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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Igor Mitoraj

	Igor Mitoraj was born in 1944 of a Polish mother and a French father in Oederan, Germany. He spend his youth in Krakow where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Under the tutelage of Tadeusz Kantor, he was introduced to contemporary artist such as Andy Wharhol, Lichenstein, Merz and Klein. In 1968 he arrived in Paris to ontinue his stuies at the Ecole Nazionale Superieure des Beaux- Arts (National High School of Fine Arts). A lengthy stay in Mexico in the early seventies allowed him to study South American and Aztec cultures. At this point, Mitoraj chooses to express himself artistically in the form of sculpture. In 1976, his first personal exhibition at the La Hune Gallery in Paris is an enormous success. He is awarded important prizes such as the “Montrouge Prix de la Sculpture” and is encouraged by the French minister of Culture who provides him with a studio at Montmartre. Mitoraj travelled extensively in particular to New York and Greece. After a visit to Pietrasanta in Tuscany, the artist discovers marble as an ideal material for his sculptures, in addition to his previous use of terracotta and bronze. In 1983, he chooses to make Italy his home and opens a studio in Pietrasanta, though he continues to maintain his Paris atelier. In 1986, Mitoraj accepts an invitation to participate in the XLII International Biennial Art Exhibition in Venice. In only a few years time, Mitoraj’s works of art have been exhibited in many countries, often one-man showings as well as large museum expositions. He began to receive important international commissions for his huge monumental sculptures both from private collectors as well as public sectors. His works can be seen in London at the British Museum and Canary Wharf, at Bamberg and Krakow; in Paris at La Défence, at the Uffizi Museum and the Boboli Gardens in Florence, in Piazza del Carmine and the Scala Theatre in Milan as well as in Rome in Piazza Monte Grappa and Piazza Mignanelli. In 2004, Mitoraj exhibits his monumental sculptures at the Tulleie Gardens of Paris, at the “Mercati di Traiano” in Rome and at the Royal Palace of Warsaw. In September 2005, The Contini Art Gallery of Venice in collaboration with the Venetian Civic Museums of Art and History, inaugurate an exhibition entitled “Mitoraj a Venezia”, an exposition of 21 sculptures, 16 of monumental size along with 25 inedited designs. This exhibition followed an artistic route throughout the heart of the city of Venice (Contini Gallery, Cà Pesaro Musuem of Modern Art, various campos, along the Grand Canal and even in Mestre on the mainland situated in the San Giuliano Park and at the Civic Center. The exposition is a huge success. Presently, Igor Mitoraj divides his time between Pietrasanta and Paris.
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