Upcoming exhibitions
TAPIES. The eye of the artist
From June 1st to November 24th 2013A year after the death of the brilliant Catalan artist (Barcelona, 1923-2012), a key exponent of international informal art, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Vervoordt Foundation pay tribute to him through a fascinating exhibition aiming to reveal the profound essence of the art produced by this major figure in 20th century art. [...]
ANNA SKIBSKA. Metamorphoses of forms
From May 31st to December 1st 2013Polish artist Anna Skibska likes to reveal the metamorphoses of forms, using glassmaking techniques in a masterly fashion. This exhibition shows the play between the visible and invisible that leads to the essenceabsence of gravity and the lightness of her compositions [...]
THE SONNABEND COLLECTION
From May 31st 2013 to September 29th 2013Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) is remembered at Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art thanks to the exceptional arrival in the lagoon of 30 works from the Sonnabend Collection of New York. [...]
CARO AT MUSEO CORRER
From June 1st to October 27th 2013The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr will be the setting for the first major Italian retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest of living sculptors: Sir Anthony Caro. The versatile British artist, who has made an important mark in the history of art since the 1960s, has radically “revolutionised” his art [...]
REGATTA BOATS
From June 1st to November 4th 2013Regatta boats were extravagantly decorated by leading artists and these designs today are documented by one of the most important collections of prints and drawingsconserved in the Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe in Museo Correr, now displayed after a long period out of public sight, at Ca’ Rezzonico [...]
VENICE AND GRAPHICS. Contemporary Italian Print-making Biennials
From July 13th to September 15th 2013The exhibition is dedicated to Contemporary Italian Print-making Biennials hosted in Venice between 1955 and 1968. In these seven editions, more than 150 artists were invited and documented, including some of the most important masters of 20th-century Italian art [...]
ERALDO MAURO. Slides
From May 31st to December 1st 2013The “SLIDES/diapositive” art project by Eraldo Mauro, is based on the evocative power of the perception of colour and on the common denominator linking alchemy, glass and slides. Mauro’s installation recreates the interior of a photographic laboratory in which new works are displayed, together with others created for the occasion [...]
CONTEMPORARY BESTIARY. Italian artists from the ACACIA collection
From May 31 to October 24, 2013For the 2013 edition of the Venice Biennale, contemporary art will enter the Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, invited to create a dialogue with the museum’s holdings in an alternation of grand effect and microscopic surprise based on formal analogy and similarity of content [...]
THE PANZA COLLECTION
From October 5th 2013 to January 12th 2014The exhibition aims to pay tribute to one of the leading protagonists of international collecting of the 20th century, Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, a man whose passion, intuition and faith in contemporary art have made it possible to create one of the most interesting collections of post-war American art. [...]
ARCHIVES OF LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS. Pietro Bellotto
From November 30th 2013 to April 28th 2014This year sees the start of a new and fascinating investigation at Ca’ Rezzonico, the symbol of 18th century Venice, into landscape painting. Among the leading figures of the genre, which is at the centre of a necessary re-evaluation, was Pietro Bellotto, Canaletto’s nephew and the younger brother of Bernardo Bellotto. [...]