Have you ever seen the fabulous Byzantine mosaics that covers the navies, the paintings and the dome of the Saint Mark Basilica? What have come up in your mind?
Klimt in the 1899 was astonished by the beauty of that mosaics, they appeared to him as a “golden rain”, a rain that since that moment would have inspired his masterpieces.
Here there’s the beginning of that strong bond between the artist and Venice, destination of his first journey abroad, that marked deeply Klimt path as an artist.
With our Art &Go offer you’ll have the chance to visit the exhibition for free.  Keep reading, now we want to tell you more about the artist and his show not to be missed at the Correr Museum…
In the 1910 Klimt participation to the Venice Biennale was successful and a room was dedicated to him. A century after his participation, Gustav Klimt is in Venice again with an extraordinary exhibition, “Klimt in the Sign of Hoffmann and the Secession”, that is on show in the Correr Museum until the 8th July, 2012 after being exposed at the Belvedere Museum of Vienna.
About 30 years of masterpieces, from 1880 to 1910, displayed in order to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth (1862-2012). Focus to the beginning s of the klimtian career, the exhibition is a joint production of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Belvedere Museum of Vienna
Revolutionary and innovative, that is how the artistic movements to which Klimt belonged have been defined; constantly looking for the pure beauty. New ideas in pictorial an architectural are represented through the exposition in Venice of precious drawings, paintings, furniture and refined jewelry and historical documents too.  Famous exponents of this new school of thought have been:  Minne, Jan Toorop, Fernand Khnopff, Koloman Moser, and above all the companion of many intellectual ventures and projects, Josef Hoffmann.
Precisely his collaboration with Josef Hoffmann is one of the main themes of the exhibition, which seeks to show how in a very short time these two remarkable figures, the artist and the architect, were capable of sharing commissions, clients, friends. Above all, it reveals their common passion towards the Gesamtkunstwerk, that is, “the total work of art”. The highest point of the utopian realization of this concept can be seen in the Beethoven Frieze (1901-1902) and in the decorations for Brussels’ Stoclet Palace, both of which will be showcased at the Venice exhibition.
The Sunfower (1907) is one of the news of this authentic Venetian, the Belvedere Museum has acquired only few days ago and has been sent to Venice .
An exceptional exhibition that represents a unique opportunity to get to know this extraordinary artist in a location that was central to its evolution.
Moreover, Klimt said to look to his art if you wanted to know about him: “Who wants to know more about me, that is, the artist, the only one that is worth knowing, look closely at my paintings to reach you who I am and what I want. ”
There’s nothing better than seeing the show by yourself: the tickets are free for you if you book our Art&Go Offer! Get all the details on our website.
Location: Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco 52 – 30124 Venezia
From March 24th to July 8th 2012
Opening hours: daily, from 10 am to 7 pm (ticket office from 10 am to 6 pm)
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Ancient buildings, historical churches and secular monuments… you could think Venice is an island where the time has stopper and the past is the most important dimension…
On the contrary, Venice is a lively city with thousands of proposals and characterized by a vivid artistic enthusiasm!

-    Madame Fisscher.
In this exhibition Urs Fischer transforms Palazzo Grassi that becomes art itself: in Palazzo Grassi’s main hall, you can find a mock-up of his London Studio up to the finest details, from the perimeter masonry to placing all those objects whose everyday function is far from being artistic; at the first floor, the exhibition spaces have been redistributed with opening walls and creating steps now lead up to the Grand Canal, thus restoring the original building appearances of the noble mansion and the focus ware the household items.

Among the thirty works on show, with In Dubio pro Reo and The Lock of 2007, and prior A Thing called Gearbox
Open every day from 10 am to 7 pm.
Except on Tuesdays and on the 24th, 25th December.
Last entrance at 6 pm.

-    “PICASSO and VOLLARD. The genius and the art dealer” at the Palazzo Franchetti.

For the first time in Italy, you’ll be able to admire, in the wonderful rooms of the Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal, the 150 works that illustrate in depth the long and thwarted ties between the art dealer Ambroise Vollard and Pablo Picasso, who become the greatest artist of the twentieth century .
More than 100 carvings are displayed in the Vollard Suite such as the Minotauromachia, perhaps Picasso’s greatest graphic masterpiece, the 30 original etchings for the Histoire Naturelle by Buffon, the etchings of theSaltimbanchi, with the infamous etching ‘Le repas frugal al Chefs d’oeuvre inconnue’ by Balzac.
When in 1901 Picasso  arrived in Paris, he was just a young artist unknown who wanted to success in the world of art . Vollard was one of the first person who gave him the chance to display his paintings in a gallery,  being a skillful merchant-editor able to promote the emerging artists among the European and American collectors.
A 40 years relationship involved the two men deeply until the death of Vollard in the 1939. This complexity has been well represented in this exhibition.
Palazzo Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano 2842, ponte dell’Accademia
6 april – 8 july 2012
Mon - Sun h 10.00-19.00

-    “Double-cross. The ambiguity of the photographic image” on show at the BLM

This exhibition have been organized in collaboration with the Photography Foundation and will be displayed at the Gallery in St. Marks’ Squa¬re until June 24th 2012. 49 photos, 9 videos and an installation made by international artists and that belong to the collection of contemporary photo¬graphy of the Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Foundation. With immediacy end efficiency the pictures make you ask many questions often unsolved about the contemporary time and about the existence.
The works offer interesting cues or simply new point of view to think about and underline how often the images communicate an ambiguous message different from what they really mean.

Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
Galleria di Piazza San Marco 71/c, Venezia
From April 5th to June 24th 2012
wed-sun 10.30am – 5.30pm
Monday and Tuesday closed

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Are you looking for a special gift to buy in Venice? Do you want something particular, original and stylish? This new collaction is ideal for you…
The passionate love of art and the original vision of Peggy Guggenheim have inspired the collection of objects and accessories expressely create by the designer of the Benetton Group’s communication research center “Fabrica” for the special occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Foundation. The prestigious new collection of items named “Who is Peggy?” is on sale in the two shops of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Moments of her life documented in black and white photographs are the original motive present in the bag silk-screened. Than a series of coloured notebooks with figures which seem to move. Our favorite item is the the elegant ceramic typewriter that could be a sicret container. It remaind the passion of Peggy for letter-writing and it’s a stylish house ornament.

You can find this creative and unique collection at:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
701 Dorsoduro, Venice

About Peggy
Peggy Guggenheim was born in New York on 26 August 1898, interested in culture, art and intellectual activities, had the opportunity in 1921 to travel in Europe. She lived in Paris heart of bohème and American ex-patriate society and in 1937, encouraged by her friend Peggy Waldman, Peggy decided to open an art gallery in London. Than she moved from America to Europe promoting new artists and cultural activities.