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The Venice Biennale 2017, in complete comfort

The Venice Biennale 2017, in complete comfort

The Venice Biennale, from May 15th to November 26th 2017

The lagoon is an ancient work of nature. Initially the tides, the reflection and the land in reciprocal action, and then the progressive lowering of the prehistoric waters, makes such that at the superior extremity of the Adriatic sea there forms a considerable marshy area, that, after having been submersed in high seas, becomes partially liberated by the receding waters.

Human art seizes the most distinguished points, and it is thus that Venice was born, gathering within itself hundreds of islands, surrounded by hundreds more.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

1895, the Biennale was born

The first edition of the Venice Biennale took place in 1895, with a notable public success: that amounts to 224,000 visitors, a record number for the time. The realization of the most important links to the exposition event spaces would follow in the successive periods, especially in the years between the 1800s and 1900s, which would see the expositions of the greatest contemporary artists of world renown, from Renoir to Modigliani, from Klimt to Picasso.

The arrival of cinema

Venice Tour by luxury car with driver – Cinematic Biennale of Venice

The Biennale went along in the same fashion until the 30’s, when Venice became the birthplace of the First International Festival for the Cinematic Arts in 1932. Under the control of the Fascist state, the Biennale and the artistic movements born under this impulse would obtain greater financial resources and the Venice Biennale would begin to organize Italian expositions abroad.

The Second World War interrupted the activities of the Biennale and the related artistic expositions, which would be undertaken again only in the after-war years.

In 1948, the Biennale returned with the full splendor of the years previously lost to wartime events. The presence of contemporary artists was vast: Chagall, Klee, Braque, and Magritte, among others. Then there was Pablo Picasso, followed by friend and apprentice Renato Guttuso.

Precious Collections in Venice

In those years, Venice was a renown city, a formidable laboratory of contemporary and avant guarde art, be it for great artists, be it for large collectors, like Peggy Guggenheim, who would place in Ca’ Vernier dei Leoni in Venice one of her most important Newyorkese collections, from then on a key point for visitors passionate for the arts.

The Cinematic Exhibitions gained new life, with a definitive location in Lido, while Leon di San Marco would be be instituted shortly and recoined the Leone d’oro (Golden Lion), which was the highest prize for the “Settima arte.” Various editions would follow in quick procession, amidst reform, interruption, discord, and great change among leaders in the artistic field.

The Contemporary Biennale

Venice Tour by luxury car with driver – Art exhibition 2015, Venice BiennaleIn 1980 the Architectural section of the Biennale was founded and the Biennale made a great leap with the opening of artistic spaces in the famous Arsenale di Venezia

After the grand centennial celebration of the Biennale in 1985, the Biennale became transformed legally in 1998 into a “Cultural Society,” with a board of directors such that the head was nominated by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

With a new legal personality, the newest form of the Biennale took off again, amid historical spaces, all restructured, such as the Arsenale and new organizational and administrative sectors, amid interdisciplinary objectives, notably co-productions, and renown international conventions and enormous public participation.

The exhibitions today are no longer organized only for national pavilions, but in fact are founded on three “pillars”:

  • The exhibition for national pavilions, each of which with its own curator and its own project deign;

  • The international exhibition from the curator of the biennale, nominated for this specific task;

  • Collateral events, approved by the Biennale curator. 

    These are only a few of the strategic changes and prevailing designs of the most recent years which have made of the Biennale a global event of extreme importance, be it in the field of research or in the field of creation.

2017, trip to Venice by car with personal driver 2017

Venice tour by luxury car with driver – Doge’s Palace in Venice

The 57th edition of the International Art Expo 2017, open to the public from May 13th to November 26th at the Gardens and Arsenal of Venice, has attracted 86 participants, among which three new countries are represented for the first time: Antigua and Barbuda, Kiribati, and Nigeria.

LONG LIVE ART is the title of this edition, which attempts to convey, in a single exclamation, the love, the passion for the Arts and for the figure of the artist.

Transnational pavilions, open tables, educational projects, cultural exchanges with other museum institutions, prizes and philanthropy: these are the biggest points of attraction for such a global event open until November 2017.

Venice tour by luxury car with driver – Canal Grande of Venice

This is a splendid occasion to visit Venice, allowing you to take several days for yourself to explore all of its marvelous wonders.

From the Doge’s Palace to the Basilica of San Marco, from the palaces along the Canale Grande to all of the other innumerable historical, architectural, and artistic sites of interest.

As soon as you begin to explore Venice, you will catch incredible glimpses and surprises, because this city is the only of its kind in the world, filled with things to do and see, so many that it is impossible not to walk for a minute without running into something that merits a pause (and some beautiful pictures).

Venice and its lagoon form a rich landscape of charm and beauty easily reached by beautiful cars with drivers, up to the transportation services on the water.

Vip Limousine provides all this with utmost collaboration of trusted drivers to satisfy all demands in the city and to help you reach the small towns of Lido and the lagoon, its islands and all of its monuments.

Our professionals and our offices, open 24/7, will be happy to organize your tour of the Biennale of Venice, taking into consideration your wishes and planning your excursion by luxury car with personal driver in every minute detail to save you time and trouble.

We therefore kindly refer you to the contact page.

 

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