ART HOTEL GRAN PARADISO

Sorrento is a small city in Campania, southern Italy, with some 16,500 inhabitants. It is a popular tourist destination. The town can be reached easily from Naples and Pompeii, as it lies at the south-eastern end of the Circumvesuviana rail line. The town overlooks the bay of Naples, as the key place of the Sorrentine Peninsula, and many viewpoints in the city allow sight of Naples itself (visible across the bay), Vesuvius and the island of Capri.

The Amalfi Drive (connecting Sorrento and Amalfi) is the narrow road that threads around the high cliffs above the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Ferry boats and hydrofoils provide services to Naples, Amalfi, Positano, Capri and Ischia. Sorrento's sea cliffs and luxury hotels have attracted famous personalities, including Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti.

Sorrento is famous for the production of limoncello, an alcoholic digestif made from lemon rinds, alcohol, water and sugar. Other agricultural production includes citrus fruit, wine, nuts and olives. Wood craftsmanship is also developed.

                          Wattanachot Tungateja

On 9 April 2019 Wattanachot and his team went to ART HOTEL GRAN PARADISO de Sorento. He brought arts from Italian art tour 2019" at Vallo  Della Luciana, Italy. The exhibition was held in the bedrooms of each artist. every one can exhibit their works. This is the great opportunity to all artists in this trip with the ART HOTEL GRAN PARADISO. that provide privacy and better public relation with its own beauty at the coast of Tyrrhenian Sea.



   

In this issue, I would like to present an interesting Thai artist whom I met for the first time at the Art Exchange Exhibition. He works as a lecturer for many universities in Thailand. His profession is somewhat different from other lecturers in Thailand since he was an ambassador of art in Thailand to many countries with his intention to elevate Thai Art with exhibitions and workshops connected all over the world. 

With his experience as an alumnus of UCLA,USA, he selected artists including freelancers from many institutes to attend workshops and exhibitions overseas. Not so simple for artists from Thailand to use their own budget to be visiting artists abroad but with his support, artists from Asia would eventually work together.

Wattanachot’s works are remarkable and his trains of thought are shown in a series of artworks that reveal a harmonious mixture of social and natural environments. He is keen on teaching arts to students and is regarded as avant-garde. After coming back to his homeland, he brought what he saw abroad and created new, imaginative pieces of artwork. Looking at his works, we can see the identity, stability and richness of his imagination. He received many awards from various exhibitions. He also had his own studio called 56 Art Studio in NakhonSawanProvince.Thailand 

 Address: Via Catigliano 9, 80067 Sorrento NA, Italy

Phone: +39 081 807 3700

Ready to restart for a 2019 full of events, art and international guests!

Art Hotel Gran Paradiso will be stage of the Italian Art Tour, perfect combination of art and travel, in April 2019.

Artists from all over the world, inspired by the beauty and cultural richness of the Sorrento Coast, will leave track of their passage with specific site settings Don't miss it... stay tuned!

We are ready for an exciting 2019,rich of events, art and international guests! Art Hotel Gran Paradiso will be part of the Italian Art Tour, a perfect fusion of Art and Travel, in April 2019.

Artists coming from all over the world will be inspired by the beauty and cultural richness of the Sorrento Coast and will leave a trace of their stay with site specific works. Don't miss it...stay tuned!

An exhibition on Antonio Canova

 An exhibition on Antonio Canova 

           

  The Three Graces

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For the first time at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, an amazing exhibition featuring 12 large marble sculptures and over 110 works by the genius that was, Antonio Canova.

“The last of the ancients and the first of the moderns”: a definition that well befits the supreme Antonio Canova and his sublime art, celebrated for the first time in Naples with an extraordinary exhibition at the MANN-National Archaeological Museum. The exhibition runs from March 28th to June 30th 2019, and was created in collaboration with Ermitage Italia. It is co-promoted by the Mibac-National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg as part of an important collaboration protocol that links the two institutions.

The exhibition has also received the support of the Campania Region, the patronages of the Municipality of Naples, the Gypsotheca-Antonio Canova Museum of Possagno, and the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa.

Antonio Canova (1757–1822), the greatest of all Neoclassical sculptors, remains famous above all for the elegant nude mythological subjects that he carved exquisitely in marble. He also worked in a deeply serious, deceptively simple style. This less familiar Canova is revealed in an extraordinary series of full-scale plaster models illustrating episodes from the Old and New Testaments. Such models, used to review his compositions before they were transferred into stone, were a distinctive feature of his sculptural practice. These Biblical scenes were made in connection with a project for thirty-two low reliefs that were to adorn the Tempio Canoviano, the church he built for his home town Possagno, which later became the artist's mausoleum. He completed only seven models before his death.

For the first time, the focus of the exhibition is that of the continuous relationship,

intense and fruitful, that linked Canova to the classical world, but we also see an artist renewing the Old by looking at nature.

CANOVA Amorino Campbell

Canova e l’Antico at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli runs from 28th March to 30th June 2019

                          Wattanachot Tungateja

Canova expo Napoli

“Imitate, do not copy the ancients” to “become inimitable” warned Winckelmann, the father of neoclassicism, a warning heeded by Canova throughout the course of his artistic activity. From the early Theseus and the Minotaur to the Sleeping Endimion, finished shortly before his death, the Ancient / Modern dialogue is an inalienable constant.

“The National Archaeological Museum of Naples, where the great Canovian statue of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon is located” – explains its director Paolo Giulierini – it was the ideal place to hold an exhibition that took into account this prolonged dialogue between the great Canova and classical art”.

Here masterpieces admired by the Venetian master are preserved: ‘ercolanesi’ paintings and sculptures that he saw during his first stay in the city in 1780; the Farnese marbles, moved from the Farnese palace in Rome to Naples at the behest of King Ferdinand IV, that were the inspiration for major works by Canova, such as Amore Farnese.

Tre Grazie Canova

Curated by Giuseppe Pavanello, one of the greatest scholars of Canova, and organised by Villaggio Globale International, the exhibition will feature large scale models and plaster casts, bas-reliefs, plaster and terracotta models, drawings, paintings, and monochromes. There will also be six marbles on loan from the Hermitage of St. Petersburg, which boasts the largest collection of works by Canova in the world – The Winged Amorino, L’Ebe, The Dancer with her hands on her hips, Love and Standing Psyche, the head of the Genius of Death, and the famous and revolutionary sculpture of the Three Graces (pictured above) – but also the impressive three metre high statue Peace from Kiev, and Apollo Crowning Himself from the Los Angeles Getty Museum.

Alongside these gems in the Meridian Hall of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli are other marble masterpieces that have thrilled writers such as Stendhal and Foscolo, including the beautiful Penitent Magdalene from Genoa, the Paris from the Civic Museum of Asolo, and the Stele Mellerio, an incomparable vertex of formal rarefaction and pathos. Some of the very delicate large plasters on show include the aforementioned Theseus and the Minotaur and Sleeping Endimion from the Gypsotheca of Possagno (birthplace of Canova), and on loan from private collections Amorino Campbell (pictured below), and Perseus Triumphant from the Palazzo Papafava in Padua, specially restored for the exhibition.