei Jahrhunderte andauerte, wurde die Tradition des Karnevals von der Gemeinde im Jahr 1980 wieder zu neuem Leben erweckt und wird seither jährlich mit großem Erfolg gefeiert.

Die Veranstaltung 2010, die vom 6. bis 16. Februar andauert, trägt den Namen “Sensation, 6 Sinne für 6 Sestiere” und begleitet die Besucher inmitten der Sestiere auf der Entdeckung der suggestiven Atmosphäre der Stadt.

Eine ununterbrochene Anregung der Sinne, eine Einladung zum vollständigen Eintauchen in die Welt der Emotionen, die nur der Karneval von Venedig auf einzigartige Weise heraufbeschwören kann.

Mit einem wahren Fest des Karnevals im Dunkeln, bei dem der “Takt” als erster Sinn ins Spiel kommt, beginnen die Feierlichkeiten am Samstag, dem 6. Februar, in dem Sestiere Castello.

Ein sensorischer Rundgang durch eine überraschungsreiche Ausstellung. Ein reichhaltiges Programm an Veranstaltungen und Unterhaltung für jede Altersklasse, von dem Wettbewerb für die schönste Maske, der den Kindern gewidmet ist und auf dem Markusplatz organisiert wird, über die von der ALL MUSIC aus Santa Margherita geleiteten Musikinitiativen und die Konzerte mittelalterlicher und aus dem 17. Jahrhundert stammender Musik auf dem Campo San Barnaba, bis zu den historischen Umzügen in San Marco.

Dem Sinn des “Geschmacks” werden hingegen die gastronomischen Rundgänge gewidmet, die in dem Sestiere Cannaregio stattfinden und sich aus themenbezogenen Initiativen entlang der Calli und der Fondamenta zusammensetzten.

In dem Sestiere Santa Croce bekommt man die Möglichkeit, an Straßentheater-Vorführungen teilzunehmen, die sich mit sensationellen Versuchen zum Geruchssinn befassen.

Der “Sehsinn” kommt im Sestiere San Polo mit der Einrichtung von Maskenlabors und den Performances von Künstlern zu seinem Recht, die auf dem Campo San Polo die Kinder in ihre Spiele mit einbeziehen.

Den Jugendlichen werden von Atmosphäre und sanfter Musik belebte Abende auf dem Campo bella Vienna, nur wenige Meter von der Rialto-Brücke entfernt, geboten.

Und weiterhin im Rahmen der Sinne sollte das Schauspiel des so genannten Bagno degli ibernisti (Bad der Ibernisti) nicht versäumt werden, das am Strand der Isola del Lido stattfindet.

Außerhalb von Venedig sind auch die Karnevalsfeiern in den Städten des Festlands von unbeschreiblichem Reiz, zum Beispiel in Mestre, in Treviso oder an der Brenta-Küste, wo man den faszinierenden Umzügen der allegorischen Karren beiwohnen kann, die normalerweise am letzten Karnevalswochenende organisiert werden.

Eine Veranstaltung, die sich den Veränderungen vergangener Zeiten anpasst und erneuert und dabei den ersten Sinn, der den Karneval von Venedig schon im 18. Jahrhundert zu einem einzigartigen Ereignis machte, immer unverändert beibehält: die Kuriosität.

Die Aufforderung, Risiken einzugehen, die Maske des täglichen Lebens abzureißen und eine Einladung, mit den eigenen Sinnen und der eigenen Kreativität teilzunehmen, so dass sich wenigstens einmal alle Menschen in ihrer eigenen Verschiedenheit gleichen.

11 Dezember 2009

Deep Purple kehren zurück in sechs italienische Städte, Nach den großartigen voll ausverkauften Konzerten ihrer letzten Tour. Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Steve Morse und Don Airey rühmen sich eines immerwährenden Repertoires, darunter das mythische Lied “Smoke on the Water” und das legendäre “Highway Star”. Die Band ist eine der berühmtesten Hard-Rock-Bands der Welt.
40 Jahre nach ihrem Debütalbum “Shades Of Deep Purple”, die Band erneut auf die Bühne zurück und zeigt noch heute eine bewundernswerte Vitalität und Energie, die die Zeit nicht abzuschwächen wusste.
Die Virtuosität und die technische Begabung der Band im Klang der klassischen Rhythmen des Rocks und des Blues life, diesen Musikern einen Platz in der Geschichte des Rocks sicherten.

Palasport Jesolo
Viale del Bersagliere
30016 Lido di Jesolo VE

Veranstaltungsbeginn um 21:00 Uhr

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The Body of Sound

The 53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music will run in Venice 25th September to 3rd October 2009.

A 11 days high quality program performed by 73 musicians, 87 exhibitions, big ensembles, orchestras, singers, meetings and workshops.

The Festival is titled The Body of Sound and directed by Luca Francesconi.

Biennale and Fenice Theater Foundation will renew its agreement to support the festival: some of the concerts and meetings will be held in the most famous theater of Venice: La Fenice.

The artists will perform on stage at the newly refurbished evocative spaces of the Arsenale (Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Teatro alle Tese), at the Teatro La Fenice.

The program:

• Friday 25/09/2009
  Hours 17.00:Â Â ORCHESTRA J FUTURA Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Friday 25/09/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA TEATRO LA FENICE Nuovo Teatro La Fenice VENEZIA – VE
• Saturday 26/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â QUARTETTO ARDITTI Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA – VE
• Saturday 26/09/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â OSLO SINFONIETTA Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Sunday 27/09/2009
  Hours 15.00: Â Â QUARTETTO D’ARCHI TEATRO LA FENICE Sale Apollinee del Teatro La Fenice VENEZIA – VE
• Sunday 27/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â SINOPOLI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA – VE
• Sunday 27/09/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE RAI Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Monday 28/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â ENSEMBLE SPECTRA Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA – VE
• Monday 28/09/2009
  Hours 20.00:Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE RAI Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Tuesday 29/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â MANDOLINI POULIN Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA – VE
• Tuesday 29/09/2009
  Hours 20.00:Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA TEATRO LA FENICE Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Tuesday 29/09/2009
  Hours 22.00: Â MANDOLINI POULIN Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA – VE
• Wednesday 30/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â FONTANAMIX Teatro alle Tese – Quarta Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Wednesday 30/09/2009
  Hours 21.00: Â ORCHESTRA DI PADOVA E DEL VENETO Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Thursday 01/10/2009
  Hours 21.00:Â AURA Teatro Goldoni VENEZIA – VE
• Friday 02/10/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â MITTELEUROPA ORCHESTRA Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Friday 02/10/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â CARMEN LINARES Teatro alle Tese – Quarta Tesa VENEZIA – VE
• Saturday 03/10/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â EXIT 02 Teatro alle Tese – Terza Tesa VENEZIA – VE

Info:

Ufficio Promozione Pubblico
Tel +39 041 5218828 / Fax +39 041 5218825
e-mail promozione@labiennale.org

When: Sunday, October 25th 2009
After 23 successful editions, the Venice Marathon will be held this year on Sunday, October 25th.
The starting line is in Strà – at 9:15 a.m.
The itinerary follows the course of river Brenta, famous for the ancient Venetian noble villas, then across Mestre and the huge San Giuliano Park. After running along the bridge of Libertà – which links Venice to the mainland – athletes will enter in Venice and here the most spectacular show will start: unique surroundings which only Venice can offer! They will cross a floating bridge especially built for the occasion and after running past St. Mark’s Square and the Doge’s Palace, will cross the finish line in Riva Sette Martiri.

How to participate:
A.S.D. Venicemarathon Club
Via Linghindal 5/5 – 30172 Venice, Mestre
Tel. +39 041 5321871
info@venicemarathon.it

Exhibition Opens on October 10th

“Prendergast in Italy” is organized by Williams College Museum of Art in partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art.

The exhibition opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on Saturday 10th October and will be on view through January 03rd 2010, then it travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (February 14–May 9, 2010).

It is the first exhibition devoted entirely to the watercolours, monotypes, and oil paintings by Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924).

Featuring over sixty views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri, “Prendergast in Italy” also includes the artist’s personal sketchbooks, letters, photographs, and guidebooks from his two trips to Italy.

Maurice Prendergast went to Europe from Boston in 1898 spending part of the summer in Venice and returning for the spring and summer 1899.

He chose watercolour as his primary medium. He captured Venice’s unique configuration in the liquidity of that medium – the constant flow of his coloured washes emulating the watery movement of the canals and lagoons.He produced about sixty Venetian watercolours and he concentrated especially upon Piazza San Marco.

Variously labelled as Impressionist, Postimpressionist and Modernist, Prendergast’s art especially at this early stage of his career, is unique. While offering homage to the city’s past, Prendergast pictorially brought the art and culture of Venice in the twentieth century. As one critic noted in 1900, “He makes the spectator realize the Venice of today”

Information

Peggy Guggenheim Collections
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Dorsoduro 701
Venice 30123
Tel +39 041 2405411 Fax +39 041 5206885
E-mail info@guggenheim-venice.it

Hours
Open 10am-6pm daily
Closed Tuesdays and December 25