Utopia has long been a subject of investigation for artists, as well as a model for artistic collectives. In the early 1800s, artistic brotherhoods inspired by the medieval guild emerged. These brotherhoods pursued the utopian tenets of communal work from within ideal communities they established.
By the end of the nineteenth century, utopian groups flourished, as artists, architects, designers, and writers embraced aestheticized experience and artisanal traditions in reaction to the unsightliness and commercialism of urban life. Following World War I, avant-gardes turned to the utopian notion of harmony they saw in abstraction and optimistically endeavored to ameliorate society through art and design. Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus will examine a sequence of international case studies from the early nineteenth century through 1933, when the Bauhaus closed in Berlin and the ascendancy of Fascism and Stalinism curbed or negatively reframed artistic endeavors, and investigate the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western artistic thought and practice. It will address the movements of Primitivism, the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris and Arts and Crafts, the Cornish Colony, Neo-Impressionism, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism. This exhibition is organized by Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the GuggenheimMuseum. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Greene, noted historian Russell Jacoby, and design historian Victor Margolin will also accompany the exhibition.
The 66th Venice International Film Festival is organized by the Venice Biennale and will run 2nd to 12th September 2009 at VeniceLido.
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. The Festival will include retrospectives and homages to major figures as a contribution towards raising awareness of the history of cinema.
Marco Müller is the Director of the 66th edition. He has been heading the Venice Biennale’s Cinema section since 2004.
The official line-up of the 66th Festival includes the following sections:
Venezia 66 - Out of Competition - Orizzonti - Controcampo Italiano - Corto Cortissimo
The independent and parallel sections include:
- International Critics’ Week (A series of 7 or 8 films – debut works – independently selected by a commission nominated by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics)
- Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days (A series of 10-12 films independently organized by a commission nominated by the Italian Association of Film-makers (ANAC - Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici) and by the Association of Independent Directors and Producers (API - Associazione Autori e Produttori Indipendenti))
The screenings schedule will span over 11 days, from Wednesday 2nd September to Saturday 12th September 2009.
Five international juries (Venezia 66, Orizzonti, Controcampo Italiano, Corto Cortissimo, and “Luigi De Laurentiis” Award for a Debut Film) will assign the official awards.
The official line-up of the 66th Venice Film Festival has been announced in a press conference in Rome on Thursday 30th July. The screenings schedule for the public will be announced in August.
Venezia 66
International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres:
FATIH AKIN - SOUL KITCHEN Germany, 99′
Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Uenel
GIUSEPPE CAPOTONDI - LA DOPPIA ORA
Italy, 95′
Ksenia Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Giorgio Colangeli
POU-SOI CHEANG - YI NGOI (ACCIDENT)
China - Hong Kong, 89′
Louis Koo, Richie Jen, Michelle Ye
PATRICE CHÉREAU - PERSÉCUTION
France, 100′
Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean Hugues Anglade, Alex Descas
FRANCESCA COMENCINI - LO SPAZIO BIANCO
Italy, 96′
Margherita Buy, Guido Caprino, Salvatore Cantalupo
CLAIRE DENIS - WHITE MATERIAL
France, 100′
Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé
JACO VAN DORMAEL - MR. NOBODY
France,
Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Sarah Polley
TOM FORD - A SINGLE MAN USA, 99′
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode
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The festival of the Sensa was one of the most important and flamboyant celebrations in the social and political life of Venice. The origins of the Sensa can be traced back to a historical episode which saw the Doge Ziani as the mediator between Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederic Barbarossa.
The legend has it that the Pope, as a reward for the diplomatic favor, conferred upon the city many privileges. Among these was the privilege of “marrying the sea”, as official recognition from the Republic of Venice of its domination over the seas. In the Marriage of the sea, the doge, accompanied by a long procession of boats decorated for the festivities, would arrive at the San Nicolò port entrance and throw a gold ring into the sea. During the Sensa Festival, a fair lasting 15 days was held in St. Mark’s Square. Today the Sensa festival is an elaborate historical recreation. On the day of the Ascension a historical procession, complete with rowers in their costumes, go from Saint Mark’s Square to the S. Nicolò port entrance for the ritual throw of the ring.
The boat carrying the local authorities is accompanied by a procession of sport boats belonging to boating clubs in Venice. After the ritual of the throwing of the ring, the procession lands on Chiesa di San Nicolò delLido, where a solemn Mass is celebrated. A market is held next to the church during the festival. The festivities end with the traditional gondola regatta. During the duration of the festival, Venice offers dishes typical of the Sensa, based on vegetables grown in the lagoon islands. Among the most representative recipes are “risi e bisi” and the “castraure” (first crop artichokes) When: Ascension day, 24 May 2009
A GUARDIAN OF LOVING MEMORY On February 13 1995 the room on the mezzanine floor where the famous composer, Richard Wagner died, was entrusted by the local authorities to the Associazione Richard Wagner di Venezia, headed by Giuseppe Pugliese. The area has since been turned into a museum and opened to the public in eternal memory of the composer and his love for Venice. Since 2003 the adjacent rooms have also been added to the museum to house the Josef Lienhart collection; a donation including rare documents, posters, scores, signed letters, paintings, records, lithographs and various other heirlooms. This is now the largest private collection dedicated to the great German composer outside Bayreuth.
A secluded location, far from worldly disturbances. An escape from the burdens of day to day life and sentimental turmoil. In search of somewhere outside of time, somewhere magical enough to rekindle the light of nameless inspiration. Driven by a desire for peace and quiet, Richard Wagner made Venice his oasis. “Life in the big city has become completely unbearable for me, mainly because of the din of carriages that infuriates me. Now everyone knows that Venice is the calmest city, I mean the quietest city in the world and that is why I have decided it is absolutely the place for me”, he wrote in a letter to his father-in-law, Franz Liszt before arriving in Venice on the first of his six stays in August 1858. On his return from Palermo, in April 1882, having completed the Parsifal score for the second edition of the Bayreuth Festival, scheduled for the summer of 1882, Wagner rented from Count Bardi, who was often out of town, the entire mezzanine floor of the Ca’ Vendramin Calergi. The composer arrived on September 16, and spent his last winter here in the city with his family, before passing away on February 13 1883. Today a number of his rooms have been turned into a museum.
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Exploring the Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s holdings of post war painting and sculpture, and adding to this loans from other collectors, Luca Massimo Barbero explores variations on the theme of the mark: as code, grid, referent, citation, alphabet and expression, arriving eventually at the condition of zeroing: the monochrome, the blank and the void.
The British artist Jason Martin, among the most interesting painters of the generation of the Young British Artists, interprets the theme in a small solo-exhibition: creating a zero point of painting in a vibrant space in which an infinity of pictorial possibilities co-exist.
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“Sensations”, the theme of this years carnival in Venice. The Carnival of SENSATION, of the 5 + 1 senses, each represented with plenty of sensations between the “sestieri”, the five neighbourhoods of Venice city. A Carnival that is trying to stimulate all our senses: hearing, eyesight, taste, smell, touch, and of course, the mysterious one, the sixth!!! Which is up to You to discover….”Il Volo dell’Angelo” (the flight of the angel), “Festa delle Marie”(Celebration of the Maria), “Gran corteo Storico”(The great Historic Parade), “Sfilata delle maschere”(The Venetian mask Procession) are only a part of the magical days of the CARNIVAL. A nonstop party that will combine music, shown, authentic venetian food and typical carnival fried sweets… How can one miss such an event? THE CARNIVAL OF VENICE 2009, 13th February - 25th of February…
