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International Artists in full force at 53rd Venice Biennale
Tomás Saraceno, Hans Peter Feldman, John Baldassari, Lara Favaretto, Lygia Pape, Steve McQueen, Miranda July and Aleksandra Mir at Venice BiennaleSprawling across Venice from the central sites of the Giardini and Arsenale to collateral events dotted across the lagoon, nudging even into cyberspace with the founding of an Internet Pavilion, the 53rd Biennale di Venezia is unmappable. This is its greatest strength.
For the footsore and mind-fatigued visitor, its physical and aesthetic landscapes are a shifting terrain, subject to the ebb and flow of larger currents, making it difficult, yet ultimately rewarding to navigate. Significantly, Daniel Birnbaum’s chosen title ‘Fare Mondi (Making Worlds)’, with its logo of abstracted flag forms, reflects a state of globalization in which art actively creates spaces and articulates journeys that can no longer be understood through the discourses of identity or nationality. This produces a dynamic tension given the history of the biennial format; a tension explored in the offerings of several individual artists as well as pavilions this year with varying success.
07 June 2009 - 22 November 2009
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International Artists in full force at 53rd Venice Biennale
Tomás Saraceno, Hans Peter Feldman, John Baldassari, Lara Favaretto, Lygia Pape, Steve McQueen, Miranda July and Aleksandra Mir at Venice BiennaleThe 53rd La Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition, entitled Fare Mondi // Making Worlds opens to the public from Sunday June, 7th to Sunday November, 22nd 2009. The event is directed by Daniel Birnbaum, organized by La Biennale di Venezia and chaired by Paolo Baratta and will be on show in the Giardini and the Arsenale as well as in various other locations around the city.
Included on the exhibition, amongst others, are John Baldessari (dual recipient of Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement with Yoko Ono), Steve McQueen, Aleksandra Mir, Tomás Saraceno, Lygia Pape, Lara Favaretto, Miranda July, Hans Peter Feldman, Georges Adéagbo, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Anawana Haloba and Moshekwa Langa.
07 June 2009 - 22 November 2009
