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Massino Giannoni, artist and observer of the contemporary tradition, at the Palace of Exhibition.

For the first time a unprecedented comparison between two great masters of the Italian Renaissance, through the exhibition of sixty-six drawings.
A scientific exhibition of high level, which will start from the graphs of the two masterpieces and collections, and after will look at the work of the two artists, while deepening personal passions and interests of the masters, like Michelangelo practice site and the optical design for Leonardo.
Nine masterpieces of Leonardo will document the activities in the field of mechanical inventions, and art of military architecture, hydraulics, the study of geometry, the flight of birds and mechanic flight, offering an overview of examples of his research.
In opposite nine of the most famous drawings by Michelangelo from the collection in the Casa Buonarroti, such as the “Nudo di schiena” of the Battle of Cascina, or the enigmatic Cleopatra

Hotel Traiano Rome, at the historic center of Rome at few steps from Piazza Venezia and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, offers its own structure and its own services to those wishing to participate in this event.

The dates for this exhibition from 27 October 2011 to February 12, 2012

The Palace of Exhibition presents: Massimo Giannoni. Four Triptychs

An exciting confrontation between two great masters of the Italian Renaissance in exhibition at the Capitoline Museums.

For the first time a unprecedented comparison between two great masters of the Italian Renaissance, through the exhibition of sixty-six drawings.
A scientific exhibition of high level, which will start from the graphs of the two masterpieces and collections, and after will look at the work of the two artists, while deepening personal passions and interests of the masters, like Michelangelo practice site and the optical design for Leonardo.
Nine masterpieces of Leonardo will document the activities in the field of mechanical inventions, and art of military architecture, hydraulics, the study of geometry, the flight of birds and mechanic flight, offering an overview of examples of his research.
In opposite nine of the most famous drawings by Michelangelo from the collection in the Casa Buonarroti, such as the “Nudo di schiena” of the Battle of Cascina, or the enigmatic Cleopatra

Traiano Hotel Rome, is located in the historic center of Rome, at few steps from Piazza Venezia and Palazzo delle esposizioni, offers its own structure and its own services to those wishing to participate in this event.

The dates for this exhibition from 27 October 2011 to February 19, 2012

An exhibition to raise awareness of the origins of Roman portrait, from the city to the late Republican-old

A unique selection of portraits of the highest artistic level, over 150 pieces including heads, busts and statues full-length from the major European museums.
It starts from the first portraits in terracotta and bronze, and goes through the wide marble and bronze production in the Imperial Age; an ‘opportunity to learn more about what were the origins of Roman portrait and modes of representation of the Romans over a period of time from City republican age to late antiquity.
In addition to the indisputable beauty and importance of the many exhibits, the show lends itself to multiple reflections. Six sections, including: “Principles and men as gods” which shows the ways of assimilation from the emperor’s image to the gods, or “The face of powers”, a gallery of faces of the main characters of the Roman history, from Republic to Empire, which shows how their images had been made also in terms of political communication.

Hotel Casa Tra Noi Rome is located at few steps from the Vatican and the Capitoline Museums, offers its own structure and services to those interested in this event.

Hotel Casa Tra Noi Rome and the Capitoline Museums are waiting from March 10 to October 23, 2011.

From September 1st to October 2nd, 2011, during Open14, at Venice Lido, Marina Gavazzi denounces the Church’s cover up of the priests’ paedophile scandal.

The fourteenth edition of OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations will be held at Venice Lido and San Servolo Island. from September 1st to October 2nd, 2011, in conjunction with the 68th Venice Film Festival.

At this venue the Milanese photographer Marina Gavazzi is presenting an installation built from iron scaffolding tubes taken from an abandoned building site. It is a cube with, on each side, the same image named His Holiness representing the Pontiff enveloped in flames under the innocent look of an adolescent boy. The strength of the iron which acts as frame to the image is meant to reinforce the unequivocal message denouncing the decennia of sexual abuses perpetrated by Roman Catholic priests on young innocent souls whom the unsuspecting families had entrusted in their care. These crimes were well known to the recently beatified highest authority of the Vatican, but, in conjunction with his current successor, he nevertheless tried to cover them up until the scandal reached a level where it was impossible to contain.

For too long the Church has only tried to protect itself, with total disregard for the thousands of innocent victims who will continue for the remainder of their lives to bear the moral stigmas of the abuses suffered. Only in the United States more than 5,000 priests (including 16 bishops and archbishops) have been accused of sexual abuse from the 1950’s to the current days. The number of their victims is estimated to be in excess of 150,000, as a result of the fact that each paedophile priest abused more than one victim, in one well publicised case in Massachusetts a priest admitted to having used violence on over 100 children of both sexes. The vastness of the phenomenon was well known at the Vatican since the middle of the 1980’s, but until the scandal erupted at the beginning of the new millennium the Church tried with all possible means to avoid that the terrible truth surfaced, for example moving the accused priests to other parishes or even to other countries, to make sure that they evaded ordinary justice. In many cases the same priests continued to use sexual violence on new unaware victims, thus increasing the responsibility of those who, in order to protect the Church’s reputation, decided not to bring these crimes out in the open.

The artist wants to share this accusation with all those who have not lost the respect for the human being, and who oppose with all means the bigotry of a Church that is ethically corrupt, far away from the real needs of the people. The Church has to return to its origins, to the institution that Christ created, close to mankind in the good times and in the times of need.

The artists’ works at Venice Lido and san Servolo Island are not tied to a specific theme, but to a communicative code that the artists express in absolute freedom. An urban walkway which is transformed in an artistic journey where the passer-by is immerged in an everyday environment that is exploited by the presence of an artistic context.

Curator of the event is Paolo De Grandis, together with Carlotta Scarpa, and the exhibition is organized by Arte Communications together with the City of Venice Cultural Affairs Office and with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Veneto Region, the Province of Venice, and the Comune of Venice. The event has in addition been supported in a curator role by Gloria Vallese, Christos Savvidis, Chang Tsong-zung and Ebadur Rahman.

Marina Gavazzi
info (at) marinagavazzi . com
www.marinagavazzi.com

In Venice Maybach Manufaktur renews the collaboration with Julian Schnabel

June 21th 2011 – What have in common Venice, the decadent city of the lagoon, and Maybach, the luxury cars brand of the Daimler AG group? Not much, you’d may think, since in Venice it is not possible to drive wheeled vehicles, especially of the imposing size of the giants from Sindelfingen. But the city and the luxury cars brand share similar traits d’union and, you may say, they have a common vocation for the art, besides their uniqueness, allure and their timeless, incomparable elegance.

The ideal union between Maybach and Venice was highlighted by an important retrospective on Julian Schnabel, partner of the German luxury cars brand since 2010. The exhibition, staged at the Museo Correr in the central Piazza San Marco from June 4th to November 27th, has been organized thanks to the collaboration of Maybach as main sponsor.

Alongside the exhibition - “Julian Schnabel. Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of seeing” - an especially realized piece of art was shown to the art lovers during the Biennale days: “The Ones You Didn’t Write – The Maybach Car” is a special Maybach vehicle painted by Julian Schnabel together with his protégé Vahakn Arslanian. This collaboration falls within the context of the Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation’s Mentoring Programme. The mission of the luxury cars brand non-profit foundation is to mentor young artists and talented young leaders facing adversity to bring about positive change

Maybach
www.maybach-manufaktur.com

The Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona, located in the Palacio Pignatelli in the Barrio Gótico, hosts this contemporary art kermesse.

The second edition of World Art Vision will take place in the Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona, from 19 May to 5 June 2011. 60 well-known artists from 25 countries will exhibit more than 150 works of art. The organisers of World Art Vision chose Barcelona as the scene and amphitheatre for the largest independent art show of Catalonia, the first edition having taken place in Cancun. Over the 18 days of the show, Palacio Pignatelli will host an impressive collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, prints, installation art, video and digital images, accompanied by a rich calendar of musical events and conferences given by prestigious professionals in the national and international artistic scene. The exhibition coincides with the 130th anniversary of the Real Círculo Artístico and puts the finishing touches to an exciting international project which seeks to create a two-way bridge between the artistic culture of Spain and the rest of the world.

As part of the promotional campaign of WAV Barcelona 2011, and thanks to the support of the Barcelona town council, a monumental solid iron sculpture, a work by the artist Antonio Dìaz, has been installed in the Paseo Lluís Companys. Top professionals and personalities from the contemporary art world will be present at the opening of the exhibition and have been invited by the organizers to be part of the wide range of collateral events taking place throughout the exhibition period: Fabrizio Pivari, Director of Art & Artworks, Maurizio Vanni, Director of the Lu.C.C.A Museum, the much awarded photographer, Danish Saroee, who will present the video of the interview with “Los Fridos”, made during the festivities of WAV Cancun 2008, Tomás Paredes, President of the Association of Art Critics in Madrid and critic for La Vanguardia and the brilliant pianist Ernest Hing-Leung So, who offers his audience three concerts, all contribute to the rich collateral events programme.

The list of participating artists can be found at http://www.world-art-vision-news.com/
Opening hours: 11am-2pm and 4-8pm (Closed: Sunday afternoon)
Tickets: full price € 4 – Reductions (flyers, students with valid student ID and over 65’s) € 2,50

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Press Conference: 17 May 12:30 h. Salón de los Atlantes
Opening: 19 May 19:30 h. Salón de los Atlantes
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The Capitoline Museums accommodate the exhibition “Portraits - The many faces of power” , dedicated to all the men who managed the Roman Empire for many centuries, an event that aims to preserve the eternal memory of Roman history and that reflect on one of the main tools of visual communication: the face. Over 150 pieces including busts, statues and heads full-length from the most important museums in Europe, made from materials such as bronze, clay, terracotta and marble are exposed in this museum to show how, thanks to the example of Greek culture, the Romans were able to create and manage their own government through a completely original style.

For the exhibition the visitor will know the many faces of the Empire from the Republican City to the Late Ancient Age as well as a thousand other ways of representation in Roman Age from casts made on the dead peoples’ faces to the first portraits, emphasizing the importance of gestures, essential communications tool.

Hotel Traiano offers its structure for those interested to the exhibition because it is located to 5 minutes from Venezia Square and Campidoglio Square, the home of the Capitoline Museums.

Hotel Traiano and the Capitoline Museums are waiting for you from 10 March to September 25, 2011.

For more information you can visit the web site of Capitoline Museums

In Raphael’s Salon over 140 sacred artworks including Easter eggs and precious icons of the Iimperial Age

In the exciting Raphael’s Salon in the Pinacoteca of the Vatican Museums, you can visit the exhibition “Fabergé. The Sacred Images “, an event born to display more than 140 artworks, including precious icons of the Imperial Age and the Easter eggs belonging to the family of Russian tsars, bought by russian Viktor Vekselberg through its cultural and historical foundation The Link of Times.

The Easter is the period of creation of the famous Faberge eggs, created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by order of Tsar Alexander III and Nicholas II. These small works of art, created with the finest materials, from gold to precious gems, were created by the jeweler Carl Faberge in St. Petersburg.
You will have the privilege of being able to closely observe not only these rare specimens, but also a magnificent collection of icons with precious frames created for the imperial court in the nineteenth-twentieth century, from the best russian jewelers.
Hotel Casa Tra Noi offers its structures for those interested in the exhibition as it is located in the heart of Rome, few minutes walk from the Vatican City and St. Peter’s Square.

Hotel Casa Tra Noi and the Vatican Museums are waiting for you from April 15 until June 11, 2011.
For more information you can visit the website of the Vatican Museums.

Beautifully designed note cards, greeting cards, fine art posters and prints entirely made in Italy: : the challenge of Kira-Following the heart

Kira-Following the heart is an Italian company providing contemporary and sophisticated note cards, posters and prints with a fresh and vivid design.

The idea of Kira was to introduce people to a series of greeting cards characterized by contemporary design and special small illustrated cards conceived to recall unique and important moments in one’s life or simply to share a thought, an idea or a feeling with those we love.

Kira cards are ideal for a birthday or any other special occasion. They have been created for everyone because we all experience the same feelings. The design is contemporary, characterized by harmony, balance, color and lightness.

Kira cards also have another special characteristic.  We all know that illustrated note cards and greeting cards usually have a short life and are used once only.  In the best of all situations they may be carefully stored away in a drawer, but oftentimes they are simply filed away and forgotten until the next spring cleaning, and in the worst scenario they are kept for a short period and then thrown away.

But Kira has now created illustrated note cards which have a second life.  Our note cards can actually be considered real prints in miniature.

When the special day is over (but we all know that every day can be special), rather than file it or throw it away, the note card can be used again:  obtaining a small frame (like those seen at IKEA) and framing it provides the print with a second life as a small furnishing for one’s bedroom, studio or a small corner of the living room (especially those by Rivera and Roemberg) or in any other area that needs to be brightened up.

The Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona hosts contemporary art show.

International artists are currently being selected to exhibit at the second edition of World Art Vision. The exhibition is being held from May 19th to June 5th 2011 at Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona (Royal Artistic Circle), situated in the Barrio Gotico area of Barcelona, Spain.

For 18 days, the artists will have the unique opportunity of exhibiting paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, prints, installation art, video and digital art and the exhibition will be highlighted by collateral events: presentations, concerts and lectures.

Barcelona, with 1.6 million inhabitants, boasts a lively cultural and artistic life, thanks not only to the galleries, museums and all who dedicate their energy to contemporary art but also to the universities, literary and artistic circles of significant historical importance. This is the case of the Real Círculo Artístico, that was founded in 1881 and is still attended by hundreds of members, who work in the halls of the upper floors of the prestigious Palacio Pignatelli, that also houses the Salvador Dalì Escultor Museum. The area of the Barrio Gotico, the famous Gothic Quarter where the Cathedral, the Ramblas, the Picasso Museum are all located, has recently been declared as the most visited urban area in the whole of Spain.

The Barcelona exhibition is aimed at promoting the artists directly, without the presence of their galleries and it is an opportunity to meet with the other artists present and attend the exciting program of collateral events and of course, to meet the visitors, collectors and critics.

For artists interested in participating, please contact the World Art Vision organization team at

info@world-art-vision.com http://www.world-art-vision.com/

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