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Imago MundiThe exhibition presents the collection, made up of more than a thousand small paintings, (all in 10x12 cmformat) that Luciano Benetton has collected travelling around the world. The collection exhibits the worksacquired in Australia, India, Korea, United States and Japan. This collection is indeed similar to an openinventory able to contribute and show how varying is the way the world is seen, studied and represented byartists and how their experiences help us to understand the riches kept into whatever is different and faraway that the world offers to our interpretations.Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Castello 5252 (Santa Maria Formosa)August 28th - October 27 thh. 10 – 18 closed on MondaysOrganization: Fondazione Querini Stampalia onlushttp://www.querinistampalia.it/In Grimani. Ritsue Mishima Glass worksIn Grimani is the first contemporary art exhibition created for the rooms of a museum, which used to be theformer residence of a powerful sixteenth-century Venetian family. The glass works by Ritsue Mishima arethe brainchild of long periods spent into the palace. The artist who has been living in Venice since 1989,·expresses herself using the ancient craft culture of the furnace and Murano glass masters give shape to herideas, as witnessed by the pictures taken by Rinko Kawauchi, to whom a room has been dedicated, allowingus to see a poetic vision of the mysteries of glass working and the furnace.Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 4858 (Ruga Giuffa)May 30th – September 29thTuesday – Sunday h. 8.15 – 19.15, Monday h. 8.15 – 14admission feeOrganization: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Soprintendenza speciale per il patrimonio Storico, Artisticoed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo museale della città di Venezia e dei comuni della Gronda lagunarewww.palazzogrimani.orgInk · Brush · Heart, XiShuangBanNa“In the end of 2012 I was invited to visit the rainforest of XiShuangBanNa, in the South of China. While I wasindulging myself in the serenity of the rainforest, I was more and more astonished by the supremacy ofnature. While the colors of my daily environment fade everyday more towards grey, the colors here felt sovital and bright. I observed the trees that reach up to 90 meters height, comparable to most of the newconstructed buildings in Chinese cities. In order to be so tall, these trees need to have extremely deeps roots.I realized then that our society in order to reach higher needs to go deeper and hold on to its own traditions.The trees leaves form an intriguing composition with the feathers of the peacock. With its tail of 100 eyes it isconsidered as a manifestation of the heavenly Phoenix on earth. In the tradition of Feng Shui it is indicatedas the celestial animal of the South of China, representing power and beauty.” Simon MaConservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Palazzo Pisani, San Marco 2810 (Campo Santo Stefano)June 1st – November 24thh. 10 – 18 closed on Mondays (except June 3rd and November 18th)Organization: Museum of Contemporary Art, ShanghaiLAWRENCE WEINER: THE GRACE OF A GESTURETHE GRACE OF A GESTURE, an artwork by Lawrence Weiner, forms the centerpiece of an exhibitionorganized by the Written Art Foundation and presented on the ground floor of the Palazzo Bembo near theRialto bridge. A component will be the installation of THE GRACE OF A GESTURE which will appear onfive of Venice’s major sources of transportation, the vaporetti. It will transport the work through the CanalGrande, the Arsenale, the Giardini and beyond. The work will be shown in ten different languages rangingfrom Chinese to Japanese to Arabic to Hebrew. Included in the exhibition at Palazzo Bembo will be anotherfour works by Weiner originally created for his exhibition Displaced at the New York Dia Center for the Artsin 1991.Palazzo Bembo, San Marco 4793, (Rialto, Riva del Carbon)June 1st – November 24thh. 10 – 18 closed on TuesdaysOrganization: Written Art Foundation - www.writtenartfoundation.de