Biennale d'Arte di Venezia

Giardini della Biennale, Arsenale, Museo Correr,
Stazione Santa Lucia, altre sedi a Venezia

Running Exhibition from June 15th till November 2nd 2003
"50. International Art Exhibition.
Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of The Viewer "

The 15th of June will open, in Venice, one of the most and interesting event for the contemporary art public. This fiftieth Biennale, curated by Francesco Bonami, is subtiled Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of The Viewer. The International Art Exhibition will see as protagonists, not just the classical spaces of the Giardini of Castello with the National Pavilions or the Arsenale, but also Porto Marghera, the Museo Correr, the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Palazzo Malipiero and many other places in the heart of Venice. Francesco Bonami has invited, by his side, varied curators whom have organized the collateral exhibitions; this Biennale is quite peculiar for its exhibition of exhbitions, in which the spectator can dictate and impose his own absolutely personal logistic and visual path. Into the Italian Pavilion, besides Delays and Revolutions, we will find the architectural structure conceived by the A12 Group, selected by Massimiliano Gioni; the building, called The ZONE, will give hospitality to five young italian artists, who offer to the visitor the chance to observe the new italian art identity. In the Arsenale and at the Corderie, we will find ourselves into the exhibition titled Clandestini, in which Bonami shows, through different international languages, how artistic "globalization" could lead to positive and diversified trepassing. Many other sections will have a space into the Arsenale: Smottamenti (African Contemporary Art), Individual Sistems, Urgency Zone (Asia), Utopia Station, Arabic Rappresentation e Crisis Structures. On the whole this Fiftieth Edition deals, thanks to complex contemporary languages, with society. A society intended in all its meanings: political, social and cultural, in which it is clear how the "globalization" violently bursts also into the artistic expressions. A Biennale interested to the Urgency Zone and to the big dangers that the economical-cultural ratification and colonization can provoke, above all in those countries that have been subjected to the oppressions and the imperialisms of stronger States.

Opening hours: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Giardini of Biennale closed on monday. Arsenale closed on tuesday. Museo Correr open all days.
Tickets: spaces of ehxbitions Giardini/Arsenale/Museo Correr. Three spaces 18 euros; two spaces 13 euros; one space 10 euros; Cheap ticket: three spaces 15 euros; two spaces 11 euros; one space 9 euros; Special tickets: three spaces 12 euros; two spaces 9 euros; one space 8 euros. Free entrance children untill 6 and disabled people with escort. Ticket Office: Giardini, Arsenale, Museo Correr (untill 6 p.m.).
Information: Call Center 199.199.100. Groups Office: phone +39 041/2728397.
Web Site: www.labiennale.org.
Phone:+39 041/2728397

Running Exhibition till July13th 2003
"Botero a Venezia. Sculptures and paintings "

The hall of Piovego in the Palazzo Ducale is only one of the many places that hosts the exhibition dedicated to Botero. In fact, the choice to displace the works even in the open space, between lanes and canals, agrees perfectly to the majestic and imposing spirit of the columbian artist figures, who presents twenty big bronze sculptures, dated 1987 (in exhibition until 8th June), and twentyfive paintings of the latest five years (Palazzo Ducale). Of course, Botero, famous for his big women and their swollen and large anatomies, is a well-educated man who knows Europe and its art history, but he has never forgets his life and his southamerican origines; so, we can see croping up into his language, many recalls and cross-references to the intellectual men of his land: the force and the grandiosity of the mexican muralists, the narrative literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, to end with the " sweet notes " of Isabel Allende.

Opening hours: from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ticket Office from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m..
Tickets: ticket of Museums of Piazza San Marco; 11 euros; cheap ticket 5.50 euros; special ticket (under 14) 3.00 euros; free for residentes.
Information: Call Center Musei Civici Veneziani
Phone:+39-041-5209070

52, San Marco - Ala Napoleonica - Venice

Running Exhibition from June 15th till November 2nd 2003
"Paintings: From Rauschemberg to Murakami, 1964-2003"

Together with the unveiling of the Biennale, it will be opened, in the room of the Correr Museum, an exhibition dedicated to the painting. The intention of Francesco Bonami is to recall the history of this language, from an historical date as 1964, year in which the Jury of the Biennale, in Venice, awarded Robert Rauschemberg with the Painting Prize. Thanks to the many names, in this exhibition, will be possible to outline the situation from the birth of Pop Art to nowadays. The presence of Burri, Fontana, Gnoli, Castellani and Guttuso will tell us how things went in Italy during the second post-war period, while the Seventies are embodied by Franz Gertsch, Robert Ryman e Gerhard Richter; obviously it couldn't miss the presence of the Eighties, here represented by Francesco Clemente, Jean Michel Basquiat, and to end up to last generations of painters like John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Margherita Manzelli e Takashi Murakami.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. Ticket office closes 1 hour and an half earlier.
Tickets: € 8; Concession: € 6 children from 6 to 14 years; students from 15 to 29 years; holders of entrance ticket to Venetian Civic Museums, leaders (max 2) accompanying groups of childrens or students, EU citizens over 65, holders of Rolling Venice Card and Venice Card; Venetian residents; member of Touring Club; Free: children 0/5 years; disabled people with escort, authorised guides; interpreters accompanying tour groups; group leaders (groups of at least 21 people with reservation) or Ticket of Biennale.
Phone: +39-041-5224951

Running Exhibition till July 6th 2003
"CANOVA/RAINER"

In the old Museo Correr opens an exhibition dedicated to Arnulf Rainer (Baden 1929), viennese artist, who, in this occasion, makes with his works an homage to the italian master Antonio Canova (1757-1822). In this show we find exhibited more than fifty pictorial-photographic works, all inspired by the technical expertise of the venetian sculpturer. "You'll never forget the first love", and Rainer hasn't forgotten Canova, and his diaphanous women have marked and stimulated the work of the austrian artist. This homage to the "trevigiano" artist is a kind of rivisitation of art history, by a contemporary painter, who grasped the pictures of Canova's nudes, has been abbled to reinterpretate them through the original and potent language of "overpainting" and "overdrawing". Thanks to these interventions of "obnubilation", Rainer doesn't make any kind of desacration of Canova's work, but he praises and extols it, declaring how the Muses of the master have beseeched himself to veil and wrap them…this is the secret of the latest Rainer's masterpieces.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. Ticket office closes 1 hour and an half earlier.
Tickets: € 8; Concession: € 6 children from 6 to 14 years; students from 15 to 29 years; holders of entrance ticket to Venetian Civic Museums, leaders (max 2) accompanying groups of childrens or students, EU citizens over 65, holders of Rolling Venice Card and Venice Card; Venetian residents; member of Touring Club; Free: children 0/5 years; disabled people with escort, authorised guides; interpreters accompanying tour groups; group leaders (groups of at least 21 people with reservation).
Phone: +39-041-5224951
Seasonal hours: 11.1-3.31: 9 a.m./5 p.m.; 4.1-10.31: 9 a.m. /7 p.m.

Running Exhibition from June12th till September 25th, 2003
"Suspect"

The first italian exhibition of Marlene Dumas, curated by Gianni Romano, has been opened at the Palazzetto Tito. The artist work, resembles the interesting movement of the Young British Art, born in the United Kindom in the Nineties, anyway it distinguished itself for its passion for playing with the images ambiguity; then either the drawing changes into painting and painting into drawing or the culprit in the scene turns into the victim and the victim into the executioner,everything into an atmosphere of misunderstandings that veil a ferocious criticism to the mediatic system. "Suspect" is the title of this monographic show, in wich we find canvas of the Eighties, linked to the theme of Thanatos, but even new works (specifically planned for the venetian halls) with a more intimate mood and a clear eroticism. The images that Marlene Dumas proposes, seem to put us on guard from any kind of ingenuousness; the subjects, frequently friends of the artist, gaze at us trying to point out the great potentialities, but also the big risks carried by this visual messages from here the infinite "Suspect".

Opening hours: Daily from 2.30 to 7.00 p.m. Closed on tuesday.
Tickets: Free entrance.
Phone: +39.041/5207797; +39.041/5208879

San Samuele, 3231 - San Marco - Venice

Permanent Exhibition
"Masterpieces from Gianni Mattioli Collection"

Opening hours: From 10.00 to 06.00 p.m. Close on Tuesday and December 25th.
Tickets: Adults € 8/Students € 5. Free for under 12.
Phone: +39.041.2405411
Fax: +39.041.5206885

Piazza S. Marco - San Marco 71/C - Venice

Running Exhibition from June 12th till September 7th, 2003
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Where is our place?

A project in collaboration with Mori Art Museum di Tokyo, MAXXI (21th century Art National Museum) of Rome and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, official sponsor of this exhibition. Ilya Kabakov, was born in URSS and is now considered the father of Russian Conceptualism. He and his wife Emilia, have been been realizing public projects and site-specific all over the world. This exhibition is a part of 50th Biennale di Venezia.

Opening hours: 10.00/6.00 p.m.  Open till 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Closed on Monday.
Tickets: 6 €, reduced 4 €.
Phone: +39041-2711411