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  Flak Magazine: The Venice Biennale, 09.07.05
The Venice International Exhibition of Art is a world-famous art orgie that has made waves and made careers every other year for the past 102 years.
What the maps don't show is that the Biennale organizers placed a nice little cafe for you, weary art viewer, right outside of America — a great use of all that space in front of the pavilion.
Although the organizers of the Biennale would never admit to it, this is the side of the Giardini that asks to be forgotten.
www.flakmag.com /features/venice.html   (1714 words)

  
 News & Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Venice: Metamorph, by Fulvio Irace and Maria Giulia Zunino
Venice Architecture Biennale: at the Corderie, and throughout the Arsenale area, more than two hundred models explain to expert and lay visitors the state of the world of art in the globalised world.
By the look of the ninth Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened on Sunday, the race to scrape the sky with ever-higher buildings is all but irrelevant to the new generation of architects coming into their own.
venicebiennale.archeire.com /04news.html   (5232 words)

  
 Venice Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
A Venice institution, the Biennale (as the name suggests) started as an art festival held every two years, but during the century-plus of its existence it's outgrown the name, becoming one of the world's major interdisciplinary art expositions.
Picasso's work was finally shown in 1948, the same year Peggy Guggenheim brought her collection to Venice at the Biennale's invitation.
The Theatro Verde, an outdoor amphitheater on the island of San Giorgio, was restored for Biennale use, and can't beat the Venetian lagoon as a backdrop.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=venice@163&cur_section=fea&feature=30009   (572 words)

  
 Venice Events - Venice Carnival - Venice Biennale - Venice Film Festival
Venice Carnival is steeped in history, charm and tradition: its inhabitants and tourists alike have taken a keen interest in it, thanks to its mix of transgression, art, history and culture in one of the most unique cities in the world.
During the ten days of Carnival leading up to Mardi Gras, Venice is a hive of activity and entertainment, from improvised street entertainment to performances put on by the organisers.
The 10th Venice Architecture Biennale will, for the first time in its own history, focus on the design of cities, their urban infrastructure and social dynamics, providing a unique international perspective on the relationship between architecture, society and sustainability.
www.venicewelcome.com /events/events.htm   (881 words)

  
 Venice events - Venice attractions - Venice Carnival - Venice Biennale - Fenice - Venice concerts - Venice Film ...
Venice attracts visitors from all over the world thanks to its spectacular beauty and also thanks to the important international events that take place there, such as the Biennale and Film Festival.
The International Film Festival in Venice was set up in 1932, thanks to the encouragement given by the Count Volpi di Misurata, who was the Chairman of the Venice Biennale at the time.
On November 21st each year in Venice, the Madonna della Salute festival takes place which is memory of the liberation of Venice from the terrible plague that struck the city in the first half of the 17th century.
www.veniceworld.com /venice_guide_events.htm   (1250 words)

  
 Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine - VENICE BIENNALE
We request that the Biennale Committee consider withdrawing the Israeli entry as being provocative and counterproductive to the aims of the Biennale, and particularly distasteful in the context of the aftermath of an ugly and unnecessary war in neighbouring Lebanon, and a continuing one-sided war in Gaza.
The 10th International Architecture Biennale in Venice - There is a growing international and Palestinian campaign for the organisers of the 10th International Architecture Biennale in Venice to cancel the exhibition in the Israeli pavilion.
APJP requests the Biennale Committee to consider withdrawing the Israeli entry as being "provocative and counterproductive to the aims of the Biennale, and particularly distasteful in the context of the aftermath of an ugly and unnecessary war in neighbouring Lebanon, and a continuing one-side war in Gaza."
www.apjp.org /venice-biennale   (2320 words)

  
 CNN - Style - Venice's Biennale comes together ... fortemente - June 9, 1999
VENICE, Italy (CNN) -- Some 3,000 members of the international arts media are in the not-so-Serene Republic of Venice.
By Saturday's Biennale inauguration and Sunday's public opening, close to 60 nations will be represented in the watery city -- 30 countries have those coveted permanent pavilions, the rest are hunkering down and setting up their artists' displays in other parts of the city.
And in Venice, those who know Caro's work are wondering if "The Last Judgment" may not be the artist's closest pass to a subject he's been asked to treat before.
www.cnn.com /STYLE/9906/09/biennale.1/index.html   (1373 words)

  
 Venice Biennale 2001: The Plateau of Humanity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Venice Biennale has manifested itself for the 49th time and offers a wider range than ever of visual art experiences, together with an extensive programme devoted to the performing arts and poetry.
How sad to think that this is the very first Biennale to take place when Scotland has managed to define itself anew with its own Parliament after a period of three hundred years without one, and yet it simply does not appear within the vast array of the world's flags.
The first Biennale of the 21st century deserves to be remembered for the life-enhancing note struck by Ramzi Mustafa, the way that he invited visitors to rejoice in Egypt's contemporary cultural reality, and the way in which the Jugoslav Pavilion was given over to the Montenegro artists, Oleg Kulik and Milija Pavicevic.
www.studio-international.co.uk /reports/venice_biennale.asp   (1478 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Visual Arts Students, Alumni to Participate in Venice and Prague Biennales
While it is not a cohesive group show, Schutz points out that this diversity fits with the Biennale's overall theme this year, which reflects on the idea of the 'large scale international exhibition,' questioning the validity of such an exhibition as representative of the current status of contemporary art.
In addition to Schutz, Visual Arts Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija is one of the curators at the 50th Venice Biennale and a recent recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucelia Artist Award for his pioneering approach to the creation and presentation of art.
In conjunction with the Venice Biennale, Columbia is the only university in the United States invited to participate in a special student program.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/06/venice_biennales.html   (651 words)

  
 Pictures of an Exhibition: The 50th Venice Biennale
And given the near-hundred-degree heat in Venice, it was impossible, walking and rewalking the long, long trail to the show with bleeding feet and burning head, not to relate "station" to the physical suffering and mental anguish narrated in the stations of the cross.
Revisiting Rauschenberg's legendary success at the 1964 Venice Biennale (which signaled America's new dominance on the cultural map), the show capitalizes on the work's militaristic imagery and flatbed technique, by which the artist levied subtle criticisms at his native country.
Perhaps the Biennale doesn't have the necessary display models for the likes of Murakami, or to make art resonate so powerfully as Rauschenberg's once did—meaning that Bonami is quite right in suggesting that nothing less than the very complexion of the event is at stake today.
www.coldbacon.com /art/artforum/venice-biennale.html   (5925 words)

  
 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: ARTS IN AUSTRALIA: VENICE BIENNALE 2005
Established in 1895, the Venice Biennale is the world's most important critical forum for contemporary visual art.
The Australian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale is a project of the Australia...
The dates for the Venice Biennale 2005 Vernissage [preview period] are as...
www.ozco.gov.au /arts_in_australia/projects/projects_visual_arts/venice_biennale_2005   (825 words)

  
 Archinect : Features : Venice Biennale: Cities by Numbers
Since the Venice Biennale has been well-documented all over the webosphere, this is more random musing than scoop reportage.
The Biennale grounds are divided into the Giardini, sprinkled with some 40 national pavilions, and the Corderie dell'Arsenale, a series of converted naval warehouses, with Burdett's "Cities: Architecture and Society" theme intended to operate pervasively.
Past themes suggest the subtext of the biennale as a visionary event, able to forecast the winds of trend in architecture, such as "Next" in 2002 or "Sensing the Future" in 1996.
archinect.com /features/article.php?id=45668_0_23_0_C   (1014 words)

  
 Greek Pavillion at the 50th Venice Biennale
The general title of the 50th Biennale of Venice inspired the choice for the Greek participation.
She is a founding member and the co-director of Oxymoron, a non-profit organization founded in 2000, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art in Greece and on an international level.
She was also one of the curators for the first Tirana Biennale and is a frequent contributor to the art section of major newspapers in Greece and Flash Art International.
www.art-omma.org /issue9/biennale.htm   (1418 words)

  
 Venice Biennale - Art - British Council - Arts
The British Council has been responsible for the British presentation at the Venice Biennale since 1938 so have a look at our Britain at Venice Biennale website for a full history of the British Pavilion from 1895 – 2003, with details of current and past projects.
Sheffield musicians Richard Hawley and the Arctic Monkeys are on the shortlist for the Mercury Prize, Britain's most prestigious music award; Sheffield's iconic cooling towers are the most popular contenders for Channel 4's Big Art Project; and Stirling Prize-shortlisted architects O'Donnell and Tuomey are working on a new John Lewis for Sheffield.
The director of this 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture is Ricky Burdett, Centennial Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and LSE, and its theme is the interaction of architecture and social dynamics in the world’s major cities.
www.britishcouncil.org /arts-art-venice-biennale.htm   (588 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Features - Top Ten Reasons to Love the Venice Biennale
Everywhere at the 51st Venice Biennale are grand anti-art gestures -- pavilions left empty by Daniel Knorr (Romania), Miriam Bäckström and Carsten Höller (Sweden) and Tino Sehgal (Germany), or converted into an airport waiting room by Muntadas (Spain), or into a caveman's hut by Gabríela Fridriksdóttir (Iceland).
With painting more or less banished from the Biennale, it was left to curator María de Corral to include several galleries of paintings in "The Experience of Art," her show of 42 artists in the 34 white rooms of the labyrinthine Italian pavilion.
The few examples of real charm in the Venice Biennale are also to be found in de Corral's exhibition, including the fl-and-white film animations of South African artist William Kentridge, located in the Italian pavilion's large mezzanine gallery, and Robin Rhodes' slide shows animating kids at play in the smaller gallery.
www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/robinson/robinson6-20-05.asp   (953 words)

  
 VeniceOnLine - Festa de la Sensa
The Venice Biennale is an interdisciplinary Cultural Society concerned with visual arts, architecture, dance, music, theatre and cinema.
Following the inauguration of the Teatro Verde on the island of San Giorgio (1,300 open-air seats) in 1999, the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (330 seats) and the Teatro alle Tese (500 seats) opened in 2000: the latter is a vast place and is ideal for putting on events and performances.
For the Film Festival on the Venice Lido, alongside the historical Palazzo del Cinema, the Sala Perla (580 seats) was restructured and enlarged in 1999, the PalaBNL seating was increased to 1,700, and the spaces reserved for journalists and professionals from the film world at the Casino were increased in 2000 and 2001.
www.veniceonline.it /Events/Biennale.asp   (322 words)

  
 Katie Holten - Venice Biennale 2003
The Venice Biennale of Art was first established in the 19th Century and it is considered to be the model on which other biennales of international art have been based subsequently.
With the Venice Biennale of Art in situ the scale of the spectacle is extended and the pleasures of the fair are most potent during the days the exhibitions are previewed before the public opening.
Ireland’s participation at the Venice Biennale of Art is an initiative of the Cultural Relations Committee of the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, in association with Vittorio Urbani.
homepage.mac.com /katie.holten/Katie.Venice.html   (917 words)

  
 WPS1 Venice Biennale
The tone is militant but never abrasive, the seemingly rigid instrumental elements of the ensemble quickly giving way to the slipstream of their own ephemera in the manner of a lulling kaleidoscopic vision.
For the Venice Biennale broadcast, WPS1's Charlie Ahearn invited recording artist Balozi Dola to assemble a compilation of African Hip Hop.
During the 2005 Venice Biennale, WPS1 broadcast Sonic Pavilions for a group of countries and regions not represented in the exhibition.
www.wps1.org /include/shows/venice.html   (5577 words)

  
 Mostra di Architettura di Venezia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Venice Biennale of architecture.
Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, the Architecture section of the Venice Biennale was established in 1980.
As well as addressing the academic side of architecture, the Biennale is an occasion where big-name architects and designers can showcase new projects, arranged in different pavilions, each with different themes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mostra_di_Architettura_di_Venezia   (221 words)

  
 venice biennale
In fact the space seems to be inhabited 24/7 by a happy bunch of people serving drinks, cooking, working on their laptop and even selling Yvette Horner's favourite musical instrument; there was also a comfy-looking sleeping dorm.
Some loved it, others even wrote that it was one of the worst pavilions at the Biennale this year.
The Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture is called Form, Raum, Net (shape, space, network), three terms that express the main ideas that have shaped our view of the city’s organization since early modernism.
www.we-make-money-not-art.com /archives/cat_venice_biennale.php   (5850 words)

  
 Venice Biennale takes shapes - Front Page Art in America - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The title and guiding theme of the 50th Venice Biennale [June 15-Nov. 2] were formally announced in December by visual arts director Francesco Bonami: "Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer." The 63 participating countries will include two making their Venice debuts, Iran and China.
In the sort of elliptically worded explanation familiar to readers of past Biennale press releases, Bonami seemed to promise a more democratically conceived international show, one that will acknowledge the multiple and sometimes contentious voices and visions of curators, artists and viewers alike.
While the director-as-mogul may be the standard image of the Venice chief (one thinks of Jean Clair and Harald Szeemann), delegation has a precedent.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_2_91/ai_97551428   (687 words)

  
 biennale architettura in Venice, Italy
It underscores the role of this Biennale in bringing together installations and images to attract a much wider audience beyond the trade of architects and artists.
He was awarded the Vitruvio Internacional a la Trayectoria prize at the 7th Architecture Biennale of Buenos Aires in 1998 and the Grand Prix d'Architecture Française in 1999.
He is director of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale 1998-2001.
www.veniceword.com /dbiennarch.html   (1191 words)

  
 Biennale Babylon - Venice Biennale 2001 Art in America - Find Articles
There was every reason to be optimistic about the 2001 Venice Biennale.
The previous edition had seen the debut of a revamped administration that promised to streamline funding and planning for an event that had seemed straight-jacketed by bureaucracy in the past.
Indecision over whether or not the Italian artists chosen by Szeemann would be shown as a group in the Venice pavilion (which served as an onsite press office in recent years) led to an eleventh-hour administrative announcement that the space would be used for a tribute to Alighiero Boetti.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_89/ai_78334699   (752 words)

  
 CNN - Style - Venice's Biennale: A cultural city-state - June 4, 1999
Don't worry about Biennale president Paolo Baratta and other organizers talking "renewal." That sort of pronouncement is a historical hazard when you run a city that's been around since the year 697.
And one area being opened for this Biennale is the covered shipyard, the old Gaggiandre, designed by architect Jacopo Sansovino and built between 1568 and 1573.
Timothy Morrell, curator for the Australian entry in the 1999 Biennale, writes, "The photographs on which he bases his suburban interiors and exteriors are usually cut from the slightly crudely reproduced and luridly colored glossy brochures inserted into newspapers.
www.cnn.com /STYLE/9906/04/biennale.advance/index.html   (2424 words)

  
 Venice 51 Biennale
The Venice Biennale is the most prestigious international art exhibition in the world.
Olivetti actually hoped to sell some kelims (but not in the framework of the Biennale, where commercial activities are not allowed) as a fundraising effort for schools in Badakhshan (the province of origin of Rahim Walizada) but this does not seem to have materialized.
The Afghan Pavilion was located in one of the most prestigious buildings in Venice: the “Fondazione Levi” on the Grand Canal, near one of the two bridges that spans the Grand Canal, “the Bridge of Arts”, and thus close to where the streams of visitors walk.
www.afghan-german.de /d/momak/55benale/55benale.htm   (1529 words)

  
 Radlab - ir - Venice Biennale
In early 1986, I was invited to create an installation of current work for the Venice Biennale (Art and Science: Informatique Exhibition) in Italy.
Subsequent reports to me from friends visiting the Biennale, indicated that in early July, the IR installation was shut down and my name and any evidence of the work was removed.
Cablegrams and telephone queries to the Venice Biennale staff were not answered.
www.dcn.davis.ca.us /GO/rl/information/venice.html   (97 words)

  
 BBC - Wales - Venice Biennale 2005
The Venice Biennale is the most important contemporary art event for Welsh artists to show their wares.
The 2005 Venice Biennale of Art features over 70 participating nations and provides our artists with an important stage on which to exhibit.
Last year's Biennale was the first in which Wales participated and this year the three shortlisted artists, Peter Finnemore, Laura Ford and Paul Granjon, have been chosen by curator Karen MacKinnon.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/arts/sites/art/pages/venice_biennale_2005.shtml   (620 words)

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