L'artista Simone Leigh, che realizzerà il suo intervento al Padiglione degli Stati Uniti ha attivato un sito web ( www.simoneleighvenice2022.org ) dove sarà possibile seguire gli sviluppi del progetto che porterà alla Biennale di Arti Visive del 2022.
In questi giorni ho letto questo bel libro che racconta il complesso lavoro che il direttore della Biennale, Paolo Baratta, ha svolto in questi decenni con ottimi risultati. Un'istituzione pubblica che stava declinando è stata riportata al suo splendore con un articolato lavoro che viene narrato in modo piacevole e scorrevole.
Pedro Neves Marques è l'artista selezionato dalla Direzione Generale per le Arti a rappresentare il Portogallo alla prossima Biennale di Arti Visive 2022.
L'opera si intitolerà "Vampires in Space" è sarà proposta presso Palazzo Franchetti vicino al Ponte dell'Accademia.
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O projeto “Vampires in Space”, de Pedro Neves Marques, apresentado pela dupla de curadores João Mourão e Luís Silva, irá representar Portugal na próxima edição da Bienal de Arte de Veneza, que decorrerá entre 23 de abril e 27 novembro de 2022 sob o tema "The Milk of Dreams", com curadoria da italiana Cecilia Alemani.
Selecionado no âmbito de um concurso promovido pela Direção-Geral das Artes, “Vampires in Space” terá a forma de uma instalação narrativa que transformará o Palazzo Franchetti através de filmes, elementos instalativos, poemas e cenografia numa inesperada nave espacial habitada por vampiros. A proposta recorre à figura e expectativas sobre o que é um "vampiro" para abordar questões de identidade de género, sexualidade e reprodução queer, bem como formas de família não-nuclear. A instalação contrastará o estilo Gótico Veneziano do Palazzo Franchetti com uma sensibilidade de ficção científica, fantástica e especulativa própria ao trabalho de Neves Marques.
A Representação Oficial Portuguesa, comissariada pela DGARTES, ficará instalada no Palácio Franchetti, o novo espaço expositivo situado nas margens do Grande Canal de Veneza, com o qual foi celebrado um protocolo de utilização para os próximos 3 anos.
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Sobre o Tema da Bienal:
O tema geral da 59ª Bienal de Veneza "The Milk of Dreams" é inspirado num livro de Leonora Carrington, no qual, como diz Cecilia Alemani, "a artista surrealista descreve um mundo mágico onde a vida é constantemente repensada através do prisma da imaginação, e onde todos podem mudar, ser transformados, tornar-se algo e outra pessoa. A exposição leva-nos numa viagem imaginária através de metamorfoses do corpo e definições da humanidade".
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The EDP Foundation will be the Main Patron of Portugal’s Official Representation at the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, which will take place between 23 April and 27 November 2022.
Pedro Neves Marques is the artist selected to represent Portugal in Venice with the project “Vampires in Space” which, according to curators João Mourão and Luís Silva, will consist of “a narrative installation which will transform the second floor of Palazzo Franchetti, on the margins of the Venice Grand Canal, through a combination of films, poems and scenography inside an unexpected space ship inhabited by vampires”.
“Supporting the Portuguese representation at the Venice Biennale is consistent with one of the main pillars of the EDP Foundation’s activity: to promote Portuguese artists and their internationalization. In fact, it is within this context that the EDP Foundation will continue its cultural mission in 2022, by issuing the New Artists Award, patronizing several institutions and continuing to publish Electra magazine,” says Vera Pinto Pereira, President of the EDP Foundation.
The EDP Foundation supported the Portuguese Representation at the International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia for the first time in 2013, the year when Joana Vasconcelos – the first beneficiary of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award, in 2000 – presented the project “Trafaria Praia”. The EDP Foundation continued its support in 2015 and 2017, the years when Portugal presented the works “I Will Be Your Mirror” and “Medida Incerta” (“Uncertain Measure”), by artists João Louro and José Pedro Croft, respectively. The EDP Foundation also supported the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, which took place in 2016, in which Álvaro Siza Vieira represented Portugal with a social housing project for the Island of Giudecca, in Venice.
Ecco il progetto che sarà presentato al Padiglione di Taiwan con l'artista Sakuliu.
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Taiwan’s Representation at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 Kinerapan: Right of Crawling
Sakuliu Conveys Reflection on Interspecies Co-sharing and Coexistence
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, along with artist Sakuliu and curator Patrick Flores, have the pleasure to announce Kinerapan: Right of Crawling, the new project representing Taiwan at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Sakuliu will create a spiritual site which comprises several new works including sculpture, installation and animation that collectively tell a contemporary story through the traditional indigenous narrative.
Sakuliu was born in Sandimen Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan (Tavadran Village of the Paiwan people). Having grown up in a family of artisans, he has developed works encompassing such diverse forms as painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. Concerned that his traditional culture was being eroded or was even gradually disappearing, Sakuliu decided to actively sustain and revive it by documenting tribal wisdom in drawings and manuscripts, rebuilding stone slab houses, creating sculptures and leading ethnic awareness movements. His creative practice is rooted in engagement with everyday society, and his status as a well-rounded artist won him the National Culture and Arts Award in the fine arts category in 2018. He has recently concentrated on classical Paiwan philosophy, expressing his thought and research findings in both text and image form.
The exhibition title “Kinerapan” is a Paiwan word, which carries a wide range of meanings, from the plant crawling to scope, distance and depth, such as the area covered by a vast forest, the distance travelled by a river, or the space inhabited by a species. Broadly speaking, the word implies both abstract distance and temporal span, including the farthest that one’s imagination can reach. Also, in the development of the human being, the crawling stage is important in the struggle with gravity and in the beginning of exploring the world. The concept of “right” is centered on the quest for fairness and dignity. The exhibition is built upon two main ethical systems: the “Semiljeva” (Paiwan for joy of sharing and giving) and “Lingulj” (Paiwan for circle, emblematic of concentric, iterative giving) – to introduce a network of symbiosis and coexistence fostered by interspecies reciprocity and interdependence. Through representing the spatial order, belief and value system of the indigenous culture, the artist responds to the changing society as well as the conflicts, anxieties and tensions it has incurred over time.
For the exhibition, Sakuliu will use an artistic language informed by storytelling and imagination to guide the audience into a spiritual world that evokes contemporary reality and life. The artist projects his imagination through constructing a space symbolic of a family house that embodies Paiwan worldview: “What would it be like if the Earth were a stone-slab house and the planet’s entire population were my family? How should I envision such a more expansive space of Kinerapan and those inhabiting it?” When organic crops are exchanged into long-lasting inorganic currency, what is its effect on the concept of sharing? How does one judge the ownership of fruits if the plants have crawled into the neighbors’ fields? Starting from indigenous art, Sakuliu has always kept alert and sensitive to interactions between multiple cultural roots. His art practice has continuously translated the profound legacies of local wisdom and technology to meditate on cross-cultural issues in contemporary society and redistribute the indigenous genealogy across and into various historical contexts. Sakuliu states, “I use my personal understandings of space, land and ecology as my script and try to find a suitable way based on Paiwan cosmic view to convey, allowing knowledge to be transmitted across cultural differences as well as through time and space.”
According to curator Flores, “The exhibition centers on the sprawling practice of Sakuliu. It surveys its many lively forms that offer both an inspiring indigenous cosmology and an urgent everyday life. Sakuliu’s knowledge of the Paiwan lifeworld as a doer and a thinker intertwines with his sense of responsibility as a citizen-artist. This knowledge produces a contemporary expression rooted in a vast Austronesian ecology and speaking to common interests within Taiwan and across the world.”
Il Padiglione Olanda è in affitto, lo storico edificio non sarà la sede dell'Olanda, come da quando fu ideato nel 1954, ma sarà fruita dall'Estonia
Il Padiglione dell'Olanda, che vedrà all'opera l'artista Melanie Bonajo, sarà nella storica Chiesetta della Misericordia.
Info https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/activities/venice-biennale/
The artist selected to represent the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 2022 is Melanie Bonajo. A broad-based international jury selected Bonajo from a long list of artists and curators who had applied to take part in earlier versions of the biennale. Those selected were invited to submit an overall plan within a short space of time. A month later, these plans were presented to the jury, which was unanimous in determining that Melanie Bonajo would be representing the Netherlands. Bonajo will be working with a curatorial team consisting of Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth and Soraya Pol. Bonajo’s work will be presented at the Chiesetta della Misericordia in the Cannaregio neighbourhood in Venice.
Members of the jury for the Dutch contribution to the 2022 Venice Biennale are: Kate Bush (curator Tate Modern), Stijn Huijts (director Bonnefantenmuseum), Hicham Khalidi (director Jan van Eyck Academy), Franziska Nori (director Frankfurter Kunstverein), Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi (curator MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York), Fatos Üstek (director Liverpool Biennale), Rieke Vos (curator Het HEM), and non-voting chairperson Eelco van der Lingen (director Mondriaan Fund).
For the 59th Venice Biennale, Bonajo will produce a new film, which will be presented together with a publication in an extensive, wide-ranging setting. Quoting from the plan for the project:
‘In Venice, Bonajo takes charge of the [human] body and hauls it up out of the claws of capitalism. Mel* absorbs you into The New Intimacy Movement. She challenges you to recognize and explore the body anew, as a means of connection, intimacy, touch and safety. You are swept along in adventures that stimulate all the senses: feeling is a form of intelligence, thinking through touch.’
The Mondriaan Fund recently announced that the Dutch presentation for the 59th Venice Biennale would take place at a new location in the city. From among a number of options, Melanie Bonajo selected the Chiesetta della Misericordia, a deconsecrated 13th-century church. Director Eelco van der Lingen is delighted:
‘An exciting artist in an exciting location. The Chiesetta della Misericordia is a splendid building in the middle of the city. I am looking forward to seeing how that relates to the splendid work of Melanie Bonajo.’
For 2022, the Mondriaan Fund wants the Dutch presentation to take place outside the Rietveld Pavilion and the Giardini. Van der Lingen hopes to establish a new point of reference for the future. ‘For us, it is good to step out of our comfort zone and take a look around at what freedoms being outside the walls of the pavilion can generate. This also offers the Dutch contribution the opportunity to conceive a plan that does not have to take Rietveld, the pavilion, or the Giardini into account.’ The Mondriaan Fund has meanwhile invited Estonia to make use of the Rietveld Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Oggi riparte la Bocconi Art Gallery, BAG, con un'apertura speciale dalle 16 alle 20 e due incontri con artisti.
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Immergiti nell'arte contemporanea per dimenticare, almeno per un pomeriggio, la tragedia della pandemia. È questo il consiglio di Bocconi Art Gallery , BAG ai suoi amici, che torna mercoledì 17 novembre, dalle 16 alle 20, con l'inaugurazione di una nuova edizione, la prima dopo la pandemia. Cento opere di 53 artisti italiani e internazionali, che appassionati e curiosi potranno finalmente ammirare di persona con visite gratuite e visite guidate realizzate in collaborazione con MIGuidi (l'accesso a BAG è libero e gratuito ma il Green Pass è obbligatorio).
In programma anche due incontri di approfondimento con alcuni degli artisti: alle 17.30 nel palazzo di via Roentgen 1, si incontreranno Fausta Squatriti, Emil Michael Klein e Wolfram Ullrich , moderati dal collezionistaEttore Buganza . Alle 18:45, nel palazzo di via Sarfatti 10, si alternano Letizia Cariello, Emilio Isgrò e Pino Pinelli , moderati dal professore Bocconi e presidente del Comitato di Ateneo per l'Arte Contemporanea, Severino Salvemini .
“Siamo lieti di poter inaugurare l'ultima edizione di BAG con nuove opere che non hanno ancora avuto contatto con un vasto pubblico”, ha commentato Salvemini. “Inoltre, abbiamo finalmente la possibilità di presentare gli artisti che hanno contribuito a valorizzare gli spazi del nuovo campus di Via Sarfatti 10”.
All'inaugurazione saranno presenti molti artisti BAG, insieme a vari collezionisti e galleristi. Oltre ai partecipanti ai colloqui, sarà presente anche Stefano Arienti, Alessandro Busci, Sonia Costantini, Marcello De Angelis, Ivan De Menis, Domenico D'Oora, Fabrizio Dusi, Nadia Fanelli, Marco Gastini, Ariane Hagl, Debora Hirsch, Luca Lombardi, Maria Teresa Ortoleva, Robert Pan, Roberto Pietrosanti, Silvia Rastelli, Amedeo Sanzone, Anna Maria Tulli, and Valeria Vaccaro .
Nato nel 2009 con l'idea di offrire agli studenti una prospettiva diversa sul mondo, proprio attraverso il linguaggio dell'arte contemporanea, il progetto Bocconi Art Gallery ha portato in Bocconi negli ultimi anni centinaia di opere di numerosi artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo. Le opere vengono date in comodato d'uso all'Università, ma, grazie alla generosità di artisti e collezionisti, alcune di esse sono state poi donate all'Università. Oggi la collezione di proprietà della Bocconi comprende 12 opere d'arte contemporanea, tra cui Cancellazione del debito pubblico di Emilio Isgrò , un trittico di Sonia Costantini , Guerrieri di Sergio Fermariello , Clinamendi di Massimo Kauffman, Fight-Flight di Arthur Duff , The Great Chessboard di Elio Marchegian , il wall painting Future di Alessandro Mendini , l'installazione Knowledge That Matters di Lorenzo Petranton , opere di Mario Raciti, The Power of Colour di Mario Arlati , Colonna di Arnaldo Pomodoro e Poetario di Giorgio Milani (quest'ultimo donato dai docenti della SDA Bocconi).
Questo l'elenco completo degli artisti che esporranno in questa edizione di BAG: Rodolfo Aricò, Stefano Arienti, Mario Arlati, Liu Bolin, Alessandro Busci, Letizia Cariello, Marco Casentini, Enrico Castellani, Gianluigi Colin, Vittorio Corsini, Sonia Costantini, Marcello De Angelis, Nunzio De Martino, Ivan De Menis, Domenico D'Oora, Arthur Duff, Fabrizio Dusi, Nadia Fanelli, Sergio Fermariello, Marco Gastini, Ariane Hagl, Debora Hirsch, Emilio Isgrò, Massimo Kaufmann, Emil Michael Klein, David Lindberg, Luca Lombardi, Richard Long, Elio Marchegiani, Alessandro Mendini, Giorgio Milani, Maria Teresa Ortoleva, Mimmo Paladino, Robert Pan, Lorenzo Petrantoni, Roberto Pietrosanti, Pino Pinelli, Jan van der Ploeg, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giò Pomodoro, Mario Raciti, Silvia Rastelli, Shigeru Saito, Amedeo Sanzone, Regine Schumann, Fausta Squatriti, Mauro Staccioli, Anna Maria Tulli, Wolfram Ullrich, Valeria Vaccaro, Valentino Vago,Grazia Varisco, Vedovamazzei.