Ca' Pesaro

Past exhibitions

TWENTY YEARS OF THE INTERNAZIONAL PRIZE FOR GRAFICS "DO FORNI"

From November 12, 2006 to January 7, 2007

The exhibition, opened to public from 12th November to 7th January 2007, celebrates the twenty years of the graphic prize. Works by the winners are exposed in the ground floor of the Museum, among with works by Fabrizio Plessi, Alberto Gianquinto, Igor Mitoraj, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Rotella. […]

CAROL RAMA. The Engraved Work 1944-2005.

From September 16 to October 29, 2006

From 16 September to 29 October, a selection of about thirty-five engravings by Carol Rama – winner of the Golden Lion to the career at the 50° Venice Biennale (2003) – will be exhibited in the rooms for temporary exhibitions of the Ca’ Pesaro Modern Art Museum in Venice, alongside twenty or so works of Rama’s paintings and drawings that will be hung in the main hall. […]

THE DREAM OF VENICE. Thirty Paintings by Miranda Visonà 1912-1989.

From May 6 to August 27, 2006

The thirty works in the exhibition date from the 1930s to the 1950s, a period when Miranda Visonà immersed herself with great enthusiasm in the artistic life of Venice. As well as a series of Venetian capricci, there is a self-portrait, a portrait of her by Bortolo Sacchi and a rare portrait of Berto Morucchio, one of most important art critics in the Venice of the day and a great admirer of Visonà’s work. […]

A MODIGLIANI MASTERPIECE AT CA' PESARO. 'La femme à l'éventail' from the Musée d'Art Modernede la Ville de Paris.

From February 1 to April 30, 2006

Painted in 1919, shortly before the artist’s death, La femme à l’éventail – one of the masterpieces from the Paris Musée d’Art Moderne – is one of the numerous portraits that Modigliani painted of his friend and confidante, Lunia Czechowska.
A clear example of his late style, it reflects the influence of Cubism and of the artist’s own explorations of the medium of sculpture in the years 1911-1913. […]