“I tried to follow Mariano Fortuny’s creative spirit, especially by looking at some of his ornaments, like the famous Silk lamps”. The installation “GELATINA LUX” created by Maria Grazia Rosin doesn’t display lamps but skillfully crafted glasses hanging from the ceiling. Their arrangement might (...)

Correct, committed, well displayed, enjoyable, but not extremely emotionally involving. This is in short the final judgment on the 52nd International Art Exhibition, now on show at “Giardini” in Castello and in Venice’s “Arsenale” until November the 21st. This Biennial was curated by Robert Storr, (...)

The title, Sargent and Venice, purposefully suggests the title of the previous fortunate exhibition “Turner and Venice”, that was held at the Museo Correr as well. The content is also similar, in fact it displays the drawings of a great artist portraying the historical center and the most (...)

To find back the joy of living after the tragedy of World War II: it is the return to an explosive creativity what marks the happy years of Pablo Picasso, going from1945 to 1948. “La joie de vivre” is the title of the most emblematic work of this period and also of the exhibition now open at (...)

At half of the sixteenth century, the Senate of the Serenissima Republic had planned to remove the by that time damaged fresco “Incoronation of the Virgin”, painted in the year 1367 for the Major Council hall, and to replace it with a new work of art (a canvas this time) by a famous contemporary (...)

To reconstruct the Venice series seemed impossible; they are eleven paintings of 150 cm x 150) by Lucio Fontana exhibited together just in two occasions, both dating back to the far 1961. The first time was between July and October in Venice, at Palazzo Grassi, during the exhibition “Art and (...)

Calle delle Beccarie 792 at San Giobbe: a building of 1800 has been restored properly, following the criteria usually applied to historical monuments, in order to make out four lodgings that will be assigned on the base of the municipal classifications, of which one of them will be reserved for (...)

About one hundred photographs by Mariano Fortuny (1871 – 1949) have been selected and printed following a philological method by Giorgio Molinari, who chose them from a body of more than 11.000 negatives, and they are now exhibited until the beginning of July in the Fortuny museum in Venice. The (...)