The 58th International Venice Art
Biennale
May You Live in Interesting Times
ARSENALE
The 58th International Venice Art Exhibition, titled May
You Live In Interesting Times, until November 24, is curated by Ralph Rugoff and its title is a phrase of English invention that has long been
mistakenly cited as an ancient Chinese
curse that invokes periods of uncertainty, crisis and turmoil;
"interesting times", exactly as the ones we live in today. All the 79
artists exhibit different works at the Giardini
and the Arsenale, in order to
highlight their artistic practice rather than a single work. It is also trying
to highlight the fact that just as art has many levels, each artist’s practice
has many different dimensions and aspects to it. The artists are trying to defy
whatever categories and whatever conceptual boxes we might want to put them
into.
Zanele Muholi – MaID III – Philadelphia – 2018
Wallpaper
“Illegal combinations with rejected objects.”
Jimmie Durham is the
recipient of this year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement Award. His work also
includes elements of writing and performance, and his practice most often takes
the form of sculptures in which diverse everyday items and natural materials
are assembled into vivid forms, the process of production can be seen as an
embodiment of the subversive attitude that suffuses his works. Here each
sculpture, fashioned from combinations of furniture parts, slick industrial
materials or used clothes, approximates the scale of the titular animal, yet
the resulting forms are not portraits of the beings, but rather poetic
entanglements that challenge the traditional Enlightenment notion of the
separation between humans and nature.
Jimmie Durham – Musk Ox – 2017
Tavares Strachan – Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. – 2018
neon
Gabriel Rico – Seccion Aurea
– 2017
Shilpa Gupta – For, in your
tongue, I cannot fit – 2017-2018
Henry Taylor – Untitled –
2019
Arthur
Jafa – Big Wheel – series – My Little
Buddha – 2018
Photograph and copyright Manfredi Bellati
Arthur Jafa
Nabuqi – Destination – 2018
Martine Gutierrez – Body En
Thrall – series – 2018
Yin Xiuzhen – Nowhere to Land – 2012
Korakrit Arunanondchai with Alex
Gvojic
No history in a room filled with
people with funny names 5 – 2018
Mari Katayama – Dolls and Boxes
#1990-2019
Anthony Hernandez
Rosemarie Trockel – One Eye too Many – 2019
Nicole Eisenman
Cameron Jamie – Smiling Disease – 2019
Rula Halawani – Untitled # 3 - from the series - The Wall at Night - 2005
Michael Armitage
Gaurie Gill – Becoming – 2003
– ongoing
Liu Wei – Microworld – 2018
Alex Da Corte – Rubber Pencil Devil – 2019
Augustas Serapinas – Chair for the Invigilator –
brown – 2019
Augustas Serapinas
Anthea Hamilton – The New Life – 2019
Neil Beloufa - We only get the love we think we deserve – 2019
Zana Kadyrova – Market – 2017 – ongoing
Slavs and Tatars
