The presentation of the annual report on cultural production in Venice has become quite a significant event. Professionals use the information as a valuable tool, allowing them to evaluate their activity in relation to the city’s cultural landscape. The rest of the community relies on the report as well. The cultural industry in fact has a strong influence on the entrepreneurial and occupational aspects of public life, and on the possibility to experience the city, as well as its various spaces.

The report was drafted following a specific procedure as in the previous editions. It is meant to provide a detailed image of the cultural events organized in Venice and in its provinces, the questions asked are: who is producing and promoting cultural enterprises? What are the spaces designed to host them? The significant information emerging from the report is easily readable: 2.036 events, 1790 of which held in the actual city; 12.116 days events, 11.462 of which held in Venice; 150 producers and 250 sites.

Looking closer at the results, we are able to see that an important role in the life of the community is played by more occasional and independent cultural events. These affairs are organized besides the permanent structure of museums or other cultural institutions. The capability of independent promoters to work through a collaborative system is also a new and relevant reality.

Both in Italy and abroad Urban city development programs have proved to be unique opportunities for underdeveloped areas to be improved. Urban Italia in Venice is eloquently called “let’s break the walls”; the program’s main goal was to improve the social environment of the impact area as well as its infrastructures. In order to achieve this objective various actions were implemented: development of entrepreneurship and employment, social inclusion, integrated transportation improvement, (...)

Enormous silhouettes: stretched and curled female nudes, so violent and real. Bodies as faces, the color of flesh and its the decay. Luigi Tito (1907-1991) is a painter of the human body; he takes its graphic expression to the limits. His gestures are instinctive, unmediated, close to reality. Roberto Tassi says of him: “ he paints in silence; he doesn’t exhibit his work, he doesn’t take part in Biennales, he doesn’t care for the latest trends, he doesn’t work on his catalogues; he just works (...)

“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 remind us of the ocean depths or the infinite space. From within the structure various colorful lights project their shadows on the bare brick walls of the exhibition room. The effect is extremely (...)