Contini Art Gallery

Con ognuno dei miei artisti ho un rapporto bellissimo, un feeling fatto di complicità, ho il piacere di respirare con loro le stesse emozioni...

In gallery: Vetture in vetrina a Venezia

The Contini Art Gallery has the pleasure to invite you at the personal exhibition of Enrico Ghinato hold in the venetian seat in Campo Santo Stefano, San Marco 2765, from the 15th of December 2011 until the 15th of April 2012.

Open every day from 10:30am until 1:00pm and from 2:00am until 7:30pm.

Work of the Month

The Contini Art Gallery is glad to present you the video installation by Fabrizio Plessi, who with a simulation of waterfalls enriches the windows of the entire faҫade of Palazzo Pestrin, located in Calle Larga XXII Marzo,
San Marco 2288, Venice. Inside is hosted a
collective exhibition of international artists,
and solo exhibitions and Fabrizio Plessi
Enzo Fiore.

The exhibition is open every day from 10:30
am until 1:00pm and from 2:00pm until 7:30pm.

Meet the Artist

The Contini Art Gallery invites you to meet the artwork of Igor Mitoraj in the Archeological Park Valle dei templi of Agrigento, from 15th of April 2011 until November 2011.
“Extended to February 15, 2012"

In gallery: Virtual Tour

The Contini Art Gallery has the pleasure to invite you at the personal exhibition of Enrico Ghinato hold in the venetian seat in Campo Santo Stefano, San Marco 2765, from the 15th of December 2011 until the 15th of April 2012.

Open every day from 10:30am until 1:00pm and from 2:00am until 7:30pm.

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Giovanni Soccol

Giovanni Soccol was born in Venice in 1938 and began painting in the early 1950’s. He often visited the atelier of the Viennese painter, Ilse Bernheimer and later frequented the studio of Gennaro Favai, a Venetian artist. In 1956, Soccol enrolled in a Free-thinking School of nudes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and a year later in the Faculty of Architecture. For the next 10 years he alternates his university studies with painting, (Summer Courses at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie ), ultimately attaining his degree in Architecture under Carlo Scarpa in 1967. He continued to paint under the guidance of Guido Cadorin. Lengthy periods were spent in Paris during which time he formed a profound friendship with Lèon Gischia, set designer, Jean Vilar and the chemist, Marc Havel. In 1968 Giovanni shares a teaching position with Mario De Luigi professor of Set Designing at the Academy of Fine Arts, a position he himself obtains in 1974. In these years, he intensively researches the field of abstract art and abandons his more figurative style of the 50’s. Thus the origin of his cycle, “Presenze-Assenze”, “Visions” and “Months” which will distinguish his style throughout the 1980’s. His interest in stage/scene designing, both in theatre as well as cinema, continues to develop. Soccol makes several important contributions collaborating with the International “Cantiere” of Art in Montepulciano and later with the Royal Opera in Stockholm. In the mid-1980’s, Soccol begins to dedicate his energy exclusively to painting developing his iconic motifs, enriching them with more formal and symbolic importance. In this period he produces works such as “Saudade” and the “Isole” in which images of the real world filtered through memories, emerge on the canvas. During the 90’s, Soccol thoroughly analyzes these themes giving more life to the past as seen in his “Basilica”, “Cistern” , “Labyrinth” and the “Lits flottant”. Giovanni Soccol presently continues to elaborate on these themes in a series of works - “Dormienti” (“Sleepers”) and “Petroliere” (“Tankers”) - where the structure of the pictorial surface, the use of color and even the creation of the images themselves are analyzed.
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