Exhibitions
Museo Correr
FUTURISMO100
From 17 January to 4 October 2009
A hundred years on from the publication of the Futurist Manifesto the originality and innovative power of the first great Italian avant-garde movement, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, remains intact.
FUTURISMO1OO is an umbrella project within the ambit of the celebrations of the centenary of the Futurist Manifesto in 1909, organized under the patronage of the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities and presenting three major exhibitions over the course of the year:
ILLUMINATIONS
Avant-gardes Compared. Italy, Germany, Russia
ROVERETO, MART
From 17 January to 7 June 2009
ABSTRACTIONS
VENICE, MUSEO CORRER
From 5 June to 4 October 2009
SIMULTANEITY
MILAN, PALAZZO REALE
From 15 October 2009 to 25 January 2010
The project constitutes the most eagerly awaited of the Italian contributions to the centenary celebrations in that it presents a brand-new interpretation of Futurism, an avant-garde art movement whose relationships with the most audacious European experimentation of the early 20th century are still relatively unexplored.
Museo del Vetro
REDISCOVERING MUSEUM: Murano 1797-1859 from the Collections of the Murano Glass Museum
Until 1st May 2009.
“Rediscovering Museums” is a series of exhibitions which aims to exploit the full potential of core collections that are generally not on display to the public yet are of great importance and significance. The first show in the series opens on 6 December 2008 and covers the extraordinary yet little known collection of early-nineteenth-century glassware. The Murano Museum houses the world’s most important collection of Venetian glass from this period and – thanks to the Italian Committee of the Association Internationale pour L’Histoire du Verre, and financial assistance from the Regional Government of the Veneto – these works have now been fully catalogued.
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
THEME & VARIATIONS. FROM THE MARK TO ZERO
JASON MARTIN. VIGIL
_ From 21 March to 17 May 2009
Exploring the Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s holdings of post war painting and sculpture, and adding to this loans from other collectors, Luca Massimo Barbero explores variations on the theme of the mark: as code, grid, referent, citation, alphabet and expression, arriving eventually at the condition of zeroing: the monochrome, the blank and the void. The British artist Jason Martin, among the most interesting painters of the generation of the Young British Artists, interprets the theme in a small solo-exhibition: creating a zero point of painting in a vibrant space in which an infinity of pictorial possibilities co-exist.
Museo Correr
PALLADIO AND/IN VENICE
From 15 May to 27 September 2009.
Traces and courses of Palladio: documents, drawings, memoirs of the city’s collections.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: GLUTS
From 30 May to 20 September 2009.
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts will feature a selected group of approximately forty sculptures drawn from the holdings of institutions and private collections in the United States and abroad. After breaking boundaries with his celebrated Combines, in the late 1950s, his explorations of technology-based art that made viewers active participants in the 1960s, and his focus on natural-fiber materials of paper, cardboard, and fabric throughout the 1970s, Rauschenberg’s artistic attention in the 1980s 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. Thus he created the Gluts, sculptural works begun in 1986 and continued intermittently until 1995.
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.
Various locations
66th Venice Film Festival
From 2 to 12 September 2009.
The Director of the Cinema section, Marco Müller, continues the work he began in 2004, which has led to a Festival that is increasingly present on the international stage, responsive to emerging film industries and to new talents and at the same time can exploit a solid and constant relationship with the best film production of the world.