A mythical artist in a mythical place: Patti Smith chooses Piazza San Marco In Venice for the only summer date in Italy in 2025, on July 7, as part of the beauty festival.
“I discovered Venice for the first time in 1978, speaking with Isabella Rossellini on a gondola sliding along the canals – says the artist – I was struck by history, architecture and wonderful light. I lost a shoe in the water, I prayed for a son and walked in Piazza San Marco Deserto, singing softly. Now, on July 7, I will return with my now adult son, who will play the guitar, in that same square, hoping to be full of people, so that they can sing together with them “.
On a unique stage in the world, in the Live Patti Smith Quartet training, the charismatic singer -songwriter will propose her masterpieces, songs that have made the history of rock and connected the artistic and poetic imagination of multiple generations. It will be a sound journey among its most influential albums in which rock suggestions and poetic phrasing that refer to the beat generation, in Rimbaud and Baudelaire have always coexisted, with unforgettable songs such as ‘Because the Night’, written with Bruce Springsteen, ‘Dancing Barefoot’, ‘People Have the Power’.
The concert of 7 July is part of the program of the XII edition of the Festival della Bellezza which in 2025 It has the theme ‘The wonder’ and will be staged in 30 places symbol of the Italian historical-artistic heritage from the 6th century AC to the twentieth century. Promoted by the Veneto Region is organized byIDEM Association with the artistic direction of Alcide Marchioro.
Eclectic artist, musician, poet, actress, photographer and visual artist, Patti Smith is among the most fascinating icons of the contemporary artistic panorama. A few days ago, on March 26, he received one extraordinary tribute to the Carnegie Hall in New York, Where it was celebrated by artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Depp, Ben Harper, Matt Beringer, Courtney Barnett, Sharon Van Etten, Jim Jarmusch, Sean Penn and Scarlett Johansson. Has been appointed several times to Grammy e ai Golden Globes And the 2008 Steven Sebring documentary, ‘Patti Smith: Dream of Life’, received an Emmy nomination.
He also received the prestigious National Book Award 2010 for his bestseller ‘Just Kids’, which tells the deep friendship with the photographer Robert Mappler and their artistic collaboration. Narrative, poetry, photography are the themes of his books: ‘Witt’, ‘Babel’, ‘Woolgathering’, ‘The Coral Seà,’ Auguries of Innocence ‘,’ Collected Lyrics’, ‘M Train’, ‘Devotion’, ‘Year of the Monkey’, ‘A Book of Days’.
Among the ranks of international honors, the title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Ministry of Culture. In 2016 she went to Stockholm at the Nobel Prize ceremony for the literature awarded to Bob Dylan singing ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’.