A fascinating guided tour at Palazzo Fortuny that in this winter 2015/2016 is paying tribute to Henriette, at Fortuny’s side, for no less than 47 years. In the house and workshop in their Venetian palace, she worked alongside her husband in the creation of fine printed fabrics and silk lampshades. She it was, for instance, who was responsible for the idea of the Delphos, the fine plissé silk gown that became a worldwide icon of style and the symbol of a timeless elegance. This ““lady of the house”, will virtually lead the visitor through the magic spaces of the workshop-studio of Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei in discovering different artistic experiences. Other three outstanding female personalities are in fact housed here in this occasion– Romaine Brooks, Sarah Moon and Ida Barbarigo – with their unusual and fascinating “stories”, in a new intense “journey” that starts in the late nineteenth century, travels through the Belle Epoque and the 1920s and arrives at the present day, illustrating the feminine interpretation of modernity.

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IDA BARBARIGO
Herms and Saturns

December 19, 2015 – March 13, 2016 / Extended until May 1st, 2016
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny

Curated by
Daniela Ferretti
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The descendant of an illustrious family of artists, present in Venice for more than three centuries, Ida Barbarigo presents a selection of works from two series made over two decades, between 1980 and the end of the 1990s, at Palazzo Fortuny, in an exhibition curated by Daniela Ferretti.

The Herms and Saturns are the enigmatic witnesses of a complex development undertaken by the artist through painting. The canvas, colours, acids, brushes, punches are simple tools through which her vision takes shape, revealing itself in the material nature of the work.

Seductive and enigmatic, with simplicity Ida loves to recount her constant and passionate commitment to painting, as emerges perfectly in the splendid essay by Luca Massimo Barbero published in the exhibition catalogue.

Born in Venice in 1920 – her mother, Livia Tivoli, was a painter and poet, her father, the painter Guido Cadorin – Ida continues the humanist tradition of a family in which sculptors, architects, painters, scholars and writers have succeeded each other for centuries. In 1949, she married Zoran Music with whom she shared the passion for art.
She lives and works in Venice.

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Catalogue
Catalogue published by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia,
edited by Daniela Ferretti,
with text by Luca Massimo Barbero.

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