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Sono molti i progetti che per dare visibilità agli eventi hanno realizzato dei blog con post degli artisti o dello staff, fra i tanti eccovi quello della Nuova Zelanda, forse uno dei migliori:

http://www.nzatvenice.com/blog/2013/5/6/venice-at-last

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Ecco le ultime notizie sul prossimo Padiglione Nuova Zelanda che ospiterà l'artista Bill Culbert, che ha ideato un progetto site-specific per le stanze dell'Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà

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Bill Culbert has been commissioned by Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand, Toi Aotearoa to exhibit at the 55th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia.

Culbert will show site-specific works for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà (La Pietà). The lagoon-facing venue offers five exhibition spaces, including an outdoor courtyard and a spacious corridor where Vivaldi once taught violin. For the first time the main entrance will be on the Riva degli Schiavoni.

"Bill makes marvelous work, constantly re-investigating how light works and revitalising how we think of it,” says New Zealand’s Venice Biennale Commissioner, Jenny Harper. “Venice is a wonderful platform for us to celebrate his individual achievements and to continue to present the richness of this country’s visual arts practice. It will be fascinating to see how he responds to a venue that is both spatially and historically rich.”

Culbert (b. 1935) is a pioneer of the use of electric light in art, making works that harness the qualities of this most intangible of mediums from as early as the 1960s. Over a career that spans almost six decades, he has pushed the frontiers of art through a rigorous, inventive and economic use of materials. Light is both medium and subject matter in his sculptures, installations and photographs, the means of mounting a philosophical enquiry into the art object and its materiality. Culbert's sculptural installations make striking use of found and new materials. From suitcases pierced with fluorescent tubes, to chandeliers of repurposed furniture, through to arrays of reclaimed plastic containers, his artworks illuminate the qualities of common things and their surrounding environments.

Culbert has had more than 100 solo exhibitions since 1960, showing across New Zealand, England, Europe, the United States, and Australia. His work is owned by numerous public and private collections around the globe and can currently be seen in exhibitions at the Château de Servières, Marseilles, France (19 January to 23 February 2013), and in the Hayward Gallery, London’s group exhibition, 'Light Show' (30 January - 28 April 2013). Culbert is based in Provence, France and London, England.

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La Nuova Zelanda propone lo scultore, fotografo e artista di installazioni Bill Culbert per la Biennale di Venezia con una mostra curata da Justin Paton. 

Bill Culbert ha avuto numerose mostre personali in tutto il mondo, ed è apparso in numerose mostre collettive. Culbert dipingeva  e lavorava più concettualmente prima di iniziare la sperimentazione con la luce elettrica alla fine del 1960. Spesso associato con l'arte cinetica e costruttivista, ha anche una forte affinità con Marcel Duchamp e Lazlo Moholy-Nagy attraverso il suo lavoro con oggetti trovati  e adattati a continue esplorazione di idee attorno alla luce, energia.

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Celebrated New Zealand sculptor, photographer and installation artist Bill Culbert has been invited by Creative New Zealand to present his work at the 55^th Venice Biennale in 2013.

Otago-born Culbert painted and worked more conceptually before beginning his experimentation with electric light in the late 1960s.  Often associated with kinetic and constructivist art, he also has a strong affinity with Marcel Duchamp and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy through his work with found objects and through a continuing exploration of ideas around light, energy, perspective, social space and politics.

Culbert has sustained a busy exhibition schedule throughout his career, with more than 100 solo exhibitions in New Zealand, England, Europe, the United States and Australia since 1960, and many more group exhibitions and major public art commissions.  Details of his exhibition in Venice to come.

Curatore: Justin Paton

Artisti : Bill Culbert

Indirizzo: Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701

Web: www.creativenz.govt.nz