Venice Exhibitions: what a cool summer
Those who says Venice in summer has nothing to offer do not really know our city. As every year, this summer Venice shows that it has a lot to give to art and photography lovers.
Picasso and Warhol, Gaetano Pesce and Boetti: international and Italian masters enlighten the main museums of Venice. In my opinion, it feels like the art on display this summer multiplies the hidden poetry of the city, exalting the fascinating atmosphere that makes it so special to our eyes.
If you will stay at Corte di Gabriela from June onwards, we suggest you to visit this selection of exhibitions in Venice.
Picasso on the Beach – Peggy Guggenheim Collection
From 26/08/2017 to 07/01/2018 – 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesday) – price: 15,00 € – reduced 13,00 €
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection never fails to surprise us: this year we will have the pleasure to see a Pablo Picasso’s selection of works. Peggy was fond of Picasso; not by chance, one of the central pieces of her collection is “On the Beach”, dated 1937. That’s why the exhibition revolves around the theme of the beach, a subject that we often find in Picasso works made during the Provence period and the Surrealism one.
Around the Pop Art – Candiani Cultural Center
From 01/07/2017 to 31/08/2017 – 10am to 12am / 16pm to 18pm
After Klimt and Titian, the Candiani Center hosts the exhibition “About the Pop Art in the Sonnabend Collection. From Johns and Rauschenberg to Warhol and Lichtenstein, up to Koons.” A triumph of great contemporary art with 40 masterpieces to understand what happened in American art in the 1960s.
Alighiero Boetti: Minimum / Maximum – Giorgio Cini Foundation
From 12/05/2017 to 12/07/2017 – 11am to 7pm (closed on Wednesdays) – free admission
Since the entrance is free, it is worth visiting this exhibition dedicated to one of the lesser-known authors of Italian “Poor Art”. A very special journey to understand the work of Boetti, which is articulated around 20 large works including some almost unknown ones.
Mark Tobey: Streaming Light – Peggy Guggenheim Collection
From 06/05/2017 to 10/09/2017 – 10am to 18pm (closed on Tuesdays) – price: 15,00 € – reduced 13,00 €
Tobey was a pioneer, an innovator, a revolutionary, albeit underestimated. Peggy’s life lasting love for this artist pushed the museum to host the greatest Tobey retrospective of the last twenty years. An excursus of 70 works that tell us everything about his evolution and genius.
David Hockney: 82 portraits and 1 still life – Ca ‘Pesaro
From 24/06/2017 to 22/10/2017 – 10am to 6pm (closed on Monday) – price: 10,00 € – reduced 7,50 €
This is the first large Italian exhibition dedicated to David Hockney. A sequence of 82 canvases made in Los Angeles depicting all the important characters of Hockney’s personal and artistic life, all immortalized in the same way: a chair, a simple background, 3 days of work for the painting. A collective portrait of the human soul, temperaments and moods of a whole city.
Red / slash / beautiful – Ar33studio
From 12/05/2017 to 12/09/2017 – 10am to 7pm (closed on Mondays) – free admission
Arsen Revazov’s photographs strike for strength and originality. A choice of completely red photos dedicated to Russia’s native country. It is not a political or social statement, but one of those many photographic experiments conducted by this artist on both urban and rural landscapes.
Gaetano Pesce: Five Glass Techniques – Glass Museum
From 13/05/2017 to 17/09/2017 – 10am to 18pm – price: 12,00 € – reduced 9,50 €
Pesce was a great experimenter in architecture, design and sculpture. Among the materials he loved the most, there was also the glass. Not by chance, he invented a brand new technique of his own.