Page 23 - The MoMA/ Guggenheim issue of World of Art magazine (2001)

VENICE / sPACE THETIs / ARsENALE THE PROJECT HAs BEEN PLANNED, THE THETIs
THIs PROJECT COMBINEs THE ENERGIEs Of
ARTIsTs fROM CROATIA, IsRAEL AND
KOREA
THREE CuRATORs ARE NOMINATED TO CREATE
A PROGRAM AND TO INVITE ARTIsTs fROM THE
COuNTRIEs MENTIONED ABOVE ON THE THEME
“NO HuMAN”, A TOPICAL BuT
ALsO EMBLEMATIC TITLE,
NO HuMAN
If WE THINK ABOuT THE
ARTIsTs’ ORIGINs AND TO
DIALOGuE
THE ACTuAL GEOPOLITICAL
ON OPPOsITE
sITuATION Of THOsE AREAs:
49 BIENNALE DI VENEZIA A CONTEMPORARY ARTIsT, this shoW WAs exhibited during the
WHO Is ABLE TO ELABORATE
IDENTITIEs
THIs POINT BETTER THAN
49 biennALe in veniCe, Curetted by
EsPECIALLY IN THE PROCEss
the Co-offiCiAL Commissioner of
Of GLOBALIZATION AND ITs
CroAtiA deAn JoKAnoviC toumin.
IMPLICATIONs!
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE Of
ART ARTIsTEs A PROCEss Of
DEEP KNOWLEDGE Of NATIONs, TRADITIONs,
CuLTuREs AND RECIPROCAL DIffERENCEs IN
ORDER TO THINK ABOuT A COMMON IDENTITY IN
THE CONTExT Of CuLTuRAL PROJECTuALITY AND
PRODuCTION PROCEEDING IN A CONfLICTuAL WAY
TOWARDs THE CONCEPT Of “NO HuMAN”.
THE PROJECT “NO HuMAN” ORIGINATEs ON THE
OCCAsION Of THE 49TH BIENNALE Of VENICE
ALMOsT LIKE AN ALTERNATIVE ANsWER AND
AN ECHO AND IT’s ARTIsTIC INVADENCE AND
AGGREssIVENEss PROPOsE A PLATfORM Of
PROCEssEs INsTEAD Of sOLuTIONs.
THE LOCATION WHERE THE ExECuTION Of
sPACE (AN INDusTRIAL sHED Of THE EARLY xx
CENTuRY), Is REALY sPACIOus AND PARTICuLARLY
CHARMING BECAusE Of ITs HuGE WINDOWs
WHICH REDuCE THE suRfACE Of THE WALLs
AND GIVE IT INCREDIBLE BRIGHTNEss. THIs
PECuLIARITY fORCEs THE ARTIsTs TO THINK
THEIR WORKs INsIDE THE sPACE, CLOsE BuT
NOT ONTO THE WALLs AND, CONTEMPORARY, TO
HAVE A sTRONG CONNECTION
WITH THE AREA OuTsIDE THE
BuILDING, BEING IMMERsED
IN IT AND IN THE GREEN
AREA THAT suRROuNDs
T H E E x H I B I T I O N W I L L
IT ALL.
MEANINGfuL WORKs Of
COMPREHEND THE MOsT
THE ARTIsTs(CHOsEN TO
REPREsENT THE VARIOus
NATIONs) AROuND THE
GIVEN THEME, TRYING TO
BuILD A uNIquE PROJECT.
THE ARRANGEMENT WILL NOT PuRsuE NATIONALITY
CRITERIA. THE ARTPEACEs WILL BE COLLOCATED
ON PRINCIPLEs Of AssONANCE AND DIssONANCE
Of THE LANGuAGEs THEY MAKE usE Of IN ORDER
TO sTIMuLATE CONTAMINATION AMONG THEME.
ARTIsTs WILL BE INCITED TO WORK ‘IN sITu’
usING DIffERENT MEDIA AND LANGuAGEs
WHEN AND If POssIBLE.
sEONGHI BAHK / YAACOV CHEfETZ / DEAN
JOKANOVIC TOuMIN / MOON sEuP sHIM / BRANKO
sILADIN / DAMIR sOKIC / sHARIf WAKED
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