La BiennaleVenice: Film Festival - The Awards. The Venezia 69 Jury, chaired by Michael Mann and comprised of Marina Abramovic, Laetitia Casta, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Ari Folman,Matteo Garrone, Ursula Meier, Samantha Morton, and Pablo Trapero having viewed all eighteenfilms in struggle, chose the following awards.
GOLDEN LION – Best Film: PIETA by Kim Ki-duk (South Korea).
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18 Sep 2012
06 Apr 2012
Venice: CaBadoer – Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland – Symposium. The Università Iuav di Venezia and the LondonCollege of Fashion (University of the Arts London) organized an international symposium incollaboration with the Centre for Fashion Studies (Stockholm University), inconjunction with the opening of the exhibition Diana Vreeland After DianaVreeland curated by Judith Clark and Maria Luisa Frisa at Palazzo Fortuny,until June 25. The symposium with thetheme, The Discipline of Fashion Between Museum and Curating, discussed theevolving discipline of fashion curating, and brought together prominent voicesfrom the field. The conference used the Diana Vreeland’s exhibitions and her experienceas Special Consultant to The Attire Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Artin New York (1972-1989) as the starting point from which to articulatereflections on the relationships between fashion, exhibitions and museums.
05 Apr 2012
Venice: PalazzoMocenigo – Diana Vreeland cocktail. Theview from Palazzo Mocenigo on the Grand Canal where the cocktail party was heldafter the opening of the Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny. The cocktail was given by The Bauers president, the attractive Francesca Borolotti Possati.
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30 Dec 2011
The restoration of Mariano Fortuny’stheatres carries on….A cocktail party was held at Palazzo Fortuny for thecompletion of the restoration of Mariano Fortuny’s Teatro delle Feste andDipinti Dell’Atelier and the weep for help for the restoration of the BayreuthTheatre and the Theatre Drawings Album. “THANK YOU” said Franca Coin president of the Venice Foundation “When you dosomething for Venice it bounces back at an international level.” The thanks was aimed at to all the micropatrons who bought virtual seats to help restore the Teatro delle Feste to itsfull splendor.The tale: In 1912,Mariano Fortuny, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Lucien Hesse designed the Teatro delleFeste, which was to be constructed at Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Marianohimself built the model, based on their design, with his prodigious hands,inside the studio of the present-day Fortuny Museum where it is now exhibitedin all its ex- glory.
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12 Oct 2011
Venice: The National Marciana Library – Liselotte Hohs – Animal Magnetism exhibition. Until September 30th in the Monumental Rooms of The Marciana National Library in Piazza San Marco, Liselotte Hohs who is Viennese by birth but Venetian by vocation and whose life and works are deeply tangled with the amphibious city presents a retrospective exhibition which includes her new carpet collection entitled, Animal Magnetism. In this major exhibition, the artist shows her inner empathy with the animal world by using natural materials for her works of art: sheep wool carpets knotted by Tibetan craftsmen in India, escaped from persecutions, who impart the same world view of Liselotte, a non-anthropocentric view respectful towards any kind of living beings.Above. Leone Blu, the San Marco Lion leads the way to the exhibition in this grandiose setting designed by Jacopo Sansovino and built between 1537 and 1553.
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