50th International Art Exhibition
Sogni e Conflitti
La dittatura dello
spettatore
Dreams and Conflicts
The Viewerfs Dictatorship
Venice, Giardini della Biennale - Arsenale
Press
days 12-13-14 June
Vernissage:
13-14 June
Official
Opening: 14 June
Opening
to the public from 15th June to 2nd November 2003
The Biennale di Venezia presents the 50th
International Art Exhibition directed by Francesco Bonami. Sogni e Conflitti-La dittatura dello spettatore. Dreams and
Conflicts-The Viewerfs Dictatorship
The Biennale di Venezia's 50th International Art Exhibition this year
presents itself as an gexhibition of exhibitionsh, laid out in the various
spaces within the Arsenale and in the Giardini della Biennale, including the
national participations in the Giardini pavilions, as well as in other
locations in the heart of Venice and elsewhere again.
Director Francesco Bonami wished his project to make
the best use of the singleness of the Biennale di Venezia's exhibition
structure in order to put together a major international survey that, like a
gmaph, would comprise different areas (like islands in an archipelago), each
with its own identity and independence.
The
viewer-reader of this map will thus be able to explore the single artistic
individualities and build up a personal itinerary through the various trends or
specific realities of contemporary art.
gIf the idea of the large international survey has always been
conceived as a whole concept to be fragmented into the visions of the
individuals artists, "Dreams and Conflicts" wants art from the autonomy
of the different projects to seek in this complexity of ideas the unity that
defines the language of contemporary art today.
In
the contemporary society the viewers with their presence and absence controls the success of every exhibition and cultural enterprise; in
gDreams and Conflictsh they appear as one of the
subjects that contribute to define the structure of the show, the artist, the
curator, the viewer .
Along with the
artist, the beholder is one of the poles that
connecting produce the spark that activate the art work successfully in the
social and cultural context.
The
dream and the conflict, the total world opposed to its political and
geographical fragmentation, the national aspirations in contrast with the
international achievements are all elements that will contribute to the making
of the Visual Arts Biennale.
Dreams
and Conflicts will be an exhibition focused at the same time on art as a
personal tool of a personal experience and conviviality. A show through which
is possible to have access to the complexity of a world made by groups of
individuals defined by multiple and diverse necessities.
An
exhibition constructed with multiple projects to test the strength of that
ideal community where the creative
process of the contemporary artist is active.
Dreams
and Conflicts will not be a show about political art but a
reflection on the politics of art.
The
experience of the viewer facing the unique vision of the artist. Two
contemporary subjects divided simply by a different gaze.
Francesco Bonami
Sogni e Conflitti
La dittatura dello spettatore
Dreams and Conflicts
The Viewerfs dictatorship
Arsenale
Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency)/ Zona dfUrgenza
Cared for by Hou Hanru
Individual Systems / Sistemi individuali
Cared
for by Igor Zabel
The Structure of Survival /La struttura della
sopravvivenza
Cared for by Carlos Basualdo
Utopia
Station / Stazione Utopia
Cared for by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist e
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Conflict / Conflitto
Cared for by Catherine
David
Il Quotidiano
Alterato / Lo Cotidiano Alterado /The Everyday Altered
Cared for by Gabriel
Orozco
Clandestini / Clandestines
Cared for by Francesco
Bonami
Fault Lines / Smottamenti
Cared for by Gilane
Tawardos
In collaboration
whit Forum Africa Contemporary Art
Giardini di
Castello
Ritardi e
Rivoluzione/ Delays and Revolutions
Padiglione Italia
Cared for by Francesco
Bonami e Daniel Birnbaum
La Zona /The
Zone
Realizzato da A12
Cared for by Massimiliano
Gioni