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Biennale Arte 2015
PAOLO BARATTA - President of la Biennale di Venezia
We celebrate this year the 120th anniversary of the first Art Exhibition (1895). The International Exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor expands from the Central Pavilion at the Giardini to the Arsenale, and to external areas. 89 partecipating countries (58 un 1997), 29 in the historic pavilions in the Giardini, 31 in the spaces dedicated to the countries within the Arsenale (where restoration work continues on 16th century buildings), and the rest in other buildings in Venice. 44 Collateral Events presented by non-profit organisations and admitted by our curator. The Biennale moves forward and builds on its own history, which is formed of many memories but, in particular, a long succession of different perspectives from which to observe the phenomenon of contemporary artistic creation. Curiger, Gioni, Enwezor: three chapters in a research process engaged by la Biennale to explore the benchmarks that can help us formulate aesthetic judgments on contemporary art, a critical question following the demise of the avant-gardes and non-art. Okwui does not claim to pass judgment, his wish is to bring together arts and artists from throughout the world and from different disciplines, to instate a Parliament of Forms, as it were. 136 artists, of which 89 for the first time, from 53 countries, many of them from geographical areas that we paradoxically insist on defining as peripheral. 159 works on display are expressly realized for this year edition. In the more intimate Biennales as in the ones that more dramatically draw in history, what is important is that the Exhibition must always be seen as a venue for free and indipendent dialogue.
OKWUI ENWEZOR - Curator of the 56th International Art Exhibition
Rather than one overarching theme that gathers and encapsulates diverse forms and pratices into one unified field of vision, All the World's Futures is informed by a layer of three intersecting Filters, namely; Garden of Disorder, Liveness: On Epic Duration, and Reading Capital. Questi The three Filters represent a constellation of parameters, which will be touched upon in order to imagine and realize a diversity of pratices. In 2015, the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia will employ the historical trajectory of the Biennale itself, one that I have so far sketched out as a Filter through which to scan the latent historical body of the event. The goal of three Filters is to describe both the current state of things and the appearance of things. With each Filter superimposed on the other, the 56th International Art Exhibition will delve into the contemporary global reality as one of the constant realignment, adjustment, recalibration, motility, and shape-shifting. It will play host to what could be described as a Parliament of Forms whose orchestration and episodic unfolding will be broadly global in scope. At the core of the project is the notion of the exhibition as stage where historical and counter-historical projects will be explored. These projects, works, and voices, like an orchestra will occupy the spaces of the Biennale and pre-occupy the time and thinking of the public.
The End (1966) by Fabio Maurila Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Fabio Mauri
Schermo fine , 1966
letraset on paper
Leo Castelli (1974) by Fabio Maurila Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Fabio Mauri
Leo Castelli, 1974
silkscreen
Installation View (1965/1994) by Fabio Maurila Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Fabio Mauri
Schermo fine , 1965
mixed media on paper
Fine – Ricami , 1994
embroidery
Disegno , no date
painting on canvas
Disegno fine , 1985
painting on canvas
Installation View (1959/1994) by Fabio Maurila Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Fabio Mauri
Disegno , 1985
painting on canvas
Disegno , no date
painting on canvas
Disegno , no date
painting on canvas
The End , 1959
collage and oil on paper
The End – Ricami , 1994
embroidery
Room 2 - Christian Boltanski
L'Homme qui tousse, 1969 - 16mm film, color, sound (3’)
Room 2a - Runo Lagomarsino
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground, 2012–2014 - dia projection with sound and framed stamp
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground (2012/2014) by Runo Lagomarsinola Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Runo Lagomarsino
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground, 2012-2014
dia projection with sound and framed stamp
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground (2012/2014) by Runo Lagomarsinola Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Runo Lagomarsino
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground, 2012-2014
dia projection with sound and framed stamp
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground (2012/2014) by Runo Lagomarsinola Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Runo Lagomarsino
Following the Light of the Sun, I Only Discovered the Ground, 2012-2014
dia projection with sound and framed stamp
Room 3 - Naeem Mohaiemen
Last Man in Dhaka Central (The Young Man Was, Part 3), 2015 - two-channel video installation, sound, color (82' and 17”)
Biennale Arte 2015 - Naeem Mohaiemen: Last Man in Dhaka Central (excerpt)la Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Naeem Mohaiemen
Last Man in Dhaka Central (The young man was, Part 3), 2015.
two-channel video installation, sound, color (82' and 17”)
courtesy the artist and Experimenter
In his Dutch flat, Peter underlined and drew exclamation marks on Abu Yusuf Khan’s post mortem (the body is cold) of the November 7th, 1975 soldier’s mutiny. The headlines read: ‘Zia embraced Taher and said “You have saved my life”’; ‘The Officers were frightened and fled Cantonment’; ‘In spite of precautions Taher was seized’; ‘Sirajul Alam Khan had acquired an image for himself’; ‘Why November 7th uprising failed’ (2014) by Naeem Mohaiemenla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Naeem Mohaiemen
In his Dutch flat, Peter underlined and drew exclamation marks on Abu Yusuf Khan’s post mortem (the body is cold) of the November 7th, 1975 soldier’s mutiny. The headlines read: ‘Zia embraced Taher and said “You have saved my life”’; ‘The Officers were frightened and fled Cantonment’; ‘In spite of precautions Taher was seized’; ‘Sirajul Alam Khan had acquired an image for himself’; ‘Why November 7th uprising failed’, 2014
five archival prints on rice paper
Room 4 - Fatou Kandé Senghor
Giving Birth, 2015 - video, color, sound (30’)
Giving Birth (2015) by Fatou Kandé Senghorla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Fatou Kandé Senghor
Giving Birth, 2015
video, color, sound (30') - still
Installation View (1969/1971) by Roberth Smithsonla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Roberth Smithson
Ashpalt on eroded cliff, 1969
ink and colored chalk on paper
Floating Island – Barge to Travel Around Manhatten Island, 1971
graphite on paper
The Hypothetical Continent of Lemura, 1969
brown ink, crayon, graphite and collage on paper
Island Project, 1970
pencil on paper
Dead Tree (1969) by Robert Smithsonla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Robert Smithson
Dead Tree, 1969
installation dimensions variable
Four Date Drawings (2011) by Runo Lagomarsinola Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Runo Lagomarsino
Four Date Drawings , 2011
sundrawings and metal structure
Swamp (1971) by Nancy Holt & Robert Smithsonla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson
Swamp, 1971
16mm film transferred to video, color, sound (6’)
Untitled (TI3) (2015) by Daniel Boydla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Daniel Boyd
Untitled (TI3), 2015
oil, charcoal and archival glue on polyester
Untitled (TI4) (2015) by Daniel Boydla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Daniel Boyd
Untitled (TI4), 2015
oil, charcoal and archival glue on polyester
Untitled, 14, 15.04.1974 (1974) by Teresa Burgala Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Teresa Burga
Untitled, 14, 15.04.1974
Series of 13 drawings, ink on paper
Teresa Burga
Untitled, 14, 15.04.1974
Series of 13 drawings, ink on paper
Teresa Burga
Untitled, 14, 15.04.1974
Series of 13 drawings, ink on paper
Room 6 - Giardino Scarpa
Walead Beshty, installation view
La Ciudad en Llamas (February 17 – March 1, 2015: Cerámica Suro Contemporánea, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) (2015) by Walead Beshtyla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Walead Beshty
La Ciudad en Llamas (February 17 – March 1, 2015: Cerámica Suro Contemporánea, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico), 2015
Ceramica Suro slip cast remnants, glaze, and firing plate
Rude Rocks N.1 (from the series Rude Rocks) and The Victory Atlas series (2012/2015) by Elena Damianila Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Elena Damiani
Rude Rocks N.1, 2015
hand carved and polished travertine, copper, stainless steel
The Victory Atlas Series, 2012-2013
collage on found map and Kawanaka paper
Room 9
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike, Marx, Eisenstein – Das Kapital (2008/2015) by Alexander Klugela Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Alexander Kluge
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike, Marx, Eisenstein – Das Kapital , 2008–2015
three-channel video installation, color, sound (90’, 180’, 90’)
Roof Off (2015) by Thomas Hirschhornla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Room 10
Thomas Hirschhorn
Roof Off, 2015
site specific installation
Thomas Hirschhorn
Roof Off, 2015
site specific installation
Thomas Hirschhorn
Roof Off, 2015
site specific installation
Room 11 - Samson Kambalu
Nyau Cinema, 2012–2015 - video installation, color and b&w, silent
KAPITAL (2013) by Isaac Julienla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Room 12
Isaac Julien
KAPITAL, 2013
double-monitor HD video installation, color, sound (31’)
Demonstration Drawings (2015) by Rirkrit Tiravanijala Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Demonstration Drawings, 2015
one hundred drawings, graphite on paper, MDF frames
Demonstration Drawings (2007) by Rirkrit Tiravanijala Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Demonstration Drawings, 2007
one hundred drawings, graphite on paper, MDF frames
Everything #2.2, #2.3, #2.4, #2.5, #2.6, #2.7, #2.8, #2.9, #2.10, #2.11a, #2.12a, #2.12b, #2.13, #2.14, #2.15 (2003) by Adrian Piperla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Adrian Piper
Everything #2.2, #2.3, #2.4, #2.5, #2.6, #2.7, #2.8, #2.9, #2.10, #2.11a, #2.12a, #2.12b, #2.13, #2.14, #2.15, 2003
photocopied photographs on graph paper, sanded with sandpaper, overprinted with inkjet text
Adrian Piper
Everything #2.2, #2.3, #2.4, #2.5, #2.6, #2.7, #2.8, #2.9, #2.10, #2.11a, #2.12a, #2.12b, #2.13, #2.14, #2.15, 2003
photocopied photographs on graph paper, sanded with sandpaper, overprinted with inkjet text
Adrian Piper
Everything #2.2, #2.3, #2.4, #2.5, #2.6, #2.7, #2.8, #2.9, #2.10, #2.11a, #2.12a, #2.12b, #2.13, #2.14, #2.15, 2003
photocopied photographs on graph paper, sanded with sandpaper, overprinted with inkjet text
Adrian Piper
Everything #2.2, #2.3, #2.4, #2.5, #2.6, #2.7, #2.8, #2.9, #2.10, #2.11a, #2.12a, #2.12b, #2.13, #2.14, #2.15, 2003
photocopied photographs on graph paper, sanded with sandpaper, overprinted with inkjet text
Adrian Piper
Everything #2.2, #2.3, #2.4, #2.5, #2.6, #2.7, #2.8, #2.9, #2.10, #2.11a, #2.12a, #2.12b, #2.13, #2.14, #2.15, 2003
photocopied photographs on graph paper, sanded with sandpaper, overprinted with inkjet text
Peru 73 (1973) by Teresa Burgala Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Teresa Burga
Peru 73, 1973
3 drawings, pen on paper
Room 13 - Marcel Broodthaers
Un Jardin d'Hiver, 1974 - installation with 26 Kentya palm trees, 6 b&w photographs, 16 garden folding chairs, 2 museum vitrines containing art prints and catalogues, rolled fitted carpet
Room 14 - Peter Friedl
Theory of Justice, 1992–2010 - newspaper clippings, sixteen display cases of stainless steel, Plexiglas, and painted plywood
Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men (2005) by Chris Markerla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Chris Marker
Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men, 2005
CD-ROM video for six screens (19’)
Autorretrato. Estructura. Informe. 9.6.72 (1972/2006) by Teresa Burgala Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Teresa Burga
Autorretrato. Estructura. Informe. 9.6.72, 1972-2006
mixed media installation
Installation View (1974/2014) by Teresa Burgala Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Teresa Burga
installation view, 1974-2013
mixed media
Logic of Disappearance, A Marx Archive (2014) by Madhusudhananla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Madhusudhanan
Logic of Disappearance, A Marx Archive, 2014
thirty charcoal drawings on paper
Logic of Disappearance, A Marx Archive (2014) by Madhusudhananla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
Madhusudhanan
Logic of Disappearance, A Marx Archive, 2014
thirty charcoal drawings on paper
ARENA
The Arena program has been realized with the support of: LUMA Foundation, Registration of an epic series of live performances in ARENA from the Vinyl Factory, Helga de Alvear, with the technical support of Kwadrat Moroso
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