see also: Venice Biennale 2009 first entries txt: Artist Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Visual Art
It is critical that Canadian contemporary artists travel and exhibit their works internationally, said Robert Sirman, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, and there is no more prestigious international venue in the visual arts than the Venice Biennale. The Council is proud to play a major role in the Canadian representation in Venice. We are deeply proud and thrilled to be able to present Mark Lewis’ new project at the Venice Biennale, says Barbara Fischer. Often focusing on singular moments in the contemporary urban or rural environment, his quietly majestic works offer a cinematic experience of time while remarking on the ruptures of history. They combine, in a new way, pictorial traditions with the genres and techniques of film to analyze both, and thereby offer poignant perspectives on the displacements that characterize modern life.
video: Copa Cabana- by Liza Manelli (Muppet Show Segment) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eek-XeZvHn0]