LINEA DE COSTA Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine issue #1 2#
56 BIENNALE DI VENEZIA SPECIAL ISSUE
ISSN 2340-1 575
LINEA DE COSTA Contemporary Art & Culture Visual Magazine issue #1 2#
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Once again, we go back to our beginnings: the preview days of the Biennale di Venezia, which this year celebrates 120 years of existence. In line with the greatly visual spirit of the publication, this issue is conceived and arranged as a visual tour through the events, meetings and exhibitions we were lucky to cover during those wonderful days. 89 National Participants are shown in the pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice. 44 Collateral Events, promoted by non profit national and international institutions, present their exhibitions in various locations across Venice. Therefore, not everyone who is anyone is included in this issue, but everyone on it is a somebody. We start our tour by the beginning, by the central exhibition, located in Giardini: ALL THE WORLD'S GUTORE, which gives name to this 56 edition of La Biennale di Venezia, being curated by the Nigerian Okwui Ewenzor, who has selected artists involved with the different present problems at the difficult days we are living to reflect about the ashes and the rests dues to globalisation. His selection presents to well known artists as well as a big deal of emergent once. 'Each of them representing my own biography because they are worried about the same themes as I am and all of them work on the tragedy of a terrible century and a present not pointing to any solution', he said. We go on visiting the French pavilion, where the artist CĂŠleste Boursier-Mougenot presents 'RĂŞvolutions', a poetic and dreamlike project with a polity transcendence which evokes the romantic parks of the XVIII century. A choreography where technology and nature are together giving movement to the three trees composing the piece. The curator of the German pavilion, Florian Ebner, analyses themes of the globalised world through the works of the German artists Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony, Olaf Nicolai, and artist duo Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk. At the Japanese pavilion we find 'The Key in the Hand', by Chiharu Shiota, which is one of the most impressive proposals from a visual point of view: 50.000 keys hang from one of her typical labyrinthine structures formed by red threads overflying to boats, conforming an installation which explores and symbolises the concept of memory. At Great Britain venue, Sarah Lucas shows an irreverent work full of sexuality and humour, based on her appellant themes: gender, death, sex and everyday objects.
'Rapture', by the Norwegian artists Camille Norment, at the Nordic Pavilion, a site-specific where huge panels made by double and broken glasses frame a delicate and perfect sound piece. A sensitive and material combination in the middle of chaos and disorder. 'Mothertongue' gives title to the proposal from de Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo for the Denmark pavilion. It is brave narrative and autobiography, questioning and re defining the concept of history and culture. Irina Nakhova recreates a building full of artificial windows inside the Russian pavilion, talking about memory and nature which project at the same time images form the past and the present in Russia. 'Los Sujetos, the project curated by MartĂ Manem at the Spanish pavilion, supposes an asynchronous dialogue between the works from Pepo Salazar, artist duo Cabello & Canceller, Francesc Ruiz, as well as Salvador DalĂ. In the case of Belgium, the curator Katerina Gregos selects artist Vincent Messen, who in turn invites ten other artists to reflect and show the Belgian colonial past, doing it with a blame feeling, with the aim of decolonising the space through a complex speech. Herman de Vries who has been working combining art, science, philosophy and nature for more than 60 years, presents 'to be always to be' at the Dutch pavilion, where experiments with the poetry which is behind the physical phenomenons of the nature. Szilard Cseke presents by means of tubes, balls coming and going and inflatable structures as if they breath, at the Hungarian venue the installation 'Sustainable Identities', whose main aim is to show the interrelation between individual and global. 'Archeology of the Present' by artist Tsivi Geva expands outside and inside Israel pavilion through found and manipulated objects and sculptural installations expressing the continues worried of the artist related to the concept of home. Switzerland pavilion presents 'Our Product' by artist Pamela Rozenkranz, curated by Susan Pffefer, introduces the visitor in a perceptive experience by means of a flesh colour unsettling raft representing Eurocentrism. Himo Zoberning creates two black volumes covering floor and ceiling at the 1934 building where Austrian pavilion is situated as a reaction to the pure lines that this building presents. The proposal invites to cross an apparently empty pavilion looking for something that is not there.
At the Serbian pavilion, the project 'United Dead Nations' by artist Ivan Grubanov, curated by Lidija Merenik explores the historical and cultural frame of La Biennale as a platform to project and represent the different visions of modernity. 'Can you see?', from artists Ahmed Abdel Fatah, Gamal Elkheshe and Maher Dawoud, curated by Hany Al Ashakart, is the interactive an technological installation proposed at the Egyptian pavilion to reflect, through an augmented reality application, about the concept of peace, paradise and ecologism. 'É tanta coisa que não cabe aqui' is a trilateral project curated by Luiz Camillo Osorio representing Brazil. The title comes from a real banner shown during protests in 2013 in Sao Paulo, and picking up different problems in nowadays conflicts through the proposal of artists Antonio Manuel, Berna Reale and Andre Komatsu. Maria Papadimitriou, at the Greek venue, recreates the home of an old taxidermist who has lost all of his possessions. Installations with multiple lectures, first of them related with no doubt to the Greek crisis. 'Canadissimo' by BGL Art Collective and curated by Maria Fraser, is a proposal charged of sense of humour for the Canadian pavilion. The audience is invited to cross a motley and colourful space which ends by the invitation to introduce coins by means of a rudimentary system whose aim is to keep capitalisms active. 'The Ways of Folding Space' and 'Flying' by artist Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho for the Korean pavilion, is a reflection based in an archeological exploration of the human civilisation, drawing the history with futuristic visions interested also in the very own evolution of La Biennale all over the time. 'They Come to Us Without a Word' is the proposal for US pavilion by artist Joan Jonas. The project, curated by Paul C. Ha and Ute Meta Bauer, build multi sensorial stages trough the video installations incorporating objects, texts, sculptures, drawing and sounds which recreate landscapes and natural phenomena. Taru Elfving is the curator at the Finnish pavilion, selecting artist duo IC-98 to develop a site-specific project charged of poetry and titled 'Hours, Years, Aeons'. Showing the last tree in a far future, the work builds bridges between material and mythes, individual and collective, nature and culture.
'Wrong way time' is the proposal by artist Fiona Hall for the new Australian pavilion. A multi sensorial installation looking for confronting the links and global issues related to nature, politic, and finance through the reflexion about ephemeral and death. Now in Arsenale, 'Sea State', the proposal by curator Shabbir Hussain Mustafa and artist Charles Lim Yi Yong for Singapore, analyses the concepts of border, history, daily life, and how these can be generated through our own perceptions of the sea. 'Crawling Border' is an interactive project where the artists reflects about the idea of ending with the new emerging borders moving slowly in Georgia. An urgent call to break the barriers in which hostility, mistrust, religious and racial intolerance are being imposed. Macedonia is represented by Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calowski, with their project 'We are all in this alone'. They approach the notion of faith in the nowadays multiple socio economic conditions. With her installation Speculating on the Blue, by Flaka Haliti at the Kosovo address, approaches the borders topography, that are not only part of the personal history of the artist, but a daily global reality, expressions of political decisions on the territories. Taiwan artist Vincent Huang, representing Tavalu island, in South Pacific, puts the focus on the theme of the global warming in this big size installation 'Crossing the Tide', referring to the rise in sea level and the catastrophic consequences. In one of the pavilions located in several palaces across the city, we find 'Invisible Beauty', the Iraqi pavilion, whose title refers to the unusual and unexpected themes shown in the works as well the unavoidable invisibility of Iraqi artists in the international scene, and developing their activity in a genocide context, human rights violations and the emergence of Daesh. 'My East is your West' is an interactive exhibition where Pakistani artist Jashid Rana plays with mirrors, technologies, visual and sense of humour, beside Indian artist Shilpa Gupta, who's work reflect about the border conflict between both countries. ''Beyond the Line', from Azerbaijan, shows the works of Soviets arts by non conformist artists Javad Mirjavadov, Tofik Javadov, Ashraf Murad, Rasim Babayev and Fazil Najafov. The project is an exaltation of these artists voices approaching social, political and ecological questions with a global relevance, and they were seemed doomed in the 1960's due to the position against the State.
Joao Louro, with his project 'I will be your mirror' represents Portugal at the Biennale. The artist, starting with the words challenge us to reflect about the importance of images of their absence. About the necessity in our nowadays world, with an overload of images, wanted by everybody, for a better understanding of our surrounding. With 'Paradiso Lussemburgo', Filip Markiewicz shows a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection about contemporary identity. Through the title he evokes Dante's Paradise, Cinema Paradiso film as well as heaven taxes. The work is a total theatre along six rooms at the pavilion. 'Ti ricordi Sjec aš li se You remember' from artists Aleksandar Duravcevic is based on the pseudo documentation of the history on the Montenegrin tradition to be again created. At Palazzo Malipiero 'Two days after forever', from Cypriot artist Christodoulos Panayiotou, is a travel of memory and traces left by the time. The artist queries the invention of the archeology as a tool to certificate the history and the past through his installations occupying a whole floor at the palace. At the Estonian pavilion, Jaanus Samma traces, trough images, sounds, videos, documents, the life trajectory under the pseudonym of Juhan Ojaste, boss in a kolkhoz or Estonian farm community, who was put in jail in 1964 and evicted from the Communist Party accused of participating on homosexual activities. 'The Impostor', from artist Mahmoud Obaidi is one of the projects composing the collateral event 'In the Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from the Arab World & South Asia', organised by ArsCulture and commissioned by Martina Corgnati. The artists have been selected mainly as privileged witness of a time and a spade where changes and instability are moving too quickly. 'Museo' is an artistic ongoing research form artist Dainius Liškevičius in which he interprets the recent Soviet collective history in Lithuania and recreates it from the individual perspective of a fiction artist, inserting autobiographical elements. Through a full of daily life objects atmosphere, the Museum confronts the audience with the hard themes of the relationship between the artist and the totalitarian sate, the cultural isolation and the research of occidental values in the soviet Lithuania as well as in all the Soviet Union.
CĂŠleste Boursier-Mougenot // RĂŞvolutions France Pavilion (Giardini)
Hito Steyerl Fabrik German Pavilion (Giardini)
Jasmina Metwaly & Philip RIzk Fabrik German Pavilion (Giardini)
Chiharu Shiota // The Key in the Hand Japan Pavilion (Giardini)
Sarah Lucas Great Britain Pavilion (Giardini)
JirĂ David // Apotheosis Czech Republic & Slovak Republic Pavilion (Giardini)
Camille Norment // Rapture Nordic Pavilion (Giardini)
Danh Vo // Mothertongue Denmark Pavilion (Giardini)
FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA Jacob Hashimoto GAS GIANT
Irina Nakhova // The Green Pavilion Russia Pavilion (Giardini)
Félix Molina (Flix) Te Doy mi Palabra Venezuela Pavilion (Giardini)
Argelia Bravo Te Doy mi Palabra Venezuela Pavilion (Giardini)
Francesc Ruiz The Subjects Spain Pavilion (Giardini)
Pepo Salazar The Subjects Spain Pavilion (Giardini)
Cabello & Carceller The Subjects Spain Pavilion (Giardini)
Elisabetta Benassi Personne et Les Autres: Vincent Meessen & Guests Gelgium Pavilion (Giardini)
Patick Bernier & Olive Martin Personne et Les Autres: Vincent Meessen & Guests Gelgium Pavilion (Giardini)
Herman de Vries To Be All Ways To Be Netherlands Pavilion (Giardini)
Szilรกrd Cseke Sustainable Identities Hungary Pavilion (Giardini)
Tsibi Geva Archeology of the Present Israel Pavilion (Giardini)
Pamela Rosenkranz Our Product Switzerland Pavilion (Giardini)
Heimo Zobernig Austria Pavilion (Giardini)
Ivan Grubanov United Dead Nations Serbia Pavilion (Giardini)
Ahmed Abdel Fattah, Gamal Elkheshen & Maher Dawoud Can You See? Egypt Pavilion (Giardini)
Antonio Manuel So Much That It Doesn't Fit Here Brazil Pavilion (Giardini)
Maria Papadimitriou Why Look at Animals? Greece Pavilion (Giardini)
Qiu Zhijie So, We'll Go No More a Roving Florian (San Marco)
BGL Art Collective Canadissimo Canada Pavilion (Giardini)
EMERGENCY PAVILION Patrick Hamilton HAND SAWUS CONSTRUCTION
Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho The Ways of Folding Space and Flying Korea Pavilion (Giardini)
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Joana Vasconcelos Giardino dell'Eden Swatch (Giardini)
Joan Jonas They Come to Us Without a Word US Pavilion (Giardini)
IC-98 Hours, Years, Aeons Finland Pavilion (Giardini)
Fiona Hall Wrong Way Time Australia Pavilion (Giardini)
Charles Lim Yi Yong Sea State Singapore Pavilion (Arsenale)
Rusudan Khizanishvili, Irakli Bluishvili, Dimitri Chikvaidze, Joseph Sabia, Ia Liparteliani, Nia Mgaloblishvili, Sophio Shevardnadze Crawling Border Georgia Pavilion (Arsenale)
Hristina Ivanoska & Yane Calovski We Are All in This Alone Macedonia Pavilion (Arsenale)
PORTUGAL PAVILION Joana Vasconcelos TRAFARIA PRAIA
Flaka Haliti Speculating on the Blue Kosovo Pavilion (Arsenale)
Vincent J.F. Huang Crossing the Tide Tuvalu Pavilion (Arsenale)
Michal Cole Mute Ululation The Pavilion of Humanity (Castello)
Glen Clarke Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
YoKo Ono Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
Anne Herzbluth Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
Jaroslaw Kozlowski Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
Joseph Kowuth Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
Qin Chong Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
Nicolas V. Sanchez Personal Structures Palazzo Mora // Collateral Event
Jordan Bennett, Anne Troake Under the Surface, Newfoundland & Labrador at Venice Ca' Rezzonico // Collateral Event
Choi, Ik Gyu Jump into the Unknown Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore // Collateral Event
Jump into the Unknown / General view Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore // Collateral Event
Anna Lea Kopperi & Heini Nieminen Jump into the Unknown Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore // Collateral Event
Enrique MuĂąoz Garcia Jump into the Unknown Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore // Collateral Event
Salam Atta Sabri Invisible Beauty Iraq Pavilion // Ca' Dandolo
Haider Jabbar Invisible Beauty Iraq Pavilion // Ca' Dandolo
Shilpta Gupta My East is your West Palazzo Benzon // Collateral Event
Chris Jordan & Rebecca Clark Vita Vitale Azerbaijan Pavilion // Ca' Garzoni
Laura Ford & Rose Wylie Vita Vitale Azerbaijan Pavilion // Ca' Garzoni
Mircea Cantor Vita Vitale Azerbaijan Pavilion // Ca' Garzoni
Joao Louro I will be your Mirror / Poems and Problems Portugal Pavilion // Palazzo Loredan
Shigeru Ban Reverberation: The Pavilion of Light and Sound Palazzo Pisani
Filip Markiewicz Paradiso Lussemburgo Luxembourg Pavilion // Ca' del Duca
Aleksandar Duravcevic Ti Ricordi Sjecas Li Se You Remember Montenegro Pavilion // Palazzo Malipiero
Chistodoulos Panayiotou Two Days After Forever Cyprus Pavilion // Palazzo Malipiero
Jaanus Samma Not Suitable for Work. A Chairman's Tale Estonia Pavilion // Palazzo Malipiero
AES + F 001 Inversus Mundus Magazzini del Sale - Magazzino 5 // Collateral Event
Obaidi / The Impostor In The Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from the Arab Word & South Asia Zattere // Collateral Event
Grisha Bruskin An Archaelogist's Collection Ex Chiesa di Santa Caterina // Collateral Event
Nastio Mosquito Daily Lovemaking Oratorio di San Ludovico
Dainius Liskevicius Museum Lituania Pavilion // Palazzo Zenobio
Okwui Enwezor (Curator / Director) ALL THE WORLD'S FUTURES Giardini, Arsenale and more locations around Venice
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