Matite in viaggio

Quelques croquis de mon petit séjour à Venise à l'occasion de Matite in Viaggio,
festival de carnets de voyage.

Alcuni schizzi del mio soggiorno a Venezia per la mostra dei taccuini Matite in Viaggio a Mestre.

Ponte Rialto

 

Gallerie dell'Accademia

Gallerie dell'Accademia

Santa Maria della Saluta

 

Ponte del Gaffaro, Dorsoduro

Campo de Castelfranco San Rocco

Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

Fondamente Nove, Isola San Michele

Fondamente Nove, Casino degli Spiriti

Matite in Viaggio

The pandemic period prevented me from attending the Matite in Viaggio festival in Mestre-Venezia. Every year, coming to MIV is overall the occasion of meeting good friends and fellow sketchers in an extraordinary inspiring and sumptuous city.

It is also a real pleasure to live a few days in Italy, to improve my low level of language and to enjoy their sophisticated quality of life.

 

I then returned to Chioggia, a fisherman old city in the south of the laguna, that I first discovered almost 30 years ago when I was studying in the Beaux-Arts school of Lyon.

La période de pandémie m'a empêché d'assister au festival Matite in Viaggio à Mestre-Venezia.

 

Chaque année, venir au MIV est surtout l'occasion de rencontrer de bons amis et collègues dessinateurs dans une ville extraordinairement inspirante et somptueuse. 

C'est aussi un réel plaisir de vivre quelques jours en Italie, d'améliorer mon faible niveau de langue et de profiter de leur qualité de vie sophistiquée.

Je suis ensuite retourné à Chioggia, une vieille ville de pêcheurs au sud de la lagune, que j'ai découverte pour la première fois il y a près de 30 ans alors que j'étudiais aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Matite in Viaggio

Con Federico Gemma, Silvia Cariani e David Zappaterra

Matite in Viaggio is a travel sketchbook (Carnet de Voyage) festival in Mestre, a city at the door of Venice. This edition was featuring a lot of very talented artists and this is an honor to figure among the selection.

с Еленой Юзефовичем und Detlef Surrey

The exhibition is the occasion to meet each other or to see again one year after.  We also have great time visiting and sketching the Serenissima  and… drinking Spritz together ;)

La granda cena

Our Italian friends  are welcoming us so warmly every year.  The saturday night dinner is the Climax of the week-end, and this year's table was bigger than ever.

Ponte de le Torrette

Deuxième participation au festival de Carnets de Voyages "Matite in Viaggio" à Mestre, aux portes de Venise. J'étais encore très honoré de participer à cette exposition dont le niveau général ainsi que le nombre de participants a encore augmenté cette année.

Fondamenta de le Sechere

Nouvelles connaissances, retrouvailles entres amis sketchers venus de tous pays, Matite in Viaggio devient un rendez-vous incontournable.

Campanile de San Pantalon

Étant donné la situation de Mestre, nous nous réjouissons aussi chaque jour d'aller dessiner ensemble dans les ruelles et le long des canaux de la Sérenissime et… de boire un Spritz ou deux au passage ;) 

Santa Fosca, Isola de Torcello

All my Venezia sketches are collected in the following Flickr Album

Matite in Viaggio

Sketching with Hugo (Port) and Elena (Rus)

Matite in Viaggio is an exhibition of travel sketchbooks (carnets de voyage) taking place in Mestre, an italian city linked to Venice.

During the week-end, the visitors could browse our original sketchbooks

96 artists were selected to present their work at the Candiani Cultural Center and, for my personal satisfaction, "Mountains" was one of this year's theme.

 The center of Mestre is so close to Venice that we had many occasions to sketch together in this wonderful place..

The warm welcome of the organizing team clearly contributed to the success of this event.

The exhibition is still running, every afternoon from 4 to 8pm (except mon and tue), until october 22nd.

My sketches of Chicago

Browse the Flickr Album to see all the sketches of Venice.