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Revolutions – Forms That Turn (2008 Biennale of Sydney)

Ilari Valbonesi @ June 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Vernon Ah Kee, tolerance, 2005, Vinyl on PVC, 122 x 180cm.
Courtesy of Private collection, Melbourne
Photo: Vernon Ah Kee and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
The theme of the 16th Biennale of Sidney, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, suggests the impulse to revolt, a desire for change, and seeing the world differently.
Many works in this year’s exhibition will […]

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Golden León Ferrari

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Venice Biennale Golden Lion is given to Argentine artist León Ferrari.

The art of Leon Ferrari is characterized by protests: Against politics and Christian religion. In 1976 he was forced to move to Brazil:
I became a full-time artist there. In Buenos Aires I made my living as an engineer and made works of art in […]

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Golden Lion for Kultur und Freizeit at Venice Biennale

Editor @ October 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Golden Lion for the best national participation at 52 Venice Biennial is being given to the Hungarian Pavilion featuring the artist Andreas Fogarasi, curated by Katalin Timár
where architecture and cultural history are deployed to generate intelligent and poetic relations between content, visual language and strucural display. The Jury also considers important the artist’s approach to […]

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Entre-Polis: optimism in the age of global war

Ilari Valbonesi @ September 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War.
10th International İstanbul Biennial
September 8-November 4, 2007

Antrepo No.3
Transnational trading, border crossing, migration, global communication and new technologies are transforming almost every aspect of our life. At the same time, every individual is struggling to negotiate with the deconstruction of cultural memory, identity and […]

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Destroy Athens

Ilari Valbonesi @ September 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Destroy Athens : 1st Athens Biennial 2007
10 September - 18 November 2007
“Technopolis” of the City of Athens
100, Peiraios Street
(click to greek version)

Destroy Athens tells a story.
The story emerged from a completely empirical observation. We, each one of us, the subject of every action and every conscience is built through the eyes of others. […]

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