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During the last two years, as a work for exhibition.
the flat wide spaces of These new extended spaces
the Padiglione Italia were offer the different Section
supplemented by the more Directors more -and more
strongly -modeled spaces of varied -opportunities, which
the Arsenale, where the they have taken up readily.
character of late-sixteenth- Szeemann has taken this
49. biennale di Venezia
century Venetian architecture expansion as the basis for
is a dominant presence. This both his 1999 dAPERTutto
year, the work on the Tese and this year’s Plateau of
delle Vergini will add two Mankind; one would hardly
new spaces to the so-called have expected less from a
Gaggiandre, a sort of camera Curator whose character and
obscura, and will give access cultural background make
to the Giardino delle Vergini, him much more interested
which is now just an in discovering the artists of
impassable mass of thorn the world “at work” than
bushes but by June will in allocating them a place
be open to the public. In within some sort of critical
September this will be also classification. Szeemann
the site of a theatrical himself will explain the links
production. and connections between the
This new dimension gives works exhibited and the
new importance also to the spatial conditions in which
presence of the various they are organized - and how
national pavilions, which this that organization itself can
year will exhibit some 230 reveal trends and patterns.
works to go alongside the My job here was to give
approximately 110 in the a brief description links
main exhibition (national between this event and the
participation at this year’s other developments within
Exhibition can be broken the Biennale di Venezia -be
down in this way: 31 they organizational,
countries with their own structural or artistic- and at
pavilion; 19 without a the same time outline the
pavilion; the Istituto overall plan of which they
Italo-Latino Americano are all a coherent part. That
representing some 15 plan is gradually producing
nations; two other cultural new and numerous results
institutions). In effect, no thanks to the work of many
other Exhibition has had highly-talented people: full paolo baraTTa is The PResident of the Biennale di Venezia
so many different nations -time staff, short-term staff,
participating. outside collaborators,
The 49th Visual Arts companies, artists and
Exhibition will also bring artistes. I would like to
together various film thank all of them for the
directors, who have been incredible enthusiasm that
invited to produce a work they dedicate to that
related to it. At the same extraordinary undertaking,
time, poetry will be presented the Biennale di Venezia.
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