Wednesday, May 25, 2011

54TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – VENICE BIENNALE



Monday, June 06, 2011 - Sunday, November 27, 2011

AT THE 54TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – VENICE BIENNALE
PADIGLIONE ITALIA  


WORKS BY TONY CALZETTA, VINCENZO PIETROPAOLO, FRANCESCA VIVENZA


The Italian Cultural Institute is proud to present Padiglione Italia at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. On display works by Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Francesca Vivenza.

June 6 – November 27, 2011
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 496, Huron St., Toronto
Gallery hours Mon - Fri: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Free admission
Infoline: 416-921-3802 ext. 221


To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities have launched a special event. For the first time ever the Padiglione Italia at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has been extended over the national boundaries to include the Italian Cultural Institutes in the world.
  
The aim of the project, which has been devised by Vittorio Sgarbi, art director of Padiglione Italia, is to map out Italian creativity abroad.

Each Institute has elected a number of Italian artists or artists of Italian descent living and working in its own jurisdiction, active in various disciplines, from painting to sculpture, photography, video, design, graphics. Over 400 artists’ portfolios have been submitted to a special commission made up of art historians and critics and chaired by Vittorio Sgarbi and 219 have been chosen.

The artists selected for Toronto are Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Francesca Vivenza.
A collective exhibition of their works will be on display from June 6 until the end of the Venice Biennale, November 27 at the Institute. The exhibition has been filmed in a video which will be screened at the Padiglione Italia on a multimedia installation created by Benedetta Miralles Tagliabue. The accompanying music, “Da Pitagora e oltre”, has been composed for the occasion by Ennio Morricone. The exhibition has been curated by Adriana Frisenna (IIC Acting Director) and Corrado De Luca, (from De Luca Fine Art Gallery)


A special bilingual catalogue edited by Skira and curated by Francesca Valente (project coordinator) will accompany the exhibition.

Tony Calzetta
Over the last 30 years, since graduating from York University with an M.F.A., Tony Calzetta has exhibited continually in solo and group exhibitions. He works mainly on canvas and paper and occasional in the areas of sculpture and printmaking. He published two major livres d’artiste, Acts of Kindness and of Love in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and more recently How God Talks In His Sleep and Other Fabulous Fictions with writer Leon Rooke. In addition to commissioned works he is represented in public and private collections in Canada, U.S. and Europe and in 2004 was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.).

Vincenzo Pietropaolo is an independent documentary photographer who lives and works in Toronto. He is internationally best known for his empathetic social documentary photo essays on immigration, work, and labour movement. He has published 8 photographic books, among which Making Home in Havana, Not Paved with Gold and Harvest Pilgrims. His latest large documentary project, Invisible No More (Rutgers University Press, 2010), deals with Canadians with intellectual disabilities.

Francesca Vivenza graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy. Vivenza has been living and working in Toronto since1970, and has exhibited since 1966. Her practice consists of mixed-media works, which include bookworks, cut-out collages and site-specific installations, that she calls Tentative Itineraries. Vivenza addresses themes of travel, distance, disorientation, and questions the stability of taken-for-granted sites of personal identity as home, nation and native language. 

For additional information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit www.delucafineart.com/ or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart

PHOTO EXHIBITION, BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING


Come celebrate Maria Coletsis exceptional exhibition and book launch for: 
BEHIND THE WHIP: DOMINATRIX
PORTRAIT AND WORDS


“Behind the Whip: Dominatrix, Portraits and Words” is a series of photographs and interviews involving dominatrix taken on location in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia. These photo essays present an intimate look at the women, their words, and their dungeons. These women discuss in the interviews why they choose to do what they do, who their clients are, and the services they provide as well as how their services uniquely represent the city in which they work.


Maria Coletsis at De Luca Fine Art Gallery

Pages from the new book by Maria Coletsis,
"Behind The Whip: Dominatrix Portraits and Words"

PHOTO EXHIBITION
May 26th to May 30th, 2011

BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING
May 26th, 2011 6 to 10 p.m. 

A short film of the making of the book will be shown on the opening night.

Book: $40 (plus HST)
To purchase copies, please contact Corrado De Luca:
corrado@delucafineart.com or order by phone 416-537-4699
 
Payments can be made by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or by cash.

With our apologies, this is NOT a wheel chair access event. 
For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit http://www.delucafineart.com/ or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart