Πρόγραμμα εκδηλώσεων Biennale Venice 2009

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Babett

Υ.Γ: Φυσικά και φροντίσαμε να τονίσουμε την αναφορά στην έκθεση του δασκάλου (με όλες τις "παρεξηγήσεις" .... όταν οι ιταλοί διαβάζουν δελτίο τύπου στα αγγλικά, μάλλον άλλα διαβάζουν άλλα καταλαβαίνουν!)

BIENNALE GARDENS and ARSENALE

Boat lines 1-2-52 to Giardini della Biennale/Arsenale/Castello

Shuttle service: daily 10.30am-5.30pm (until 15.X).

VENICE BIENNALE

53rd International Art Exhibition.

Making Worlds.

Open to the public through 22 November.

53rd edition of the number one contemporary art event in Italy.

The show, centering on a theme conceived by its director, Daniel Birnbaum, combines two exhibition spaces – that of the Biennale’s re-designed Palazzo delle Esposizioni, at the Gardens, with that of the Arsenale – assembling 90 artists from around the world with new works created in all art forms: from paintings, sculptures and drawings to the more contemporary installations, performance art, video and film.

The exhibition includes also national shows in the historic Garden Pavilions, numerous other national and associated exhibits displayed elsewhere in the city. All in all, this year’s show boasts a record number of 77 national exhibitions and 38 associated events.

Catalogue published by Marsilio.

Open 10am to 6pm.

Gardens are closed Monday (except Monday 16 November).

Arsenale closed Tuesday (except Tuesday 17 November).

Tickets offices at Arsenale, Giardini, Giardino delle Vergini. Tickets are good for both the Arsenale and the Biennale Gardens).

Admission, € 18; discounted, € 15 (over 65, military, Venice residents); students and under 26, € 8.

Family tickets, € 38. Permanent Pass, € 60.

Services: Infopoint, checkroom, bar restaurant, bookshop.

Sidewalk between the two venues is set to accommodate handicapped persons.

E-mail: promozione@labiennale.org

Info, tel. 041.521.88.28 - www.labiennale.org

PALAZZO CAVALLI FRANCHETTI

VENETO ISTITUTE OF SCIENCE, LETTERS AND ARTS

Campo Santo Stefano

Boat lines 1-2 to Accademia

Glass Stress. Open until 22 November.

An exhibition that is the outcome of a collaboration between the Berengo Studio 1989 of Venice and Mjellby Konstmuseum of Halmstad, assembling glass art works by a group of world renowned contemporary artists and offering an opportunity to study and explore the use of this raw material with the aim of turning it into a new expressive instrument.

Among the artists whose works are on display at the Renaissance palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal are Abramovic, Albers, Arp, Cragg, Kosuth, Kounellis, Marangoni, Rauschenberg, Man Ray and Tagliapietra.

Curators, Laura Mattioli Rossi and Rosa Barovier Mentasti. Open daily from 10am to 6pm.

Admission: € 5.00, discounted, € 4.00.

Info, tel. 041.739.453. Web site: www.berengo.com

CORRER MUSEUM

St. Mark’s Square

Boat lines 1-2 to San Marco–Vallaresso

PALLADIO and/in VENICE. Through 10 January 2010.

The show, part of Palladio’s 500th birthday anniversary, produced by the Veneto Region and coordinated by the special Regional Anniversary, traces the history of the great Renaissance architect’s ties with Venice. On view are over 300 works – prints, manuscripts, documents and drawings – that offer a view of the Venice environment in Palladio’s time and during his activity in the city (both theoretical works and actual projects that were designed, built or lost).

Special attention is paid to Palladio’s work of redesigning the unique and symbolic Venetian urban scene of St. Mark’s Basin, with his facade of San Giorgio Maggiore, the votive Church of the Redentore on the Island of Giudecca, and the Zitelle Complex, producing a breathtaking result of extraordinary innovative force.

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Marciana National Library and the University of Venice (IUAV) and offers a compelling multimedia section open to the public.

Open 10am to 7pm; last admission, 6pm.

Admission (to all St. Mark’s Square museums): € 13.00, discounted, € 7.50. Free for Venice residents.

Info, tel. 041.520.90.70 - www.museiciviciveneziani.it

PUNTA DELLA DOGANA

Boat line 1 to Salute or ferryboat from S. Maria del Giglio

PALAZZO GRASSI

Campo S. Samuele 3231

Boat line 2 to San Samuele

Mapping the Studio:

Artists from François Pinault Collection.

A large exhibition on view in two buildings marks the opening of a new museum dedicated to contemporary art, at the Punta della Dogana, a historic complex built in the 17th century and which once served as customs house and recently redesigned by architect Tadao Ando.

Conceived as a single artistic journey, the show offers some 300 works from François Pinault’s art collection, presented as dialogues between artists of various generations, of various artistic forms of expression and sensibilities: from artists whose works are well represented in the collection – such contemporary art luminaries as Jeff Koons, Sigmar Polke, Rudolf Stingel, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince – to new emerging talents and artists who have been unjustly ignored by the art world.

Curated by Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami.

Catalog published by Electa (€ 50.00).

Open 10am to 7pm. Closed Tuesday. Last admission, 6pm.

Admission, € 20*, € 15°. Discounted 1: € 17*, € 12°; discounted 2: € 14*, € 10°.

*To the 2 building; °To a single building.

Ticket of admission to the 2 buildings is valid for 3 days.

Admission is free for Venetian residents on Wednesdays.

Reservations: Vivaticket (www.vivaticket.it) tel. 899.666.805. Infoline, 199.139.139.

Palazzo Grassi, tel. 041 523 16 80.

Web site: www.palazzograssi.it

DIOCESAN MUSEUM

San Marco 4312 (near the Canonica Bridge)

Boat lines 1-2 to San Zaccaria

TORCELLO: Venice’s Origins Between West and East. Open through 10 January 2010.

The show looks at the origins of Venice and its eternal ties with the Orient and Europe, narrating with the use of 100 masterpieces the evolution of art which originated in Byzantium and found in the Venice Lagoon an ideal environment to set root and grow, establishing new forms and signs destined to become extremely popular. The exhibition - on view at the Diocesan museum and the nearby recently reclaimed and restored beautiful exhibition spaces at the old Church of San Filippo e Giacomo – opens with the early years of Torcello as Lagoon capital, marking the first sculptures around the lagoon. It continues with the extraordinary display of mosaics; precious objects related to liturgy (illuminated codices, ceremonial reliquaries and crosses); numerous icons which arrived here mainly after 1204, year of the 4th Crusade, adorned with stones, enamel and precious metals, or made of noble materials such as ivory, micro-mosaics and gold- and silver-threaded silks.

Catalogue published by Marsilio Editori.

Open daily, 10am to 6pm. Last admission, 5.15pm.

Admission (including to the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta of Torcello), € 5.00, discounted, € 4.00.

Info, tel. 041.241.38.17 - www.millenniotorcello.it

PALAZZO FORTUNY

S. Beneto, S. Marco 3780

Boat lines 1 to Sant’Angelo, 1-2 to Rialto

In-Finitum. Open until 15 November 2009.

Many are the artists who have tackled the subject of the infinite, each with his or her own approach and according to concepts and representations of the culture he or she came from. Bonnard, Burri, Calder, Cézanne, Canova, Delacroix, Fontana, Manzoni, Melotti, Mirò and Picasso are all among them. Their works, along with those by other artists who represent the entire history of art, are on view in this fascinating exhibition mounted in the elegant Venetian palazzo that once was the residence and atelier of Mariano Fortuny. The show, the third in a multi-discipline exhibition cycle (combining art, science and philosophy of various eras and civilizations) conceived by Axel Vervoordt, is a product of a collaboration between the Venice Civic Museums and the Vervoordt Foundation. Curators, Axel Vervoordt, Giandomenico Romanelli, Daniela Ferretti, Francesco Poli. Catalogue published by MER Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, in collaboration with Skira.

Open (museum and show), 10am-6pm. Last admission, 5pm. Closed Tuesday. Admission: € 9.00; discounted, € 6.00.

Info, tel. 041.520.90.70 - www.museiciviciveneziani.it

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION

CA’ VENIER DEI LEONI

St. Gregorio, Dorsoduro 704

Boat lines 1 to Salute, 1-2 to Accademia

Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts.

Open through 20 September.

The “Gluts,” works that Rauschenberg meant as expressions of glut, excess, surplus of supply, are some forty sculptures created by the artist intermittently from 1986 to 1995. He began the series in the 1980s, when he turned toward an exploration of the visual properties of metal. Assembling found metal objects such as gas-station signs, deteriorated automotive and industrial parts littering the landscape, he transformed the scrap-metal detritus into wall reliefs and freestanding sculptures that recalled his earlier Combines. A year after the artist’s death the prestigious Collection pays tribute during the high season of contemporary art in Venice to one of the greatest and most influential American artists in the postwar generation.

Masterpieces of Futurism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Through 31 December.

A special display curated by the collection’s director, Philip Rylands, presents a new show dedicated to Futurism, with works coming from the Gianni Mattioli Collection as well as paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the Peggy Guggenheim and other private collections.

Wim Delvoye. Gothic Tower.

Until 22 November.

A Gothic tower about 10-meter high made by the Belgian artist of weathering steel cut with laser and created especially for the panoramic terrace of Ca’ Venier dei Leoni.

Open (shows and permanent collections), 10am – 6pm.

Last admission, 5.30pm. Closed Tuesday.

Admission, € 12.00, discounts, € 10.00 (over 65), special discounts, € 5.00 (students). Audioguide, € 7.

Guided tours, € 60. CaféMuseum and MuseumShop.

Info, tel. 041.240.54.11 – www.guggenheim-venice.it

FORMER SALT WAREHOUSE

VEDOVA FOUNDATION

Zattere,

Boat line 1 to Salute

New exhibition halls of the Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation. Permanent display.

A new exhibition space for Venetian art – pursued and created by the Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation as a container of works by the Venetian master who passed away in 2006 – now opens to the public. Painting, space, movement, energy – these are the elements that characterize these halls as an all new exhibition action as conceived during meetings between Vedova and Renzo Piano, who designed it together with Germano Celant, the Foundation’s artistic and scientific curator.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11.30am to 6.30pm.

Admission, free (donations to the Foundation are welcomed).

Web site: www.fondazionevedova.org

CINI FOUNDATION

Island of San Giorgio

Boat line 2 San Giorgio

John Wesley. Reopens 1 September to 31 October.

A retrospective with more than 150 works offers an historical look at one of the leading figures in modern American art.

The show includes early works from the 1960s to more recent years, all marked by the artist’s creative freedom and his experimental and innovative idiom.

Show presented by the Prada Foundation, curated by Germano Celant.

Open 12-6pm.

Closed Monday. Free.

Cini Foundation, 041.52.89.900 - www.cini.it

JEWISH MUSEUM – Sala Montefiore

Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2902

Boat lines 1-2 to San Marcuola

CELIBERTI: Exile and Soul.

Open through 31 January 2010.

A retrospective exhibition celebrating the 80th birthday anniversary of the Friuli-born master, one of the last living artists who participated in the first postwar Art Biennale (1948).

Museum open 10am-7pm (until 30 Sep.). Admission, free.

Jewish Museum, tel. 041.715.359 – www.museoebraico.it

PALAZZO CINI

San Vio

Boat lines 1-2 to Accademia

Weekends at Palazzo Cini.

Discovered Papers: Drawings from the Collections of Donghi, Fissore and Pozzi at the Giorgio Cini Foundation. Saturday and Sunday 26–27 September; 3–4, 10–11, 17–18 October.

First show in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the most important collections at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, presenting a group of figure drawings and a selection of sheets with architectural project drawings by Giacomo Quarenghi, who introduced Palladian Neoclassical architecture in St. Petersburg. Also on view are two sheets by Federico Zandomeneghi, the Venetian painter, friend of the Parisian Impressionists.

The show, which accompanies the publication of the general catalogue of the Donghi, Fissore and Pozzi collections, is on show during weekends, as is the permanent display at the palazzo gallery.

Open to be annonced. Admission, free.

Cini Foundation, 041.52.89.900 - www.cini.it

BEVILACQUA LA MASA FOUNDATION

ST. MARK’S SQUARE GALLERY

San Marco 71/c

Boat line 1-2 to Vallaresso

Rebecca Horn: Fata Morgana. Until 20 September.

Solo show of the German artist, known in the art world for her diversified production (performance art, sculpture, poetry, film, opera) that focuses on universal themes such as love, physical and psychological health, the frailty of things. On view, in a mysterious display of love portrayed as a fascinating and dangerous illusion, are a dynamic installation and a group of paintings, some of them large-scale, that mark the poetic, and at the same time dramatic, journey of the artist.

Catalogue published by Charta, Milan.

Screened as part of the show is the film Buster’s Bedroom, produced in 1990.

PALAZZETTO TITO

S. Barnaba, Dorsoduro 2826

Boat line 1, Ca’ Rezzonico

Anton’s Memory by Yoko Ono. Through 20 September.

Solo show of the famous artist, recent winner of the Biennale Golden Lion lifetime achievement award (2009).

Created especially for the Venetian foundation gallery, the exhibition offers a combination of old and new works, including films, sound compositions, sculptures, drawings and paintings, as well as a number of interactive installations – among them a recent one and the original installation of the “Cut Piece” performances (of 1965 and 2003, respectively). An artist’s book is to be published to accompany the show. Curated by Nora Halpern. Curator of Ono’s works, Jon Hendricks.

Open 10.30am to 5.30pm.

Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Admission, € 3.00; discounted, € 2.00.

Info, tel. 041.520.77.97. Web site: www.bevilacqualamasa.it

CA’ PESARO - INT’L. MODERN ART GALLERY

Santa Croce 2076

Boat line 1 to San Stae

Bernardì Roig: Shadows Must Dance. Until 8 /11.

An exhibition project conceived especially for the Venetian gallery offers fifteen works by Bernardì Roig, a leading exponent of current Spanish art. His works here, mainly sculptures but also installations, drawings and video, all created in the last 15 years, offer an active dialogue between images of the present and those of the past. The show is a coproduction of the Venice Civic Museums and IVAM (Institut Valencia d’Art Modern), in collaboration with the Cardi Gallery of Milan.

Curators, Consuelo Ciscar and Silvio Fuso.

Catalogue by IVAM.

Don’t Look Now.

Italian Artists at Ca’ Pesaro. Until 4 October.

The show is on view in one of the city’s most prestigious exhibition spaces that for almost 30 years has been improperly used: the second floor of Ca’ Pesaro, the historical place that hosted for the first time the artists who rebelled against the two leading official institutions of the time, the Accademia and the Biennale. Shown alongside the great works of the museum collection is a group of works by ten currently active artists presenting, just as in the old Ca’ Pesaro secessionist exhibitions, a series of multiple visions not limited by precepts or art forms. Curated by M. Farronato, in collaboration with the Bevilacqua La Masa Found.

53rd ART BIENNALE SITELLITE EVENT

BRACO DIMITRIJEVIC- Future Post History.

Until 22 November 2009 (Ground Floor).

The show offers, on the one hand, Braco Dimitrijevic’s installations and other works that illustrate the artist’s concept of “post-history” in the context of the Sarajevo artistic reality between the siege and the following transitions (a Biennale satellite event), and, on the other, Renzo Piano’s project for Ars Aevi Museum in Progress (the Sarajevo Museum of Cont. Art), a symbol of the city’s future rebirth.

Open (museum and show), 10am-5pm (last admission, 4pm).

Closed Monday. Admission, € 5.50; discounted, € 3.00.

Info, tel. 041.520.90.70. www.museiciviciveneziani.it

MONUMENTAL HALLS

AT THE MARCIANA NATIONAL LIBRARY

Boat lines 1-2 to San Marco (Vallaresso)

Material Harmonies of Art.

Open until 30 September.

Exhibition organized in collaboration with the AMI.B.E.C. Cultural Association (Friends of Cultural Heritage), presenting under a single roof at the famous Sansovino Library the works of four artists: Venetian sculptor Giorgio Bortoli; U.S. surrealist painter Joseph Kaliher; jewelry artist Paola Crema; and the landscape artist, Roman by adoption, Pia Parodi.

Open 9am to 7pm (entering through the Correr Museum, 9am to 6pm).

Admission(through the Correr Museum), including to all St. Mark’s Square Museums: € 13; discounts, € 7.50.

Info, tel. 041.240.72.11 - www.marciana.venezia.sbn.it

CA’ REZZONICO

MUSEUM OF 18TH-CENTURY VENETIAN ART

Dorsoduro 3136

Boat line 1 to Ca’ Rezzonico

That Obscure Side of Art.

From Stella Art Foundation Collection.

Open through 5 October 2009.

A rare look at the Russian art production of the last thirty years sheds light on complexities and facetings that are far from the familiar notions. Seventy works by such artists as Yuri Albert, Ivan Chuikov, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Boris Orlov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, as well as Alexander Ponomarev with his ‘Submarine Subtiziano.’

Curated by Vladimir Levashov, the show was made possible thanks to a collaboration between the Venice Civic Museums and the Stella Art Foundation of Moscow, here in Venice for the 53rd Biennale Art Exhibition.

Catalogue published by Ueberreuter Print, Korneuburg, Austria, edited by Vladimir Levashov.

Open (museum and show): 10am-5pm.

Last admission, 4pm. Closed Tuesday.

Admission, € 6.50; discounted, € 4.50.

Info, tel. 041.520.90.70 - www.museiciviciveneziani.it

CA’ GIUSTINIAN (Portego)

San Marco 1364

Boat lines 1-2 to Vallaresso

Paolo Fabbri. Vision Machine:

Futurists at the Biennale. Until 22 November.

An exhibition-project dedicated to Futurist artists who exhibited at Biennale shows from 1926 to 1942, to retrospectives and tributes to these artists presented by the Biennale until 1995. On display are documentary materials such as letters, prefaces to catalogues, posters, film and audio clips assembled by ASAC – the Biennale Historical Archives of Contemporary Art. The show is mounted at the renovated halls of the Venice Biennale main office building and was curated by Paolo Fabbri, professor of Semiotics at the University of Venice (IUAV). Catalogue, Marsilio.

Open Monday to Friday, 9am-8pm, Saturday, 9am-1pm. Admission, free.

Info, tel. 041.521.88.28 - www.labiennale.org

DOGE’S PALACE (Upper Loggia)

Piazzetta San Marco

Boat lines 1-2 to Vallaresso

Riccardo Licata – Mosaics and Glass Art. Until 20 Sept.

A special tribute to the almost 80-year-old professor at the Ecole des Beaux Art of Paris, a Venetian resident by choice, offering a group of works in glass and mosaics, materials with which the artist has created many works of high formal quality.

Curators, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Giovanni Granzotto.

Catalog published by Verso l’Arte Edizioni.

Open 9am – 7pm; last admission, 6pm.

Admission (to all St. Mark’s Square Museums): € 13; discounted, € 7.50.

Info, tel. 041.271.59.11 - www.museiciviciveneziani.it

QUERINI STAMPALIA FOUNDATION

S. M. Formosa, Castello 5252

Boat lines 1-2 to Rialto

Mona Hatoum - Interior Landscape.

To 20 September.

More than twenty-five works, most of them new and the others never shown in Europe, trace the “interior landscape” of the Palestinian-British artist who tackles such subjects as emigration, uncertainty and conflict.

Show made possible thanks to the Furla Foundation of Bologna, the Veneto Region, and the Venice Foundation.

53RD BIENNALE INT’L. ART EXHIBITION

Croatia Pavilion.

Pictorial Elaboration of Sensitivity and Reality.

Until 22 November 2009.

On display are 28 canvases and three objects by Nikola Koydl, Zoltan Novak and Matko Vekiæ – all artists whose careers are focused on pictorial matter.

The exhibition, curated by Biserka Rauter Planèiæ, is organized by the Modern Art Gallery of Zagreb.

Exhibition open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-8pm; Sunday, 10am-7pm. Closed Monday. Evening recitals on Friday and Saturday (see Music and Opera listings).

Admission, museum: € 8; discounted, € 6.

Info, tel. 041.271.14.11. Web site: www.querinistampalia.it

CA’ d’ORO - FRANCHETTI GALLERY

Ca’ d’Oro, Cannaregio,

Boat line 1 to Ca’ d’Oro

FABRIZIO PLESSI – BILL VIOLA.

Spirit of Water – Contemporary Art.

Until 22 November 2009.

Contemporary art exhibition mounted at the prestigious Venetian palazzo, now a museum, offering new works by Fabrizio Plessi and video-installations by Bill Viola.

These exhibits are accompanied by other works of art and poems created by contemporary artists and poets on the same subject of water.

Museum open 8.15am-2pm;

Tuesday and Sunday 8.15am-7.15pm.

Admission (including museum), €12.00, discounted, € 8.

Info, tel. 041.520.03.45 – www.cadoro.org

SCHOLA d’ARTE dei BATTIORO e TIRAORO

Campo San Stae

Boat line 1 to San Stae

Dimitris Maninis and His Students.

Post-Formation I.

Open until 31 October.

On view at the 18th-century gallery is a collection of oil on canvas paintings created in the last ten years by the Greek artist (painter-ceramist) and art critic.

The works have been produced in collaboration with the students at the American College in Athens where Maninis has been teaching since 2000.

Curated by C. Coen. Catalogue available.

Open 10.30am-6pm; closed Monday. Admission, free.

Studio Antonio Dal Ponte, tel. 041.523.93.15.

PALAZZO DONÀ

Campo San Polo 2177

Boat lines 1-2 to San Tomà

Signum Foundation. Wake Up and Dream.

Until 28 November.

Exhibition presented by the new Polish foundation, at a place dedicated to meetings and dialogues, a compelling panorama of Polish and international artists from 1910 to 2009.

Open Wednesday and Saturday, 4 to 7pm.

Tel. 041.528.97.97 – www.signum.art.com

PALAZZO ALBRIZZI GERMAN-ITALIAN CULTURAL ASS.

Cannaregio 4118

Boat line 1 to Ca’ d’Oro

Dreaming Europe – Real Europe.

Opening, Saturday 26 September, 5.30pm.

A satellite event of the 53rd Venice Biennale Exhibition offers works from Christa Prets’s Ziel 1 = Kunst = Ziel 1 project by Anne-Katrin Altwein (Germany), Agata Biskup (Poland), Konstantinas Bogdanas (Lithuania), Ildikó Botka (Hungary), Marie Collard (Belgium), Carmen García Bartolomé (Greece), Sonia Guisado (Spain), Eva Brunner-Szabo, Johannes Domenig, Johannes Haider, Renate Hinterkörner and Wolfgang Horwath (Austria).

Open 10am-1pm and 4-6pm. Closed Sunday. Admission, free.

Info: ACIT, tel. 041.523.25.44 - www.acitve.com

AROUND TOWN

Public boat lines

53RD BIENNALE SATELLITE ART EVENT.

Détournement Venise 2009.

A Walk Through Memory:

Contemporary art itinerary in the city of Venice.

Until 22 November 2009.

Conceived by Elisabeth Sarah Gluckstein and Gabriele Perretta, the project presents a spectacular art itinerary around the city through some thirty historical sites, some of them hardly known to the general public. The tour, defined as a “psycho-geographic” journey through space and time, offers works by nearly 100 artists from around the world.

Catalogue published by Electa.

Itinerary stops: Molino Stucky Art Factory, State Archives, Abbey of Misericordia, Revenue Agency (former Convent of Santo Stefano), San Giovanni e Paolo Hospital and Nursing Home, San Lorenzo Nursing Home, Palazzo Albrizzi, Ca’ Zanardi, Cornoldi Barracks, Scomenzera Industrial Zone (Santa Marta), Villa Hériot on Giudecca, Former Library Archive of the Veneto Institute of Science Letters and Art, ScalaMata Exhibition Space, Junghans Theater, U. of Venice at San Sebastiano.

Itinerary in churches: Church of the Carmines, San Pietro in Castello, S. Francesco della Vigna, S. Giobbe, San Niccolò dei Mendicoli, S. Lio, Church of S. Eufemia, Church of the Redentore, Church of S. Raffaele Arcangelo.

Visiting hours vary. Admission, usually free except in churches of the Chorus Association.

Info, 041.275.07.34 - 041.520.89.97 - 041.520.55.77.

Web site: www.detournement-venise.org

CHURCH OF SAN SAMUELE

Campo San Samuele

Boat line 2 to S. Samuele

MARIALUISA TADEI.

Into the Light – Paradise Papillon.

Until 22 Nov.ember.

With her works currently on view also at the San Marino Pavilion, the artist offers here, in a fascinating exhibition space, a number of her recent monumental-sized works. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-6pm.

Admission, free.

Web site: www.marialuisatadei.com

SAN LUDOVICO ORATORY

Dorsoduro 2552

Boat lines 2-61 to S. Basilio

Translating Lost.

Line Bruntse, Luigi Guerrieri, MaraM, Luca Valenti.

Until 27 September.

Emptiness, loss and absence are the subjects of this exhibition by four artist who offer a new way of thinking.

Organized by Nuova Icona and the Milan City Council.

Open Friday to Sunday,
3-7pm.

Admission, free.

Web site: www.nuovaicona.org

CHURCH OF SAN BARTOLOMEO

Campo di San Bartolomeo, Rialto

Boat lines 1-2 to Rialto

TREASURE OF SAN SALVADOR.

Goldsmithery Art in Venice: Between Faith and Devotion. Open until 31 December.

A group of goldsmithery works of art from the Venetian Church of San Salvador offers an opportunity to trace the main phases in the evolution of Venetian art, as well as to discover, through the reconstruction of an 18th-century goldsmith’s workshop, certain little-known aspects of daily life of artisans who practiced this art.

This treasure includes 22 restored pieces of various types, techniques, materials and styles, from 1300 to 1800.

Catalogue edited by Silvia Pichi.

Open Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 6pm;

Saturday, 10am to 2pm; Sunday, 2pm to 6pm.

Closed Monday. Admission, € 2.50; discounted, € 1.00.

Info, tel. 338.602.57.27 – www.iltesorodisansalvador.it

SCUOLA DEI MERCANTI

Cannaregio 3511 – Campo della Madonna dell’Orto

Boat lines 51-52 to Orto

Sandro Chia: Peace Warriors.

Until 9 November.

Twenty-five sculptures, original copies of the famous Xian Warriors, the terracotta army unearthed in China in 1974. The Florentine artist has created his own version of the guardians of Emperor Qin Shihuang, collaborating with photographer Riccardo Bagnoli.

Open 11am-7pm; closed Tuesday.

Admission, free.

Info, tel. 041. 523.93.15. E-Mail: studiodalponte@libero.it

IKONA GALLERY

Campo Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2909

Boat lines 1-2 to San Marcuola / Ferrovia

Crossing Boundaries.

Solo Performances. Until 18 October.

Video art by Reinhild Hoffmann and Metamorphosis of Death watercolors by Simone Kornfeld.

Two solo shows curated by Andrea Bärnreuther and organized by Ziva Kraus.

Open 11am-7pm. Closed Saturday. Free.

Info, tel. 041.528.93.87; e-mail: mail@ikonavenezia.com

ARSENALE NOVISSIMO

Castello 2737

Boat line 1 to Arsenale

53RD BIENNALE SATELLITE ART EVENT.

Jan Fabre: From the Feet to the Brain.

Until 20 September.

Five monumental-sized tableaux reproduce in this work of total art a world that is between dream and reality and combines horror, beauty and metamorphosis.

Open 11am-6pm. Closed Tuesday.

Tel. 041.240.61.11 – www.thetis.it

GIARDINI DELLA SALUTE

Dorsoduro 49

Boat line 1 to Salute

POTENZA’S ARK by Gianmaria Potenza.

Until 30 September 2009.

Bulls and rhinos, dogs and horses: some 20 new bronze sculptures form the fascinating ark of the versatile Venetian artist famous for his distinct glass and bronze creations. Curated by Giancarlo Zaramella.

Open 11am to 8pm. Closed Tuesday.

Admission, free.

Info, tel. 041.52.87.266. Web: www.potenzagianmaria.com

PALAZZO CORRER NEW GALLERY

ROMANIAN INST. OF HUMANISTIC CULTURE AND STUDIES

Campo Santa Fosca

Boat lines 1-2 to S. Marcuola

Glass Spheres by Mircea Nicolae. Until 22 November.

Solo show of the winner of the Institute residency scholarship. Open daily 10am-12.30pm and 2.30-7pm.

Info, tel. 041.52.42.309 - istiorga@tin.it

CAFFE’ FLORIAN

Procuratie Nuove, St. Mark’s Square

Boat lines 1-2 to Vallaresso /S. Zaccaria

Omar Ronda at the Florian.

Breakfast with Marilyn. Until 30 September.

An installation by the founding artist of the Cracking Art movement reinterpreting the figure of the famous American beauty and 20th-century cultural icon.

Her look is immortalized in this case by the use of frozen images made of plastic materials like ice set on table tops in the Liberty Room of the historical Venetian café.

Open 10am-midnight.

Free.

Tel. 041.520.56.41 – www.caffeflorian.com

BISTROT de VENISE

Calle dei fabbri, S. Marco 4685

Boat lines 1-2 to Rialto

MEETINGS AT THE BISTROT: Art & Wine – Food & Culture

Nicola Verardo.

Open Saturday 26 September (opening, 6pm) through 7 Oct.

One-man’s show of the eclectic Venetian artist-photographer (born Mestre, 1967), an expert in such particular genres as underwater photography, macro- and glamour studio photography. Curated by Andrea Zaccarelli.

Open until 1am. Admission, free.

Info, tel. 041.523.66.51 www.bistrotdevenise.com

CHURCH OF SAN GALLO

Campo San Gallo, San Marco 1103

Boat lines 1-2 to Vallaresso

Omar Ronda and Luca Missoni.

Stars and Moons. Until 25 November.

Two-men’s show in the beautiful exhibition space within a deconsecrated church, offering star portraits by Omar Ronda and photographs of celestial bodies by Luca Missoni.

Open Friday to Monday, 10.30am – 4.30pm. Free.

WORKSHOPS OF THE MISERICORDIA

Cannaregio 3553

Boat line 1 to Ca’ d’Oro

Enlightenments by Luigi Voltolina. Until 22 October.

Collection of works from various periods offering a comprehensive and detailed overview of the artist’s production. Mr. Voltolina is one of the leading contemporary painters. Curated by Toni Toniato.

Open 10am-6pm. Admission, free.

Info, tel. 041.521.05.77

PALAZZO BOLLANI

Castello 3647

Boat line 1 to Arsenale

DANGER! MUSEUM. Until 22 November.

Installation by Russian artists Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, exploring the heritage of Soviet art and Social Realism and offering a thorough re-examination of the values of past Russian painting.

Curated by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, New Rules Foundation, Dubossarsky & Vinogradov Foundation.

Open daily 10am-6pm.

Closed Monday.

Admission, free.

Web site: www.palazzobollani.it