MADE IN WARHOL
Display of artworks by Andy Warhol
Palazzo Corvaja, from March 21 to June 7 2015
Open every day except Mondays: 10,30am – 1.00pm and 4,30pm – 9.00pm
During Easter Time – from March 31 to April 7 – the exhibition will be open every day, including Mondays, from 10.30am to 10.30pm
Tickets on site and on ctbox.it
Ticket: € 7,00
Reduced ticket (€ 4,00) for under 18, over 65, groups of more than 10 people and University students. Free entrance for kids under 5 years old.
Art exhibition of one of the most eclectic personalitiy of the ‘900: Andy Warhol.
The 60 works of the artist all come from the famous collection Rosini-Gutman: the Campbell’s Soup and Brillo, Marilyn Monroe and Mao, Man Ray, John Gotti, Liz Taylor and the rare canvas with Liza Minelli just to name a few.
In Palazzo Corvaja you will also see posters of his films, album covers – including those of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground and Graces Jones – some clothes designed by himself and a video self-portraits.
More info @ Taormina Arte T. +39 0942 628730 – info@taormina-arte.com
PRESS RELEASE
The exhibition, Made in Warhol, inserted into the schedule of TAORMINA ARTE, and with the sponsorship of the City of Taormina, is organized by Studio Soligo and cared by Giuseppe Stagnitta and Julie Kogler with the scientific advice of the art psychologist Alberto Angelini , documenting the great communicative power of the most eclectic personalities and important art of the ‘900: Andy Warhol. The works on display will be 60, coming from the famous collection Rosini-Gutman (from known Campbell’s Soup and Brillo the famous Marilyn Monroe and Mao, from Man Ray to John Gotti and Liz Taylor and rare work on canvas by Liza Minelli to name a few …) . At the same time the exhibition will propose the celebration of “Things”, “People” and “Symbols” applicants in business art of Andy Warhol (giving a cut exposure strictly “analytical” which will focus more on the personality of the artist, thanks to the contribution of the psychoanalyst Alberto Angelini) that have made him perhaps the most famous artist of the modern era: the posters of his films, the album covers including those of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Graces Jones, some clothes designed by himself portraits and video. You will find on display, in addition, the screening of a rare interview conducted by journalist Vanni Ronsisvalle in 1977 in Rome, where the artist is taken in his wanderings to the Eternal City, she meets characters right of the social fabric of the Roman period, as Federico Fellini and dwells contemplating the baroque architecture of the city center. Fame, fashion, act as triggering agents for the products of art, rather than works, made by manager / artist Warhol. Products in which the unique art is sublimated in the strength of the violent and disruptive screen printing, silkscreen granting the reproducibility of a matrix of originals that remain such, they become tools of communication. A serial production of objects / subjects as newspapers, decontextualized and made accessible to the general public due to their image / icon that does not require multiple interpretations or readings that have always addressed, limiting it, the vision of the art work towards spectators prepared. The portraits of some of the most famous celebrities of the international jet set testify the period “mundane” and glamorous undertaken by Andy Warhol during which the artist were commissioned portraits from all over the world and from many different social categories of people, as long as wealthy (“Painter of the court of the Seventies” is how the critic Robert Rosenblum defines Warhol). The development of communication skills, virtual or not, confirmed with the passage of time functionality, sometimes subliminal, aesthetic and stylistic choices of production made in Warhol in relation to the persuasive power of the image. A power increasingly inevitable, primary element in all social contexts in which Warhol and sociological communicates, impresses, conveys its values and its techniques and quotes.
The exhibition space will also cultural path Made in Benanti: contemporary art and especially the Pop Art, so closely linked to marketing and communication, approaches to wine and his way of communicating with a “Project “for Winery Benanti, TRANSFORMING the bottle containing the wine, and the wine itself, Work of Art. Three artists for three labels: Danilo Bucchi, Emilio Leofreddi and Mark Tamburro will create, through an event each month, in the “garden” of the Palazzo Corvaja, a work live on cases of wine, arranged as to create a large wall / canvas on which to detonate the explosive energy of communicative neo pop of the three artists.
(Source: Taormina Arte)
April 3 – Good Friday Procession
Taormina, April 3 2015 – Late afternoon/night
Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday.
In Taormina, the event starts in the late afternoon just before dusk, as hundreds of women clad in black, carrying orange-colored lanterns, descend the narrow steps linking the main streets, and begin the procession. A group of women support on their shoulders a statue of the blessed mother engulfed by flowers. A band playing somber music processes behind them, while the men of begin their march, bearing the statue of Jesus on their shoulders. The entire group slowly walks to the duomo and back.
All shop’s lighting and all street illumination on the Corso Umberto will be switched off, as soon as the procession is arriving. Only the candles of the procession give some low light. When it is passed by, the shopkeepers switch on the lights again.
Whether you’re Catholic or not, you can’t help but get caught up in the beauty, the history and the solemnity of the occasion.
(credit: Ciao Chow Linda and others).
Here the program of the Holy Week in Taormina (in Italian)
Click on the image to enlarge
March 21 / June 7 – A. Warhol
Display of artworks by Andy Warhol
Palazzo Corvaja, from March 21 to June 7 2015
Open every day except Mondays: 10,30am – 1.00pm and 4,30pm – 9.00pm
During Easter Time – from March 31 to April 7 – the exhibition will be open every day, including Mondays, from 10.30am to 10.30pm
Tickets on site and on ctbox.it
Ticket: € 7,00
Reduced ticket (€ 4,00) for under 18, over 65, groups of more than 10 people and University students. Free entrance for kids under 5 years old.
Art exhibition of one of the most eclectic personalitiy of the ‘900: Andy Warhol.
The 60 works of the artist all come from the famous collection Rosini-Gutman: the Campbell’s Soup and Brillo, Marilyn Monroe and Mao, Man Ray, John Gotti, Liz Taylor and the rare canvas with Liza Minelli just to name a few.
In Palazzo Corvaja you will also see posters of his films, album covers – including those of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground and Graces Jones – some clothes designed by himself and a video self-portraits.
More info @ Taormina Arte T. +39 0942 628730 – info@taormina-arte.com
PRESS RELEASE
The exhibition, Made in Warhol, inserted into the schedule of TAORMINA ARTE, and with the sponsorship of the City of Taormina, is organized by Studio Soligo and cared by Giuseppe Stagnitta and Julie Kogler with the scientific advice of the art psychologist Alberto Angelini , documenting the great communicative power of the most eclectic personalities and important art of the ‘900: Andy Warhol. The works on display will be 60, coming from the famous collection Rosini-Gutman (from known Campbell’s Soup and Brillo the famous Marilyn Monroe and Mao, from Man Ray to John Gotti and Liz Taylor and rare work on canvas by Liza Minelli to name a few …) . At the same time the exhibition will propose the celebration of “Things”, “People” and “Symbols” applicants in business art of Andy Warhol (giving a cut exposure strictly “analytical” which will focus more on the personality of the artist, thanks to the contribution of the psychoanalyst Alberto Angelini) that have made him perhaps the most famous artist of the modern era: the posters of his films, the album covers including those of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Graces Jones, some clothes designed by himself portraits and video. You will find on display, in addition, the screening of a rare interview conducted by journalist Vanni Ronsisvalle in 1977 in Rome, where the artist is taken in his wanderings to the Eternal City, she meets characters right of the social fabric of the Roman period, as Federico Fellini and dwells contemplating the baroque architecture of the city center. Fame, fashion, act as triggering agents for the products of art, rather than works, made by manager / artist Warhol. Products in which the unique art is sublimated in the strength of the violent and disruptive screen printing, silkscreen granting the reproducibility of a matrix of originals that remain such, they become tools of communication. A serial production of objects / subjects as newspapers, decontextualized and made accessible to the general public due to their image / icon that does not require multiple interpretations or readings that have always addressed, limiting it, the vision of the art work towards spectators prepared. The portraits of some of the most famous celebrities of the international jet set testify the period “mundane” and glamorous undertaken by Andy Warhol during which the artist were commissioned portraits from all over the world and from many different social categories of people, as long as wealthy (“Painter of the court of the Seventies” is how the critic Robert Rosenblum defines Warhol). The development of communication skills, virtual or not, confirmed with the passage of time functionality, sometimes subliminal, aesthetic and stylistic choices of production made in Warhol in relation to the persuasive power of the image. A power increasingly inevitable, primary element in all social contexts in which Warhol and sociological communicates, impresses, conveys its values and its techniques and quotes.
The exhibition space will also cultural path Made in Benanti: contemporary art and especially the Pop Art, so closely linked to marketing and communication, approaches to wine and his way of communicating with a “Project “for Winery Benanti, TRANSFORMING the bottle containing the wine, and the wine itself, Work of Art. Three artists for three labels: Danilo Bucchi, Emilio Leofreddi and Mark Tamburro will create, through an event each month, in the “garden” of the Palazzo Corvaja, a work live on cases of wine, arranged as to create a large wall / canvas on which to detonate the explosive energy of communicative neo pop of the three artists.
(Source: Taormina Arte)
Feb. / March – Meet Jazz
MEET JAZZ 2015
Casa Cuseni, Via Leonardo da Vinci, 14 @5.30pm
Free entrance and free guided tour of the villa starting from 4.30pm
The Taormina Jazz Association and the jazz player Nello Toscano – host by the historical villa Casa Cuseni – will introduce you to four timeless kigs of jazz artists who made the history of Jazz:
January 31 >> Duke Ellington
February 7 >> Charlie Parker
March 7 >> Miles Davis
March 14 >> Thelonious Monk
About Casa Cuseni Brangwyn & Kitson Art Gallery
An Italian National Monument
Casa Cuseni, designed and built by Robert Hawthorn Kitson between 1905 and 1907 below the Rocca of Taormina, is one of several fine villas built by Englishmen who chose to add to the beauty of the town whose prospects of Mount Etna and the local coastline had captivated them.
The terraced gardens of Casa Cuseni are a remarkable feat of careful design, sound construction and skilful engineering. To hold the winter rainfall until the summertime, Kitson designed a set of large cisterns under the front terrace and the pergola, for which several wells and the swimming pool made further provision. The gardens were filled with citrus and other fruit trees as well as roses, vines and wisteria, some of which still adorn the terraces. They were an integral part of Kitson’s overall design, lined up on the axis of the house and enlivening the steep access to it. At every level there is a major feature to catch the eye (…).
(source: casacuseni.com)
Jan. 24 – Javier Girotto Quartet
JAZZ
Javier Girotto Quartet
Excelsior Palace Hotel, Saturday January 24 @ 5.30pm
Entrance: 20,00 euro
Four great musicians: Dino Rubino, Nello Toscano, Beppe Tringali and a the Argentinian saxophonist Javier Girotto, who is world-around famous artist.
More info:
http://www.javiergirotto.com
http://www.javiergirotto.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KHNZY0wy_U
HOW MUCH: Euro 15.00 / 20.00
Jan. 6 – Prize “Town of Taormina”
Prize “Town of Taormina”
in memory of Nino Manfredi
Hotel Villa Diodoro, January 6th 2015 @6.00pm
During the evening > concert of the Taormina Plectrum Orchestra
“Nino” Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the commedia all’italiana genre. He was also a film and stage director, a screenwriter, a playwright, a comedian, a singer, an author, a radio and television presenter and a voice actor. He won six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d’Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for Between Miracles.
Tipically playing losers, emarginated, working-class characters yet “in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism”, he was referred to as “one of the few truly complete actors in Italian cinema”.
Manfredi was married to runway TAORMINESE model Erminia Ferrari from 1955 till his death. In 2007 an asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was named after him. In 2009 a Nino Manfredi Prize was established at the Nastro d’Argento Awards. Manfredi also named a theatre in Ostia, Rome.
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by “Nino!”, a series of events, held in various places including Los Angeles, New York, Rome and Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of an unreleased play of Manfredi.[17]
Jan. 1 – New Year’s Concert
New Year’s Concert
January 1st 2015, San Domenico Palace Hotel
Free entrance
In one of the oldest and most beautiful hotel in Taormina!
Arias from Italian Opera
W i n t e r P r o g r a m
From November 2014 to April 2015 >> Every Saturday at 9.15pm
S u m m e r P r o g r a m
From May to October 2015 >> Every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9.15pm
San Giorgio Theatre (behind piazza IX April)
€ 20,00 entrance
Do you love Opera music? The artists of the Italian Opera Taormina perform every week in Taormina. More than one hour of timeless arias from some of the most famous Italian operas.
An extraordinary journey with the most famous arias and duet from “Italian Operas”. You will hear music from great Italian operas interpreted by professional singers who have performed in the most important Italian and international theatres, performed with piano accompaniment.
The evening will be held in the Cine Teatro ‘San Giorgio’ where you will be offered a drink and can take in an extraordinary panorama view of Taormina.
Program arias from:
The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozart
La Traviata by G. Verdi
Elisir D’Amor by G. Donizetti
Il barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini
Madame Butterfly – La Boheme – Tosca by G. Puccini
Download the poster
Tickets : € 20,00 (under 25 € 15,00) Box office: 11:00 – 12:00 a.m. and from 7.00pm on concert dates Tickets Online: www.italianoperataormina.com or classictic.com
Info and booking: 0039 340 64 26 230 (mobile)
Here the program of each performance
April 4 – April 11 – April 18 – April 25
May 1 – May 4 – May 6 – May 8 – May 11 – May 13 – May 15 – May 18 – May 20 – May 22 – May 25 – May 27 – May 29
June 1 – June 3 – June 5 – June 8 – June 10 – June 12 – June 15 – June 17 – June 19 – June 22 – June 24 – June 26 – June 29 ()
July 1 – July 3 – July 6 – July 8 – July 10 – July 13 – July 15 – July 17 – July 20 – July 22 – July 24 – July 27 – July 29 – July 31
August 3 – August 5 – August 7 – August 10 – August 12 – August 14 – August 17 – August 19 – August 21 – August 24 – August 26 – August 28 – August 31
September 2 – September 4 – September 7 – September 9 – September 11 – September 14 – September 16 – September 18 – September 21 – September 23 – September 25 – September 28 – September 30
October 2 – October 5 – October 7 – October 9 – October 12 – October 14 – October 16 – October 19 – October 21 – October 23 – October 26 – October 28 – October 30
Dec. 21/Feb. 28 – TaoClick Show
“Away”
Photo Exbitions
Palazzo Corvaja, December 21 2014 – February 28 2015
Free entrance
In the magnificent set of Palazzo Corvaja, a photo exhibition organised by the Association TaoClick
Dec. 21 / Feb. 28 – Madonna de Turcis
Madonna de Turcis
Palazzo Corvaja, from December 21st 2014 to February 28 2015
Free entrance
A small old painting found (together with another important painting – the “Madonna Non Manufatta” – now located in the cathedral of Taormina) many years ago in a forgotten well. The two paintings were probably placed there to protect them from repeated invasions and looting in Arab times.
The Madonna de Turcis is now completely restored and it is a real jewel.
Dec. 20/Jan. 11 – “Vulcano” exhibition
Vulcano
Paint exhibition by Aykut Saribas and Federica Masin
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, December 20 2014 – January 11 2015
Free entrance
The two artists will show their works inspired by our mountain “Etna”, the highest active volcano in Europe and a World Heritage site.
More info
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Tel. +39 0942 620129