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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Virgilio Guidi

	April 4, 1891 (Rome) – January 7, 1984 (Venice) Virgilio Guidi was born in Rome. His father, a Roman, of Tuscan origin, was a sculpture and a poet. His grandfather was a decorative design architect. At an early age, Guidi dedicated his energy to painting and decorations. After completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he exhibited in 1915 at the Secession of Rome Exposition and becomes involved with an infamous group of intellectuals that met regularly at the Café Aragno. In 1920 and again in 1922, he is by now, a participant in the Biennale of Venice and in 1924, Guidi established his position with the “Tram”, a controversial work of art. Though he counts himself as a member of the 1900’s Art Movement, he follows an independent course differing even from the Surrealist movement, the Group of Valori Plastici, and distinguished himself as a major protagonist in Europe of Magical Realism, with it’s overtones of fantasy and wonder. Guidi asserted himself with his concepts of light/space synthesis which will later have a primary role in the evolution of his studies and creative experiments. In 1927, he takes the chair in the art faculty at the Academy of Art in Venice and later in the city of Bologna. He is invited to participate in major international art exhibitions worldwide. In 1928, Guidi weds a fellow student, Adriana Bernardi, and that same year, their daughter, Maria Vittoria was born. In 1935, Guidi and Severini are jointly awarded the prize at the Quadrennial of Rome. In the year 1948, the Biennale of Art in Venice is stunned by his cycle of paintings, entitled “Figures in Space”. That same Biennale in 1954, Guidi having previously exhibited in nearly all of its editions, dedicated an enormous anthological exposition in his honour. He returns ten years later with his own personal exhibition. Guidi complies with the theories of the Spatial Concept, a movement led by Lucio Fontana, although elaborating his own ideas based on the cosmic symbolism of light and abstraction. In his last period, Guidi alternates his famous icons with innovative figurative syntheses of Venice, expressions of inexhaustible vitality, speculative and poetic. To the end, he continued to renew his artistic expression of the metaphysics of light. Virgilio Guidi died at the age of 92 in Venice.
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