From 25th September to 3rd October 2009 the 53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music will run in Venice .

A 11 days high quality program performed by 73 musicians, 87 exhibitions, orchestras, singers, big ensembles,  meetings and workshops.

The Festival is titled The Body of Sound and directed by Luca Francesconi.

Biennale and Fenice Theater Foundation will renew its agreement to support the festival: some of the concerts and meetings will be held in the most famous theater of Venice: La Fenice.

The artists will perform on stage at the newly refurbished evocative spaces of the Arsenale (Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Teatro alle Tese), at the Teatro La Fenice.

The program:

• Friday 25/09/2009
  Hours 17.00:Â Â ORCHESTRA J FUTURA Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Friday 25/09/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA TEATRO LA FENICE Nuovo Teatro La Fenice VENEZIA - VE
• Saturday 26/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â QUARTETTO ARDITTI Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA - VE
• Saturday 26/09/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â OSLO SINFONIETTA Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Sunday 27/09/2009
  Hours 15.00: Â Â QUARTETTO D’ARCHI TEATRO LA FENICE Sale Apollinee del Teatro La Fenice VENEZIA - VE
• Sunday 27/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â SINOPOLI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA - VE
• Sunday 27/09/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE RAI Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Monday 28/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â ENSEMBLE SPECTRA Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA - VE
• Monday 28/09/2009
  Hours 20.00:Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE RAI Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Tuesday 29/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â MANDOLINI POULIN Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA - VE
• Tuesday 29/09/2009
  Hours 20.00:Â ORCHESTRA SINFONICA TEATRO LA FENICE Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Tuesday 29/09/2009
  Hours 22.00: Â MANDOLINI POULIN Teatro Piccolo Arsenale VENEZIA - VE
• Wednesday 30/09/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â FONTANAMIX Teatro alle Tese - Quarta Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Wednesday 30/09/2009
  Hours 21.00: Â ORCHESTRA DI PADOVA E DEL VENETO Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Thursday 01/10/2009
  Hours 21.00:Â AURA Teatro Goldoni VENEZIA - VE
• Friday 02/10/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â MITTELEUROPA ORCHESTRA Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Friday 02/10/2009
  Hours 20.00: Â CARMEN LINARES Teatro alle Tese - Quarta Tesa VENEZIA - VE
• Saturday 03/10/2009
  Hours 18.00: Â EXIT 02 Teatro alle Tese - Terza Tesa VENEZIA - VE

Info:

Ufficio Promozione Pubblico
Tel +39 041 5218828 / Fax +39 041 5218825
e-mail promozione@labiennale.org

On Saturday 10th October the exhibition “Prendergast in Italy” opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and will be on view through January 03rd 2010, the exhibition then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (February 14–May 9, 2010).

It is the first exhibition dedicated entirely to the watercolours, monotypes, and oil paintings by Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924). Featuring over sixty views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri, “Prendergast in Italy” also includes the artist’s personal sketchbooks, letters, photographs, and guidebooks from his two trips to Italy.

Maurice Prendergast went to Europe from Boston in 1898 spending part of the summer in Venice and returning for the spring and summer 1899.

Variously labelled as Impressionist, Postimpressionist and Modernist, Prendergast’s art especially at this early stage of his career, is unique. While offering homage to the city’s past, Prendergast pictorially brought the art and culture of Venice in the twentieth century. As one critic noted in 1900, “He makes the spectator realize the Venice of today”
He chose watercolour as his primary medium. He captured Venice’s unique configuration in the liquidity of that medium – the constant flow of his coloured washes emulating the watery movement of the canals and lagoons. He produced about sixty Venetian watercolours and he concentrated especially upon Piazza San Marco.
“Prendergast in Italy” is organized by Williams College Museum of Art in partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Information
Peggy Guggenheim Collections
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Dorsoduro 701
Venice 30123
Tel +39 041 2405411
Fax +39 041 5206885
E-mail info@guggenheim-venice.it

Hours

Open 10am-6pm daily
Closed Tuesdays and December 25