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BIENNALE VENEZIA


        50TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION 2003

        Dreams and Conflicts - The Dictatorship of the Viewer





        Paul Seawright Wales                               celebrated Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, it is the negotiation between
        Shimabuku Japan                                    tradition and modernity within a defiantly nationalist idiom that is articulated
                                                           through his vision of an ‘architecture for the poor.’ Mirroring more or less the
        Efrat Shvily Israel
                                                           trajectory of modern Egypt, Fathy’s architecture moves ‘from colonization
        Andreas Siekmann, Alice Creischer
                                                           to independence to development and its aftermath entangled with grand
        Germany /Argentina                                 dreams of regional pre-eminence’.
        Andreas Slominski Germany                          By contrast, Wael Shawky’s contemporary asphalt city is a hybrid metropolis,
        Patti Smith USA                                    part-rural, part-urban, constructed out of the ‘blackest, most unyielding
        Robert Smithson USA                                residues of petroleum. An ironic commentary on the contradictory effects of
        Doron Solomons Israel                              modernization on contemporary Egyptian society, this dystopian city is the
                                                           by-product of mass migration and globalization. Kader Attia’s intimate portraits
        Yutaka Sone Japan
                                                           of transvestites and transsexuals give physical form to the experiences of
        Monika Sonowska Poland
                                                           Algerian migrants and sans papiers who live their lives on the periphery of
        Nancy Spero, Leon Golub USA                        France’s capital city, both literally and metaphorically. Excluded and alienated
        Simon Starling Scotland                            from both Algeria and France, the figures who populate Attia’s work represent
        Michael Stevenson New Zealand                      the lived experience of globalization and its disaffected and disenfranchised
        Mladen Stilinovic Croatia
        Rudolf Stingel Italy
        Superflex Denmark
        Tadaso Takamine Japan
        Javier Téllez Venezuela
        Nahum Tevet Israel
        Lincoln Tobier, Simon Leung USA
        Jaan Toomik Esthonia
        Rosemarie Trockel Germany
        Tatian Trouvé France
        Tsang Tsou-choi China
        Nobuko Tsuchiya Japan
        Patrick Tuttofuoco Italy
        Uglycute Sweden
        Markus Degerman, Andreas Nobel,
        Jonas Nobel, Fredrik Stenberg
        Piotr Uklanski Poland
        Meyer Vaisman Venezuela
        Agnes Varda Belgium
        Anton Vidokle Russia
        Luca Vitone Italy
        Lawrence Weiner USA
        Eyal Weizman Israel
        Pae White USA
        Steven Willats UK
        Cereith Wyn Evans UK
        Amelie von Wulffen Germany
        Shizuka Yokomizo UK
        Carey Young Zambia
        Zerynthia Italy
        Mario Pieroni, Dora Stiefelmeier in
        collaboration with Mario Merz and
        Franz West                                          Ben Gal
        Liu Zheng China                                     Salt Mine
                                                       Acrylic on canvas,
        Yang Zhengzhou China
                                                         150 x 220 cm.
        Andrea Zittel USA
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