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Carnal, issue 0 of Parterre de Rois
A new magazine in Milandate: 18-07-2013
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Interview with Nicola Toffolini
A worlds inventordate: 24-04-2011
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Donne senza uomini.
Installazione multimediale di Shirin Neshatdate: 01-03-2011
From time to time in Venice, Thursday July 26, 2012, seven days time out. Rhapsodic guide on Venice
Art, music, museums
From time to time in Venice is borning today. It is a rhapsodic guide on Venice that stays with travellers and residents once in a week with the best of (according to me, of course) what is in town because tasted, visited, tested and exchanged (not among laptops but among humans who, as me, have chosen to be and then to comment - even after, by strolling or riding a vaporetto). In Venice the escape from feedbacks is very slow, exchanges are persistent and here life is (more or less) horizontal …Above all, who performs is almost all the times taking the same boat or exiting from the same door of who listens to.
La Fenice, unexpected palazzi, the most enchanting basiliche and churches host, until August 3, the festival Lo Spirito della Musica di Venezia this year dedicated to Giovanni Gabrielli, to contemporary dance, to the sacred and profane Vivaldi, to baroque in music. With Fenix (world premiere mixed media ballet by Foofwa d’Imobilité, 27 and 28 July at La Fenice), with both the two organi of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in concert with ottoni, then with the schola gregoriana (at San Moisè Church on 27 July from 5 pm): many are the free entrance gigs, the others are from 10 to 50 euro ticket entrance. Orphans of Piazza San Marco and the open air concerts (this year city of Venice says no to live music in the square), with this festival you can dig the city from west to east also enjoying a couple of events in the court of Palazzo Ducale. There will be a beat of Piazza to taste on August 3, when the festival will end up, at 7 pm with Cento Squilli a San Marco (by Venice Brass).
Gilberto Gil (on July 29 at La Fenice, tickets from 30 to 70 euro) the star, but not the only divine creature spread all over campi, museums and theatres thanks to Venezia Jazz Festival (until August 3, part of the widest circuit called Veneto Jazz). I will be at Punta della Dogana for Wonderbrass who will stroll by spinning music on the street (at 7 pm Saturday July 28), then at Fondazione Querini Stampalia for Emilio Clementi (with Stefano Pinna, free entrance, at 5 pm on JUly 31)
Stefano Arienti, further to his multimedia signature to Fenix, the dance performance at La Fenice, will open a solo show on Friday July 27 (at 9.30 pm, with a performance in Palazzetto Tito, Dorsoduro 2826, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa venue).
XVIII Century at Ca’ Rezzonico with drawings and incisions of “Tiepolo Nero”, until October 14: a collaboration among Max Museum (Chiasso, CH), the mother house of the famous Venetian artist (in Ca’ Rezzonico deposit the underestimated group of incisions has been found), and the Istituto per la Grafica (Rome) that restored the incisions: 35 artworks (and a catalogue) with the collections: "Capricci" (1733-1742), "Scherzi di fantasia" (1743-1757) among this "La famiglia del contadino orientale" that so forth recalls "Fuga in Egitto", authors Tiepolo senior and his son Giandomenico. Immersed in the room shadowed against the summer, the Ca’ Rezzonico museum is excellent to see again and again to discover sculptures, arazzi and extraordinary furniture, doors and buttress.
Yes, of course: Prada. Few meters ahead from Ca’ Rezzonico another surprise at Ca Corner della Regina, the house in Venice for the Foundation (that will open in Milan, 2013, the strongly dreamt main venue that has been taken over a former distillery).
An extensive show-archive, Small Utopia, Ars Multiplicata. It offers a cultured, (all together) unseen cornucopia of art borrowed from the main foundations and institutions curated by Germano Celant – mixing applied art and design, video, performance and the main Fluxus and ’70 and ’80 experiences with a notable section on Joseph Beuys (in September and October a festival section dedicated to the performances held at the Festival Fluxus, happened 50 years ago).
Go now, by the way - because now there is more calm due that the city seems sometime to empty itself - and enjoy the audio and video section curated by Antonio Somaini with Marie Rebecchi.
Also this show is among the brand new Vaporetto dell’Arte destinations: a ticket is 24 euro, valid 24 hours and guarantees discounts and speedy access to the main museums crossing the path. I saw this vaporetto quite empty, contrary to what happens to lines 1 and 2 going the same on Grand Canal (how to travel as cows at any time!). Vaporetto dell’Arte is reddish, full accessorized and very recognizable. I am curious….
