The Venice Art Biennale it's like one of those fixed price restaurants where you can eat as much and as much as you want. The risk is, at the restaurant as at the Biennale, that you get indigestion or eat or see something that then makes you feel bad at night. But if you know how to regulate yourself, you can see everything you like even if those who are with you turn up their noses. «Do you put parmesan on clams?». «Yes, I put parmesan on the clams». «Do you like the sculptures by Manolo Valdes in Piazza San Marco?». “Yes I like them”. Even if they give you nightmares at night. This year the master chef of the Biennale is Adriano Pedrosa, Brazilian and first curator from Latin America at the prestigious exhibition. The title Foreigners everywherenot in the sense that Italy is full of foreigners but in the sense that we are all foreigners somewhere sometimes in life. Being welcomed and being welcoming is important.
The artists on display are perhaps more than 300. Plus all the national pavilions, 90 or so, and all the collateral exhibitions. The Biennale, in addition to being a lavish art lunch, is also a treasure hunt, with exhibitions, projects and parties scattered across streets and fields. But put your mind at rest! On the return train or plane you will surely meet some people who will ask you if you have seen the best thing of the year and you certainly will not have seen or found it. The advice is to find something unobtainable and take revenge. In the worst case, invent it. «Did you see Kistinu Koppala's performance at Palazzo Berbetti… exceptional!». Inside the Biennial treasure huntthe other treasure hunt that has come back into fashion for a few editions is the hunt for the dead. For some time the coolest thing that curators have done is to exhume forgotten or unknown artists, sometimes unfairly, often with valid reasons like “they weren't very good or that relevant”. This year there are 120 artists who have passed away, more dead, less dead.
An artist who however would not have deserved oblivion is ours Filippo De Pisis, fantastic and light, perhaps too much, painter. A small local Fassbinder on canvas. If you don't know him, go look him up. Excellent appetizer. In the German pavilion there will also be an Israeli artist, Yael Bartana, certainly one of the most critical figures towards the Israeli government. To be seen. Worth seeing despite protests and boycotts Israel Pavilion with the artist Ruth Patir and his reflection on the environment, a theme that wars or no wars must not be forgotten as the climate catastrophe is another catastrophe that affects everyone regardless of race, religion, gender or nationality. Anyone who is tired of watching or listening can rest by smelling. Dedicated to smells and fragrances, the Korean pavilion with Koo Jeong a. A very beautiful title is that of the exhibition in Benin pavilionpresent in Venice for the first time: Everything that is fragile is precious. The works of the Brazilian artist are worth seeing Anna Maria Maiolini, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The Vatican and San Marino also have their pavilions, perhaps larger than the nations they represent. The American painter Eddie Martinez will represent San Marino, while the Holy See will occupy a building in the Giudecca women's prison with various artists, the soles of the feet of one of these, Maurizio Cattelanthey will be a large mural on the facade.
Pope francesco will visit the exhibition after the inauguration. The huge Italian pavilion at the end of the Arsenale there will be an infinite poetic sound installation by Massimo Bartolini, as another great Italian artist, Alighiero Boetti, would have said, nothing to hide, nothing to see but in this case a lot to feel. Then there are the parallel exhibitions, some of which scare the Biennale itself due to the waste of energy and economic means. One of these at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia del Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi with a fabulous installation designed byJapanese starchitect Tadao Ando. At the Correr Museum there will be Tears Of Francesco Vezzoli, real or crocodile we don't know. At the Prada Foundation the Swiss artist Christoph Büchel will present pawnshop, a reflection on the history of debt, need and poverty. One of the works will be diamonds made in the laboratory and brought out from the destruction of all the artist's works and things. Everything has value, nothing has value.
But my suggestions are just an appetizer or, being in Venice, a series of cicchetti to whet your appetite. If you are still hungry for art you will have plenty of it. You can make the menu you want. The price is fixed. One thing I can guarantee you: you too will often be works from the Biennale, not like in Sordi's film Smart holidays, but because you will more than once feel foreign and out of place when faced with incomprehensible languages and languages. The beauty of the Biennale is this. Every two years a new planet to discover, a land to explore, try and, as far as possible, understand. Have a good visit, have a good trip and above all good luck!
Source: Vanity Fair
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