The Antwerp-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs, who represents Belgium at this year’s Biennale, has been investigating and documenting human behaviour through the medium of children’s games for more than 20 years. Installation view of Francis Alÿs's The Nature of the Game in the Belgium pavilion Photo: Roberto Ruiz For more on this pavilion, see 'Most people won't like my work': Marco Fusinato, artist representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, reveals pavilion plans and The gossip from the Venice Biennale: Tinie Tempah takes on Tintoretto and totes too many totes.According to a press release, the artist will use his guitar to “improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities”. The work is partly inspired by Goya’s The Disasters of War series (1810-20), which chronicled the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars, and by the events of the past couple of years. It sounds like it will be quite the feat of endurance and, unlike many performances that are pared back after the opening week, it will take place each day for the duration of the Biennale. The Australian pavilion will be filled with the sounds of electric guitar for almost 200 days as Marco Fusinato performs a marathon durational work called Desastres (disasters in Spanish). Organisers: Alexie Glass-Kantor Australia Council For detailed information and to buy tickets, click here.Marco Fusinato performing for his DESASTRES (2022) installaition at the Australia pavilion Photo: Andrea Rossetti Australia The Biennale Arte is on view until November 27, 2022. The program of the so-called Collateral Events (31 in all) is especially rich, as is the program of exhibitions that will take place at major museums, galleries and palaces in Venice during the Biennale period. Curated by Eugenio Viola, the Italian Pavilion this year will consist of one single work by Gian Maria Tosatti, occupying the entire space of the Tese delle Vergini other Italian artists will be engaged in foreign pavilions. The Arsenale, with an exhibition space of 50,000 square meters, host other international pavilions and the Italian Pavilion. The Giardini, which were the site of the first Biennale in 1895, host the Central Pavilion and the 29 oldest pavilions, such as the U.K., France and Germany. The Biennale Arte 2022 focuses on three thematic areas in particular: the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses the relationship between individuals and technologies the connection between bodies and the Earth.Īs for every edition, the majority of the Pavilions are located in the Giardini and the Arsenale. “It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become something or someone else.” Titled “The Milk of Dreams”, this year’s main exhibition takes its name from a children’s book by British painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), “in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination,” says Alemani. More than 1,400 works and installations will be presented in the historic Pavilions, the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice. For the first 100 years of this prestigious institution, the percentage of women artists in the show was less than 10%, and in the last 20 years it was around 30%.” “So, of course, the show is international, but I hope it will also have symbolic value in Italy. “I wanted to do a show that featured a vast majority of women, especially because I want to remind people that this show happens in Italy, and in Italy many of these discussions are still in medieval times,” Alemani told The Art Newspaper. “As the first Italian woman to hold this position, I intend to give voice to artists to create unique projects that reflect their visions and our society”, Alemani, who has previously organized many exhibitions of contemporary, young and emerging artists, has said.Īlemani gave a strong gender imprint to her Biennale: out of 213 artists from 58 countries (26 are Italian), 191 are female and 22 male for 180 of them, it is the first time at the Biennale. In 2017, she curated the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The Milan-born curator is based in New York, where she has been the Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line since 2011. The Biennale Arte 2022 will be the first edition curated by an Italian woman, Cecilia Alemani. Traditionally organized every two years, the Biennale features artists from around the world engaging with a specific theme. The 59th Venice International Art Exhibition, or Biennale Arte, the most important contemporary art event in the world, opens on April 23 in Venice, delayed a year by the pandemic.
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