51st International Art Exhibition

The Experience of Art - Always a Little Further
 
 
The 51st International Art Exhibition, organized by the Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia and directed by María de Corral and by Rosa Martínez, will open to the public on Sunday, June 12, 2005.

The 2005 edition of the oldest and most famous exhibition of contemporary art presents several important innovations: first and foremost the beginning of a new cycle that will initiate a creative dialogue with the Artistic Direction by setting new objectives and confirming the central role of the Biennale in the international cultural and artistic debate.

For the first time in the history of its 110 years of activity the direction has been entrusted to two Directors, María de Corral and Rosa Martínez - art historians, critics and independent curators from Spain -, and the exhibition will be composed of two specific and complementary shows that will offer an articulated yet homogeneous reading of international contemporary art from the Seventies through today, with an eye to the near future. The two exhibition projects - The Experience of Art and Always a Little Further conceived respectively by María de Corral and by Rosa Martínez - will present, from different points of view, the best of contemporary art through a rigorous selection of artists, invited in a limited number and each represented by a series of works that document their creative history, to demonstrate the variety of artistic languages and aesthetic trends. The works on display will mostly be new or made in situ, and will be installed so that they dialogue with the extraordinary spaces of the exhibition in order to offer two levels of interpretation, as research for experts in the field, and as impact for the visitors.

The Experience of Art, curated by María de Corral, will be hosted in the 34 rooms of the Italian Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale and will present forty-two international artists, famous or promising, within an itinerary made up of a significant number of paintings, videos and installations, most of them created especially for the Biennale, which will represent the trends in the development of various languages since 1970, considered as the point of departure for the itinerary, until today. The exhibition was conceived by María de Corral to be "more similar to a centre for experimentation than a stack of certainties", to deal with intensity, not categories, and to rediscover the emotion of art.

Always a Little Further, curated by Rosa Martínez, in the 9,000 square meters of the Corderie and the Artiglierie of the Arsenale, will present forty-nine international artists united by their research into the nature of the contemporary, who will offer a variegated overview of the latest trends through videos, sculptures and installations conceived for these specific venues. The exhibition will develop along a linear itinerary that will embrace the spaces without compromising their continuity, to highlight their unique and evocative nature. The title of the exhibition is inspired by a book of Corto Maltese, an adventurous character invented by Venetian writer and comic artist Hugo Pratt, who becomes the vehicle through which to state that art is a construction of the imagination to understand reality better. The exhibition, in the vision of Rosa Martínez, "constitutes a test to present artists and aesthetic trends at the beginning of the new millennium and the visit to the Arsenale becomes a fragmentary and exciting voyage to discover the zones of light and shadow in our convulsive world."

In addition, ten installations, related to the two main exhibitions, will be set up in the outdoor exhibition areas and disseminated within the city.

A special project, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Biennale, will be installed on the bank in front of the entrance to the Giardini, which will host a gigantic work by Fabrizio Plessi entitled "Mare verticale" (2000), a technological totem made of steel and aluminum, 44 meters high, presented at the International Exhibition in Hanover in 2000. The work will subsequently be exhibited in China in 2006 as one of the events for the year of Italy in that country.

The National Participations register the largest number of participants in the history of the Biennale: seventy countries will present 31 exhibitions in the pavilions in the Giardini della Biennale and 42 in many other venues in Venice, to involve the entire city. A positive sign that confirms the excellent level of quality and the profoundly international character of the Venetian exhibition, perceived as a crossroads and a legacy of the entire world. Many countries are participating in the Art Biennale for the first time, including Afghanistan, Albania, Morocco, the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

The collateral events of the 51st Exhibition, selected among hundreds of proposals, will number thirty-one, and feature exhibitions, performances, conferences, seminars and events from the visual arts to contemporary poetry, spreading from the northern edge of the Arsenale to the center of Venice, from the islands of the Lagoon all the way to Mestre and Marghera.

The four major Prizes of the 51st Exhibition will be awarded by two Juries, one for international exhibitions and one for the national participations, coordinated by President Ida Gianelli. The Prizes will be: a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (awarded to Barbara Kruger), a Golden Lion for the Best National Presentation, a Golden Lion to a Young Artist (Under 30) participating in the international exhibitions, and a Golden Lion to an Artist participating in the international exhibitions. During the awards ceremony, the Prize for Young Italian Art 2004-2005, sponsored by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities DARC - General Direction for Architecture and Contemporary Art, will also be assigned.

The catalogue, edited by Marsilio, will be articulated into three practical volumes dedicated respectively to the two main exhibitions and the international participations together with the collateral events.

March 10, 2005


For further information:
Press Office for Art and Architecture
La Biennale di Venezia, Ca' Giustinian, San Marco, 30124 Venice
Tel. +39 041 52 18 846 / 716
Fax +39 041 24 11 407
e-mail: infoartivisive@labiennale.org




la biennale


dodjite da idemo zajdno

Ja cu najverovatnije doci...ako se odvojim od posla. 

ja hocu sigurno samo tesko sad do kraja jula da cu ugrabiti par dana za to srecom traje duze


izgleda da ce ovo godine crnogorci biti predstavnici za srbiju&montenegro.. ako ja nisam pogresno nacula

al na 50. smo se sve obrukali, meni nasa postavka bila najgora

evo malog dodatka na srpskom povodom otvaranja.


Najstarija svetska izložba savremene umetnosti, 51. bijenale u Veneciji, koja prvi put u više od stogodišnjoj istoriji ima dva umetnička direktora - Mariju de Koral i Rosu Martinez, otvorena je juče i za najširu publiku. Bijenale je 9. juna svečano otvoreno za stručnu javnost i novinare, a potom su dodeljene i prestižne nagrade. „Zlatnog lava” za životno delo ove godine je dobila Barbara Kriger (SAD), jedna od najradikalnijih predstavnica feminističke umetnosti 80-ih i 90-ih. Poznata po foto-instalacijama, koje nemilosrdno ismevaju mušku dominaciju, mas-medije i jeftin senzacionalizam, Barbara Kriger je (posle Dženi Holcer) druga umetnica iz njujorškog hardkor feminističkog kružoka ranih 80-ih koja je dobila najviše priznanje Bijenala.
„Zlatnog lava” za najbolju nacionalnu izložbu dobio je francuski paviljon, za instalaciju „Kazino” Anet Mesaže, dok je nagradu za najboljeg umetnika na dve glavne međunarodne izložbe dobio Tomas Šute iz Nemačke.

Šute je dobio „Zlatnog lava” za skulpturalno-grafički rad predstavljen na izložbi „Iskustvo umetnosti” (The Experience of Art), čiji je kurator Marija de Koral. Prvi put dodeljen je posthumno specijalni „Zlatni lav” umetničkom direktoru Bijenala Haraldu Zemanu, koji je bio na čelu Bijenala od 1998. do 2001. godine.

Međunarodne postavke na Bijenalu, prema koncepciji De Koralove Martinezove, predstavljaju sistematičan pregled savremene umetnosti od 70-ih do danas. Na izložbi „Iskustvo umetnosti”, postavljenoj u 34 prostorije italijanskog paviljona na Đardinima, učestvuju 42 umetnika iz celog sveta, čiji radovi odražavaju najvažnije trendove umetnosti posle 1970. godine. Među njima je i Barbara Kriger (1945) koja se predstavila instalacijom velikih dimenzija, nazvanom „Fasada”.

Na izložbi su zastupljeni i čuveni performer Brus Nojman (1941), Andrea Blum (1950) iz SAD, Miroslav Balka (1958) iz Poljske i Sten Daglas (Douglas, 1960) iz Kanade. Srbiju i Crnu Goru predstavljaju crnogorski umetnici Jelena Tomašević, Natalija Vujošević i Igor Rakčević, na izložbi u paviljonu SCG na Đardinima, pod nazivom „Eros malog prestupa”.

Konzervativni italijanski ministar kulture Roko Butiljone oštro je kritikovao umetničku ponudu Bijenala.

Rekao je da su pojedini umetnici "opsednuti skrnavljenjem verskih motiva".

Butiljone je u subotu došao u nenajavljenu posetu Bijenalu, dan ranije pre zvaničnog otvaranja, kako bi pogledao glavnu izložbu.


Italijanski ministar kulture Roko Butiljone
Umetnici toliko snažno i toliko dugo pokušavaju da šokiraju svet, tako da ništa više nije šokantno.


Italijanski ministar kulture Roko Butiljone

Tamo je, između ostalog, mogao da vidi video snimke seksualnog čina, transvestita i pape, kao i luster napravljen od 14 hiljada tampona.

Ministar Butiljone, inače predani rimokatolik, morao je da se povuče iz trke za položaj italijanskog komesara u Evropskoj komisiji zbog svojih konzervativnih stavova o homoseksualnosti.

Posle njegove posete, organizatori Bijenala nisu imali nikakve sumnje da se ministru nije dopalo ono što je video.

"To ne samo što je provincijalno, nego je i zastarelo. Umetnici toliko snažno i toliko dugo pokušavaju da šokiraju svet, tako da ništa više nije šokantno", zaključio je Roko Butiljone.

Snimak seksualnog cina transvestita i pape ........... daj bre .......... definitivno dolazim  bu ah ah ah

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Izlozba “Nespecificne pretnje” (Non-Specific Threats) Vilija Doertija (Willie Doherty) iz Severne Irske, cija se umetnost zasniva na iskustvu zivota u podeljenoj zajednici, bice otvorena od 17. juna do 14. jula u Salonu Muzeja savremene umetnosti (MSU) u Beogradu, neposredno posle njegovog ucesca na 51. Venecijanskom bijenalu.

Bice predstavljena dva novija Doertijeva projekta - video-instalacija “Re:Run” (2002) i video/foto-instalacija “Non-Specific Threat” (2004), koju ce beogradska publika videti neposredno posle izlaganja na jednoj od dve centralne izlozbe 51. Bijenala u Veneciji “Iskustvo umetnosti” autorke Marije de Koral.

Doerti, jedan od najpriznatijih britanskih umetnika, rodjen je 1959. godine u Deriju, gradu poznatom i kao Londonderi, koji simbolizuje nacionalne i verske konflikte u Severno Irskoj.

Veliki deo Doertijevog rada bavi se atmosferom straha, nasilja i nesigurnosti koje za mnoge zitelje Severne Irske u poslednje tri decenije predstavlja svakodnevno iskustvo. Stalna tema u njegovim radovima je i duboko nepoverenje u nacin na koji se ti dogadjaji prezentuju javnosti u medijima, saopstio je MSU.

Doerti u fotografijama i video radovima koristi dokumentaristicki stil i strategiju film noire da pomeri granice percepcije i memorije, istine i fikcije, stvarajuci mocne narative sa ovorenim krajem.

Uoci izlozbe u Salonu MSU, Doerti ce ucestvovati na centralnoj izlozbi Bijenala u Veneciji “Iskustvo umetnosti” (The experience of Art).

Izlozba je realizovana uz podrsku Britanskog saveta, a otvorice je direktor tog britanskog kulturnog centra Kris Gibson.

Izlozba, ciji su kustosi Marina Martic i Dejan Sretenovic, bice otvorena do 15. jula.

ja bila

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this is iz paviljona venecuele

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