Dal sito www.kunstkritikk.se è stata data notizia che l'artista Danh Vo sarà al Padiglione Danese. L'artista è noto per il suo lavoro sulla Statua della Libertà.
Danh
Vo, We
The People (Detail), 2010-2013. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2012.
English
A press release
issued by the Danish Arts Foundation today states that the Committee for Visual
Arts Project Funding has selected Danh Vo as the artist to be featured in the
Danish Pavilion in the 2015 Venice Biennial.
Appointing Danh
Vo to represent Denmark at the 56th Venice Biennial is not just an obvious
choice in view of the committee’s ambition to “show pre-eminent examples of
Danish contemporary art in an international context”. Out of all currently
active artists with close ties to Denmark, Vo has had one of the most prominent
careers on the international art scene in the last decade. He exhibits his work
at many of the most important institutions in the world and collaborates with
some of the most cutting-edge artists, curators, and galleries around today.
But Vo is also an interesting choice for a national pavilion because he often
addresses, with his distinctive neo-conceptual approach, issues of nationality
and migrant culture in a highly personal manner, always characterised by his
unusually well-honed sense for reading rooms and contexts – both physical and
cultural. His large-scale work We the People (Detail), 2010-2013, which
has been exhibited at e.g. Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, is a good
example of this.
Danh Vo
Danh Vo (b. 1975)
is a graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen and the
Städelschule in Frankfurt. Born in Vietnam, Vo grew up in Denmark, arriving
here at the age of four with his family.
With their choice
of Vo the Danish Arts Foundation continues the selection policy evident from
the previous Venice Biennial, where Denmark was represented by another young
Danish artist with an international career, Jesper Just (who belongs to the
same generation of artists as Vo).
Back then the
International Committee for Visual Arts wanted the pavilion to house a project
that integrated and merged art, architecture, and communication, even going so
far as to dictate that “such ‘experimental co-operation’ will form the
fundamental premise of the Danish contribution to the Biennial”, which
specifically meant that Just would “work closely with an architect and a
communicator/educator of his choice”, as the press release issued back then
said. The very brief press release provided by the Danish Arts Foundation today
stipulates no particular preconditions or expectations regarding Danh Vo’s
upcoming contribution to the Danish Pavilion.
The Danish Arts
Foundation’s Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding is responsible for and
funds Denmark’s participation in the Venice Biennial. The current Committee
comprises the following members: Gitte Ørskou (chair), Bodil Nielsen, Lilibeth
Cuenca Rasmussen, Jacob Tækker, and Claus Andersen.
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