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After a five-year restoration by David Chipperfield Architects Milan and supported by Generali, the reopening of the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square is inaugurated with Edoardo Tresoldi’s site-specific installation, “Monumento.”
After a five-year restoration by David Chipperfield Architects Milan and supported by Generali, the reopening of the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square is inaugurated with Edoardo Tresoldi’s site-specific installation, “Monumento.” The installation, conceived in collaboration with Carlotta Franco in preparation for the location’s new use for the first time in 500 years as headquarters of The Human Safety Net foundation, renews and subverts the language of the monumental column and the traditional values to which society aspires. “Monumento” comprises a column set within the space that contains the staircase of the Procuratie Vecchie, in proportional dialogue with the monument it mimics. By climbing the stairs, the viewer is both able to see the column in its entirety and to change her perspective of this monument, dematerializing colossal myths and condensing past and present into an ongoing narrative.
As Tresoldi states, “Monumental architecture is a composition which neglects function in order to ritualize a thought by means of a three-dimensional work… When, therefore, a monument is stripped of its own symbolism, what remains is a virtuoso and melancholic lyric song, discrete and solemn, and yet in search of contact because it was born to be expressed, first as artifact and gesture and then as a concept and presence.” This presence places listening and dialogue at the center of intercultural and intergenerational relations.
The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia presents Walking with Water, a solo exhibition of Vladimir Nikolic at the Serbia Pavilion.
Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl will represent the Austria Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Artist Maria Eichhorn represents the Germany Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia through November 27.
Artists Arcangelo Sassolino, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci and Brian Schembri represent the Malta Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia through November 27.
Artist Sonia Boyce represents the Great Britain Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia through November 27.
Artists Acaye Kerunen and Collin Sekajugo represent Uganda’s inaugural pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia through November 27.
Artist Zineb Sedira represents France at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia through November 27.
CSDCA presents "Angels Listening," an intimate and immersive exhibition of the works of Rachel Lee Hovnanian curated by Annalisa Bugliani.
For the first time in the over-120-year history of the Venice Biennale, a Roma artist, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, is representing a national pavilion.
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