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René Burri, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1984 © René Burri / Magnum Photos

Photographs by René Burri and Ferdinando Scianna

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From August 26th 2016 to January 8th 2017, Casa dei tre oci hosts two photography exhibitions.

René Burri. Utopia, curated by Michael Koetzle and Denis Curti, ad Ferdinando Scianna. Il Ghetto di Venezia 500 anni dopo, cured by Denis Curti. 

Two independent exhibitions which show 100 images by René Burri, dedicated to architecture and its protagonists, and 50 unpublished shots by Ferdinando Scianna on the occasion of the 500 years since the founding of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice.

Both photographers became members of the prestigious photo agency Magnum.

 

Utopia by René Burri (Zurich 1933-2014) collects together for the first time over 100 images devoted to architecture by this great Swiss artist, with shots of famous buildings and portraits of architects.
Burri’s photography was born from his need to recount the great transformational processes and the historical, political, and cultural changes of the twentieth century, paying close attention to certain people (his portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso are unforgettable) who were part of it.
Utopia is being held at the same time as the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture and reflects this, inasmuch as Burri conceived of architecture as a genuine political and social operation that conveys and imposes a vision of the world; this impelled him to travel throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America in the footsteps of the great twentieth century architects, from Le Corbusier to Oscar Niemeyer, Mario Botta, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, and Richard Meier.
Apart from their portraits and their buildings, Utopia also displays images of historical events that are brimful of contrasts and hopes, such as the fall of the Berlin wall and the protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989.
 
The top floor of the Casa dei Tre Oci is devoted to the work of one of the most important Italian photographers, Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria, 4 July 1943). For the occasion of the 500 years since the foundation of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice (on
29 March 1516), the Fondazione di Venezia decided to undertake a photographic reconnaissance with the aim of recounting contemporary aspects of the Ghetto. The exhibition project has been organised by Civita Tre Venezie.
Scianna has undertaken a typically Street Photography reportage by collecting together images of the everyday life of the Ghetto, including portraits, buildings, and the interiors of houses and places for prayer. Churches, restaurants, squares, and
gondolas are the subjects that enliven the visual panorama of the project. As part of this narrative, mention should be made of the coexistence of a symbolic, historical, and ritual dimension intrinsically connected to places and gestures, and of simplicity in the description of a present and ordinary time.
The curator Denis Curti has said, “Ferdinando Scianna has been able to construct a delicate story [...]. He has given a form to collective memory by pinpointing and heightening individual stories: we can feel their beauty and solemnity. [...] The pain
of the Holocaust, which is never overstated. The stumbling blocks and marks of an event that will remain indelible. [...] We orient ourselves within these photographs.
The cardinal points become an embrace and indicate a visual trust that allows us to enter into the intimacy of the many portraits that make up the complex mosaic of this experience: this is the language of affection, and the grammar of the body”.
The exhibition “Il Ghetto di Venezia 500 anni dopo” will have a catalogue in Italian and English, published by Marsilio Editore, which will contain, among other things, essays by Donatella Calabi, Denis Curti, Paolo Gnignatie, and Ferdinando Scianna.

 

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Repeats в неделю каждые Понедельник и каждые Среда и каждые Четверг и каждые Пятница и каждые Суббота и каждые Воскресенье до вс Янв 08 2017 .
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Venue

Casa dei Tre Oci
Fondamenta delle Zitelle, 43
30133 Giudecca - Venice
Ferry boat
To the Zitelle stop
From piazzale Roma and the railway station, line 4.1 - 2
From San Zaccaria, line 2 - 4.2
 
Dates
26.08.2016 > 08.01.2017
 
Press preview
Thursday 25 August from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 
Opening hours
Every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed on Tuesday
 
Special openings
Tuesday 1 November; Monday 26 December; Saturday 31 December; Sunday 1
January (from 2 p.m.); Tuesday 3 January; Friday 6 January.
 
Special closing day
Sunday 25 December
 
Info
phone +39 041 24 12 332
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