History reflected on the Murano Glass

Finally in Venice a big exhibition has been organized, dedicated to one of the most important resources of the city: glass.

Until the 1st of May 2009, you will have the chance to admire about 135 works, never shown before, exposed in the incredible scenery of the Glass Museum of Murano. “Ritrovare il Museo: Murano 1797 - 1859” was an idea started with the aim of increasing the value of the art of glass which gave popularity to Murano in the past, by turning the village into one of the most famous and appreciated places in the world. The event consists of a variety of exhibitions which carefully retrace the history of Murano glass, and giving attention to one peculiar historic moment, which was the fall of the San Marco Republic in 1797 when, due to a variety of incursion by foreign countries, a time of deep economic crisis started and big masters of glass working reacted to it with the use of creativity and deep innovations (more…)

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Lucca pays homage to Pompeo Batoni, the Grand Tour’s Portraitist

Lucca, one of the most beautiful cities in Versilia, dedicates an exhibition to a great Italian 18th century artist: “Pompeo Batoni l’Europa delle Corti e il Grand Tour” (“Pompeo Batoni, Europe with its Courts and the Grand Tour”).

Organized to celebrate the 300th anniversary since the artist’s birth, the exhibition has been inaugurated the last 6th December, and the picturesque rooms of Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) of Lucca will house it until 29th March 2009.

With this exhibition, the entire artistic itinerary of Pompeo Batoni will be retraced, with a path which is branched into 100 artworks belonging to some European and American public and private collections, testimony of the great artistic sensibility of this painter, who (more…)

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In Venice an Exhibition to give voice to Depero’s Futurism

At Correr Museum of Venice, an extraordinary exhibition is underway, and it’s dedicated to one of the founding fathers of Italian Futurism, Fortunato Depero. The exhibition’s name is “DEPERO - Opere della collezione Fedrizzi” (“Depero - Works from the Fedrizzi Collection”).

The exhibition, one of the many ones organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice on the occasion of the centennial of futurism, will be housed by the Correr Museum until 1^st March 2009. This great event had been made possible thanks to the Fedrizzi family, who agreed to gift the private collection belonging to Giuseppe Fedrizzi as a long-term loan to Fondazione Ca’ Pesaro.

The event displays about 80 artworks which date back to the period between 1914 and 1956, and are the real proof of Depero’s artistic genius, who succeeded in giving movement to each of his creations with the use of oils, temperas, charcoal drawings and advertising sketches.

Undisputed forerunner of our way of conceiving advertisement, Depero (more…)

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With Florence Noël it’s a Magic Christmas in Florence!

Do you feel like a traditional Christmas?

The lovely letters to ask your presents, the sled dragged by reindeers, the colored house of Santa Claus and many, many delicious sweets, candies and cakes…Well, then you feel like a Florence Noël !!

“Florence Noel” is an exhibition market organized every year by Stazione Leopolda to put the Christmas of our dreams up. From 29^th November to 8^th December in fact, the Stazione fills with lights, colours and fragrances typical of Christmas time.

Every year, several exhibitors take part to this great exhibition, and in a magical atmosphere, they (more…)

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Turin Triennial comes back on its 2nd Edition

The city of Turin represents the capital of the contemporary artistic and architectural avant-garde, and it has always cooperated with the greatest cultural organizations to promote the launch of many young artists.

“T Torino Triennale“ gets under way on its 2^nd edition just from these premises. The Triennial was born from the cooperation with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

The Triennial, which will stay open to the public until 1^st February 2009, wants to give as much space as possible to contemporary young artists, who come from every corner of the world and who dedicate their artistic genius to (more…)

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‘Magritte e la Natura’ on Exhibition in Milan

After Neoimpressionism, Milan goes on with its great artistic season and dedicates an extraordinary exhibition to René Magritte, entitled “Magritte e la Natura” (“Magritte and the Nature”).

The exhibition, which will start next 21^st November in Milan, shows as protagonist one of the most eclectic personages in the panorama of last century’s art. One hundred artworks on view, among collages and paintings, which retrace the artistic itinerary of Magritte from the first futurist paintings to 50s’ advertising campaigns.

The whole exposition revolves just around one theme: the nature. The continuous presence of nature in the painter’s artworks, its importance, and the peculiar way to develop this theme. Magritte shows his surrealist fingerprint by using nature as a fragment of reality to reach a surreal world.

Managed by Michel Draguet, the exhibition underlines (more…)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini international artist

After the Getty Museum of Los Angeles, the ‘National Gallery of Canada’ of Ottawa will dedicated an exhibition (from 25th November to 8thMarch 2009), to one of the greatest Italian seventeenth-century artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The event, entitled “Bernini and the birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture”, plans the exhibition of about 60 works (15 drawings, 30 sculptures and 15 oils of the same artist), many of which are borrowed by various Italian museums, which until this moment jealously took care of the artist’s masterpieces.

The exhibition, which in the last two months had a great success between Americans and also Italians who live in the USA, is subdivided into areas according to the subject, which are organized in chronological order, following the painter’s career, and showing the visitors the whole artistic itinerary of the genius.

But even if all Bernini’s works have something to tell, everyone’s attention (exhibition organizers and visitors) particularly focused on (more…)

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Lucca Comics, Games and… Photos

For all the people who are keen on comics, the most important comics event in Italy Lucca Comics and Games comes back.

Lucca Comics and Games is the International trade fair of comics, cartoons, illustration and games, and it’s a traditional appointment with the picturesque city of Versilia, which most of all in the last years gained the undisputed qualification of comics’ capital.

At Lucca Comics and Games, ongoing from 30th October to 2nd November, it is impossible not to find something connected with imagination and fantasy world.

Lucca Comics and Games this year is dedicated to 30th anniversary of Goldrake’ first appearance on Italian TV.

The event, extravant and freakish in each detail, is divided into an itinerary of 8 exhibitions which will take place at Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) of Lucca: 4 personal exhibitions, dedicated (more…)

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Seurat and Signac: from ‘Ile de la Grande Jatte’ to Milan

From 10^th October at Palazzo Reale of Milan people will be able to admire the great exhibition dedicated to the founding fathers of the Neoimpressionist movement entitled “Seurat, Signac e il Neoimpressionismo” (“Seurat, Signac and the Neoimpressionism”).

Seurat and Signac used to paint their precious canvass at the island of la Grande Jatte, where they portraited scenes of daily life in which nature is the real mistress; simple sceneries made unique by the incredible ability to capture every fragment of light and color on the canvas.

The exhibition is divided into seven great sections which follow a chronological order, and which retrace the artistic itinerary of these great artists, offering (more…)

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11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition

Until 23rd November, Venice Biennale will house its 11th International Architecture Exhibition, which will be entitled ‘Out There: Architecture Beyond Building’.

This important and world famous exhibition is a showcase for continuous progress of contemporary architecture. Managed by Aaron Betsky, this year the exhibition proposes an experimental and creative architecture, which gets in contact with reality and needs of today’s society.

The Building will be no longer the keystone of Venice Architecture Biennale, but the Space. Architecture as art, not buildings, but creations which blend in the environment they got into.

In Venice Arsenale and in the Padiglione Italia at Giardini, visitors will have the chance to see (more…)

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