On the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the founding of Venice, the city’s largest anthological exhibition is being held dedicated to the painter Virgilio Guidi, who was born in Rome in 1891 and died in Venice in 1984.
“Tribute to Virgilio Guidi, with a look at the Sonino Collection” presents the entire artistic path of the Master, father and inspirer of generations of Venetian artists, who crossed almost the entire past century with his creativity. The music of another great Venetian Maestro, the singer-songwriter Pino Donaggio, extraordinary interpreter of contemporary music, will accompany the public in this unprecedented journey.
Included in the official programming of Venezia 1600 and organized by the Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, by Studio d’Arte GR in collaboration with Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at Ca’ d’Oro, the exhibition traces a complete journey between the beginning and the conclusion of the great Master’s untiring research: it is the first great anthological exhibition ever realized in Venice and it consists of 180 works, of which about thirty “Venezie” will come from the Venetian Sonino collection. The exhibition aims to show how Virgilio Guidi has completely changed the vision of landscape and landscape view, inventing a perfect and absolute synthesis between the idea of landscape and the idea of Venice itself. And, even more, how he was able to combine in modern painting the Renaissance light with the Venetian light, in turn a synthesis between ideal light and physical light.
There are three exhibition venues where it is possible to admire Guidi’s works: in the headquarters of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Piazza San Marco, in Palazzetto Tito at San Barnaba and in Franchetti Gallery at Ca’ D’Oro.
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Location: Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation San Marco, Palazzo Tito, Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at Ca’ d’Oro, Venice
Schedule: until January 7, 2022
