World fair of the art nations_The Biennale Project by LAB

Beat Wyss

World fair of the art nations The Biennale Project

Folie 2 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Plan of the national pavilions 1995 Folie 3 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Plan of the national pavilions 1934 Folie 4 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

* Plan of the national pavilions 1942

*Adolf Hitler`s visit of the Venice Biennale 1934 Folie 5 / ZĂźrich, 09.12.2008 / ÂŠ SIK-ISEA

*The British pavilion, seized by the Italian army during the Biennale 1942

*The Belgian pavilion, 1907, by Léon Sneyers *The Hungarian pavilion, 1909, by Géza Rintel Mároti *The dutch pavilion, 1912, by Gustav Ferdinand Boberg

Folie 6 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Sovjet pavilion 1934: interior with the portrait of Trotzky, by G. Annenkow *Lenin in Smolsky, by Isaak Brodsky Folie 7 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Peasant woman, by Wera Muchina

*The artists of the Yugoslav pavilion, Biennale 1999 Folie 8 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Thomas Hirschhorn at the Artiglierie, Biennale 1999 Folie 9 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

1. A provincial campain in favour of local tourism: 1895-1907

*The Venice Biennale pavilion, 1895

Folie 10 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Exhibition hall with Giacomo Grosso’s: Supremo convegno

2. Cultural cabinet policy of Old Europe: 1907-1922

*The Klimt exhibition at the 1910 Biennale Folie 11 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

3. An affair of avant-garde and fascism, and the totalitarian state’s new media: 1924-1942

*Interior of the Aeropittura exhibition, Biennale 1940 Folie 12 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

4. Restitution, Classic modernism in retrospect: 1948-1962

*Swiss pavilion, by Bruno Giacometti, 1952 Folie 13 / ZĂźrich, 09.12.2008 / ÂŠ SIK-ISEA

*Swiss pavilion, 1935, Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles

5. Political crisis and change: 1964-1974

*Ann Hamilton’s installation µυειν at the American pavilion, Biennale 1999 Folie 14 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

5. Political crisis and change: 1964-1974

*Biennale 1968, report by Stern Folie 15 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

6. Approach to the contemporary, and the scroll of the block system: 1976 – 1990

*Mimmo Paladino, Italian Pavilion, 1988 Folie 16 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

9. The process of créolisation: 1990-2009

*Nelson Leirner at the Brasilian pavilion, Biennale 1999 Folie 17 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

World fair of the art nations The Biennale Project Second: Questions and hypothesis

*Wang Xingwei: Poor old Hamilton, 1996 Folie 18 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Columbian World Fair Chicago, 1893 Folie 19 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Huang Yong Ping at the French pavilion, Biennale 1999 Folie 20 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, St. Louis, 1904: Cass Gilberts Festival Hall, by E.L. Masqueray, Folie 21 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*L’ Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900, frontispiece Folie 22 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

“Identität ist die Identität der Identität mit dem Nichtidentischen“ Georg Friedrich Hegel

The dialectical motion of globalization consists in the effect that a consciousness for cultural differences emerges just by industrial homogenization. That way, homogenization corresponds with identification: that levelling by appropriation, that use of force, by which the “non-equal” appears. So, the non-identical is fabricated by the process of identification. Identity is equal to non-identity, as it becomes identic with nothing else than with itself by identification.

*Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900, entrance to the palace of the humanities, the sciences, and the arts *first row of foreign pavilions along the Seine Folie 25 / ZĂźrich, 09.12.2008 / ÂŠ SIK-ISEA

*Torino, Esposizione d’Arte Decorativa Moderna, 1902: dining room, by Joseph Olbrich *Interior of the Hamburg vestibule, by Peter Behrens

*Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques appliqués à la Vie Moderne, 1937: Soviet Pavilion, by Boris Iofan, sculpture on its top by Mukhina *The New Trocadéro and the exhibition site *The German pavilion, by Albert Speer, sculpture by Arno Breker Folie 28 / Zürich, 09.12.2008 / © SIK-ISEA

*Exposiciòn General d’España, Barcelona and Sevilla, 1929-1930: German Pavilion, by Mies van der Rohe

*Italian pavilion

*Marina Abramovic: Balcan Baroque, Video performance (1997), Biennale 1999

*Chen Zhen at the Artiglierie, Biennale 1999

*Chen Zhen at the Artiglierie, Biennale 1999 Folie 31 / ZĂźrich, 09.12.2008 / ÂŠ SIK-ISEA

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