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Pinco was not the only animal at the '78 Biennale. The place was a barnyard, rich with the odors of dung and urine-soaked straw. The Israeli pavilion was converted into a fold, with 17 ewes and one ram, their backs smeared with blue by the artist, Menashe Kadishman, a former kibbutz shepherd. The azure blots, "drifting apart or coming together according to the sheeps' movement," make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani...
...told in the service of truth, but however feeble art may be in the face of nature, one still cannot get the real thing into a gallery: those mountains and seas will not fit, and Byron's horses are less tractable than Kadishman's sheep or Paradise's one-shot bull. Consequently, the best things in the Biennale were the displays which allowed the galleries to work as containers for visual metaphor rather than cages for a withered reality...
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