The British Pavilion
Folly – Phyllida Barlow
“Folly explores the
duality of fun and foreboding.”
After a forty-plus-year career,
Barlow is known for her colossal sculptures and installations made of poor materials,
like plywood, cardboard, plaster, concrete, cloth, combined with common everyday
items. Her art has been defined “crazy and foolishly ambitious”. Its most
prominent feature is not beauty as much as, in Barlow’s words, “abstract
qualities of time, weight, balance, rhythm; collapse and fatigue versus the
more upright dynamic notions of maybe posture.”
Curators: Harriet Cooper, Delphine
Allier
“abstract qualities of time, weight, balance, rhythm; collapse and
fatigue versus the more upright dynamic notions of maybe posture.”
Phyllida Barlow
The British Pavilion
Folly – Phyllida Barlow
David Maupin, Giovanna
Battaglia, Margherita Maccapani Missoni
Stefano Tonchi
Warly Tomei
The British Pavilion
Folly – Phyllida Barlow
Ron Arad
The French Pavilion
Studio Venezia – Xavier Veilhan
Xavier Veilhan’s installation, inspired by Merzbau,
the pioneering work of artist Kurt Schwitters which
is a “musical house” open
to musicians from all over the world. They are invited to play and create in a
space turned into a recording studio with all amenities. Sound technicians and
producers will also be available. Visitors will be able to listen to and
discover new music while it is being produced.
Curators: Lionel Bovier and Christian Marclay
Xavier Veilhan
The French Pavilion
Studio Venezia – Xavier Veilhan
Numerous instruments, which are
integrated into the space, enable musicians, from different horizons and genres
to work onsite, either individuality or collaboratively.
Francois Pinault
The Australian Pavilion
My Horizon – Tracey Moffatt
The line of the horizon may
represent a distant future or what we cannot achieve; it may prompt us to act
or to wait. The artist works on this theme with photography and film by
exploring the complexity of interpersonal relationships, the uniqueness of
popular culture, and childhood memories and fantasies. Moffatt outlines the
possible scenarios beyond the line of her personal horizon.
Curator: Natalie King
“My fantasy is in my strange brain – I can sit still and go
places you’d never dream of!”
Tracey Moffat – 2009
The Australian Pavilion
My Horizon – Tracey Moffatt
Kitchen
Body Remembers - 2017
The Pavilion of The United States of
America
Tomorrow is Another Day – Mark
Bradford
In Tomorrow is Another Day, new
pieces are added to existing art using a wide array of techniques. The whole
corpus is the reflection of Mark Bradford’s sensitiveness toward abstract and
materialist painting, it is a narration that follows the pavilion’s
architecture about the ability of art to reveal the contradictions of history
and inspire and even affect the actions of today.
Curators: Christopher
Bedford and Katy Siegel
Tomorrow Is Another Day is a
narrative of struggle, agency, and possibility, exploring the vulnerability and
resiliency of marginalized people. Mark Bradford elevates the everyday struggles of the
individual to historic and global significance, paying these struggles the
attention they deserve but rarely receive.
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford
Thelxiepeia – 2016
Medusa - 2016
Mark Bradford
Tomorrow is Another Day – 2016
Mark Bradford
Niagara - 2005
Kiki Smith
The
Pavilion of the Korean Republic
Counterbalance:
The Stone and the Mountain
Cody
Choi and Lee Wan
Art by Cody Choi and Lee Wan follows
the theme of Korean identity after the conflict that generated two separate
countries, very unlike each other for openness and vocation. Says the curator:
“By revealing the transnational conditions of production and consumption, these
two artists create works that are distillations of human experience. If a stone
stands for the individual, then the mountain is the societal system in which
they are lodged. Through the lens of this exhibition, individual struggles may
prove analogous to those of the wider contemporary world.”
Above. Venetian Rhapsody – Cody Choi
- 2017
Curator: Daehyung Lee
Cody Choi
The
Pavilion of the Korean Republic
Counterbalance:
The Stone and the Mountain
Cody Choi
The
Pavilion of the Korean Republic
Counterbalance:
The Stone and the Mountain
Lee
Wan - Proper Time – 2017
Lee
Wan
Eva
and Adele