The Venice International Film Festival is the world’s oldest film festival.
The first edition dates back to 1932, and was held on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido.
At that stage it wasn’t a competitive event, but it consisted only of projections of films that would become classic movies.
Contemporary art is not only made up of incomprehensible works of art, turn canvasses or absurd performances.
Some of you don’t understand it, some love it, and others are completely uninterested in the topic.
I do like contemporary art, and in this post, whose title is surreal, but that you will understand if you read it up to the end, I will show you what has amazed me the most in the last few weeks.
Write your own comment and let me know what you think about it!
The Teresiana Library. In the post I dedicated to my journey to Mantua, among things you must visit there’s also the Biblioteca Teresiana (the Teresiana Library).
Founded by the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg, the Library was opened to the public on March 30th 1780 as the “Imperiale Regia Bibioteca” (“Imperial Royal Library”).
Mario Sironi, telegraphist, 1926.
Collectors and Futurists. The centenary of Umberto Boccioni’s death has awakened great interest in this important 20th century artist, but also in Futurism.
2016 have already been characterized by a strong interest in the exhibition dedicated to Boccioni himself at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (to which I dedicated the post Boccioni. Genius and Memory), and in the tour of the exhibition at the Museo del Novecento (the Museum of the 20th century) in Milan devoted to the “pre-futurist” season.
Futurism was obstructed for decades by critics who labelled it as a fascist artistic movement, and it wasn’t a matter for the debate about contemporary art in the second post-war period.
In addition, Futurism was ignored by collectors for a long time.
In fact, Futurist artists always aligned themselves, were politically active, and a lot of them joined Fascism, as I touched on in the post about Futurism.
Futurism was re-discovered only in the 1970s, and since then works by Futurists have become desirable objects for a lot of people.
Loving Vincent. If you love the paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, you must see Loving Vincent, which is absolutely the first fully painted animation feature length film. A crew of 40 artists reconstructed Van Gogh’s life through his paintings.
