Categoria Evento: Eventi

On the occasion of the forthcoming opening of the exhibition The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain by Jean Nouvel, to be held on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, a public event will precede and explore its principal themes in greater depth.

Organised during the opening days of the Biennale, the initiative forms part of the Biennale Architettura 2025 – 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, it broadens the Biennale’s discourse, placing particular emphasis on the role of the museum in shaping the future of architecture. The morning of discussions brings together architects and museum professionals for a series of conversations dedicated to one of the key sites of contemporary architectural experimentation: the museum.

The initiative aims to foster a dynamic dialogue on the contribution of architecture and architects to the development of museum cultural policies and to the shaping of our relationship with art, in both urban and non-urban contexts.
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10:00 | Introduction by Béatrice Grenier

10:15 – 10:45 | Cultural Infrastructure for urban transformation

Joshua Ramus, REX
Andrés Jaque, Office for Political Innovation
Antoine Picon, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

11:00 – 11:30 | The Architectural Layers of the Museum

Cecilia Puga, Museo Cileno di Arte Precolombiana
Giovanna Borasi, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Manuel Segade, Museo Reina Sofía

11:45 – 12:15 | Rethinking Pavilions As Potential Museums

Lina Ghotmeh, Lina Ghotmeh Architecture
Nicolas Fayad, EAST Architecture
Chris Dercon, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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More than ninety events and two main thematic focus points around which all the Foundation’s Institutes and Research Centres will work in synergy: an international and interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Democracy and Pandemics’ and a programme of events on Giacomo Casanova marking the 300^th anniversary of his birth.

The General Council of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini has approved the programme of activities for 2025, which embraces and reflects the spirit of institutional renewal expressed by President Gianfelice Rocca, while implementing the multi-year interdisciplinary working guidelines laid out by Scientific Director Daniele Franco.

The programme features over ninety events that will showcase the seven Institutes and three Research Centres operating within the Foundation. Thirty-two seminars and conferences, twenty-seven educational events and workshops, eight exhibitions, six hosted events, thirty-two concerts as well as a number of publications will fill the Foundation’s annual event calendar.

The programming includes two themes that will foresee the participation of all the Institutes, with the aim of integrating methods, research, materials and a diverse range of imaginaries. The first thematic focus is ‘Democracy and Pandemics’, which will be the topic of an international symposium from 13 to 16 November, with the presence of experts and scholars from all around the world. The second focus explores Giacomo Casanova and eighteenth-century Venice, a theme with which the Foundation will participate in the celebrations for the 300^th anniversary of the birth of this iconic and restless figure of the Serenissima. The journey will culminate in an exhibition project that will be open to the public from October 2025 to February 2026.

Gianfelice Rocca, president of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, explains the vision that accompanies the activity programme as follows: “We are living through a historical moment of profound change, characterised by heightened geopolitical and social fragmentation, with new protagonists and communities bearing divergent values and often polarised worldviews. At the same time, scientific and technological knowledge is advancing rapidly, profoundly affecting all of humanity.”

“We must refer to these challenges when interpreting the future role of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini,” the President added, “while maintaining the strong appeal to humanistic thought on which our civilisation is founded and which the Foundation is committed to preserving, fostering an open and constructive cultural dialogue that facilitates international relations. Of vital importance is the Foundation’s link with Venice, with its millennial history, as a constitutive element of our mission.”

The Scientific Director Daniele Franco underlines: “Over the past seventy years, the Foundation has organised countless events and meetings of a cultural nature, so as to bring scientific and humanistic fields into dialogue on an international level. Next year, with renewed commitment, it will set about addressing the issue of pandemic management in democracies with the participation of experts from all around the world. The Foundation must remain a place of dialogue, hosting figures from different backgrounds as well as research from different geopolitical systems.”

Book your seat for September 29, 2022 6:00 p.m., at Fondazione Giorgio Cini to the link.

Digitisation practices are peerless and now irreplaceable tools for the preservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, but they can also be used to produce new works. This is the case with The Mask of Time, an audio-visual creation made for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini by Mattia Casalegno and the sound artist Maurizio Martusciello aka Martux_M, announced with a trailer launched for the reopening of the Teatro Verde on the Island of San Giorgio on 10 April 2022.

Inaugurated in 1954 by Vittorio Cini, the theatre is the focus of a major campaign to restore the island’s monumental architecture and a fascinating subject of study for the artists who have chosen to feature it in the four-part film. In The Mask of Time, the theatre is seen through its history of constructions and glorious past productions but also through the future in a distant, utopian post-anthropocentric age, in which nature has regained its spaces, now inhabited by high-definition digital humans. Experimental technologies were used to create the film, such as Midjourney, a text-based image generator derived from Open AI DALL-E, and Unreal Engine 5, the major platform for gaming and for the future development of a metaverse with increasingly realistic avatars.

The overall project will bring one of Venice’s most suggestive theatres back to life, also virtually, and connect contemporary creativity with innovations involved in producing sophisticated narratives for audiences both near and far. By starting from considering the theatre as a place of fiction and representation, its potential will be explored further. To do so, Mattia Casalegno has adopted digitisation tools and processed the images taken by scanner drones. Moreover, by exploring the archive documents in the Institute of Theatre and Opera, he became familiar with historical Teatro Verde performances: the classics of Greek tragedy, Ariadne, Pasiphae and the Minotaur, but also the mythologies of religious symbols closest to his Neapolitan culture; all of this would then be accompanied by original music from sound artist Maurizio Martusciello aka Martux_M.

Together they have created a work of great artistic and communicative significance, which will be presented to the public on 29 September as a symbol of the regeneration of the Teatro Verde and of a culture increasingly interested in the latest, fast-evolving technological-scientific developments.