Following the success of the exhibition dedicated to three of Giorgione’s most famous works, Palazzo Grimani in Venice is now featuring three works by Hieronymous Bosch.

Bosch was born c. 1450 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in Northern Brabant and, as far as we know, spent most part of his life in this isolated provincial town. His bizarre and fantastic paintings have puzzled and intrigued their viewers for centuries but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, rather like the “grotteschi” of Italian Renaissance ornament.

His work has always been hugely popular as well as controversial. His landscapes depicting humans, animals, and fabulous creatures in various states of ecstasy and misery were greatly imitated by his contemporaries and laid the foundations for the Surrealist movement of the 20th century.

These three works were part of the collection of cardinal Domenico Grimani and at the Cardinal death they were donated to the Serenissima and entered the Doge’s Palace collections.

In Bosch’s “Hermit Saints Triptych” (1510), Saints Anthony, Jerome and Giles appear there not as objects of devotion but as subjects in devotion. Neither cultic presences nor actors within significant events, they offer, through their inward attitude a model of subjective piety.

In “Visions of the Afterlife” (1500-1503), Bosch replaces the medieval Paradise and Hell, which were objective images of celestial and infernal hierarchies, with subjective visions that resemble the conceptions of the great mystics and exist only in the inner world of the soul. In their ascent into the heavenly paradise the souls are leaving the dark space of the universe and passing along a circular shaft which is already flooded with everlasting light. Intoxicated with joy, they are freeing themselves more and more from the laws of gravity and obeying the attraction of the realm of light.

The “Triptych of Saint Liberata” (1505) offers serious doubts about the iconographic interpretation. It may represent the Liberata, Virgo Fortis, condemned to the cross by her own father, the king of Portugal.

INFORMATION

Palazzo Grimani, Santa Maria Formosa, Venice
From 19th December 2010  to 20th March 2011

Opening times: daily 9am-7pm

Admission: Euro 9,00
Reduced: Euro 7,00

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This exhibition held in Palazzo Zabarella in Padua, just a short train ride (30 min. only) from Venice, is the first to be dedicated to the extraordinary vicissitudes of the portrait, a painting genre that was traditionally considered to be minor but which, during the Nineteenth Century, was able to interpret the multiple aspects of that century with greater intensity than the more important genres such as historical and religious painting. It thus became the mirror of a history and humanity undergoing profound changes.
Canova and Modigliani, two internationally renowned protagonists but with absolutely different personalities, open and close this passionate tale in paintings in which both great names in history and the anonymous extras of a domestic epic appear. Painted and sculptured, of individuals and groups, with or without a setting, celebrative or introspective, these portraits all evoke the changes and restlessness of a society undergoing rapid transformation, interpreting the expectations of a country that was achieving political unity for the very first time. However, above all they also represent decisive changes in style, the artists’ efforts to become more modern, to testify reality in its incessant transformation from a new perspective.

From October 2nd, 2010 till February 27th, 2011
Palazzo Zabarella, via san Francesco, 27 - Padova
tel. 049 8753100
fax  049 8752959
info@palazzozabarella.it 

The Poetics of Written Space – Handwriting and calligraphy
Venice, Museo Correr
from october 2, 2010 to october 31, 2010

Museo Correr and the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani propose an educational itinerary through handwriting which is the synthesis of both traditional and contemporary visual communication.

The exhibition, presented by Monica Dengo, includes handwritten documents from the Museum Correr Library, in particular materials documenting the private and daily use of handwriting over the centuries, along with contemporary artworks of art that have in common the practice of writing by hand as image, bundle of written marks capable of communicating per se.

The show is organized in four parts:

- Historical: manuals, letters and private documents with handwritings from the 1500′s to the 1900′s from the Correr Museum;

- Contemporary: artworks on paper and artist’s books by contemporary artists working with Western, Islamic and Eastern calligraphy. Artists: Kitty Sabatier (France), Benno Aumann (Italy-Germany), Satsuki Hatsushima (England-Japan), Adriana Seri (Italy), Xin Ye (France-China). Hassan Massoudy (France-Iraq), Torsten Kolle (Germany), Mari Bohley (Germany), Cinzia Ruggieri (Italy), Birgit Nass (Germany), Ewan Clayton (England), Brody Neuenshwander (Belgium-USA), Carlo Buffa (Italy), Monica Dengo (Italy-USA), Akar Abdallah (France-Tunisia), Laurent Rebena (France), Michaela Keller (Switzerland), Norio Nagayama (Italy-Japan), Dominique Pinchi (France-Italy);

- Installation by Monica Dengo: I invite you to make the text your own.
Text to touch, smell, listen and feel.

- Workshop: The works of students participating in the calligraphy workshop, held by Monica Dengo, will be exhibited in the show.

THE WORKS ON DISPLAY

Historical section

Luca Pacioli, Divina proportione …, [Venezia, Paganino e Alessandro Paganini, 1509]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Sallustio Piobbici, L’arte compendiata del bene, et leggiadramente scrivere …, [Venezia, Francesco Bodio, 1664]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Giovanni Battista Palatino
Libro di m. Giovambattista Palatino cittadino romano, nel qual s’insegna a scriver ogni sorte lettera, antica, et moderna, …, [Roma, Antonio Blado, 1553]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Sigismondo Fanti
Theorica et pratica perspicacissimi Sigismundi De Fantis ferrariensis in artem mathematice professoris de modo scribendi fabricandique que omnes litterarum species, [Venezia, Giovanni Rosso, 1514]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Giovanni Battista Verini
Elementorum litterarum, [Toscolano, Alessandro Paganino, 1527]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excellente scrivere, …, [Venezia, Francesco Rampazetto, 1560]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Raccolta di Lettere, sec XVII ex.
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Violet Fenton Rava’
Quaderno, autografo dell’A., 1897
Venezia, Museo Correr, Archivio Ravà Fenton, Serie 4, Quaderni, taccuini e appunti di Violet Fenton

Violet Fenton Rava’
Ricettario, autografo dell’A., s.d.
Venice, Museo Correr, Archivio Ravà Fenton, Serie 4, Quaderni, taccuini e appunti di Violet Fenton,

Violet Fenton Rava’
Copialettere, autografo dell’A., 1940
Venice, Museo Correr, Archivio Ravà Fenton, Serie 4, Quaderni, taccuini e appunti di Violet Fenton, fasc. 2, n. 1

Gabriele D’Annunzio
La nave, autografo dell’A., 1908
mm 260×220
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Contemporary section

Birgit Nass
Words from books, 2010
mixed technique, acriyl colours, collage on canvas, gouache
cm 15×15; 20×20; 50×30

Birgit Nass
The past – The future – Here and Now, 2010
handwritten pages bound in a hardcover book in a wooden box
cm 40x9x10

Birgit Nass
Words from Stones, 2010
handwritten pages bound in a hardcover book and writing on a stone
cm 42,5x16x4

Satsuki Hatsushima
Letter from Gingaso (a life at the japanese traditional house in the village of the mountain), 2009
bookbinding, watercolour
cm 97×62

Torsten Kolle
Mnemosyne (Part I), Book 1, 2010
chinese ink, graphite, collage, copper, Hahnemüleh-paper
cm 40×27,7

Torsten Kolle
Mnemosyne (Part II), Book 2, 2010
chinese ink, graphite, collage, copper, Hahnemüleh-paper
cm 40×27,7

Torsten Kolle
Mnemosyne (Part III), 2010
gouache, Graphite, Hahnemüleh-Paper
cm 108×78

Brody Neuenschwander
Trying to tell you, 2008
collage of rice paper and old documents on canvas, with whitewash and chinese ink
4 canvases
cm 60×60

Brody Neuenschwander
Which emotions do I accept, 2008
collage of rice paper on Rives BFK paper with whitewash, gouache and chinese ink cm 105×75

Brody Neuenschwander
East/West Dictionary, 2008
collage of rice paper and old dictionary pages on Rives BFK
paper, with whitewash, gouache and Chinese ink
cm 105×75

Brody Neuenschwander
The Prophet raves, 2010
collage of rice paper on Rives BFK paper with whitewash, gouache and chinese ink
cm 105×75

Dominique Pinchi
Chrysos – Tomo, 2006
mixed technique: lava, cardboard
cm 31x25x5; cm 31x17x8

Dominique Pinchi
Paroles labyrinthe, 2006
mixed technique: lava, pigments, cardboard
cm 47×53

Dominique Pinchi
Poeme de paroles, 2006
mixed technique: lava, pigments, graphite, cardboard
cm 52,5×46

Dominique Pinchi
D’avant le temps, 2006
mixed technique: lava, pigments, cardbord
cm 38,5×48

Mari Emily Bohley
The Old, 2010
book object with driftwood, coptic binding, mixed techniques on handmade paper
cm 31x13x10

Mari Emily Bohley
The New, 2010
book object with driftwood, concertina structure, mixed techniques on 28 canvases
cm 16×12,5×10

Laurent Rébéna
Traces et rythmes , 2010
Ink on paper
cm 15×46

Laurent Rébéna
Traits 11 – Traits 3
Traits 8 – Traits 5
Traits 4 – Traits 10, 2009
acrilyc on canvas
cm 50×50

Kitty Sabatier
Sans titre, 2010
pigments and acrylics on paper reinforced with fabric
cm 50×127

Kitty Sabatier
Sans titre, 2010
pigments and acrylics on paper reinforced with fabric
cm 50×127

Kitty Sabatier
Sans titre, 2010
pigments and acrylics on paper reinforced with fabric
cm 50×127

Abdallah Akar
D’un ciel à un autre, 2010
mixed technique on canvas
cm 100×65

Abdallah Akar
Helene, quelle pluie…, 2010
mixed technique on canvas
cm 117×74

Abdallah Akar
Le Chant des chants, 2006
mixed technique on paper
cm 150×130

Hassan Massoudy
Le bonheur, 2009
ink and pigments on paper
cm 75×55

Hassan Massoudy
La vie, 2002
ink and pigments on paper
cm 75×55

Hassan Massoudy
Le rềve, 2007
ink and pigments on paper
cm 75×55

Hassan Massoudy
Ibn Arabi, 2010
ink and pigments on paper
cm 37,5×27,5

Adriana Seri
Madre, 2006
chinese ink on
paper, Han character, cursive form Zhuan
cm 133,5×32,5

Adriana Seri
Sutra del cuore, 2008
chinese ink on paper, Han character
cm 135,5×33

Carlo Buffa
Sutra del cuore 1, 2008
ink on paper, glue, Tenshō writing
cm 70×136

Carlo Buffa
Sutra del cuore 2, 2008
ink on paper, Tenshōwriting
cm 70×136

Carlo Buffa
Collage, Frammenti di Tenshō, 2009
ink on paper, glue
cm 55×38

Carlo Buffa
Poesia Tang in Tenshō, 2008
ink on paper
cm 138×35

Norio Nagayama
Sensuale, 2009
ink and gold on paper
cm 80×120

Norio Nagayama
Uomo, 2007
ink on paper
cm 130×132

Cinzia Ruggieri
Alla stessa ora della stessa sera, 2010
pencil
cm 29 x 21

Michaela Keller
Traces, 2007
handmade paper watercolor, gouache
cm 26×33,5

Benno Aumann
Sketch1. The shadows of the ships, 2010
ruling pen, sumi and gouache on paper
cm 56,5×75,5

Benno Aumann
Sketch2. A long brown bar, 2010
ruling pen, sumi and gouache on paper
cm 56,5×75,5

Benno Aumann
Sketch3. Wavelets crumble, 2010
ruling pen, sumi and gouache on paper
cm 56,5×75,5

Benno Aumann
Lost, 2008-2010
ruling pen, sumi on paper, silhouette

Ewan Clayton
Boundaries, a garden in Kyoto, 2010
Text from Boundaries in The art of setting stones by Marc Peter Keane
sumi ink, metal pen on Zerkall paper, bound in handmade paper from Auronville, India
cm 27,5×62

Ewan Clayton
Yo Canto. A flood of tears for Ignacio Sanchez, 2007
A poem by Garcia Lorca
sumi ink, goose quill and the fingers and palms of both hands
cm 76×56

Ewan Clayton
Separation is also association, 2006
Text from Closing the Circle in The art of setting stones by Marc Peter Keane
royal Watercolour Society paper, antique pine soot, Japanese stick ink
cm 77×51

Ye Xin
Baudelaire, 1997
ink on paper
cm 42×28

Installation by Monica Dengo

Monica Dengo
I invite you to make the text your own, 2010
10 open pages, each one 66×97 cm; 1 / book in loose sheets 50×66 cm; 1 /photo in collaboration with the photographer Marco Ambrosi
paper, graphite, ink, photography
cm 70×100

In the beautiful island of Murano, at the Glass Museum, an extraordinary exhibition is taking place, including around a hundred famous works by Ermanno Nason (born in Murano, 1928), the great glass maker maestro and member of a family that has played an important parti in every stage of the history of Murano from the XVII century to today.
A favourite with the artists of Egidio Costantini’s “La Fucina defli Angeli“, Ermanno Nason has worked together with Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, March Chagall, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Kokoshka, Nag Arnoldi, Borsi, Jean Le Witt, Fred Fay, Krayer, Antonio Motika and Bergamini, Guttuso, Braque, Verde, Hundertwasser, Fontana, Pignon, Bellini, Minguzzi, Goldoni, Carraro, Fulvio Bianconi, transforming their projects into glass in innovative and unusual forms, achieving outstanding results with his “a massello” production, created by shaping glass as an incandescent mass.
Unrivalled in the history of glass making on Murano, his glass sculptures display a sensitivity that is sincere and convinced (and therefore convincing) towards the modern, abstract and informal.

Murano, Glass Museum
Fondamenta Giustinian, 8
opening times: 10-18 (from 01 november 10-17)

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