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Update from Hiroshi
Watanabe -- New exhibitions & new publications
From June
4th to September 30th, 2011 "REAL VENICE" is now open.
 "Real
Venice" is a Venice in Peril project whereby major artists
will donate their creative vision for the benefit of the
lagoon city.
To promote
the cause and raise funds for its work, the Venice in Peril
Fund has invited a group of distinguished international
artists to photograph Venice and create a collection of
original images of the city for the 2011 Venice
Biennale.
Their work
will be shown in an exhibition entitled "Real Venice" at the
Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore on the island of San Giorgio
(next to the Cini Foundation). The exhibition is a special
initiative for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity of the
Italian Pavilion. It will be followed by an exhibition in
London at the premises of Phillips de Pury in November this
year.
After the
London exhibition, Simon de Pury will conduct a dedicated
auction of some of these works, while the rest will be sold
privately or through their artists' galleries, with the
proceeds going to Venice in Peril. It is anticipated that the
exhibition will also become a touring exhibition from January
2012, showing at many of the world's major international art
institutions. The tour will be organized by the International
Enterprises department of the Barbican Centre in London.
www.veniceinperil.com/
14 artists
in "Real Venice" are ,,,
Lynne Cohen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia,
Antonio Girbés, Nan Goldin, Pierre Gonnord, Dionisio Gonzalez,
Candida Höfer, Tiina Itkonen, Mimmo Jodice, Tim Parchikov,
Matthias Schaller, Jules Spinatsch, Robert Walker and Hiroshi
Watanabe.
 C PHOTO Real
Venice
For this
second issue of C Photo Collection, Ivorypress has promoted an
initiative in collaboration with the Venice in Peril
Foundation. Fourteen artists have created a series of
photographic works about Venice and donated them to Venice in
Peril to be sold to raise funds to preserve the city from
decay. These photographic projects comprise the Real Venice
exhibition, which will be shown as part of the 54th Venice
Biennale. They are also illustrated in this volume, together
with a selection of essays that underline the long-standing
relationship between Venice and photography.
With texts by
Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Claudio Piersanti and William A.
Ewing.
Portfolios by Hiroshi Watanabe, Jules Spinatsch,
Dionisio González, Nan Goldin, Tim Parchikov, Candida Höfer,
Mimmo Jodice, Robert Walker, Matthias Schaller, Lynne Cohen,
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Tiina Itkonen, Antonio Girbés and
Pierre Gonnord.
STAGES OF "REAL
VENICE"
Venice
The first
stage of Venice in Peril's "Real Venice" exhibition will be to
show a selection of the works of art it has commissioned, and
which have been so generously donated by the artists, in the
Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore on the island of San Giorgio.
The curator of the exhibition is Elena Foster, founder and CEO
of Ivorypress and organizer of a very successful photographic
exhibition at the 2006 Architecture Biennale.
The
Island of San Giorgio is also the location of the famous Cini
Foundation. Simultaneously with "Real Venice", the Cini
Foundation will be hosting a major exhibition entitled
"Penelope's Labour: Weaving Words and Images", whilst
'Ascension' - an installation by Anish Kapoor, will be on view
in the Basilica di San Giorgio. The "Real Venice" exhibition
will be one of the official events of the Biennale under the
aegis of the Padiglione Italia. It will be open to the public
from the 4th June to the 30th September.
London
The second stage of "Real Venice" will
see the exhibition move from Venice to London to be shown and
then auctioned by Phillips de Pury & Company. This will
take place in November 2011 as part of their main Contemporary
Photography sale, held in their headquarters in Howick Street.
The images will be shown on their website and in their sale
catalogue.
International Tour
In
its third and final stage, the "Real Venice" exhibition is set
to tour internationally. The tour will be organized by the
International Enterprises department of the Barbican Centre in
London. The calendar of the tour will not be finalized until
later this year but it is anticipated that the exhibition with
travel to America, Asia and Australia.
From June 8th to July
12th "Kids
are People Too"
Panopticon Gallery
inside Hotel Commonwealth, 502c
Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, (617)267-8929
www.panopticongallery.com
Panopticon Gallery is proud to present
Kids Are People Too, an exhibition that celebrates
children in photography, as explored through the vision of
sixteen photographers, from the well known to the emerging
contemporary artist.
Several pieces from my "Kabuki
Players" series will be on
display.
 Many of my images from the
same series are also featured in "CITIZEN K", fashion
lifestyle magazine in Russia, this month.
 
 From June 15th to 19th
"Selection Art Fair"
AD-Galerie
booth, Basel, Switzerland. http://www.selection-art.com/
From September 2nd to
24th "Easy roads, dark
roads"
Gallery Tosei, Tokyo,
Japan
TEL:03-3380-7123
http://www.tosei-sha.jp/
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out all my latest news and additional information on facebook
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And lastly, in case you have not
heard, I am happy to announce the lastest
addition to our family. A girl was born on March
26th.
Her name is Yume  (meaning: Fullfilling
dream).
 Nice to see
you.
Cheers,
Hiroshi
Watanabe
June, 2011
Email: contact@hiroshiwatanabe.com
Web:
http://www.hiroshiwatanabe.com/
©Hiroshi
Watanabe
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