Giudecca 795
- While the personal exhibit dedicated to the CHOLLA the painting horse continues until 15 June 2009 in the gallery's second hall, Giudecca 795 Art Gallery is honoured to announce the collateral event of the 53th International Exhibit of Visual Art - Biennale by the Chinese artist LIU ZHONG “ELOGIO DELLA NATURA / PRAISE OF NATURE", 4 June - 15 September 2009. Opening: 4 June 2009 at 10.00 am Giudecca 795 Art Gallery. See the press release
- Cholla from 24 April to 15 June 2009 - Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3pm-8pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-8pm. Closed on Monday. More info and > a video
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- "JAMES KING", from 28 February to 15 March 2009
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm, Saturday and Sunday 11.30 am - 8 pm. Closed on Monday. Vernissage on 28 February 2009 at 6 pm. With hot chocolate!United States artist and 2008 winner of a Special Prize from the 3rd Annual International Art Prize Arte Laguna, James King will be having an exhibition of 15 of his richly layered, mixed media paintings from February 28 to March 15, 2009 (opening 6 pm on February 28). Various metaphors that may seem like mixtures of children's stories, fairytales, or dark, half-remembered dreams are the types of imagery that King addresses in this recent work. Son of an evangelical Christian minister. Took a degree in Biology/Pre-Medicine and eventually Masters of Fine Art in Painting. Has studied painting at the Museum of Fine arts in Houston and at the University of New Orleans. Has worked in chemical plants as a laboratory technician on the night shift and has taught University courses in Color Theory and painting. Primary concerns are to communicate a kind of self-consciousness and ambiguity that still remains potent enough to be translated into multiple levels of interpretation, both intellectual and visceral, both mundane and metaphysical. He states "Painting Fairytales is a metaphor for the Fairytale of painting. My goal is to create something luminous and truthful and complete in itself. Something shining that temporarily supersedes this incomplete life, the non-fairytale one, that I will have to eventually let go of when my story is over."
- “OOPS!... BENNY KATZ”, from 13 to 24 February 2009
Will Art – and.. hot cocoa – “save us”?
A bit of light-hearted irony blended with interesting technique are the characteristics of the emerging artist Benny Katz, who interprets details of everyday life.
Exhibiting for the first time in Italy (and timing his solo show to coincide with Carnival), Katz is the winner of a special prize at the Third Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna for his paintings, and his exhibition includes canvases and sculptures, as well as some unusual Carnival masks.
The vernissage is scheduled on 13 February at 6 pm, saluting Carnival with cups of hot chocolate.
Born in Sao-Paulo, Brazil (1973), Katz uses simple, light, accessible materials and merges two-dimensional painting with three-dimensional objects in an attempt to penetrate the viewer's space. It is an approach that intertwines reality with biographical experience. His quest overshadows social and political issues and juxtaposes innocence, simplicity, and lost childhood against a cynical, post-modern industrialised world. His works involve surrealism and dark humour, taking familiar themes and giving them dark, kinky overtones. The solo show is organized in cooperation with the Associazione Culturale Il Leone di Plastica.
"Oops!” - by Benny Katz, from 13 to 24 February 2009
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm, Saturday and Sunday 11.30 am - 8 pm.
Vernissage on 13 February at 6 pm with hot chocolate: free admission; please confirm by email or phone
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- Memorie e Microcosmi, 29 Novembre - 13 Dicembre 2008
Collective by Igor Imhoff - Silviya Radeva - Federica Menin; curators: Emanuela Vozza and Matteo Efrem Rossi.
Vernissage: Saturday 29 November from 6 PM.
Exhibit: 29 November - 13 December 2008; opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 3:30 PM-8 PM. Closed on Monday. Other opening hours by appointment. Free admission. "Memories and Microcosms" originates from the screening of the new works of about 175 emerging artists participating to "Accade 2008: Mutazione contemporanea". The two young curators found it easy to identify a common path in a jungle of signs. An intimate, lyrical thread links the works of these 3 artists in the process of "sculpturing" their own identity. The challenge is between adapting to a technological contemporary era leading to fastness, saturation of the senses, and a historical archetypical past of expanded time and mostly bidimensional images. Silviya Radeva, Federica Menin and Igor Imhoff, using personal languages, refine this research using painting, photos, and video. Intimate geographies, microcosms scattered with traces of life, of memories, in slow and silent mutation. - Bianco Nero e Azzurro Cielo (Morandini & Morandini) is extended until 16 November 2008 with the same opening hours.
- 12 September - 12 October 2008 “Black, White, and Sky Blue” - Marcello Morandini & Teresa Barisi Morandini. Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 11 am - 8.30 pm. And also by appointment. Closed on Monday. Free admission. Vernissage: Friday 12 September from 6.30 pm.
"Bianco, Nero e Azzurro Cielo" (Black, White, and Sky Blue) is the new exhibit opening at Giudecca795 Art Gallery on 12 September; on occasion of the Biennale of Architecture.
For the first time, this exhibit puts together the artworks of a very special couple: the Italian architect Marcello Morandini, who has become a reference point for designers around the world, and his wife Teresa Barisi, a talented hyperrealistic painter.
One of the most renowned artists in constructivist art, since his early debut at the Venice Biennale in 1968, Morandini has devoted his work to elementary geometric shapes in form of mostly black & white sculptures and objects in plexiglass, porcelain, wood. Sculptures shapes are often developed on the basis of individually constituted mathematical systems. The reduction of color to black and white thereby creates a focus on the shapes and their aesthetic value. The exhibition at the Giudecca 795 Art Gallery presents recent works which are "married" to the paintings by his wife Teresa. Though the two styles look incompatible at first sight, they are not. As in a successful marriage, the two different personalities yet share some elements and look complementary. Teresa Barisi Morandini's work acts as an astonishingly real scenery for the architect's optical sculptures, shown as if they were in their final environment: in fact, Morandini's artworks are often designed to become outdoors sculptures, adding some "order" to reality.
Architect Morandini will be one of the protagonists of the cultural scene of the next months in Venice, with 2 exhibits: besides the mentioned exhibit together with his wife Teresa in his reference gallery, Marcello Morandini is having an important retrospective in Ca' Pesaro (the Museum of Modern Art in Venice). - from 5 July 2008 TRAVELLING COLORS. Contemporary art masters and emerging talents: works by R Roberto Crippa, Ugo Nespolo, Renato Guttuso, Enrico Treccani, Gianni Dova, Emilio Tadini, Giuseppe Migneco, Matta, Antonio Possenti, Franz Borghese, Trento Longaretti, Guaitamacchi, Lalla Malvezzi, Luciano Pasquini, Berico, Susan Nickerson, Gerold Meister, Andrea Vaccaro, Vito Campanelli, Angelo De Boni, Basfi, Naomi Park, Aleksander Veliscek. From Tuesday to Friday 3-8 pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am - 8.30pm. Closed on Monday, and from 15 to 21 August included. Free admission. Info tel (+39) 340 8798327
- 14 - 29 June 2008 “Bianco - White”: Angelo De Boni. With his “subtractive minimalism”, the painter Angelo De Boni (1955) is showing at Giudecca 795 Art Gallery his latest work, polymateric essential paintings, at the same time capturing the essence of emotions and opening a door to an enrichment of spirituality. "Bianco - White" will have a “finissage” on Sunday 29 June from 11.30 AM
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 11 am - 8 pm. Closed on Monday. Free adm. Fondamenta S. Biagio 795, Giudecca. Actv waterbus 41-42-2, Palanca. - Info (+39) 3408798327. - 10 May - 1 June 2008 “Mosaics and Reflections”: Susan Adams Nickerson. Vernissage: 10th May from 6.30 pm. Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 12 am / 3.30 pm - 8 pm. Closed on Monday. Free adm. Fondamenta S. Biagio 795, Giudecca. Actv waterbus 41-42-2, Palanca. - Info (+39) 3408798327.
See also the photo gallery of the exhbit - 17 April - 4 May 2008 “Sous le Rouge”: Vito Campanelli. Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3pm-8pm; Saturday & Sunday 11.30am-8pm. Closed on Monday. Free adm. Fondamenta S. Biagio 795, Giudecca. Actv waterbus 41-42-2, Palanca. - Info (+39) 3408798327.
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See also the photo gallery of the exhbit - 22 March-13 April 2008 “Incanti”: Luciano Pasquini. Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3pm-8pm; Saturday & Sunday 11.30am-8pm. Sunday 23 March, Easter, 10am-6pm. Closed on Monday, except 24 March (11.30am-8pm). Free adm. Fondamenta S. Biagio 795, Giudecca. Actv waterbus 41-42-2, Palanca. - Info (+39) 3408798327.
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See also the photo gallery of the exhbit - 8-19 March 2008. "Sails in Love": Berico, Paola Delfino, Marta Boccone, Graziella Mario, Lorena Robino. Some painters paint on canvases, others paint on... sails. A tribute to the Sea.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm-8pm; Sat & Sunday 11 am -8 pm. Closed on Monday. Free adm. Fondamenta S. Biagio 795, Giudecca. Actv waterbus 41-42-2, Palanca. - Info (+39) 3408798327
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See also the photo gallery of the exhbit. - 15 February 2008 announcement "Vele innamorate - Sails in Love", art exhibit by: Berico, Paola Delfino, Marta Boccone, Lorena Robino, Graziella Mario - from 8 to 19 March 2008, Giudecca795 Art Gallery in the 16th century Palazzo Foscari. Passion and emotions, a tribute to the Sea. Open: Tue to Fri 3.30 pm - 8 pm. Sat & Sun 11 am - 8 pm. Closed on Monday. Free adm. Our site will soon publish details and press releases in Italian and English. Tel (+39) 3408798327.
- 26 January 2008 Carnival - Tomorrow Sunday 27 the Carnival of Venice will be officially open; the celebrations had been delayed because of a mortal accident at the harbour.
- 10 January 2008 "Cows on Gondola" & "Plastic Sneers" on exhibit from 19 January -
Cows on gondolas and canals in flower: this is the magical and funny Venice portrayed by Nicolò Paoli, a twenty-seven-year-old painter and photographer, son of the famous singer Gino Paoli. "Paoli's Herd" (20 acrylics on canvas) is going ashore on Giudecca on 19 January and will be adorning the walls of the Giudecca 795 gallery in Fondamenta S. Biagio (near the Hotel Hilton Stucky). The exhibition will last until 24 February.
In addition, the gallery will be welcoming a special guest: the Plastic Sneers. They are masks created by Maurizio Baccanti using rubbish found on Venetian beaches and the Adriatic coast. After cleaning up his collected trash, he transforms it into something intriguing, unique.
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(the online version of the daily newspaper La Repubblica) - 28 dicembre 2007 Restyled website - We apologies for any inconvenience let us know. Comments and suggestios will be welcome. Grazie e auguri di felice 2008!