52, San Marco - Ala Napoleonica - Venice

Running Exhibition from May 1st to July 11th 2004
"IL TERRITORIO NELLA SOCIETA' DELL'INFORMAZIONE
dalla cartografia ai sistemi digitali"

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Ticket office closes 1 hour earlier.
Seasonal hours: 11.1-3.31: 9 a.m./5 p.m.; 4.1-10.31: 9 a.m. /7 p.m.
Tickets: € 11; Concession: € 5.50 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).

No Running Exhibition

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Ticket office closes 1 hour earlier.
Seasonal hours: 11.1-3.31: 9 a.m./5 p.m.; 4.1-10.31: 9 a.m. /7 p.m.
Tickets: Entrance with the ticket of the Musei of Piazza San Marco: € 11; Concession: € 5.50 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).

Running Exhibition from till May 27th 2004
"ANTON CORBIJN"

At the first floor of Palazzo Fortuny opens a man-show dedicated to Anton Corbijn (Strijen, 1955). It is difficult to describe him only as a photographer, in fact, his latest experimental works are very ambiguous and originals. Corbijn was born as photographer, that about eighties, left Strijen and he arrives in London where he discovers and lives the phenomenon post-punk. The music is one of the passions of Corbijn, in fact he patronizes the society of the rock and he understands that this world is for him; in particular he loves: the stage, the forestage and the all "star system". So, his work becomes an introspective research about the protagonists of: the cinema, the sport, the literature, the music and the fashion; in fact, these public VIPS aren't the mass production of icons of the Pop Art but they become the human images and the simple and real man or woman of the road. That's, the photos black and white of: David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Frank Sinatra, William Burroughs, Naomi Campbell, and the monochromatic photos of De Niro and David Lynch. The latest production are: videos of music and the collaboration with the artist Marlene Dumas for an experimental project with the visual arts. .

Opening hours: from 8.15 a.m. to 7.15 p.m., monday from 8.15 a.m. to 2.15 p.m.
Tickets: € 4; Concession: € 2,50; Free: for residents of Comune of Venezia.
Phone: ++39.041.2747607/08/14/18

Running Exhibition from April 24th to May 30th 2004
"SHOZO SHIMAMOTO dal Gutai a Proxima - 1955-2004"

The new exhibition, dedicated to Shozo Shimamoto, has an interesting staging divided between Ca' Pesaro and the charming Museo d'Arte Orientale on the first floor. Guglielmo Di Mauro is the curator of this event who has chosen about 30 works that show chronologically the experiments of the Japanese artist. Shozo Shimamoto, in fact, is famous especially for his activity with the group of the Avantgarde Gutai(1958-62), in which he brought a provocative and strong novelty, with pictorial gesture and action, that have extraordinary importance for the history of the contemporary art. He begins to work about fifties and in eighties he works on the paper, in nineties he products different experimental researches with: the performance, the installations and the behaviour. Now, he makes collective works, in which the hand of the author disappears and it comes up many individuality that hide the concepts of the creator and of the artistic personality. This is the sense of Proxima, a work of nine artists, Japanese and Italians, that take part of the big project of Shimamoto: on 25th April a performance at Mestre and another performance on 23rd April at Ca' Pesaro.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Ticket office closes 1 hour earlier.
Seasonal hours: 11.1-3.31: 9 a.m./5 p.m.; 4.1-10.31: 9 a.m. /7 p.m.
Tickets: € 5.50 ; Concession: € 3 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).

San Samuele, 3231 - San Marco - Venice

Permanent Exhibition
"Masterpieces from Gianni Mattioli Collection"

Running Exhibition from Oct 10th till summer 2004
"Peggy e Kiesler. La collezionista e il visionario"

From October 10, 2003, 'Peggy and Kiesler. The Collector and the Visionary' inaugurates new exhibition spaces at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Based on an exhibition of Kiesler’s designs for Peggy Guggenheim's museum-gallery Art of This Century shown at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 2002-2003, it will present extensive archival material including over 150 original architectural drawings, exhibition announcements and catalogues, letters, invoices, documents and photographs. Reproductions of Kiesler’s famous ‘correalistic’ furniture (produced by Franz Wittman Mobelwerkstatten) will be shown in the exhibition galleries alongside a number of paintings that made their first appearance at Art of This Century.

Opening hours: From 10.00 to 6.00 p.m., closed on Tuesday and December 25th. From 1 April to 2 November 2002, the Museum, Museum Café and Museum Shop are open on Saturday evenings until 22:00 (10 PM).
Ticket: Adults: 8 €; students: 5 €. Free entrance for children 12 years of age and younger. For further free credits please visit official web site.
Phone: 041-2405411 Fax: +39.041.5206885
Official Web Site: Guggenheim Foundation

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

Running Exhibition from March 28th to May 30th 2004
- Giulio Paolini, L'ora X -

At Fondazione Querini Stampalia opens an exhibition dedicated to work of Giulio Paolini (Genova, 1940).He is a fundamental exponent of the cultural renewal of the "new Avantgarde" and in Venice he is the author of an original project titled L'ora X(The hour X); this work is a reflection on the relation between the artist and his creation. In fact, from the seventies, Paolini is a conceptual artist who loves to work with the notion of tautology of the art; also here, we can see: the tools of the traditional painter, the glass, the plexiglass and many other things that envelop the spaces of the Fondazione, becoming architectonics structures. So, this exhibition is an intercultural project, in fact the catalogue of the work of Paolini it will be published only to the end of the event, that will see an interesting moment: a symposium in which the artist will tell with critics, curators and men of letters.

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