Venise à l'heure de l'art contemporain ! 600 000 visiteurs sont attendus à la 58e édition de la Biennale internationale d'art contemporain qui s'ouvre ce mardi 7 mai, pour les professionnels, sur la Lagune. 90 pays sont représentés, avec chacun un pavillon. 79 artistes participent par ailleurs à l'exposition principale « May you live in interesting times » (« puissiez-vous vivre à une époque intéressante »). Un sujet que les organisateurs ont choisi comme une réponse aux populismes.
Open to the public from Saturday May 11th to Sunday November 24th 2019, at the Giardini and the Arsenale, the 58th International Art Exhibition, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, will be curated by Ralph Rugoff and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. The pre-opening will take place on May 8th, 9th and 10th, the awards ceremony and inauguration will be held on Saturday May 11th 2019.
«The title of this Exhibition could be interpreted as a sort of curse – stated President Paolo Baratta - where the expression “interesting times” evokes the idea of challenging or even “menacing” times, but it could also simply be an invitation to always see and consider the course of human events in their complexity, an invitation, thus, that appears to be particularly important in times when, too often, oversimplification seems to prevail, generated by conformism or fear. And I believe that an exhibition of art is worth our attention, first and foremost, if it intends to present us with art and artists as a decisive challenge to all oversimplifying attitudes.»
Divers lieux
Venise - Italie
Jusqu'au 24 novembre 2019 |
