Three new exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana in Venice. Exhibition venues reopen July 11

The exhibition venues of Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana in Venice reopen to the public from Saturday, July 11 and present new exhibitions: the unprecedented exhibition project dedicated to the famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, Le Grand Jeu, the monographic exhibition Youssef Nabil. Once Upon a Dream and the group exhibition Untitled, 2020. Three looks at contemporary art.

And on the first day of opening they are offering free admission to residents of the metropolitan city of Venice. The two exhibition venues will be open to the public every Saturday, Sunday and Monday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a single ticket at a reduced rate (15 euros instead of 18 euros, 12 euros instead of 15 euros). On Friday, July 10, however, the visit will be dedicated exclusively to Palazzo Grassi Membership Card holders, who will be able to discover the exhibitions in preview with a closed-door program. Access will be by time slot, by reservation and up to a maximum of ten participants per shift.

Palazzo Grassi is dedicating to the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson the unprecedented exhibition project Le Grand Jeu, conceived and coordinated by Matthieu Humery and realized with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in collaboration with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
In the 1970s, Cartier-Bresson collected and selected the shots he considered to be the most important and significant taken throughout his entire career, from the famous Dimanche sur les bords de Seine (France, 1938) or Simiane-la-Rotonde (France, 1969), to portraits of the great artists of the 20th century, such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti, to shots of the Spanish War, the French Liberation. The master’s imagination brought together in his personal selection of 385 photographs that, through epochal historical moments, encounters with great figures, and portraits of popular life, portrayed a century in black and white. Beginning with this collection, the exhibition compares the gaze of five exceptional curators: collector François Pinault, photographer Annie Leibovitz, filmmaker Wim Wenders, writer Javier Cercas and conservator and director of the Prints and Photography department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France Sylvie Aubenas, on the work of Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004). Each was called upon to make choices within the Master Collection, which became for the celebrated photographer an essential tool for understanding his work. The exhibition thus proposes never-before-seen perspectives on his production, encompassing five independent exhibitions in a single itinerary.

On the other hand, the rooms on the second floor of Palazzo Grassi host Once Upon a Dream, a monographic exhibition dedicated to Youssef Nabil. In the Egyptian photographer’s work, characterized by the use of the traditional technique typical of family photographic portraits and movie posters littered the streets of Cairo until the 1970s and 1980s, a legendary Egypt, between symbolism and abstraction, comes alive again. The exhibition, curated by Matthieu Humery and Jean-Jacques Aillagon, invites visitors to trace the artist’s career from his earliest works to his most recent works, following a dreamy, narrative rhythm.

Finally, at Punta della Dogana, the public can visit the group exhibition Untitled, 2020. Three looks at contemporary art, conceived by artist Thomas Houseago who, with curator Caroline Bourgeois and art historian Muna El Fituri, signs the curatorship. The exhibition explores the fundamental themes addressed by contemporary art through the work of more than sixty artists from different generations, from the early twentieth century to the present.

Image: Youssef Nabil, You Never Left # III (2010) Courtesy the artist and Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris/Brussels.

Three new exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana in Venice. Exhibition venues reopen July 11

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