Some comic characters just exist outside time, heroes that never age and that have a stable connection with the imaginative world surrounding them: Corto Maltese is one of them. He was created by the creativity of Hugo Pratt – master of comic drawing in Italy and abroad – at the peek of his (...)

Last year (from the 1st of June to the 25th of September) the “Casa dei Tre Oci”, located on the Giudecca Island, reopened to host the artworks of more than 20 Russian contemporary artists. The Modernikon exhibition offers its visitors the opportunity to explore the Venetian Casa, purchased – (...)

Getting to know Venice in person - following the teacher of one of the most ‘basic’ subjects studied during the first year of Venetian faculty of Architecture (Elements of architecture and relief of monuments) – walking along the calli and inside the houses, has been a fundamental experience in my (...)

For more than twenty years the Israeli architect and artist Uri De Beer has been engaged in the wide field of humanitarian matters : it goes without saying that the solutions lie in the hands of a minority that intends to apply the principles of solidarity on an operative level. De Beer’s (...)

Following the closure of its two recent exhibitions, Louise Bourgeois “The Fabric Drawings” – currently on show in London where it is attracting numerous visitors – and Emilio Vedova Scultore, which received considerable attention from the press and public acclaim, the Fondazione Emilio e (...)

An enormous archive composed of a vast collection of photographs and integrated by a rich library is the fruit of passion we are referring to. Zannier has gathered it over many years of work as a teacher and of research as a devotee of photography. Assuring its presence in the city, in 2007 (...)

In Venice, since the 1980’s, the conspicuous arrival of two archetypical figures of immigration in Italy has been registered: “vu cumprà” (men selling small paraphernalia on the streets in order to get by, usually coming from Sub-Saharan Africa) and “badanti” (Care attendants, people who take care of (...)

Designed by Mario Botta, one of today’s most acclaimed architects, the new congress centre included within the perimeter of the old Querini Stampalia Palace served as a pretext for a public reflection on Venice’s destiny on the occasion of its inauguration. Since the Sixties (“Il problema di (...)