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      11 Oct 2008

      Biennale di Venezia: Nuovo Padiglione Italia

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      [txt] LA BIENNALE Padiglione Italia: un nuovo progetto Un nuovo progetto riguardante il Padiglione Italia ai Giardini, che ospita parte delle mostre internazionali che si sviluppano poi all’Arsenale, è stato approvato dal Cda della Biennale di Venezia presieduto da Paolo Baratta nella riunione del 9 ottobre. Il Padiglione Italia sarà parzialmente riorganizzato, riservando maggiori spazi e attività al servizio del pubblico e della formazione. Potrà inoltre operare tutto l’anno. All’interno del Padiglione Italia, nell’ “Ala Pastor”, è stata individuata la sede idonea per l’apertura al pubblico dell’Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee (Asac). In questa zona saranno trasferiti l’archivio storico e l’archivio documentale, i libri, i cataloghi e i periodici, con la previsione di sale di lettura e di consultazione per i ricercatori e per i visitatori delle mostre. [en] A new project on the Italian Pavilion in the Giardini, which houses part of the international exhibitions that follow in the Arsenale, was approved by the Board of the Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta in its meeting on October 9. The Italian Pavilion will be partially reorganized, giving more space and activities to the public services and training. It could eventually operate all year. Inside the Italian Pavilion, in the "Ala Pastor", has been identified the appropriate site for the public access of the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (Asac). In this area will be transferred the historical archive and the documents archive, books, catalogs and the periodicals, with with the forecast of reading and consulting rooms for the researchers and visitors of the exhibitions.
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      10 Oct 2008

      Internet as a Venice Carnival: the illusion of becoming similar?

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      [txt] Origins of Carnival - www.comune.venezia.it
      The [Venice] Carnival has its roots in many traditions, from the Latin feast of Saturnalia to the Greek feast of Dionysian cults celebrating the start of spring, when masks were used for symbolic representation. It signalled a time in which everything was permitted in an apparent incarnation of the world turned on its head. In fact, the Carnival was a means of rigidly controlling the impulses. The tendency to excess was merely a benevolent concession for a prescribed period of time. In the strictly hierarchical Venetian society, it was deemed necessary to give the most humble classes the illusion of becoming similar to the more powerful classes, albeit wearing a mask: the aim was to diminish social tensions and maintain consensus.
      [img] Carnevale a Venezia - Renata e Guilherme on flickr.com
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      8 Oct 2008

      Money in Venice

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      [txt] Venice: A Second-Hand City? - Recycled Goods - www.open2.net
      Renaissance Venice was astonishingly good at PR - the city sold itself as a place of unique harmony, freedom and prosperity, specially favoured by God. Should we take the Venetian publicists at their own estimation? How did the ordinary man or woman in the street manage on a day-to-day basis? Given the gulf that existed between the poor who pledged their children against loans and the rich who carried a fortune in clothes on their backs, how did society hold together? What was the social cement? We present here evidence and invite you use them as a starting point in thinking about possible answers to these problems. There is difficulty in knowing anything about the poor and illiterate, those who lived on the margins of society, for they were powerless to tell their own story; it was the literate elite who recorded what was inevitably a partial and prejudiced account of the lives of the poor.
      video Pink Floyd - Money (Venice 1989) Guigui31b on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCpkHkq4apE]
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      6 Oct 2008

      Like an Italian workday (like what?)

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      [txt] Venice Biennale Review - www.archinect.com
      The Venice Biennale has an overwhelming presentation of design that is not overly coherent. Forget trying to see it all. Take it in like an Italian workday; expresso, then one hour of exhibit, followed by another espresso and brioche, followed by the next hour, and so on. Or take a break over at the Stalker/ Osservatorio Nomade exhibit and have your I Ching foretold, like architects such as Peter Eisenmann, who I've heard ritually does this. I am taking with me from the Biennale a hazy memory of craft, digitization, urban solutions and a reading of good fortune for the year.
      [img] Lavoro Mattutino Venezia - Mercato di Rialto - raiadiff on flickr.com
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      3 Oct 2008

      How do you create a Venice Biennial pavilion?

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      [via] harrietbadger.blogspot.com [txt] How do you create a Biennial pavilion? A view point from Austria - www.contemporaryartsreview.com
      It is extremely strange to be on the Biennial premises while the air is still cold and wintery. Even if you have visited the Biennial a dozen times as an art critic, it is always in June or August. Letting an exhibition act upon you in an unheated pavilion when the temperature is only ten degrees proves to be a special experience no matter how wonderful the Venetian light is. However incidentally, you instantly become aware of this fascinating Venetian light not to mention the Austrian Pavilion erected in 1934 according to the plans of Josef Hoffmann, one of the most beautiful buildings designed by the architect and on the Biennial premises.
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      29 Sep 2008

      The funfair of contemporary starchitecture

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      [txt] Venice 2008 - www.frieze.com
      "International exhibitions are based on an outdated principle which obliges every country to feature its showcase accomplishments," argues Pia;tek - "we have created a perverse antithesis of national promotional activities abroad." And in their dark dystopian scenarios, in which the forces of cultural change inevitably supercede the sluggish mechanisms of architectural production, there is a challenge to Betsky and his cronies; that architects need look not beyond building, but beyond their own navels.
      [video] Venice Biennale 2008 - Aaron Betsky [youtube=http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlPCRK57Hs]
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      27 Sep 2008

      The art bandwagon

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      [txt] Venice Biennale 2008 - Architecture - www.wallpaper.com
      What with the much-discussed convergence of art, design and architecture, it came as no surprise that many an architect at this year’s Biennale was hopping on the art bandwagon. [...] ‘Architects know much more about how to work with space than artists,’ claimed Doriana Fuksas, who with her husband Massimiliano created an installation consisting of green boxes in which films on domestic life played while von Hapsburg claimed exactly the opposite.
      [video] Wagonmaster western cowboy movie exciting ending - John Ford [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLhDzFTxUY]
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      23 Sep 2008

      Welcome to Venice Italy and Venice California

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      [video] Venice, Italy - August 3 2006 VeniceArtists on youtube: Mostly static camera shots of Venice Italy. Peaceful, lovely, only ambient sounds. [youtube=http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=vTw8RNnM14k&NR=1]
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      23 Sep 2008

      Palladio: too provincial, too innovative

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      [txt] Andrea Palladio Architect Super Partes - www.palladio2008.info
      This having been said, we also must acknowledge that Palladio's life was not a bed of roses. In Vicenza, for instance, he worked on commission for public works that changed the aspect of the town (just think of the Basilica on the Piazza dei Signori,) but in return he sadly had the pleasure of seeing only few of his palazzi being fully built, as these works were too ambitious for the urban families. In Venice also a different odd phenomenon happened: Palladio's palazzi were not considered apt for the capital, maybe because they were too innovative, or more likely because they were labelled as provincial; so that's why only few Palladian churches are reflected in the Venetian lagoon.
      [links] - Palladio 500 years, the great exhibition: from 20 September 2008 to 06 January 2009 - www.palladio2008.info
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      20 Sep 2008

      Venice Biennale 2009: Northern Ireland and Scotland

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      [links] - Martin Boyce to present solo show for Scottish presentation at the Venice Biennale - NCAD lecturer in painting Susan MacWilliam has been selected to represent Northern Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2009. [see also] Venice Biennale 2009: first entries - Canada - UK, Swiss - Daniel Birnbaum xè el Diretòr [img]: inf-art bassano 2008 - oddtag on flickr.com
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