![]() ![]() The link between Palazzo Manfrin, chosen by Kapoor as the seat of his artistic foundation, whose restoration project was entrusted to the architect Giulia Foscari (UNA / FWR Associati), and the Gallerie, which represent the most important collection of Venetian and Venetian art in the world, is therefore very significant. When, around the middle of the nineteenth century, the works of the collection were sold, after the death of Manfrin, the heritage of the Gallerie dell’Accademia was enriched with twenty-one paintings including some of his major masterpieces such as: La Tempesta and La Vecchia di Giorgione, in addition to works of great quality such as the San Giorgio by Andrea Mantegna and the Portrait of a young man by Hans Memling, the Madonna enthroned with the Child and a devotee by Nicolò di Pietro, I Santi Paolo e Antonio eremiti by Girolamo Savoldo, San Pietro and San Giovani Battista by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto. The Gallery had in fact become one of the major tourist attractions of Venice, visited, among others, by Antonio Canova, Lord Byron, John Ruskin and Edouard Manet. Palazzo Manfrin, purchased in 1788 by Count Girolamo Manfrin, a wealthy tobacco merchant, who had transformed the first floor of the building into an art gallery, was considered for its collection of paintings, but also of sculptures, books and prints, a sort of “completion of the Venetian painting heritage exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts”. ![]() Ground-breaking new works, created using carbon nanotechnology, which will be shown for the first time, as well as recent paintings and sculptures that are testament to the vitality and visionary thrust of Kapoor’s current practice.Īs announced today, 12th November 2021, during the press conference held at the Galleries, in the presence of the Director Giulio Manieri Elia, the curator of the exhibition, Taco Dibbits and Anish Kapoor, the exhibition will be enriched with a second and prestigious venue: the historic Palazzo Manfrin, in the Cannaregio district of Venice, to whose collection originally belonged a significant nucleus of masterpieces now exhibited in the Museum. This exhibition will have retrospective elements alongside newer bodies of work, presenting key moments in the artist’s career. Venice, November, 2021 – From 20th April to 9th October 2022, in conjunction with the next International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia are dedicating an extraordinary exhibition to the great artist, internationally recognized, Anish Kapoor. ![]() All rights reserved SIAE, 2021, unless stated otherwise Anish Kapoor Exhibition in Venice at Gallerie dell’Accademia It Will Also Be Articulated In A Second Venue, The Historic Gallery Of Palazzo ManfrinĪll images © Anish Kapoor. ![]() The Great Exhibition That The Galleries Of Accademia In Venice Dedicate To The Maestro Anish Kapoor Location: Galleries Of Accademia / Palazzo Manfrin, Venice, Italy Anish Kapoor Exhibition Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia Show, Palazzo Manfrin News, Venetian Art Photos Anish Kapoor Exhibition at Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia ![]()
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