Italics Art between tradition and revolution 1968 - 2008
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
From 27 September 2008 to 22 March 2009

Francesco Bonami, curator of Italics, describes Italian contemporary art as a train for which some of its cars would have already crossed borders and oceans and others have been in the maze of the Italian contemporary history.
Italics doesn't limit itself to present, once more, the key works of Italian art, from Burri to Fontana, from the Arte Povera to the Transavanguardia, but surveys in depth the Italian art scene of the past forty years.
Bringing together 250 works by over 100 artists including some unjustly forgotten, the new exhibition of the Palazzo Grassi offers a unique vision of contemporary Italian art, between tradition and revolution.


Francesco Bonami, commissaire d’Italics, décrit volontiers l’art contemporain italien comme un train dont certains wagons auraient franchi les frontières et les océans et d’autres se seraient égarés dans les méandres accidentés de l’histoire italienne contemporaine.
Italics ne se limite pas à présenter, une fois de plus, les œuvres clés de l’art italien, de Burri à Fontana, de l’Arte Povera à la Transavanguardia, mais enquête en profondeur sur la scène artistique italienne de ces quarante dernières années.
Rassemblant 250 œuvres de plus de 100 artistes dont certains jusqu’alors injustement oubliés, la nouvelle exposition de Palazzo Grassi offre une vision inédite de l’art contemporain italien, entre tradition et révolution.

GUIDED TOURS
by Codess Cultura

Price: 80 € (120 € for special events) for a group of 25 people
admission fees not included

For information and reservation, please call the Reservation Service: Tel: +39 041 5240119 (Monday –Friday 9.30 am-4.30 pm) , Fax +39 041723007, e-mail:
Tours in Italian, English and French

English guided tour without reservation
twice a month (2nd and 4th Sunday) at 11
price: 5€ per person (admission fee not included)

Visite guidée en français sans réservation
trois fois par mois (1ère, 3ème et 5ème dimanches du mois) à 11 heures
prix : 5€ par personne (le billet d’entrée n’est pas inclus dans le prix)

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
Educational Department at Palazzo Grassi, by Codess Cultura

SCHOOL
school guided tour                     Price:  70,00 euros
tour + didactic workshop             Price:  80,00 euros
admission fees not included

KIDS WORKSHOPS
/didatics/
free workshops for children every Sunday at 10.30 am

For information
Tel +39 041 240 1345 (from 9am to 13 am), e-mail scuole@palazzograssi.it
For reservations
Tel: +39 041 5240119 (Monday –Friday 9.30 am-4.30 pm) , Fax +39 041723007,
e-mail:

ROMA e I BARBARI

Palazzo Grassi 26 january > 20 july 2008
www.palazzograssi.it

SEQUENCE.1 Painting and sculpture from the François Pinault Collection
May, 5th 207 - to November, 11th 2007

15 international young artists approaching traditional art practices, such as painting and sculpture. Timed to coincide with the Venice Art Biennale, the exhibition will feature artworks specially commissioned by François Pinault for Palazzo Grassi.

http://www.palazzograssi.it/

Price: 80 € (120 € for special events)

For guided tours information, please call the Reservation Service:

tel: +39 041 52 40 119
e-mail:

Tours in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German.

PICASSO, LA JOIE DE VIVRE 1945-48
From 11 November 2006 to 11 March 2007

In the summer of 1946, the whole of Europe was recovering from the strain of the war years and Picasso, rejuvenated by a new love affair, comes back to the French Riviera. In his atelier, at the Grimaldi Castle of Antibes, his palette explodes in a firework of colours, happiness and hope.
More than 200 artworks (paintings, etchings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and pictures) introduce visitors to this creative period of Picasso's production.

At the same time, the first floor of Palazzo Grassi houses some Post-Pop works from the François Pinault Collection.

Guided tours by Codess Cultura with italian, english, french, spanish and russian speaking guides.

For further information, please call 00 39 (0)41 52 40 119 (from Sunday to Friday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.) or contact us at

WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Guided tours to the François Pinault Collection in Venice, Palazzo Grassi

Until the 1st October, it will be possible to know the Pinault Collection at Palazzo Grassi with the guided tours organised by Codess Cultura.

This exhibition marks the first public unveiling of one of the most significant art collections of our time. Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Adjunct Curator for the Guggenheim Museums, "Where Are We Going?" focuses on the art of the postwar period, offering a selection from extensive holdings assembled over more than thirty years.

The exhibition will be open from April 30 through October 1, 2006.

Re-posing the question famously asked by Paul Gauguin at the cusp of the last century-and ironically adapted by Damien Hirst at the start of this one (the artists' Where are we going? Where do we come from? Is there a reason? (2004), appears in the exhibition's forth and final section, This is Today) -"Where Are We Going?" presents some two hundred works by forty-nine artists, organized into thematic chapters that unfold on the three floors of the Palazzo.

Eschewing a strict historical chronology, the exhibition includes highlights of some of the most influential art movements of the past sixty years (Art Informel, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, Pop Art) and takes us up to the present moment with significant offerings from today's most challenging artists.

For reservations and further information about the guided tours, please call 041/5240119
For information about the exhibition, please call 041/5231680

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