Venice Biennale's Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts acquires Lorenzo Capellini Fund

TheHistorical Archives of Contemporary Arts of the Venice Biennale is acquiring the Lorenzo Capellini Fund, with the aim of preserving and enhancing the archive of the great photographer, who in sixty years of activity, formerly a contributor for Pannunzio’s Il Mondo, documented the artistic and literary twentieth century and in particular the Biennales from 1974 to 1978.

To mark the occasion, the Biennale opens on Thursday, March 30 (at 12 noon), at the Portego of Ca’ Giustinian (San Marco, 1364/a), the exhibition B74-78. Lorenzo Capellini. A Photographic Tale, and is organizing two study days on Thursday, March 30 and Friday, March 31, pressso the Library at the Giardini (Calle Paludo S. Antonio), to retrace the four years of artistic activities of the Biennale under the presidency of Carlo Ripa di Meana (1974-1978).

“We must be grateful to President Carlo Ripa di Meana for asking his friend Lorenzo Capellini to document the years of his Biennale,” says President Roberto Cicutto, “and even more so we must be grateful to Lorenzo for continuing to do so, building a unique heritage of truth that today enriches our archives. We wanted this exhibition above all because it tells of the passion of a special witness, who with his camera was able to merge history with a capital S with the lives of women and men, who in different roles made that history.”

The two days of studies at the Biennial Library will be organized as follows:

Thursday, March 30 (from 3:30 to 5 p.m.), greetings by Roberto Cicutto and Lorenzo Capellini, and talks by Bruno Pellegrino (journalist and writer), Carlo Ripa di Meana and the New Biennale. Four Years of Innovations, and by Debora Rossi (head of the Historical Archives of the Venice Biennale), From Modernity to the 21st Century Biennale;

Friday, March 31 (9:30 a.m. to 1.30), introduction by Amerigo Restucci (architect and full professor of History of Architecture (IUAV) and speeches by Gian Piero Brunetta (film historian and professor emeritus), The Difficult Years of Giacomo Gambetti, Gianfranco Capitta (journalist and theater critic), Biennali 74-78, when the scene came alive, Léa-Catherine Szacka (architect, essayist and architectural historian), The Years of Experimentation: Architecture in Exhibition and Debate, Lola Hinojosa (head of the Performing and Intermedia Arts Collection at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid), Spain 1976: Poetics of Democracy. Images and Counterimages of Transition, and by Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino (dance scholar), Dance in Glory, Venice 1975, in dialogue with Luciana Savignano. Debora Rossi will moderate.

This initiative is part of the series of periodic events organized by the Historical Archives of the Venice Biennale as part of the International Center for Contemporary Arts Research, aimed at returning research findings, informing of new acquisitions, and presenting books and archival exhibitions.

Venice Biennale's Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts acquires Lorenzo Capellini Fund

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