| THE VENICE BIENNALE 2003: A "CORD" BETWEEN VENICE AND ELSEWHERE
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Between Florence and Venice is born the project The Cord: a network of practicable tunnels in steel - 200 meters of total length - that constitutes the symbol of 50th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale - opened to the public from the 15, June to 2, November. Commissioned by the director Francesco Bonami to Archea Associates and C+S Associates - Laura Andreini, Marco Casamonti, Silvia Fabi, Gianna Parisse, Giovanni Palazzi | Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini, Andrea Bond́ -, The Cord testifies also the re-birth of a new dialogue between the Venice Biennale and the italian territory.
Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship is the title of the Venice Biennale 2003 that just with its fiftieth edition propose to take up the challenge of the "molteplicity of cultures and languages" making available to every viewer the opportunities to relase oneself from "the shapeless concept of audience" and to propose - says the director Francisco Bonami - an independent intepretation about the Biennial event.
To interlace the themes of the extension with the physical structure that contains them, this year also the functional elements of the Venice Biennale had been transformed in arts and architecture projects. And, for example, the design of connexions between the several sections of Biennial had engaged the architecture firms of Archea Associates (Florence - Rome) and C+S Associates (Venice).
The Cord is an innovative elaboration of a "connecting module system" able to connect the several espositive centers of the city and also to represent the interactive philosophy of the exhibition. A work not punctually concentrated but "diffused"; a "net" to cable the various places of the Venice Biennale.
A sculptural landmark, an architectonic presence and an umbilical cord between "innner" and "outer" spaces, The Cord is a great practicable conduit relized with modular elements in steel - 3 meters of diameter and 1,25 meters of depth - in which are alterated the usual relationships between customer and information. In fact the viewers are not static observers in front of dynamic contents. The visitors, instead enter within the net of information that the extension develops in its itinerary.
The program of Venice Biennale 2003 is characterized by a series of extensions and previewed exhibits in several venetian centers - Gardens of Biennale, Arsenal, Correr Museum - and also beyond the lagoon borders. Fragments of The Cord, will be installed in the public squares of the main Italian cities where the Biennial will carry the own program. So, the 50th biennial edition, will establish - and for the first the time - a concrete relationship between Venice - terminal of contemporary arts and cultures - and the other Italian centers.
Some exhibits mentioned (in progress...)
Claire Barclay, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling have been chosen to represent Scotland in the exhibition that is part of Zenomap, a presentation of new work from Scotland for this year's Venice Biennale.
Athanasia Kyriakakos and Dimitris Rotsios - architect - are the representatives of the Greek Pavilion with their Intron, an onsite installation examining the real space of dreams.
For the Interludes Cabrita Reis produced Absent names, a walk-in sculpture situated in the Giardini della Biennale, between the Austrian and Brazilian Pavilions.
Chris Ofili presents a new artworks for the British Pavilion.
We Are Family, is the new Patricia Piccinini’s exhibition for the Australian Pavilion.
Denmark is represented by the internationally acclaimed artist, Olafur Eliasson. His exhibition, The Blind Pavilion, shows entirely new works created especially for this occasion.
La Biennale di Venezia - Settore Arti Visive / Visual Arts
San Marco, 1364/a - Ca' Giustinian - 30124 Venezia
Tel. 041 5218898 - Fax 041 5218843
das2@labiennale.com
Press days: 12-13-14 giugno / June 2003
Vernice / Vernissage: 13-14 giugno / June 2003
Inaugurazione ufficiale / Official Opening: 14 giugno / June 2003
Apertura al pubblico: dal 15 giugno al 2 novembre 2003
Opening to the public from 15 June to 2 November 2003
www.labiennaledivenezia.net/it/artivisive (versione italiana)
www.labiennaledivenezia.net/it/artivisive (english version)
50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte / 50th International Exhibition of Art
Sogni e Conflitti - La dittatura dello spettatore / Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer
Direttore / Director: Francesco Bonami (anno / year 2003)
Giardini della Biennale
Ritardi e Rivoluzioni / Delays and Revolutions
Italian Pavilion
curated by Francesco Bonami and Daniel Birnbaum
La Zona / The Zone
realised by Gruppo A12
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Arsenale
Clandestini / Clandestine
curated by Francesco Bonami
Smottamenti / Fault Lines
curated by Gilane Tawadros
In collaboration with the Forum for African Arts
Sistemi individuali / Individual Systems
curated by Igor Zabel
Zona d'Urgenza / Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency)
curated by Hou Hanru
La struttura della sopravvivenza / The Structure of Survival
curated by Carlos Basualdo
Rappresentazioni arabe contemporanee / Contemporary Arab Representations
curated by Catherine David
Il Quotidiano Alterato / Lo Cotidiano Alterado /The Everyday Altered
curated by Gabriel Orozco
Stazione Utopia / Utopia Station
curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija
Museo Correr
Pittura / Painting: Da Rauschenberg a Murakami, 1964-2003
curated by Francesco Bonami
Interludes
Progetti esterni e interventi urbani
Links
Vivere Venezia2 – Recycling the Future
Giardinetti della Biennale - via Garibaldi
Riserva Artificiale
Porto Marghera, Darsena di via dell’Atomo
The Cord
Archea associati / C+S associati
Archea Associati
Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 13 - 50125 Firenze
tel 055 685202 - 055 6589127 / fax 055 6810850
www.archea.it
staff@archea.it
Via Sabrata, 9 - 00198
tel. / fax 06 86206424
www.archearoma.it
studio@archearoma.it
C+S Associati
Vicolo Carlo Alberto, 3 - 31100 Treviso
tel. / fax 0422 542362
Santa Croce, 261/a - 30135 Venezia
tel. 041 5209542
csassoci.ve@libero.it
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