From Goya to the miracles of Venice, the art on TV in the first week of September – Arte.it

Sky Arte Week
A box of beauty floating on the water between the reflections of the glass, the magic of the calluses, the glamor of the beach, the charm of museums and secret glimps. Welcome to Venice, the Lagoon City, which, 1600 years after the foundation, is told in the documentary film Venice. Infinite avant -gardeWritten by Didi Gnocchi, Sabina Fedeli, Valeria Parisi and Arianna Marelli, directed by Michele Mally, broadcast on Sky Arte Tuesday 2 September.
A travel schedule between historic buildings, immortal works, photographers of the past and the present, led by Carlo Cecchi, witness of the Venetian cultural memory, and by the young Polish pianist Hania Rani, with the narrative voice of Lella Costa.
The spectators are caught during the documentary, the energy of the great visionaries such as Casanova, Wagner, Banksy and Peggy Guggenheim.
The schedule of this first week of September will take place on Tuesday 2, with painting, protagonist of Goya’s shadeThe docufilm dedicated to the artist who, like few others, was able to tell the nightmares, obsessions and spirits of people on the canvas.

Venice. Infinite Avant -Garde, a film by Didi Gnocchi and Michele Mally

On the Thursday of Sky Girt Arte us instead under the secrets of one of the most admired works of art of all time. For the series Masterpiece – The Art Unveiled (Sky Original Production), in which a team of experts offers a new perspective on the creative realization of seven timeless masterpieces, we will explore The girl with pearl earringOne of the emblematic works of the Dutch genius Johannes Vermeer. Made around 1665 and now kept in the Mauritshuis dell’aia, this oil cloth will be placed under the lens during the episode, analyzed by modern technologies and historical knowledge.

Sunday 7 September changes register. Bad Art – Notes for History It is the Sky Original Production that will guide us under the protagonists of Povera art to explain how this subversive movement has strongly influenced the development of contemporary art. The film, directed by Andrea Bettinetti, will guide the public from home at the most important places for the birth and development of bad art, from Rivoli Castle to the Merz Foundation, a visual intertwined that connects installations, archive materials, exhibition spaces. To meet the history of the movement, the testimonies of many of the protagonists of that time are from Giuseppe Penone to Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giovanni Anselmo. The contribution of gallery owners, curators and critics, including Germano Celant himself, who published the manifesto towards the end of 1967 entitled Bad art, notes for a guerrilla warfare. We will approach the memorable historical phase of Italian and international art and appreciate the power and expressive freedom based on poor art.

Johannes Vermeer, the girl with the Pearl Earring, 1664-67, Mauritshuis, The Hague

Giorgio de Chirico -head player on the history of Rai
About the history of Rai the series Daily Iconologies He will accompany the public to discover Giorgio de Chirico. After having spent the entire youth and youth in Greece, the artist will always remain connected to the classical culture that will live in his paintings with mythological ruins and heroes. The old past and the current unchanging condensed in signs that require countless meanings, while the Greek myths become autobiographical episodes. It’s an example The departure of the ArgonautsA theme that has been taken several times. On the photo of 1909, the painter shows himself and his brother Andrea as Castore and pollutes that Greece with the protection of Athena.

On Kunstt -tv Paul Cézanne, pioneer of modern art
What is it that a pioneer of modern art by Paul Cézanne does? We will find out on TV thanks to the documentary, available until 26 September, projected on the occasion of the reopening of Cézanne’s Family Residence in Aix-en-Provence. From the city of Provencal we will reduce the process of the master who ran from his hometown inspiration for an avant -garde -vision.