Following on from yesterday's post, "...about the ways some one might order a heap of Art and non-Art things", we note the theme of this year's Venice Biennale : The Encyclopedic Palace.
“The Encyclopedic Palace” is the theme. It is taken from the title of a symbol of 1950s-era Futurism - an 11-foot-tall architectural model of a 136-story cylindrical skyscraper that was intended to house all the knowledge in the world. Its creator, the self-taught Italian-American artist Marino Auriti, dreamed it would be built on the National Mall in Washington. The model now belongs to the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan, which is lending it to the Biennale. “It best reflects the giant scope of this international exhibition,” Mr. Gioni said, “the impossibility of capturing the sheer enormity of the art world today.”
courtesy : Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Within the matrix of interconnectedness : curator of the 2013 Venice Biennale, Massimiliano Gioni looks at Marino Auriti's 1950s model of The Encyclopedic Palace.
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LOGOS/HA HAPaolo Baratta, the longtime president of the Biennale, said that “after 14 years of having traditional curators I thought it was time to ask a man of the next generation.
“At a time when contemporary art is flooding the world,” he added, “it seemed to make more sense to present a show that doesn’t just include a list of artists from the present but rather looks at today’s art through the eyes of history.”
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