Word: giardini
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...around La Serenissima: in the dank Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, where Susan Norrie's videos of environmental dysfunction play; in the secret gardens of Palazzo Zenobio, where Callum Morton's recreation of his demolished childhood home gives off good-humored gusts of dry ice; and in the Giardini di Castello, where Daniel von Sturmer's video installations spill across the wave-like plywood plinth of the shed-like pavilion...
...current edition, which opened on June 10, is more international than ever, with 76 participant nations, 34 of them at the Arsenale and the Giardini, the Biennale's main venues, and the rest scattered around the city. For each Biennale a "Commissioner" is chosen who organizes the big international group show that is a centerpiece of the fair. This is the first Biennale ever headed by an American, Robert Storr, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and dean of the School of Art at Yale University. "Biennales are a crash course in contemporary...
...group show that Storr has organized at the Arsenale and the Giardini, with nearly 100 artists from around the world, is called "Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind." Storr has described it as an attempt to demonstrate that the line separating conceptually based work from art that emphasizes material and pleasures - otherwise known as beauty - is no barrier at all. Each kind of art draws from the other. But what most people will be struck by, at least in the exhibition's first half, is the heavy presence of art, a great deal of it photography, that...
...what about the Western nations? Their pavilions luxuriate out at the Giardini, the wooded park that is the Biennale's second main site. The U.S. is represented this year by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who was just 38 when he died of aids-related illnesses in 1996. By that time he had already become widely known for work that gently undermined notions of how art operates. He made piles of posters that gallery visitors could take away, and spread fields of wrapped candy on the floors for them to pocket. His art could be as perishable as life, and as persistent...
...Come June 9, some 30,000 of the world's leading critics, collectors and curators will descend on the Giardini della Biennale, where nearly half of the 73 competing countries are clustered in exhibition pavilions. Up for grabs is a Golden Lion award for best national presentation, but even more sought after in Venice is cultural kudos. During Vernissage, the official preview before the Biennale opens to the public on June 12, countries have only three days to impress the world. While Australia has enjoyed its own pavilion since 1954 and New Zealand (now at its third Biennale) shows...