Venice, Querini Stampalia rises again after flood and opens exhibition on historic artists' restaurant

In Venice, the All Angelo restaurant was for years a gathering place for artists, particularly popular with personalities such as Emilio Vedova and Peggy Guggenheim.The art world is often identified with museums, galleries, public and private collections, but there is a season of modern art that had a different profile. And often important meetings, collections, occasions arose in unusual locales -- like a restaurant. And now, in the lagoon capital, the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is telling that story with an exhibition, opened just days after the flood hit the cultural institution’s historic headquarters.

It is L’Angelo degli Artisti. Twentieth-Century Art and the All’Angelo Restaurant in Venice curated by Giandomenico Romanelli and Pascaline Vatin, scheduled from December 7, 2019 to March 1, 2020: the exhibition focuses on the All’Angelo restaurant, the center of a collectionism that has had for patrons restaurateurs of rare sensitivity, far-sighted in their choices, and capable of giving life to experiences that have written an important and original chapter in the cultural scene not only of the city.

An ideal and welcoming environment for artists, in which to meet, discuss, exchange opinions and experiences, make plans, unite in groups and trends, elaborate documents and programs, but also celebrate successes, celebrate anniversaries, take note of disagreements, quarrels, consummate ruptures. And, of course, eating and drinking.

The exhibition, promoted by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in collaboration with Lineadacqua and Villa Morosini in Polesella, is part of the program of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the institution’s birth. On display are paintings, letters, testimonies, photographs, sketches, dedications and greetings, menus and recipes. The whole world of culture and art, with its protagonists, revolving around the All’Angelo restaurant.

The generous fundamental collaboration of Luciano Zerbinati and his collection, which has the merit of having purchased, saving from dispersion, the Angelo’s materials, was crucial to the realization of the exhibition. Also indispensable were the family records, memories and experience made amicably available by Renato Carrain.

The exhibition is the first stage of a project that plans to address and present the history, protagonists and collections of some of the main Venetian venues of the 20th century.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia.

Pictured: Emilio Vedova, Triptych of the Angel, detail

Venice, Querini Stampalia rises again after flood and opens exhibition on historic artists' restaurant

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