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Dorsoduro Paintings
In a Venice that is becoming increasingly opaque under the weight of the uniformizing press of the wildest commercialization, travel like a contemporary Dante Alighieri and lose yourself in the ecstasy of a dream among places and spaces that are now approaching to sharing its nature.
The protagonist of the event will be the city of Venice itself, which will confront the echoes of what it was and what it should return to being.
A Venice that has given much to the same painter from Syracuse (born in 1950), here, in fact, Gibilterra debuts thanks to the gallery owner Nicola Valenzin, of the Fenice Arts Gallery in Venice. In 1996 he wins the XII National Prize for Figurative Arts "Ruga Giuffa".
Among his main exhibitions, it is worth mentioning the personal exhibition, curated by the Bugno Art Gallery, at the Ca' Pesaro Museum of Modern Art in Venice in 2010 and inspired by the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto; the personal exhibition in the historic venue "Bistrot de Venise", curated by Emanuele Horodniceanu in 2005 and the participation in the collective exhibition "Paesaggi Interiori", curated by Paolo Vincenzi, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Cube Art Gallery of Venice by Massimiliano Bugno and in the collective exhibition "Emersioni", curated by the Bugno Art Gallery at the Scoletta dei Battioro, in Venice, in 2005
Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan, an American painter born in New York in 1943, has lived in Venice for fifty years.
Graduated in Literature from Princeton University, he landed in Venice from New York in 1973 and worked with Edward Melcarth, painter and sculptor who created the frescoes in the Hotel Pierre in New York, friend of Peggy Guggenheim and creator of her iconic sunglasses.
Morgan attends Peggy's house and courses held by Luigi Tito at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, whom he considers a true Venetian master. Particularly fond of the Dorsoduro district, for years he lived and worked in the Zattere and since 2004 he has had his studio in the house that belonged to Filippo De Pisis on the Maddalena bridge over the San Sebastiano river.
He exhibits his works in more than thirty exhibitions, at least half of which in Venice, but remains an independent artist never linked to a gallery or a dealer; His paintings can be found in private collections in Europe and overseas. He frequents many poets and writers and his friend Iosif Brodsky dedicates his "Foundation of the Incurables" to him.
Robert Morgan, an eyewitness to the killing of John Lennon in New York in 1980, instead of taking a photo, painted a picture of it, which he described many years later in the text: “The Photograph Not Taken”.
Carlo Scarpa, The Complete Buildings
"Carlo Scarpa, The Complete Buildings" is probably the most comprehensive volume available on the architect, craftsman and artist, Carlo Scarpa; it contains more than 300 images by architectural photographer Cemal Emden, as well as illuminating texts by Jale N. Erzen.
Seize the extraordinary opportunity to experience the interaction between construction, nature and human experience that characterized the works and life of Carlo Scarpa; a visionary who gave Italy one more reason to be called “Il bel paese”.