Fondazione Prada - Ca’ Corner della Regina  June 4 - October 2, 2011, Italy

The Fondazione Prada is pleased to announce the opening, on May 31, 2011, of its new exhibition space in Venice, the Ca’ Corner della Regina, an historic palazzo on the Grand Canal. Belonging to the Comune di Venezia, the building was made available by the Fondazione Musei Civici, which oversees its use and administration, for a period of six years with the option of renewal. Ca’ Corner will open with an exhibition documenting the multiple activity of the Fondazione Prada. Ca’ Corner della Regina is considered the first architectural example to introduce non-Baroque parameters as dominant themes, even if some elements of the prior style remain. Built between 1724 and 1728 by Domenico Rossi for the Corner family of San Cassiano atop the ruins of the palazzo in which Caterina Corner—future queen of Cyprus—was born, it displays an architecture stylistically reminiscent of Baldassare Longhena’s nearby Ca’ Pesaro, the current venue of the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna. The building is modulated over three storeys and features two mezzanines between the ground floor and first floor. The façade is of
Istrian stone, with rustication over the ground floor and mezzanine. The last descendant of the Corner family bequeathed the palazzo to Pope Pius VII. Until 1969, it was home to the Padri Cavanis and the Monte di Pietà, and from 1975 to 2010 it housed the ASAC, the Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee. With the support of the Prada Foundation, the restoration of the building, which for now will be limited to conservation,
has been planned in gradual stages based on the directives of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia e della Laguna, with the help of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

The Fondazione Prada
In 1993, Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli acted on a growing interest in contemporary art and established "PradaMilanoArte", an exhibition space in Milan dedicated to contemporary scultpure. The program sought to present the city of Milan and the international public with, in the words of Miuccia Prada, "the most profund and thought-provoking art projects of our times." The exhibition space was a renovated industrial building.

http://www.fondazioneprada.org

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