Page 49 - 50.La Biennale di Venezia issue of World of Art Magazine

GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE - ARSENALE AND CITY - THE DOCKYARD VIA DELL’ATOMO - META-SPACE

Special Project shipyards and the road used by lorries. It is a slice “no-man’s land”, like
Artificial Reserve many others on the edges of towns and industrial zones, but it can be
A project by Cesare Pietroiusti and Alessandro Ambrosini, Alessia reached by public transport. The dock on one side and the road, with a
Bellon, Stefania Bona, Viviana Carlet, Lisa Castellani, Maria Ida bar and kiosk on the other, border an area on which industrial rubbish
Clementel, Valeria Cozzarini, Anna L.Dionello, Antonio Guiotto, Changiz has been stored, or perhaps abandoned. The idea of Artificial Reserve is
Jalayer, Manuela Mocellin, Valentina Paganello, Eleonora Sarasin, to show some care for this place and its objects, produce an inventory
Melissa Valso, Stefano Zatti. and order them; to strive, through deductions, observations and, above
Arising from a seminar held at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia all, interviews and meetings, to draw out their stories and highlight
(the Venice Academy of Fine Arts) and in Marghera (December 2002), the cognitive and poetic aspects of a marginal location with strong,
Artificial Reierve develops a new form of collaboration between the contradictory connotations. The artists of Artificial Reserve will offer
Biennale and the Accademia di Belle Arti for projects linked to an the Biennial public some coupons for these services or stories to be
interpretation and review of all aspects of Venice and its surrounding “consumed” in the dockyard; during the exhibition, they will undertake
area.The dockyard in via dell’Atomo comprises a small pool of water a slightly paradoxical work of “promotion”, seeking to convince
used by a tug company in a busy location between the railway lines someone who hasn’t really the rime for it, to go to an inconvenient and
with trains transporting material to the industrial plants, the Fincantieri not exactly beautiful location.

SPECIAL PROJECT
ARTIFICIAL RESERVE
Porto Marghera, Dockyard in via dell’Atomo

CORDERIE | ARSENALE

CONTEMPORARY ARAB THE ARCHIVIO DEL
REPRESENTATIONS CONTEMPORANEO
Curated by Catherine David MEETINGS

Contemporary Arab Representations 99
Departing precisely from the situation in the Middle East, Contemporary The Archivio del Contemporaneo meetings
Arab Representations will invite various ‘authors’ who produce Subjective, hyper-sensitive: contemporary art is a formidable instrument
representations (visual /textual /discursive) that aim to displace and for perceiving reality. For the 50th International Art Exhibition, however,
subvert the traditional depictions of territorial conflicts developing it will not be just the selected artists to describe their dreams and
in this region today. The exhibition is part of a new development the conflicts of our age. Alongside them there will be scientists,
that stems from previous presentations of Contemporary Arab writers, philosophers and creative individuals. Ninety-nine privileged
Representations shown in Barcelona and Rotterdam. In Venice a witnesses of today, whom the Archivio del Contemporaneo (‘Archive
new dispositive has been conceived in order to disperse temporary of the Contemporary’), the Biennale di Venezia’s new interdisciplinary
workshop, will invite to the Arsenale to share an idea and open a way
information within the context of intervention platforms (a meta-
to reflect about the reality surrounding us. Between 15 June and 2
space) that will systemically use projections of static or moving
November, a space in the Corderie specially prepared by the Cliostraat
images by Tony Chakar, 1968 in Beirut, lives and works in Beirut; Rabih
group of architects will host a short meeting, always at the same
Mrouè, 1967 in Beirut, lives and works in Beirut; Walid Raad, 1967
time and 99 times, intended to create a veritable store of èollective
in Chbanieh, Lebanon, lives and work in Beirut and New York; Walid
intelligence about contemporariness, which through the web and
Sadek, 1966 in Beirut, lives and works in Beirut; Michel Lasserre, 1947
printed paper will refresh and enrich the Biennale Arte 03’s community
in Auch, France and Paola Yacoub, 1966 in Beirut, both live and work
project, involving the entire discussion group in the subjects tackled in
in Beirut and Paris; among others.
the Arsenale.
WORLD of ART 49