In these spaces, designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, are Mariano Fortuny’s studios, revealing all his abilities, skills and arts – a ‘behind the scenes’ of his creations.

There is the printmaking and typography, with presses, etchings, his own productions and the equally fine ones of his father, and the works collected by the family, for instance etchings by Goya, Tiepolo and Piranesi. Then there is the textile laboratory of gowns and fabrics, including his mother’s important collection of garments and ancient fabrics, the original matrices for printing and models for pattern cutting; the theatre, with the wooden stages made by Mariano to try out lighting and stage effects.

Alongside this is the photographic studio, with the experimental equipment that led to the patenting of a special kind of photo paper, and finally, his work as a painter and his beloved books. Even Mariano’s study and library, immortalized in many photos from the period, will be open to the public for the first time – a fascinating discovery featuring the furniture he designed, the cuttings and the curiosities he kept, the covered filing cabinets and his most personal mementoes.

The visit of the second floor is included in Museum’s ticket >

Photo by Massimo Listri

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The Museo Fortuny will reopen as a permanent exhibition venue.
Two years after the ‘Acqua Granda’ flooding seriously damaged the Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, Mariano Fortuny’s house museum is set to reopen its doors to the public, following essential conservation work on the ground floor, and the refurbishment of the upper floors.
These modifications set in train a historically grounded reorganization of the museum spaces, with the restoration of the rooms devoted to the memory of the brilliant and highly talented Mariano Fortuny.

The exhibits included paintings, lighting systems, clothes, fabrics, colours and dyes resulting from the genius of Mariano and Henriette, together with photographic archives and items from the personal collection, documents and patents, and works by artists and friends who came to Venice and lived in and found new light in the palace overlooking Campo San Beneto. The palace will be open all year round with permanent exhibits and will also host temporary shows on contemporary themes.

The opening will be an opportunity to present the Panza di Biumo collection of 20th-century international artworks, which are going on public view for the first time. The collection was recently donated to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia in memory of one of the most important collectors of the twentieth century.

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Free admission opening days have been postponed to Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 March.

For those who have already downloaded free tickets for Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 March it is not needed to book new tickets, they can download new admissions for the same time slot and day (Saturday or Sunday) previously booked, with automatic date change.

We kindly ask to download again admission tickets for the new dates, by entering the cart code received via email at this link and clicking the “download now” button.

The downloaded ticket must be shown at the entrance of the Fortuny Museum at the chosen time. Super Green Pass is required

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The international festival dedicated to the art of glass returns with more than 180 different events including exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, workshops, performances and educational activities.

Comune di Venezia, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Cini/LE STANZE DEL VETRO, Istituto Veneto and Consorzio Promovetro Murano present the second edition of the festival that from 9th to 16th September will involve all the main institutions in the city, with several new additions.

From 9 to 16 September 2018, more than 150 participants, with a total of over 180 events across Venice, Mestre and Murano, will take part in the second edition of The Venice Glass Week, the major international festival dedicated to the art of glass, conceived to celebrate the artistic and economic resource for which Venice is famous around the world.

The event is promoted by the Town Council of Venice and conceived by three of Venice’s principal cultural institutions with considerable experience and expertise in the field of glass – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti – along with the most important trade association, the Consorzio Promovetro Murano, which also manages the Vetro Artistico® Murano trademark of the Veneto Region.  This year’s edition has again attracted a large number of participants, with a 20% increase over the first year’s festival.

Hundreds of applications were originally submitted for review and selection by the curatorial committee that was introduced this year, chaired by the Venetian glass historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti, and including critics and curators Chiara Bertola and Jean Blanchaert, journalist and editor of the German magazine Neues Glas Uta Klotz, and chemist, university teacher and expert in the composition of glass materials Marco Verità. The high volume of applications, from foundations, art galleries, museums – among which we note the participation for the first time of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Fortuny and Museo di Storia Naturale -, cultural institutions, universities and advanced education institutes, as well as glass furnaces, companies, artists and private Italian and foreign collectors, confirms the dynamism and vitality of Venice’s cultural scene, and provides a strong indication of the local and international interest in the field of glass.

The rich and expansive programme for The Venice Glass Week festival will involve varied and widespread events across the district, which this year also extends to the mainland, with Mestre now one of its main centres, along with Venice and Murano. The events, most with free entrance, will all have artistic glass as their main theme and be aimed at audiences of all ages: exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, seminars, prize-giving ceremonies, film screenings, educational activities, parties, drinks receptions, open studios and a non-competitive night-time race around the candle-lit streets, canals and glass-furnaces of Murano.

PALAZZO FORTUNY’S PROGRAMME

Installation: Giorgio Vigna – Acque
From 9 to 16 September 2018, 10am-6pm, closed on Tuesdays

The installation Acque, exhibited on the piano nobile of Palazzo Fortuny, was created by Giorgio Vigna from works produced between 2013 and 2015. Acque is part of a research project with which the artist explores the possibilities of glass in the relation between fire and water.
With this work he transforms simple copper containers into signs with a mystical value. The first works in this research were exhibited at the Palazzo Fortuny in 2010 on the occasion of his solo exhibition Altre Nature.

Discover Musei Civici di Venezia’s complete programme > 

For information and for discover general programme:

• www.theveniceglassweek.com
• info@theveniceglassweek.com

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From June 6th to November 18th, 2014
Espace Louis Vuitton, Venezia

Designed by the art historian and exhibition curator Adrien Goetz, Sguardi Incrociati a Venezia is the third exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia. Following Where Should Othello Go? by Pompeo Molmenti & Tony Oursler, and Renaissance, Bill Viola & Carpaccio, this face to face between Jirô Taniguchi (b. 1957), the famous Japanese manga artist, and Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949), painter, set designer and photographer, offers two different views on Venice with striking similarities.

The exhibition Sguardi Incrociati a Venezia brings together more than 30 sketches, made by Jirô Taniguchi for the new Louis Vuitton Travel Book to be launched in Venice in June, with 25 photographs by Mariano Fortuny held in the reserve collection of the Palazzo Fortuny, together with films and books, after meticulous restoration work funded by Louis Vuitton as part of its partnership with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

More details on the exhibition on visitmuve.it >>>

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Padua – Venice , 21st – 23rd November 2013

Three days of study about the result of collaboration between the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia – Palazzo Fortuny , the University of Padua , the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice.

The conference will open in Padua at the Chamber Hall of the Botanical Gardens (Botanical Theatre) the afternoon of 21st November with the presentation of the project of the University and the first results. The next two days (22nd and 23rd November) will be held instead in Venice at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini .

The Scientific Committee is composed by Gabriella Belli (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia), Cristina Grazioli (University of Padua), Maria Ida Biggi (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Ca’ Foscari University) , Daniela Ferretti (Palazzo Fortuny) and Claudio Franzini (Palazzo Fortuny) . The conference is part of the program “Atlas Fortuny” started in 2012 by the University of Padua (scientific coordinator Prof. Cristina Grazioli).

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WAX FIGURES IN ITALY
Conversation with Alvar Gonzalez-Palacio and Andrea Daninos

Friday, June 8, 2012, at 18
Venice, Ateneo Veneto

The conversation with Andrea Daninos, curator of the exhibition, and Alvar Gonzalez Palacios, one of the leading experts in applied arts at the international level, will take inspiration from the works on display at Palazzo Fortuny to try to explore some aspects related to the theoretical and historical figures in wax.

For more information:
Ateneo Veneto
Venice, Campo San Fantin, 1897
http://www.ateneoveneto.org/

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