Rolex Arts Weekend at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
19 – 20 October 2013
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Music / Architecture / Dance / Visual Arts / Film / Literature / Theatre
Download the programme of the initiative.
Limited admission.
Entrance available for the second session of Saturday October the 19th, and for the two session of Sunday October the 20th.
To partecipate, please send an email before Wednesday, October the 16th, specifying the chosen date (19 or 20 October) and the names of the participants (max. 2 participants for session for email).
We will answer you with an invitation to be printed and shown at the entrance.
The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative has selected Venice, a city with centuries-old links to the arts and to mentoring, as the location for an international event bringing together artists of different
disciplines, generations and nationalities.
Launched more than a decade ago by leading Swiss watchmaker Rolex to revive the traditional relationship of master and apprentice and ensure the world’s artistic heritage is passed on from one generation to the next, the Rolex Arts Initiative has chosen Venice for the crowning events of the 2012-2013 mentoring year. One of the reasons for the choice of Venice was the Italian city’s longstanding association with the formalized mentoring process, an association that continues today with many artistic skills being passed on from master to apprentice and father to son.
On Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October, as part of the celebration of the year-long creative journey made by the 14 mentors and protégés of 2012-2013, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini will host the protégés’ work at the Rolex Arts Weekend.
The Rolex Arts Initiative enlists the world’s greatest artists in seven disciplines – architecture, dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual arts – and matches each of them with an emerging young talent, often from diff erent continents and cultures. It gives these artistic pairs the time to collaborate in any way they choose during a year of creative conversation and interaction.
“This year’s Rolex Arts Weekend should provide a memorable experience for the artists, as well as for the distinguished audience from Italy and abroad,” says Rebecca Irvin, head of philanthropy at Rolex. “We are thrilled to be holding it at the magnifi cent Fondazione Giorgio Cini, which represents culture and its preservation at its best and where our guests can easily attend the various events at a single, exceptional venue. We are proud to support the foundation as Amici Di San Giorgio.”
The carefully curated Arts Weekend will bear testament to the successful collaborations of the
mentor-protégé pairs. Often in conjunction with their mentors, the protégés will present their
work or perform, premiering their latest creations and giving the audience insight into just
where each is headed as a newly minted star.
Various rooms of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini will be used to best advantage. For example, the Biblioteca del Longhena is the perfect venue for a talk between literature protégée Naomi Alderman and her mentor, Canadian author Margaret Atwood; the Cenacolo Palladiano room will accommodate the solo performance of dance protégé Eduardo Fukushima in the presence of his mentor Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwa-min; and the Sala degli Arazzi will undoubtedly shake with the sounds of music protégée Dina El Wedidi and her mentor, Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.
The proceedings on both days of the Arts Weekend will begin with the protégés giving 12-minute talks, along with a mentor from a discipline other than their own. This will enable the young artists to express their theories of art, and the guests to get to know them as individuals.
In the picture: Dina El Wedidi withe the mentor Gilberto Gil
