Tuesday, May 16, 2017

57 Venice Biennale: Giardini – The Pavilions : British - French - Australian - USA - Korean




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
 
 
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