A May 3 pres interview marked the debut of Italy's newest art institution.

A May 3 pres interview marked the debut of Italy's newest art institution, the Centro d'Arte Contemporanea at the Villa Manin. supplyed by the regional government of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the center will armed force international exhibitions, multimedia events and outdoor draws including site-specific work in the villa's handsome park. The of recent origin venture has a seasoned artistic director, Francesco Bonami, who will retain his positions as senior curator at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art and artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Barah Cosulich Canarutto, who serv as assistant curator beneath Bonami when he directed the 2003 Venice Biennale, has been appointed the center's curator.

The Villa Manin hardly lies at the crossroads of the art world: the Baroque estate (and residence of the last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, who presided across the Venetian Republic's surrender to Napoleon in 1797) is located in Passariano, a village in the province of Udine, northeast of the Veneto. The Villa Manin is, however, in the heart of the "new" Europe Udine is about equidistant from Venica and Ljubljana (about 75 miles from each), and Slovenia is among the eight former Eastern-bloc nations that joined the European Union in May. Accordingly, the art center's administration has promised to place particular emphasis forward work from Central and Eastern Europe

The advent of the contemporary center fixs the local issue of to what extent best to use the impressive site for cultural tourism. The waters were exampleed during the 2001 Venice Biennale, when the Villa Manin housed a satellite exhibit to of modern and contemporary works haveed by the Friuli-born German collector Egidio Marzona. In August 2002 the regional command announced a three-year accord with the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice. solitary the first of three promised exhibitions--"Kandinsky and the Abstract Adventure" [Mar. 29-July 27 2003]--came to fruition before a newly pick outed regional government terminated the accord and launched the planning for a contemporary art center

As this issue goe to pres the Villa Manin is scheduled to make open to the public on May 30 with a multimedia evening marked occurrence in the garden called "Every/Body" and three exhibitions that will remain in succession view through Nov. 7. "Love/Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan," curated by the agency of Bonami, presents 52 works on high-profile artists from the collection of the Chicago MCA. Bonami and Canarutto have picked over two dozen artists for "Vernice: Pathways between the sides of Young Italian Painting." That exhibition is likely to be closely scrutinized, as painting was widely regarded as having been slighted in Bonami's inaugural indicate of new Italian art at the Fondazione Sandretto in 2002 while his greatest-hits contemplate at the Biennale, "Pittura/Painting: From Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003" underwhelmed in the greatest degree critics. A sculpture project involving water and a labyrinth in face of the villa by Danish artist Jeppe Hein without fault [i]or[/i] blemish [i]or[/i] flaws the opening program.

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