Archive for October, 2011

The beautiful Venice, with its harmony of shapes and colors has always been patron of the art world, this year the Biennale reaches its 54 th edition, which is titled ILLUMI nations. The classic theme of light is the chosen one, but in also lives under a recall semantic suffix "nations" is linked to various socio-political realities with an explicit reference to the pavilions of the Biennale. Starting from their own gardens, with some of the participating nations.

Spain: The Inadecuado is a performance that highlights the fragility of all that we consider appropriate. "The reality is very persistent illusion", concepts such as deviance, radical, exclusion, language and censorship vegono processed by the dialogue of some fifty members who rotate throughout the duration of the Biennale. Here, the poster, the inadequate w!

France: Chance un'immesa by Christian Boltanski, images of children on the rolls is unwound very fast for a large industrial machine made ​​of metal pipes. The artist opens wide analysis of the case and the fate: the unfolding of life and the incessant rhythm of birth and raise questions about the universal on the sole. What distinguishes one from the other? From time to time is chosen the image of one of these children and projected on the bottom: it could be one of whose power and fame lascerenno mark in history ... but then it's really a matter of luck?

Great Britain: Londoners mythical, were able to transform the pavilion into a two-story house full of atmosphere imbued with literary and cinematic references. The artist Mike Nelson plunges the viewer into a story that develops through the sequence of spatial structures made ​​with great meticulousness. Beautiful!

United States of America: Gloria is the name of works by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, dynamic spaces and dreamlike sculptures made ​​of, video performance and sound elements. Poetic and monumental works that are intended to question the relationship between art, politics and international identity in the twenty-first century. So if American Airlines armchairs and beds become giant bodies cash sound like we inizare to worry about?

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: From the reflection on the meaning of limit of space and the two artists Martine and Jean Feipel Bechameil give consapevolazza that sensory perception has physiological limits and that our concept of space is now dated. The important thing is not to exceed the limit, but to create a new space within existing space. The space is destabilized and in crisis and recreation space involves the destruction of an institution, the same is true for the space of life, action, direction and communication. So ... the result is chaos perceptive.

Greece: The best were the Greeks who have turned the space of the pavilion, both externally and internally, and expressed the best, according to the artist's vision Diohandi, the political situation in Europe and worldwide. How critical the recession on the actual experience of Greek pavilion was covered with wood as a big box and exposes a "sold out" over the entrance ... within just water. It may be said: "Let water from all sides"?

Besides these many other countries, a total of 28 pavilions set up the gardens, many arsenal and outdoor stalls until you get to 89 exhibiting countries, a large number considering that the last Biennial there were 77. Among these some are present for the first time, as the People's Republic of Bangladesh, which shows the shocking current condition of the country. The title of their project-Parables Parables: it compares with an idea known and unknown, through associations of thought, we understand what before was obscure. Tayeba Begum Lipi reflects on the plight of women in Bangladesh society, while Imran Hossain Piplu presents a museum of fossil animals, human reference to an archeology based on the legacy of war. And finally (the last but not least!) The Italy Pavilion, which this year was not the center of the gardens but rather to the arsenal. Edited by Vittorio Sgarbi has a rich supply of young and established talents in Italian art. The foundation of the Biennale aims to enhance contemporary creativity also honoring our beautiful Italy for his 150 th birthday. Abstract art, portraits, paintings and other playful irreverence. The only criticism one can make is that, with so much work piled up, the attention comes quickly fail.

Here more pictures of exhibits:

And Maurizio Catellan, what happened? Here he is with his pigeons stuffed 200 (a reissue of his tourists in 1997) in the central pavilion of the gardens ... poor feathered, have annoyed the wrong person!

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