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ONLY BE VENETIAN
Only-Be Venetian
Restaurant Antico Dolo Venice
Antico Dolo is one of the most important restaurants because it´s in one of the oldest places in Venice and, also, for its innovative dishes.
68th Venice International Film Festival
Venice International Film Festival comes back with the best international films for everyone. If you are tired of the mega film market, this festival is a great option to watch some of the best quality films in the industry. In spite of the political, ideological and climate changes happening everywhere, Venice International Film Festival remains as an open door for the most remarkable projects in the seventh art. Cinema is definitely the window that opens more eyes and more experiences to live from the comfort of a seat. This year, the American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky will be the president of the jury. Aronofsky is the director of the acclaimed movie “Black Swan”, in which we saw the seductive Natalie Portman, while we fell in love with this story ones again. The movie was so important last year, due to its versatility and style that touched us with its incredible audacity. The American filmmaker certainly was able to synthesize both the character of an independent film with flexibility of commercial films for the masses, in an intrepid and tasteful way. Perhaps this is what defines and gives him an important place in contemporary cinema. We will never forget the iconic movie “The Wrestler” with the extremely talented Mickey Rourke. This movie has been Rourke´s best performance in which he represented an old fighter who leaves everything on the fighting ring, his passion, his love for his daughter, and his life overall, is able to touch our very core. Most probably you remember that every year, this famous festival is celebrated in the magnificent Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, which is...
Enrico David in Venice – ornamental repertoire
Until the 25th of September the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice exhibits Repertorio Ornamentale by the Italian artist Enrico David. Milovan Ferronato curates this exhibition with the collaboration of the Michael Werner Gallery from New York and the artistic support of Fiorucci and Vhernier. This exhibition is an important part of the work done by David inside and outside Italy. His personal iconography, ranging from pop to surrealism, plays with the imagination of life fragmentation and dreams by using strange dolls, fragmented bodies and hybrid figures coming straight out from a child’s nightmare. The artist also uses various media such as collage or sculpture to express his deep feelings. David´s particular work includes embroidery on canvas, paintings, collages or papier mâché sculptures, that this time will be exhibited at Palazzetto Tito room, an ideal space to show the thickness of the artist born in Ancona, Italy, in 1966. During the late 80´s David took his ideas and went to study at the art and design school Central Saint Martin in London, in which he exhibited his first samples in alternative art galleries, as well as in private galleries.His works include sculpture, painting, installation, design and drawing. His anthropocentric images are able to move, surprised and are supported by various and versatile media. Repertorio Ornamentale corresponds to the work performed by David during his residency at Laurenz Foundation-Haus in Basel. He masterfully explores the enclosures and attitudes of the viewer divided between the origin and belonging of his work; terms that arise from the very beginning of its creation. During this residency program David explored the representations of the...Ristorante Cantina Canaletto Venice
Cantina Canaletto is close to San Marco Square and it´s well known for having two sections: a calm lounge to dine in and a wine bar to go with friends.
Fernando Prats in the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is celebrating its 54th edition and will open the Pavilion Chile with an exhibition by Fernando Prats, an eclectic and innovative artist, who has printed a change in the contemporary painting. The Chilean artist, who was actually born in Buenos Aires in 1967, has been devoted to art from an early age. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Chile in Santiago; he did a specialization in painting at the Massana School and a graduate course at the University of Barcelona, city in which he decided to establish since 1990. His works have been exhibited at the most important contemporary art centers in the world. Those works belong to different art centers and museums such as the Fundación Caixa de Manresa, the Kolumba, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Cologne and Würzburg Diozesan-Museum (both in Germany), as well as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile. The project carried out for the Venice Biennale will be installed in the arsenals of the ancient city, which is one of the most visited during the Biennale. “Gran Sur” is the title of this installation that consists of three works: the first is a creation inspired by the impact of the volcanic eruption that took place in 2008 in Chaiten, the second proposes a series of pieces that allude to the earthquake last year in Chile, and the third is an installation in neon letters that retrieves the announcement of the Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1911, in which he wanted to enlist men for his expedition to Antarctica: “men wanted for risky journey, little...
Basilica of San Marco in Venice
It is enriched with precious treasures and artifacts, often from the Far East. In its architecture, which is both the Byzantine, Roman and Venetian, was recognize by the work of artists and artisans from various sources. When the republic fell, there were many raids, yet the treasury of the Basilica of San Marcos still has valuable items such as cups, reliquaries, chalices, etc. made of gold, silver or crystal. In addition to the domes, it is especially the beautiful mosaics on a gold background, completely covering the walls of the Basilica, which link the Christian basilica, the Oriental art. Inside the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, you will be especially impressed by the mosaics, which constitute a veritable illustrated Bible, a book designed for use by those who could not read and used for the edification of believers. The facade of the basilica is a masterpiece of Gothic sculpture, a composition full of columns, arches, gables and reliefs, as in all medieval churches are often characters, or scenes of daily life occupations. The Basilica of San Marco shows a clear Byzantine influence, but it will find a wide variety of styles. This is because one of the Doges of the Venetian Republic imposed a tribute to the merchants who make a good business in the city, thus enriching the Basilica of San Marco. The exterior of the Basilica of San Marcos, like all the Piazza San Marco, shows two completely different faces, which can be seen during the day, crowded and at night, which breathes peace of mind and can admire the grandeur of the Basilica as you...
Tra – Edge of Becoming in Venice
Until November 24th the exhibition Tra- Edge of Becoming presents itself in the Palazzo Fortuny, organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Axel Vervoordt Foundation, which is about the legacy of Mariano Fortuny, which will be represented in the work of 13 artists and over 300 works which belong to the museum. Just like the three previous exhibitions, this one takes the legacy of the Spanish designer, photographer and inventor Mariano Fortuny, the wabi-inspired experiences of the art collector Axel Vervoordt, added to the thoughts of the economist and writer of the book The Future of Money, Bernard Lietaer, as well as those of the scientist Eddie Wolf, to create a total experience that puts aesthetics, science and thought together, so that the spectator can see the world through the pleasure of art and the knowledge of sciences. The commissioners of the exhibition, Rose Martínez, Daniela Ferretti, Axel Vervoordt and Francisco Poli, built a whole conceptual architecture to give its name to the exhibition, playing with the inverse reading of ART: TRA, which corresponds to the concept of the design of the exhibition. Tra- Edge of Becoming explores the existing relationships between place and history and how the affect the creative heritage of universal wisdom. Among the exhibitors here there is the Serbian artist Marina Abramovic, the Japanese conceptual artist Kazuo Shiraga, Eduardo Chillida and Fernand Léger. Among the artists that prepared a work which is exclusive to this exhibition there is: Massimo Bartolini, Jannis Kounellis, Maurizio Donzelli, Giulio Paolini, Kim Soo-Ja, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Günther Uecker. The Serbian conceptual artist Marina Abramovic,...
Anselm Kiefer in Venice
One of the most important conceptual artists, and father of the modern “alchemy,” Anselm Kiefer presents his new installation “Salt of the Heart” at La Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, on until the 30th of November. Kiefer is without a doubt one of the most important conceptual artists alive today. He´s also a pioneer of reinventing the use of alchemy in the plastic arts. Born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945, he studied painting with Peter Dreher and Horst, and later in Düsseldorf, where he was student of Joseph Beuys. His persistent thirst for knowledge also took him to study law and French. If his beginnings were in a more purist style of painting, he soon became interested in the world of installation and “happenings,” and his personal style quickly transformed. His first one-man show was in 1969, with a series of paintings called “Occupations.” Kiefer´s work has been described by critics as a kind of experimental poem, with an aesthetic quality which transmutes, and mixes things up together with a controversial edge, casting a critical eye over reality, and the history of the world. The artist pays particular attention to ways in which the history of his country have been revised, and its past relationship with Nazism. A clear example of this is his work based on the poems written by Paul Celan during his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. Here, Celan´s work, “Todesfuge”, with its recollections of a traumatic process, is transformed into a spectacular canvas, titled “Margarethe” (1980). Also a key, visible part of Kiefer´s work are themes such as mysticism, philosophy, literature, and the cosmos. Kiefer´s...
Xijing: contemporary Asian art in Venice
What happens when you erase the borders between nations? That is, we have no real frontiers: the flow of information around the globe is determined by the geographical location of your participation in the real world and is becoming less important or recognizable. The faces of the world change. A Spainard loses his identity as well as a Pakistani or an Egyptian or a German: the geographical features of the body will dissolve with the next generation and no one will know where we come from, we will all be all patriots of the great network of information, perhaps united but with a lack of races and creeds, maybe… Part of the flow of territories and information declines in real or imaginary cities. The fiction of the city is based on its products and its people, their ability to make everything believable and accurate to produce and consume. But what happens if we create a fictional reality within the virtual world?The Xijing collective proposal presented in the Piazza San Marco, seeks to challenge these strategic building networks of real and fictitious economies, as we have come to believe, or have been led to believe that the degree of likelihood of all there is is accessible when the final part is not. Are the notions of equality likelihood in the East and West? The exhibition is organized by the Xijing Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and Arthub Asia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the production of art in Asia. This is the first exhibition devoted to the Xijing art collective, a team of participating artists: Shaoxiong Chen (China), Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Japan)...
