NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013
ISSUE 5 - YEAR 9 | FUA/PALAZZI | JULY 2019
BIENALLE DI VENEZIA by Regan Wheat
Cover photo by the author
Every two years the contemporary art world fills the ancient palaces, shipyards and city gardens of Venice. The ancient city bursts at the seams with the most thought-provoking contemporary trends in painting, sculpture, installations, sound works, performance and everything in between. La
Biennale
di
Venezia
is
a
historic public gardens (Giardini), the
of the exhibition, chosen by Rugoff,
contemporary art exhibition held
former Navy shipyard and armory
quotes a fictitious proverb invoked
bi-annually in Venice for over a
(Arsenale) and scattered throughout
from
century. In this year’s 58th biennale,
the city in historic palaces and
The phrase has been cited multiple
Curator Ralph Rugoff, Director of
deconsecrated
times over several decades by world
the Hayward Gallery in London since
Biennale also includes 87 national
leaders
2006, has chosen 83 living artists
pavilions, and there are 21 collateral
crisis, continual states of shock and
from all over the world, including
events and peripheral exhibitions
a sense of never-ending catastrophe.
more women than in the exhibition’s
promoted by non-profit national and
Rugoff anchors the exhibition to this
history, and many artists born after
international institutions. May You
quote, reflecting on the present-day
1980. Artists’ works are located in the
Live in Interesting Times, the title
manufacturing and questioning of
churches.
The
an
ancient
to
Chinese
curse.
describesituations
of