Wednesday, July 11, 2007

52nd Venice International Art Biennale


Friday 8th June - Seen at the Sperone Westwater dinner at Ca Rezzonico in honor of Guillermo Kuitca. Argentinan artist, Guillermo Kuitca (right) stops on his way into dinner to pose with Robert Storr and his family. Kuitca not only represents Argentina in the Argentian Pavilion but also participates in the Arsenale exhibiton curated by Robert Storr. Storr is the first director from the United States in more than one hundred years of the Biennale exhibition. The theme this year is Think with the Senses – Feel with the mind. Art in the Present Tense. The exhibition presents more than one hundred artists, from all over the world with many site-specific works and new productions created for this particular exhibition with the collaboration of the Biennale di Venezia.


Friday 8th June – Arsenale: Think with the Senses – Feel with the mind. Art in the Present Tense – Guillermo Kuitca. Guillermo Kuitca’s diaries. Shown above one of the walls of the thirty-eight canvases from the artist’s “Diarios” series, which began in 1994 and continue to the present.


A detail; of one of the Kuitca Diarios, mixed media on canvas, diameter:120cm, depth: 4cm.