Residence-museum of the Querini-Stampalia family,with precious putties and frescoes.
The museum houses one of the richest art collections of Venice, with over four hundred paintings between the fourteenth and the nineteenth century by Venetian, Italian and Flemish artists:
Donato e Catarino
Giovanni Bellini
Lorenzo di Credi
Jacopo Palma il...
Three different names and stories, from three different countries, having in common a unique feature: Art. On the occasion of of the 55th International Art Exhibition and for the first time together, the 'Area Scarpa' of the Querini Stampalia Foundation features an exhibition organized and produced by the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore - GAM of Bologna with works by three major protagonists...
The project Nick Devereux is presenting at the Querini Stampalia has as its starting point the text of Pausania, which describes the frescoes, now lost, of Polignoto in Delphi. As Pausania's description is extremely detailed and contains information based on the historical context, Devereux has drawn up a personal remake of his text by reducing it to a kind of list of objects, gestures,...
Founded by Alain Daniélou in 1969, the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies has been active since then in popularising and disseminating some of the best examples of Indian music in Italy and Europe. In the wake of this tradition, which has seen performances in Venice of sitar virtuosos, such as Ravi Shankar, and for several years sitar...
The Emilio Vedova …Cosiddetti Carnevali… exhibition, curated by Germano Celant with Fabrizio Gazzarri, brings together works from this partly unseen cycle for the first time in a wide-ranging and significant manner, revealing the surprising and inexhaustible poetic force of Emilio Vedova.
The ...Cosiddetti Carnevali… groups together a series of works realised between 1977 and...
The exhibition is dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein, considered one of the leading figures in American pop art.
The exhibition, curated by Germano Celant, consists of 45 works on loan from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in New York as well as from private collections it ranges from drawings, collages, sketches, wooden maquettes, bronze and a painted fiberglass sculpture made between 1965 and 1997....
As a sequel to Rirkrit Tiravanija's presentation two years ago, Simon Starling will create a site-specific installation in the windows of the Gallery of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (San Marco Square), featuring two notable publishers of artists' books, Three Star Books and Westreich Wagner Publications.
Starling will place four books by the two publishers in the windows of Fondazione...
'Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation' is a project organised by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, as the official Norwegian representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2013. The exhibition includes a series of rarely exhibited works by Edvard Munch...
Glasstress, collateral event of the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, now in its third appearance in the lagoon, will be opened to the public from May 31st to November 24th 2013. Glasstress. White Light / White Heat, curated by Adriano Berengo and James Putnam, proposes the participating artists to deal with light and heat, intrinsic aspects of glass and its working. Glass is born from...