OMAR GALLIANI：Princess Lyu-ji’s dream

Omar Galliani, the internationally renowned artist, pays homage to art and beauty with his masterpiece "Princess Lyu-Ji's dream at the Florian": the installation is a tribute of love to all women and confirms the strong connection between Asia and the city of Venice, considered the magical gate to the East. The “Princess Luy-Ji” room is said to bring good luck to lovers who exchange their love vows there.

Gianni Berengo Gardin and Frenopersciacalli

At the end of August 2013, Gianni Berengo Gardin exhibited, in the historic Café in Saint Mark’s Square, forty of his photographs on the occasion of the Biennale Cinema. All shots were made in October 2012. The photographer set his camera to shoot a week of life at Caffè Florian: its Rooms, photographed in black and white, reflect a story of everyday life of Florian, the “good” living room of Venice. Most of them are unpublished images taken by Gianni Berengo Gardin during a week spent in the rooms of the historic Caffè. Blending among clients the artist has choosen to capture tourists, lovers, usual clients, the musicians and the waiters busy in their job. Together with these pictures the photographer has added some of his historic photographic shots, taken about forty year ago.

Frenopersciacalli is the graphic writer chosen to exhibit on the first edition of "Florian Underground": a tribute not to the celebrities who frequented the Caffè Florian in Saint Mark's Square, but to the Non Noti (Non-Famous), all the unknown customers who frequented this historic establishment in nearly three hundred years. A graffiti drawn on a round piece of paper: a different face for each paper, a tribute to all those people who, while seated at the Florian without being noticed that much, sipped their coffee, watched around, thought, and participated into its life.