(by Roberto Nardi).
The exhibition Proportio at the
56th Venice Biennale is a circular oasis devoid of a before or
an after, designed to explore the concept of proportions and
sacred geometry across time and art.
Organised by the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and
Venice's Fondazione Musei Civici at Palazzo Fortuny to coincide
with the 56th Venice Biennale, it features specially
commissioned works alongside masterpieces from past eras, with
Anselm Kiefer flanking Albrecht Durer, Anish Kapoor's disks
alongside Alberto Giacometti's works, and paintings and ancient
books next to Carl Andre's metallic sheets on the ground.
At Museo Correr, American artist Jenny Holzer is showing
Political, a series of war paintings with writing based on
declassified documents concerning the global war on terrorism
after September 11, 2001.
The 61-year-old West Virginia native pulls together notes,
maps, statements, recordings of interrogations, autopsy reports
and autobiographical writings by detainees that were censored
prior to being made public.
At Ca' Corner of the Regina, where Fondazione Prada is
housed, Salvatore Settis and Davide Gasparotto are behind
Portable Classic, which explores the origins and the functions
of miniature reproductions of classical sculptures.
Almost facing it on the other side of the Grand Canal, the
Ca' d'Oro houses Fabrizio Plessi's anthology on the theme of
water, while in the nearby Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione
Bevilacqua la Masa is showing newly commissioned work by rapidly
rising art-star Peter Doig, who made a number of paintings for
the occasion, and Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado
reigns at the Palazzo San Marco.
A unique exhibition on Mario Merz, one of the founders of
the Arte Povera movement, is on view at the Accademia's Nuove
Gallerie.
On May 8 and 9, visitors will be regaled with an
installation commissioned by Shiseido makeup company to Pritzker
Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who created a 16
by 9 meter arc stretching from the ground to the first floor of
the Palazzo Pisani music conservatory.
The tensile arc is a carefully engineered grid of over
90,000 makeup cases in the installation filling the music
school's large, central courtyard and titled Reverberation -
Pavilion of Light and Sound.
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