A large museum on Emilio Vedova will be created in Venice

A museum entirely dedicated to the figure of Emilio Vedova (Venice, 1919 - 2006) will be created in Venice. This was announced in these hours by the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova in the aftermath of the inclusion of the documentary on the painter, Dalla parte del naufragio (produced by the Fondazione itself, directed by Tommaso Pessina), in the five finalists of the Nastri d’Argento. The Vedova Museum (this is the name of the new institute for now) will be a major innovation that will aim to illustrate the personality and artistic path of the great painter.

“It is precisely the work done in recent years,” said Alfredo Bianchini, president of the Foundation, “that has brought to light his multifaceted and irrepressible personality, creating the need to open a second phase of our work that will allow for an organic and contextual study of his artistic and existential legacy, in order to bring about an overall vision of his work and leave it to the interpretation of future generations.” The museum will give an account of Emilio Vedova’s entire career with a rich path through his works (there will also be use of digital technologies), but it will also be a venue for temporary exhibitions as well as a research center. The project, the Foundation says, will allow for the study and presentation of Vedova’s overall experiences in their situational interweaving in a gradually coordinated way, considering that individual exhibitions now appear somewhat outdated and not totally expressive of Vedova’s articulated language-sign.

It is not known where the museum will be located: there is talk of the Magazzino del Sale, formerly the artist’s studio, where, moreover, the Foundation has already opened an exhibition space, currently curated by Fabrizio Gazzarri, director of the Foundation’s Collection and Archives, or Spazio Vedova, another center of the Foundation. Finally, the Foundation announced that art historian Philipp Rylands, for 30 years director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and last year chosen by the City of Padua to relaunch the Musei Civici agli Eremitani, has joined its board of directors.

Image: Emilio Vedova at work on the work Oltre-9 (Cycle II, Rosso ’85), Venice, 1985. Ph Paolo Mussat Sartor, Turin

A large museum on Emilio Vedova will be created in Venice

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