Exhibitions
Ca' Pesaro
BERNARDÍ ROIG – SHADOWS MUST DANCE
From 5 June to 8 November 2009
Shadows Must Dance is an exhibition project conceived specifically for Ca’ Pesaro by Bernardi Roig, one of the most important exponents of the current Spanish art scene. Fifteen of his works – mainly sculptures, but also installations, drawings and videos – made in the last fifteen years are related to the museum’s spaces and masterpieces, creating an active dialogue between images of the past and the present that generates a weave of new meanings and a new emotional dynamic. The sense of the exhibition is making shadows dance again.
Palazzo Fortuny
IN-FINITUM
From 6 June to 15 November 2009
With In-finitum, the trilogy which started with Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art (Venice, 2007) and continued with Academia: Qui es-tu? (Paris, 2008) will come full circle. Once again set in the magnificent surroundings of the Palazzo Fortuny, In-finitum will guide the visitor from the soul of the unfinished to the border of the infinite, a spiritual journey along works of art abundant with energy. The trilogy as conceived by Axel Vervoordt establishes a perfect balance through the natural time-flow between its three chapters. Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art dealt with the beauty of passing time touching the world, with the mysteriousness of patina and the magical osmosis which exists where cosmos and matière interact. In Academia: Qui es-tu?, the transmission of knowledge and wisdom held center stage, a fixed focal point gently rocked however by the continuous perpetuum mobile of questions and answers. The finale, In-finitum, will traverse into the other realm as it reaches into the universe of the unfinished and the infinite.
Various locations
53rd International Art Exhibition
From 7 June to 22 November 2009
Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, presented in the renewed Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, is a single, large exhibition that articulates different themes woven into one whole. It is not divided into sections. Considering collectives, it comprises works by over 90 artists from all over the world and includes many new works and on-site commissions in all disciplines.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
WIM DEL VOYE. TORRE
From 3 June to 22 November 2009
From June 3 to November 22 2009 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s latest creation, Torre: a Cor-Ten steel tower, with ogival windows, tracery and turrets in the International Gothic style, on the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, overlooking the Grand Canal.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
MASTERPIECES OF FUTURISM AT THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
From 18 February to 31 December 2009
In the centenary year of the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s founding manifesto of Italian Futurism, this special installation in the permanent galleries of the museum focuses on the Futurist masterpieces of the Gianni Mattioli Collection, with additional paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and other private collections. This small but mighty presentation includes iconic paintings by each of the five artists who signed the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting in 1910, Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo and Severini, and by other artists related to the movement (Rosai, Sironi, Soffici). A preliminary section alludes to related contemporary avant-gardes (Divisionism, Cubism, Orphism, Vorticism).
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
PRENDERGAST IN ITALY
From 10 October 2009 to 3 January 2010
This exhibition will assemble for the first time the major works by American artist, Maurice Prendergast, during two trips to Italy (1898-99 and 1911-12): a body of work that is one of the most attractive and revealing in the story of American art. The exhibition brings together approximately seventy-five of his Italian watercolors, oils, and monotypes as well as photographs, films, guidebooks, and travel advertisements that situate the work within the new visual culture that Americans had embraced by 1900. The presentation of Prendergast’s works in Italy where they were created offers a new point of interest, and contributes to the comprehension of what characterized Modernism in the early 20th century and of the role Prendergast played in the development of Modern art in America. The exhibition is organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in partnership with The Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois.