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Mark Manders
Room with Broken
Sentence
Dutch entry 55th
Venice Biennale
Curated by
Lorenzo Benedetti
Commissioner:
Mondriaan Fund
1 June - 24
November 2013
The pavilion is
» open!
Mark Manders
(1968) is representing the Netherlands at the 55th International Art Exhibition
- la Biennale di Venezia. The Dutch pavilion showcases Room with Broken
Sentence, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti (1972). The exhibition covers a 23 year
span of Manders’ activity, combining existing installations with a monumental 4
meter high monumental new work.
The larger
installations developed specially for the Rietveld pavilion reveal significant
new aspects of the artist’s vocabulary. Turning his back on the frenetic
consumerist dynamics of today’s cultural system, Manders withdraws into
sculptures that seem to have always been there. All works combine a certain
mystery with tremendous visual appeal. Manders’ use of materials, in which
nothing is what it seems (epoxy looks like clay, clay becomes bronze and bronze
seems to be wood), enhances this enigmatic visual impact. Leaving the shelter
of the ‘white cube’, it infiltrates, blends into and seeks acknowledgement
within a reality close to that of the general public. In an interview Manders
stated:
“I don't often
show my work in the public domain, rather in museums where people choose to go
to see art. But since 1991 I always test a work that I've just finished in a
supermarket. I just imagine a new work there and I check if it can survive
where it doesn't have the label of an artwork. It is just a thing that someone
placed in a supermarket. Now I am sure that all of my works can stand in that
environment”.
There is a
satellite exhibition in a Venetian supermarket proving this aspect of his work.
2013 is a special
year for the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale, as it celebrates both a 100th
and a 60th anniversary. The Netherlands may have been present since the start
of the Biennale, but only from 1913 onwards in their own exhibition space and
since 1953 in the present pavilion designed by the great Dutch architect Gerrit
Rietveld. The selection of Mark Manders places him in direct confrontation with
Rietveld, whose Modernist pavilion is one of the architectural jewels of the
Giardini of the Biennale. The result will be a dialogue between a Modernist
architect and an artist who, a child of his time, sets out to decipher the
enigmatic temporal dimension of our age and create a parallel, autonomous one
of his own.
The Dutch entry
at the 55th International Art Exhibition is a solo exhibition by one of the
Netherlands’ most representative contemporary artists. Mark Manders launched
his career in 1986 with a work entitled Self-Portrait as a Building: a
floor plan of a building realised with pencils, pens and other writing
implements. From this point onwards his art has revolved around the exploration
of this inner building.
The Mondriaan
Fund has been responsible for the Dutch presence at the Venice Biennale since
1996. This year the entry was determined through a » juriedopen call; 82
proposals were submitted from which the Manders & Benedetti plan was
selected.
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