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The Teatro del Mondo as a singular building. Tribute to Aldo Rossi

In exposition until 31th July 2010

 

 

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Thirty years after it was built, La Biennale di Venezia is ready to present to the general pubblic the exhibition “ the Teatro del Mondo as a singular building” as a tribute to Aldo Rossi. This exhibition will be presented like a re-examination of his famous design dated 1979  for the Teatro del Mondo where Venise was considered a floating building anchored at the Punta della Dogana.  His work can be resumed in 3 aspects “having a precise usable if not defined space, its positioning as a volume in accordance with Venetian movement, being on the water. Clearly, being on the water is its main characteristic; it is a raft, a boat: the limit or border of construction in Venice”.


He also added “  I would like to point out that the Teatro del Mondo struck me for its life; in other words, for its formation and its being in the city and with regard to the performances. While I was listening to some music by Benedetto Marcello during the inaugural evening of the Teatro in front of the Salute and looking at the people on the stairs and balconies looking on, I perceived an effect that I had only generically foreseen. Since the Teatro was on the water, one could look out of the windows, and outside see the passing of the vaporetti and ships as though one were aboard another vessel, and these other ships entered into the image of the theatre, constituting its true fixed and mobile stage”. Aldo Rossi used these sentences to describe its Theatre, a few words but full of meaning.

The exhibition includes material and copies of documents from the ASAC, the MAXXI_Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo and the Fondazione Aldo Rossi, the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, the Museo Correr, and the RAI archives. In particular:

  • a model of the Teatro del Mondo
  • he original metal sphere that crowned the roof
  • a structure reproducing an antique “new world”, with historic images
  • prints, posters, drawings, photographs and videos (RAI excerpts)
  • correspondence and press releases of the time
  • extracts from a documentary entitled Venezia e lo spazio scenico (la Biennale di Venezia)
  • a documentary entitled Aldo Rossi. Il Teatro del Mondo edited by Francesco Saverio Fera, directed by Dario Zanasi.




The exhibition, directed by Maurizio Scarparo,  will be open untill 31st July 2010 at “Portego Ca’ Giustinian” (San Marco 1364/A) – Biennale di Venezia office presided by Paolo Baratta.