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notes on the exhibition venues
arsenale
starting with the 48th international exhibition of art
entitled daPeRtutto in 1999, the Biennale di Venezia has
engaged in a wide-ranging restoration program to create
exhibition areas in some of the important buildings on the
monumental east side of the arsenale, the old shipyards
and warehouses that used to build and fit the fleets
of the Venetian Republic.
t he cord erie h ad a lready be en u se d for aperto, t h e
s e c t i o n o f p r e v i o u s B i e n n a l e s w h i c h w a s d e d i c a t e d
to young artists; but now exhibitions and events can
also be housed in the unusual and fascinating spaces
o f th e a r ti g li er ie, t h e g a gg i an d re, t he i s ol ot t o, t h e
sixteenth-century tese and the tese delle Vergini - all in
all, a total covered area of some 17,000 square meters,
most of which gives onto the large water basin of the
arsenale. the buildings have been suitably restored,
consolidating roofing, installing adequate flooring and
wiring, laying out exhibition areas and guaranteeing all the
necessary facilities (ticket offices, control rooms and some
200 square meters of bookshop space).

notes on the exhibition venues 49. biennale di Venezia
giardini di casTello
since the very first Biennale in 1895, these gardens
in the east of Venice have been the traditional venue
for the international exhibition of the Visual arts.
the original Palazzo dell’esposizione was built in
1895 but has been restructured and extended several
times since, and is now the 3,000-square-metre italian
Pavilion. alongside it there are a total of 29 national
pavilions, built at various periods by the exhibiting
nations themselves. in collaboration with the Venice
city council, the feasibility of adding to the number of
these national pavilions is under study, and it seems
likely that the go-ahead will be given. surrounded by
the greenery of the gardens, the existing pavilions are
a veritable anthology of twentieth-century architecture,
with works by such designers as aalto, hoffmann,
Rietveld, scarpa and stirling.

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