5/10/2019 Going to Venice | Building a hospital, aquarium, and talking about a concert... How many times is this biennale?

Going to Venice | Building a hospital,

aquarium, and talking about a concert...
How many times is this biennale?
May 09, 2019

Dickens’s phrase “This is the best/bad age” has been said to

Fortunately, this Venice Biennale has slogan “I hope you live in an in
can finally stop holding this sentence. Do not let go. This sentenc
ancient curse of the British politician's spoof, and plainly tells you tha
a big role in the political field. Whether it’s a former Jewish slum or a
speak, they are waiting for you to sit down and let go of all the me
The preview of the 2019 Venice Biennale has begun, YT continues t
operated at high speed, at this moment, condense yourself into art and
Venice, today we will first turn around the Green Park Castle.
more interesting life. the way.

Destination 1

Jewish museum

Jewish Museum/Ateneo Veneto

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Destination 1, Jewish Museum, Jewish Museum/Ateneo Veneto. Image taken from Google Maps

British artist and writer Edmund de Waal will be the first contemporar
large new exhibition of works in the Jewish quarter of Venice. The
exhibited in two parts of the new Psalm project.

The library of exile (2019). Ateneo Veneto © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Fulvio O

Half of the exhibition is located in the northern part of the archip

Museum of the Jewish quarter of Venice. The ten recent works of De Va
the space around the Canton Scuola. This beautiful 16th century synag
the new Jewish quarter and is now part of the museum. These ne
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porcelain, marble and gold will reflect the unusual literary and music
place.

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Entrance to Ateneo Veneto. © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy of the artist.

The second part of the Psalm is the Library of Exile, a makeshift pavi
16th-century building Ateneo Veneto near the Venice Fenice Opera H
library houses nearly 2,000 exiled writers from Ovid, and encourages v
and read. Almost all books are translated, reflecting the idea of langu
will be a place of contemplation, a place for dialogue.

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Psalm I (2019). Ateneo Veneto. © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy of the artist.

De Val said: "This is the project I have always dreamed of. This is a
move from one country to another and say what another language mean
for Ateneo - - There are 2,000 books in a pavilion covered with porcel
most important sculpture of my life. It will become a new library, r
millennium as a place of communication, a quiet reading and life. T
space. Everything in the Biennale is fast and fast, and my work is to slo

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The library of exile (2019). Ateneo Veneto. © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy of the artist.

Destination 2

George Sini Foundation

Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Destination 2, George Sini Foundation, Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Image taken from Google Map

The exhibition "EXPANDED" will showcase the works of the artis

Julião Sarmento and Marina Abramović. The only three pieces of art
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made from stone from Portugal and will explore our perceptions of spa
place in different ways, as well as the possibility of breaking thro
limitations, whether cultural or genetic, emotional Or rational. They
gardens of the George Sini Foundation, and the audience will fee
experimentation and confrontation while immersing nature – this is th
value of art and culture in public spaces.

Carsten Höller | © Ricardo Gonçalves

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Marina Abramović | © Ricardo Gonçalves

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Julião Sarmento | © Ricardo Gonçalves

Destination 3

British Pavilion

British Pavilion

Destination 3, British Pavilion, British Pavilion, picture taken from Google Maps

The British artist Bithy Venice Biennale is the female artist Cathy Wil
to try a variety of materials and textures in an attempt to evoke l
scrutiny and to look to her natural love and life and death. I believe

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impressed by the flash of wisdom and ritual in the works of her interna
artist emphasizes the idea that the author is not present, refuses to aff
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Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2019, (detail), Mixed Media, Dimensions variable, Installation view, Cathy Wilkes, British Pavilion,

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Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2019, (detail), Mixed Media, Dimensions variable, Installation view, Cathy Wilkes, British Pavilion,

Destination 4

French Pavilion

French Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale

Destination 4, French Pavilion, French Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale. Image taken from Google

The exhibition "DEEP SEE BLUE SURROUNDING YOU" shows the w

female artist Laure Prouvost. Artists use a variety of media, from the
life to cutting-edge technology, creating an approachable universal
touch her audience. She collaborated with curator Martha Kirszenb
immersive installation at the crossroads between fiction and reality

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journey between Paris and Venice. In this biennale, she will show he
benevolence and humanitarianism, as well as her concern for the envir
the audience the great freedom to regain the charm of the world.

Film:A road trip through France — from the Parisian suburbs t the north of France, from the Palais du Facteur Cheval to the M
to Venice.” LP

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The installation "A hidden and misty pavilion, made of facade and bac stage, invested by performances carried out by ch

Destination 5

Australian Pavilion

Australian Pavilion

Destination 5, Australian Pavilion, Australian Pavilion, picture taken from Google Maps

Australian artist Angelica Mesiti will bring her exhibition “ASSEMBLY

a shorthand to use a stenograph used in a court meeting. Since the sten
like a piano, she used the stenographer's keystroke as a pianist to pl
allowing the composer to adapt it into a piece of music according to
"collection" into music, harmony in music, harmony, dissonance, m
and debates on assembly. In this piece, there are pianos, violas and cl
instruments, as well as the voices of different nationalities (represe
instrument), which symbolizes the equality and harmony of a democ
also represents Australia with a strong world. Once migrated, dismantle

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Mother Tongue, 2017, 2 channel video installation,Duration: 18 minutes© Angelica Mesiti

Relay League, 2017, three channel video installation,Duration: 8 minutes© Angelica Mesiti

The artist himself said: "I explore human nature through metaphoric
behavior itself, and in this complex era, we must come in a physical
space, with an increasingly urgent need. Gather together."

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The Colour of Saying, 2015, Three-channel High Definition digital video, colour, sound, Duration: 25 minutes, ©

Destination 6

Israel Pavilion

Israe l Pavilion

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Destination 6, Israel Pavilion, Israel Pavilion. Image taken from Google Maps

The Israeli Pavilion moved directly to a hospital: in the exhibition "F

the audience will get a number as soon as they enter, and then wait in
for a call, and the waiting room has a video explaining the hospital's
called number, the "hospital" staff will give the audience a two-dime
After 3 minutes of venting emotions, the staff will scan out the conten
to play a short film of the person who is suppressed and treated unfai
that after experiencing the process of registering in front of the doctor,
content of the exhibition.

FHX_XARE-CHAIR, Photo©EladSarig

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FHX_XARE-CHAIR, Photo©EladSarig

FHX is committed to studying the way art reacts and behaves in the
and social corruption values. Drawing on the structure and practices o
maintenance organizations and rehabilitation resorts, FHX provides a
can hear silence and see social injustice. Aya Ben Ron, the exhibition a
want visitors to Field Hospital X. It's like being really criticized to he
audience to slow down and listen to some silence. Sound, reflect."
Destination 7

St. Lawrence Church

Chiesa di San Lorenzo

Destination 7, St. Lawrence Church, Chiesa di San Lorenzo. Image taken from Google Maps

Joan Jonas's exhibition "Moving Off From the Land II" is the first
Ocean Space. The device is the result of three years of intensive resea
by TBA21-Academy in aquariums around the world and in the water
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Jamaica. The exhibition includes new videos, sculptures, paintings an

well as a performance on May 7, 2019, which revolves around the
spiritual and ecological touchstone in the history of culture.
Jonas pays tribute to the ocean and its biology, biodiversity and fragil
new work penetrates deep into the ocean, swims with the fish that inha
it in literature and poetry, focusing on the vast ocean that covers two-th
area.

Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land II, at Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice 2019 © Photo Enrico Fiorese

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Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land II, at Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice 2019 © Photo Enrico Fiorese

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