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Forte dei Marmi: Coccinelle/Barbara Hulanicki

Forte dei Marmi – Coccinelle/Barbara Hulanicki – Orsa Maggiore. Tucked away in Tuscany's northwest corner, Forte Dei Marmi is an idyllic retreat for Italy's high society. The Orsa Maggiore restaurant was the venue for the presentation of the new Spring/Summer 2010 Coccinelle/Barbara Hulanicki Collection to members of the international press. The famous restaurant and beach club is the most

TheBiennale: 53rd Golden Lions Awards at the 53rd International Art Exhibiton- Making Worlds

Venice Biennale: Giardini – The 53rd Golden Lion Awards. “The Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement are honoring two artists whose ground-breaking activities have opened new poetic, conceptual and social possibilities for artists around the globe working in all media,” commented Director, Daniel Birnbaum also stressing that the two artists “Yoko Ono and John Baldessari have shaped our

Palazzo Querini Stampalia - Mona Hatoum

Palazzo Querini Stampalia - Mona Hatoum. The Mona Hatoum exhibition at the Palazzo Querini Stampalia entitled Interior Landscapes is open until. September 20th and should not be missed. Hatoumi’s Interior Landscapes was conceived as part of an ongoing series of projects titled, Preserving the Future, that focus on the relationship between historic and contemporary art, between the past that

Venice Biennale: Giardini

Venice Biennale: Giardini. The 53rd International Art Exhibition, titled Making Worlds, directed by Daniel Birnbaum and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, it is open to the public until November 22nd, 2009 in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, as well as, in various other locations around Venice. “The title of the exhibition, Making Worlds,” says Director Daniel

Venice Biennale: No Art Here

Seen around the walls of Venice. Another No Art Here poster...

Ristorante Paradiso: Depart Foundation

Seen at Depart Foundation presents at the Ristorante Paradiso the exhibition, New York Minute: 60 Artists on the New York Scene. Pierpaolo Bazan founder of the Depart Foundation talks with Sharon Johnston and his wife Valeria. The New York Minute: 60 Artists on the New York Scene exhibition scheduled for September 16th in Rome at the MACRO Musuem, is sponsored by the Depart Foundation and will

Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation

Photograph by Manfredi BellatiMagazzini del sale - Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation. The new Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation opened its doors in the Magazini del Sale at the Zattere. Renzo Piano designed the exhibition space and the chief curator was Germano Celant. The space is equipped with the latest technology for conserving and showing works of art. The main aim of the

Venice Biennale: Bill Viola and Fabrizio Plessi

Photograph by Manfredi BellatiCa D’Oro – L’anima dell’Acqua - Contemporary Art. L’anima dell’Acqua - Contemporary Art is the exhibition at Ca d’Oro, curated by the Fondazione DNArt with with works by Fabrizio Plessi and suggestive video-installations by Bill Viola. Viola. Water is an essential element to life, a metaphor of our existence. During the centuries, philosophy, art and religion has

Venice Biennale: The Union of Comoros

Basin of San Marco: The Union of Comoros. The Union of Comoros presents Djahazi a project by Paolo W. Tamburella, outside the Giardini, in the Basin of san Marco. Within his ongoing interest and research on modernity and postcolonial conditions Paolo W. Tamburella’s project addresses, indirectly and poetically, how the forced integration of national markets into the world system has led to the

Venice Biennale: John Wesley

Photograph by Manfedi Bellati Fondazione Giorgio Cini – John Wesley. The Fondazione Prada presented a retrospective of the American artist, John Wesley in the spaces of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the Island of San Giorgio. Curated by Germano Celant, the show features the broadest, most exhaustive survey ever put together of the works of Wesley, considered one of the most interesting and

Venice Biennale: No Art Here

Seen around Venice. Another, No Art Here poster.

Seen around Venice

Seen around Venice. Event’s manager of the Bundeskunsthalle Museum, Eva Mueller and author, Giannino Malossi in Corso XXII Marzo.Seen around Venice. Singer/songwriter, Sofia Taliani in Campo Santo Stefano.Seen around Venice. Enterpreneur, Marina Deserti in the lobby of the Hotel Bauer.

Venice Biennale: Palazzo Papadopoli -Ukrainian Pavilion

photograph by Manfredi BellatiPalazzo Papadopoli: Ukrainian Pavilion. The PinchukArtCentre and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine presented the Steppes of Dreamers art-project in Palazzo Papadopoli. The exhibition was Commissioned by Peter Doroshenko of the PinchukArtCentre, curated by Wladimir Klitschko and created by Illya Chichkan (Ukraine) and Mihara Yasuhiro (Japan). Life is

Venice Biennale: Palazzo Franchetti - Glasstress

Palazzo Franchetti – Glasstress. The exhibition Glasstress celebrates the use of glass in contemporary art and is being held at Palazzo Franchetti until November 22nd. The exhibition is presented by Venice Projects, an organization dedicated to presenting the work of internationally recognized artists who work with glass. Organized by Murano-based art impresario, Adriano Berengo in collaboration

Venice Biennale - seen on the vaporetto

The Vaporetto. The vaporetto or waterbus advertises the new exhibition space, Arsenale Nuovissimo.Seen on the vaporetto. Art dealer ,Orio Vergani and artist, Pasquale Di Donato.Seen on the vaporetto: detail. A detail of Pasquale Di Donato's accessories for a hot day at the Venice Biennale.Seen on the vaporetto. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's P.R. Alexia Boro and director, Philip

Venice Biennale - Arsenale Nuovissimo

photograph by Manfredi BellatiArsenale Nuovissimo - Spazio Thesis 107 and 108 – Jan Fabre. Jan Fabre’s new work series From the Feet to the Brain, until September 20th, represent an important step in his work development. With five room-filling sculptural tableaus, Fabre created a mythical world of horror, beauty, and metamorphosis that was hardly conceivable in conventional artistic terms and

Venice Biennale: Arsenale - Italian Pavilion

Italian Pavilion – The curators: Luca Beatrice and Beatrice Buscaroli. In the new Italian Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale, the “Collaudi” exhibition is being held, homage to F.T. Marinetti, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli and Luca Beatrice. Various factors underlie the choices made by the curators starting with the reasoning upon which the selection itself was based: “Not a

Venice Biennale: Arsenale

Venice Biennale: Arsenale – Lygia Pape. Tteia I, C, 2002, installation, gold thread in square forms. Having worked in painting, printmaking, sculpture, dance, film, design, performance and installation, Lygia Pape, born 1927, was one of the most innovative artists of her times. Tteia I, C represents her late and very ambitious research into three-dimensionality. Based on experiments she begun

Venice Biennale: No Art Here

Seen on the walls of Venice. There is No Art Here and related provocative posters to No Art where glued to the walls of Venice… does anybody know who the artist is?

Caffe Florian: Omar Ronda and Luca Missoni Party

Caffe Florian: The Moon and Stars dinner. And the orchestra played on all the way through dinner at the Caffe Florian in Saint Mark's Square. An area was cordoned off for the Moon and Stars (until November 25th) dinner hosted by Omar Ronda and Luca Missoni after their exhibition in the little church of San Gallo.Seen at the Luca Missoni and Omar Ronda cocktail at the Caffe Florian. Artist and

Palazzo Fortuny: In-Finitum

Photograph by Manfredi BellatiPalazzo Fortuny: In-Finitum. The exhibition In-Finitum at Palazzo Fortuny (until November 11th) is curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti and drawn from the collections of the Vervoordt Foundation, the Musei Civici Veneziani, and various other public and private collections from all over the world, the exhibition is the third installment of a trilogy that

Venice Biennale: Marie Brandolini d'Adda's Cocktail party

Marie Brandolini d’Adda’s cocktail party. These beautiful stripped hand-blown glasses, designed by, Marie Brandolini d’Adda for Lagunab are made in Murano. They sit on the wall of the terrace of Palazzo Brandolini over-looking the Grand Canal. The style is called Berlingot because “Berlingot are the stripy sweets typical of Provence: a reminder of when I was a little girl with a very sweet

Biennale week: Seen in Venice

Seen in Venice. While we were walking to Marie Branolini d’Adda’s cocktail party we bumped into Jasper Morrison. Jasper is one of the most influential industrial designers in Britain.

Venice: Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi: Mapping the Studio

Punta della Dogana: Mapping the Studio. With its triangular shape, Punta della Dogana or the maritime custom warehouses splits the Grand Canal from the Giudecca Canal. As the new center for contemporary art, the former monumental port of the city presents a permanent exhibition, of works from the François Pinault Collection. From 6 June 2009, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana present the