DISTORTION
Fondazione Gervasuti, Via Garibaldi, Castello 994 (Fondamenta Sant'Anna)
from June 7 to November 22
Distortion is central to creative expression combining elements of the comic and the grotesque with deviations from the norm in scale and space. A project curated by James Putnam with participating artists Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Oliver Clegg, Mat Collishaw, John Isaacs, Alastair Mackie, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Jamie Shovlin, and Gavin Turk.
Organization: Arts Council England
Divergence: Exhibits from Macao, China
Scoletta San Giovanni Battista e SS. Sacramento, Castello 3811/B (Campo Bandiera e Moro)
from June 7 to November 22
The exhibition displays three selected works: Space in Flux by Bonnie Leong Mou Cheng & Kitti Leung Mou Kit, EurAsia Airways Limited by João Ó Bruno Soares, Timeless Tunnel by Gigi Lee Yee Kee. They show how Macao artists respond to the rapid changes in the society.
Organization: The Macao Museum of Art - Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau of Macao
DROPSTUFF.org
from June 3 to June 7
Riva Ca' di Dio, Castello
DROPSTUFF.org: a contemporary platform for new art forms, a new School for Visualization. DROPSTUFF.org is a platform for media art and e-culture that broadcasts artworks by professional artists and designers on a network of dropstuff hotspots in Dutch museums, libraries, railway stations, schools and art academies.
East-West Divan
Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Cannaregio 3599/A (Fondamenta della Misericordia)
from June 7 to October 4
East-West Divan presents contemporary art by emerging and established artists from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. The exhibition meditates upon links between the artistic traditions in Venice and the Persian artistic heritage shared by these countries, revealing the tightly knotted relationship between East and West – both in life and the imagination.
Organization: Turquoise Mountain
Foreign Affairs: Artists from Taiwan
Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco - Castello, 4209
from June 7 to November 22
Featuring the work of four artists, Hsieh Ying-chun, Chen Chieh-jen, Chang Chien-Chi and Yu Cheng-Ta, this exhibition explores contemporary economic, social and political issues through the artists' long-term engagement and practices in ‘other' places, which also tackle questions of identity and communication.
Organization: Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan
Glass Stress
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, San Marco 2842 (Campo Santo Stefano)
Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, San Marco, 4811
from June 6 to November 22
The Glass Stress exhibition gathers the experiences with glass of a series of contemporary international artists, aiming to gauge the relationship between the artist and this material to provide a completely new artistic perspective.
Organization: Mjellby Konstmuseum– Halmstadgruppens Museum
IL MITO
Marc Quinn
Casa di Giulietta, Via Cappello 23, Verona and historical sites in Verona
from May 22 to September 27
Marc Quinn, within the context of the exhibition curated by Danilo Eccher, addresses the myth of Romeo and Juliet and the theme of Love in all its contemporary interpretations, with an exhibition path that leads through the historical sites of Verona and culminates at the legendary house of Juliet.
Organization: Comune di Verona – Assessorato alla Cultura, Galleria d'Arte Moderna
IS IT POSSIBLE? Nature and Economy together
Arsenale Novissimo, Spazio Thetis
from June 4 to November 22
A single exhibition, curated by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini with the collaboration of Gérard Georges Lemaire, shows the work of two artists with their respective differences. Marco Bagnoli, in La Parola (come la Colonna ogni parola nel silenzio una colonna) 1991-2009. Nature, understood in its entirety, raises questions and seeks answers. Vitantonio Russo, in Economic art – To open the debate, attempts a fair distribution of interest-bearing assets with the installation-position Glossary and debates.
Organization: Associazione Culturale Onlus Il Clavicembalo
John Cale: Wales at Venice
Ex-birreria, Giudecca, 800/G
from June 7 to November 22
Taking poetry and performance to cathartic ends, John Cale presents a new, specially commissioned audio-visual installation that is both of physical environment and the rich bardic history that remains an intrinsic part of its cultural landscape and language.
Organization: Arts Council of Wales
John Gerrard Animated Scene
Certosa Island
from June 7 to September 30
John Gerrard's Animated Scene presents three virtual sculptures as large-scale wall projections. Based on the artist's documentation of the agro-industrial landscapes of the American Great Plains, the individual works together constitute a quiet memorial to the age of oil and its acute political and social consequence.
Organization: RHA Projects, Royal Hibernian Academy
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