BIENNALE - GUCCI HOSTS DINNER IN HONOR OF CURATOR MILOVAN FARRONATO

Venice, 10th May – on the occasion of the 58. International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Gucci celebrated the opening of the Italian Pavilion with an exclusive cocktail and a dinner in honor of the curator Milovan Farronato at Fondazione Giorgio Cini located on San Giorgio Maggiore Island.

Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele has strongly supported Milovan Farronato’s work entitled Neither Nor: The challenge to the Labyrinth. For the exhibition, the curator brought together three major Italian artists—Enrico David, Chiara Fumai and Liliana Moro—who represent Italy through unseen and historic works, and whose contemporary artistic pathways are characterised by a spirit of research between past and present. Milovan Farronato and Alessandro Michele share the same curiosity and passionate outlook on the contemporary world. Kindred spirits, they complement one another and have in common an ongoing search for ever-changing, unexpected expressions of artistic sensibility and creativity, of every shape and form.

The cocktail and dinner took place at the Borges Labyrinth and the Cenacolo Palladiano at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, respectively, where guests celebrated Gucci’s latest initiative in the promotion of artistic Italian heritage.

Following the dinner, an intimate after party took place at the iconic club Piccolo Mondo where artists Haroon Mirza, Prem Sahib and SAGG Napoli performed DJ sets.

Curator Milovan Farronato, Enrico David and Liliana Moro – the artists of the Pavilion – and Gucci President & CEO Marco Bizzarri attended the event along with other notable guests such as Hope Atherton, Gavin Brown, Richard Chang, Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Benedetta e Marina Cicogna, Nicoletta Fiorucci, Anna Franceschini, Maria Luisa Frisa, Anthea Hamilton, Camille Henrot, Maja Hoffman, Koo Jeong A, Tali Lennox, Maria Loboda, Goshka Macuga, Paulina Olowska, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Shaun Caley Regen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Catherine Opie.