{"id":500,"date":"2008-04-01T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/?post_type=cini_events&#038;p=500"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:05:18","slug":"giuseppe-santomaso-and-the-abstract-option","status":"publish","type":"cini_events","link":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/eventi\/giuseppe-santomaso-and-the-abstract-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuseppe Santomaso and the abstract option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the centenary of the birth of Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice 1907-1990), the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo have organised a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Venetian artist from his early days to the height of his mature period, curated by Nico Stringa. Twenty-five years on from the last exhibition dedicated to him by the City of Venice, the centenary provides us with an opportunity to reconsider Santomaso\u2019s complex creative development. He rid himself of the provincial limits of the Veneto School through long stays abroad, especially in Paris, where in 1937 he visited the Universal Exposition and admired the works on show, including Picasso\u2019s Guernica. An initial turning point after his Parisian sojourn and first-hand knowledge of Braque and his work led Santomaso to become one of the few Italian artists to meditate &ndash; in still lifes and a series of interior paintings &ndash; on the potential of cubist language. In this exhibition the Venetian painter\u2019s originality is explored through comparisons with contemporaries. The exhibition is not simply meant to be a one-man show but a chance to extensively revisit Italian abstract art in the second half of the 20th century. There are thus also works by Afro, Renato Birolli, Mario De Luigi, Leone Minassian, Zoran Music, Armando Pizzinato, Emilio Vedova, Bice Lazzari, Tancredi, Antonio Corpora, Virgilio Guidi and Toti Scialoja, testifying to the more or less remote or close dialogue between Santomaso and the leading players in the Italian movement known as Arte informale, and works by Braque, Poliakoff, Winter. Moreover, also on show are many of Santomaso\u2019s main graphic works from the second half of the 1930s and some rare art editions that he created or edited: from Grand air by Paul Eluard (1945) to the lithographs for Ezra Pound\u2019s On angle, the drawings for poems by Andrea Zanzotto. In this field Santomaso\u2019s creativity has unanimously been hailed as setting a benchmark in the 20th century and his graphic works are among the finest of their kind in Europe. Intesa Sanpaolo\u2019s contribution to the exhibition is particularly important, and consists of the loan of a significant series of paintings by Santomaso and other major artists from the corporate art collections, together with the complete collection of the artist\u2019s printed works.<\/p>\n<p>Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore<br \/>12 April &ndash; 13 July 2008<\/p>\n<p>Open: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 &#8211; 18.30<br \/>Closed on Monday<\/p>\n<p>info: +39 041 2710402<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets to the exhibition:<\/strong><br \/>&euro; 7.00<br \/>Concessions:<br \/>&euro; 6.00 (students under 26; over 65s; Venetian residents; Venice Card and Rolling Venice cardholders)<br \/>&euro; 5.00 (groups of at least 10 people)<br \/>&euro; 4.00 (school groups of at least 10 students with teacher)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets online <\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivaticket.it\/evento.php?id_evento=194311\">Vivaticket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free (children under 14 accompanied by an adult; disabled persons with companion; authorised guides; tourist interpreters accompanying groups; teachers accompanying students)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guided visits:<\/strong><br \/>Groups &euro;80 (plus entry ticket)<br \/>Schools &euro;60 (plus entry ticket)<br \/>Guided tours &euro; 4 each (plus entry ticket).<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Exhibition organised by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/fgcbn.gif\" alt=\"Fondazione Giorgio Cini\" width=\"150\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/intesasanpaolobn.gif\" alt=\"Intesa Sanpaolo\" width=\"150\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supported by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/Sponsor\/santomaso\/regionebn.gif\" alt=\"Regione del Veneto\" width=\"150\" height=\"28\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/Sponsor\/santomaso\/casinobn.gif\" alt=\"Casin\u00f2 di Venezia\" width=\"50\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/Sponsor\/santomaso\/cvnbn.gif\" alt=\"Consorzio Venezia Nuova\" width=\"100\" height=\"28\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical sponsors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/Sponsor\/santomaso\/arteriasattisbn.gif\" alt=\"Arteria Sattis\" width=\"75\" height=\"27\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/js\/uploaded\/image\/Sponsor\/santomaso\/generalibn.gif\" alt=\"Generali\" width=\"90\" height=\"21\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1487],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_event_locations":[],"class_list":["post-500","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Giuseppe Santomaso and the abstract option - Fondazione Giorgio Cini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/eventi\/giuseppe-santomaso-and-the-abstract-option\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Giuseppe Santomaso and the abstract option - Fondazione Giorgio Cini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To mark the centenary of the birth of Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice 1907-1990), the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo have organised a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Venetian artist from his early days to the height of his mature period, curated by Nico Stringa. 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