22 Mar

«A Wave of Ultra-modern Music.» Venice and beyond

Manuscripts and Documents from the Giorgio Cini Foundation Music Archives

Giovanni Morelli in Memoriam

The Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute of Music works to safeguard and make the best possible use of its 20th- and 21st-century archives with a special focus on those created by leading figures from the worlds of music, dance and audiovisual production. The documents on show come from eight archives, which are separate but interrelated in documentary and historical terms. Arranged according to the order of events, six showcases document stays in Venice or visits to the international Venetian scene by Alfredo Casella, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Aurel Milloss, Luigi […]

30 Mar

Piranesi, Rome and the Arts of Design

First shown at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice in 2010, the Arts of Piranesi exhibition continues on its travels. After Madrid (24 April – 9 September 2012) and Barcelona (9 October 2012 – 20 January 2013), where it was seen by over 250,000 visitors, the next venue for the exhibition will be the San Diego Museum of Art, where Americans will be able to admire it from 30 March to 7 July 2013.
The exhibition has been highly acclaimed by the international press. Writing in El Pais, Nobel-prize winner for literature Mario Vargas Llosa described it as an “extraordinary exhibition”. This comes after equally positive comments made elsewhere: “masterful” (The Financial […]

08 Apr

Fragile?

Mona Hatoum. Drowning Sorrows (wine bottles), 2004, glass, 15 cm x 200 cm Pier Luigi and Natalina Remotti Collection ph Ela Bialkowska courtesy GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin

On 8 April 2013, Fragile?, an exhibition curated by Mario Codognato, will open to the public on the San Giorgio Maggiore island inVenice.

The exhibition will feature more than 30 artworks by some of the most interesting international artists of our time who have experimented with industrial and found glass – from Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys, to Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Giovanni Anselmo and Jannis Kounellis, to name a few. This exhibition is part of […]

18 May

Seguso Glass for the Bauer (1950-1965)

Seguso Glass for the Bauer (1950-1965)
Venice, Hotel Bauer
18 May – 29 September 2013
Opening hours: 10 am – 7 pm
Free admission

For a deeper understanding of how Seguso Vetri d’Arte came to make some fascinating glass works for the Bauer Hotel, we must inevitably turn to Arnaldo Bennati, a ship-owner who was proprietor of the luxury hotel from 1930. He wished to furnish and decorate the hotel interior in a highly refined taste by introducing the beautiful and often bold forms of modern art.

In 1940 Bennati began to call in first-rate experts. One of […]

29 May

Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn

A solo show of works by the renowned British artist

curated by Germano Celant

The Giorgio Cini Foundation is delighted to announce Marc Quinn, a major exhibition which opens on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore on 29 May 2013 in tandem with the inauguration of the 55th Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. Curated by Germano Celant, the solo show includes sculptures, paintings and other art objects by one of the original Young British Artists. Admission to the exhibition is free and it runs until 29 September 2013.

Consisting of more than 50 works, including the public debut of at least 15 […]

18 Jun

Performing music: a comparative approach

 Performing music: a comparative approach

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

Historians of music and ethnomusicologists will meet with the main objective of comparing their experiences in studying the concept of performance in the fields of Western art music and oral-tradition music.

The seminar has been jointly organised by the Institute of Music and the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, in collaboration with the research project Musik als Ereignis (Von „Exekution“ zu „Performanz“. Eine Begriffsgeschichte musikalischer Aufführung seit dem 18. Jahrhundert), directed by Hermann Danuser at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and with Labex GREAM (Groupe de Recherches Expérimentales sur […]

19 Jun

Concert of Indian Classical Music with Shahid Parvez (Sitar)

***Due to personal problems Shahid Parvez will not be able to reach our country and take part to the concert on June 19th. Partho Sarothy, scholar of the great Ravi Shankar, will replace him. 

Concert at 7pm

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 courses in the Budhaditya Mukherjee Institute, this year a concert of Indian classical music […]