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BIENNALE VENEZIA
50TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION 2003
Dreams and Conflicts - The Dictatorship of the Viewer
Pittura/Painting
From Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003
Venezia, Museo Correr
June 15th – November 2nd 2003
Musei Civici Veneziani
La Biennale di Venezia In 1964 during the Thirty-second Visual Arts Exhibition of La Biennale
di Venezia, the Best Foreign Artist Prize was awarded to Robert
Rauschenberg. This event shifted the focus of pictorial representation
in the arts from Europe to the United States, and can be said to have
induced the crisis in painting during the post-war era. It was a crisis
that marked a turning point, a debate that continues to endure in the
discourse of contemporary art. Taking as a starting point the history of
Robert Rauschenberg Lucio Fontana
Kite, 1963 Concetto spaziale, attese, 1964
oil and silkscreen on canvas Idropittura su tela, 100 x 81 cm.
84 x 60 inches Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano
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