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IL PALAZZO DI EVERYTHING
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Welcome Venetians and other less noble citizens.
You have reached the home-spun website of The Museum of Everything, the British and worldwide wandering institution for the untrained, unintentional, undiscovered and unclassifiable artists of modern times.
The Museum of Everything was an Official Collateral Event at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013, with Il Palazzo di Everything a towering installation in the historic Serra dei Giardini, right next to the main Giardini.
Il Palazzo di Everything featured the mythic paintings of Italian self-taught artist, Carlo Zinelli, plus The Salon of Everything, an informal philosophical forum for artists, curators, writers and thinkers.
Il Palazzo di Everythingpresenting Carlo Zinelli
Our al-fresco construction at Il Palazzo di Everything celebrated the private world of Carlo Zinelli, that mighty 20th century auto-didact, so admired by the likes of Andre Breton, Jean Dubuffet and Dino Buzzati.
Born in Verona - just 100km from Venice - Zinelli spent his youth in the Italian countryside. He turned to painting after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War left him shell-shocked and unable to communicate.
Zinelli's rare gouaches spin a fascinating fable, from the traveling circuses of his youth,to the life-changing realities of combat. To discover more, click here.
The Salon of EverythingThe 55th Venice Biennale is close to our proverbial heart, for it reveals over a dozen of the artists historically championed by The Museum of Everything.
Names include Morton Bartlett, Frederic Bruly Bouabre, James Castle, Guo Fengyi, Emma Kunz, Achilles Rizzoli, Shinichi Sawada, Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern, Drossos Skyllas, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and Anna Zemankova, plus the legendary Hilma af Klint and Arthur Bispo do Rosário.
In celebration, during the opening weeks The Museum of Everything presented The Salon of Everything: a rolling round-table on the nature of alternative art-making practices and the missing link of self-taught art.
Featuring some of the art world's most articulate and opinionated voices, The Salon of Everything assembled and recorded a series of luminaries in a cosy caravan at Il Palazzo di Everything in conjunction with the BBC. To watch the trailer, click here.The Museum of Everything is a UK registered charity #1138368. To donate a fortune, feel good about yourself and help the orphans, click below:
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