Imago Mundi, the global artistic project created by Luciano Benetton, under the auspices of Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, puts Italian contemporary art on show. The collection dedicated to Italy will be presented at the world premiere in Turin, at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, from Monday ,18th May to Sunday, 21st June. The collection — curated…

The exhibition dedicated to the 26th edition of the International Carlo Scarpa Garden Prize starts by presenting essential materials that make it possible to understand the aims and organisation of the Carlo Scarpa Prize. A first section describes the historic-geographic context of the designated site, as well as its place within the general framework of…

For the European Day of Early Music, Fondazione Benetton and almamusica433, in cooperation with Dramsam Centro Giuliano di Musica Antica, organise an exhibition dedicated to the music and musical instruments of Europe between the Middle Ages and early Baroque. The exhibition provides an overview of the world of musical instruments between the XII and XVII…

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”. Imago Mundi, the global artistic project promoted by Luciano Benetton and by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, has appropriated this evocative metaphor written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, gathering thirteen collections of contemporary art from sixteen African countries. This…

Safet Zec (Rogatica, Bosnia Herzegovina, 1943) is one of the most significant individuals involved in the artistic research of our times. His work, uninterrupted since his first pieces in Sarajevo at the end of the fifties, is documented in the exhibition of 71 works which encompass all media and instruments of painting, etching and drawing….

The vernissage of the exhibition Dandelion of Enrico Benetta is on Saturday, 20th September at 6 pm. The exhibition is organised under the patronage of Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche and is open until 26th October 2014. A guided pathway will lead visitors from the outer spaces to the indoor rooms through the large-sized sculptures, textural…

Imago Mundi, the cultural, democratic and global project, promoted by Luciano Benetton, lands in Treviso with the show The Art of Humanity, which gathers eleven collections of contemporary art representing 10 different countries from around the world. From 9th July to 3rd August 2014, Casa dei Carraresi will house two thousand 10×12 centimetre paintings from…

The aim of the exhibition dedicated to the 25th edition of the International Carlo Scarpa Garden Prize is to offer the essential elements to follow the historical-political events, the geographic features and life conditions of the awarded site, consisting of two villages, Osmace and Brežani, on the plateau overlooking Srebrenica in Bosnia Herzegovina. The set-up…

The landscape will again take centre stage in the Foundation’s exhibition halls, this time for an exhibition gathering forty graphic works of Livio Ceschin. Born in Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) in 1962, Ceschin started his engraving activity in 1991 working on masters of the past — Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Pitteri — then found his inspiration…