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BIENNALE VENEZIA

50TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION 2003

Dreams and Conflicts - The Dictatorship of the Viewer
GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE - ARSENALE - MUSEO CORRER - STAZIONE SANTA LUCIA

To enrich the Art Exhibition this year, additional projects include a Italian artists in the various sections of the exhibition, the Giardini will
group of artists from the Academia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) be the site for an installation space, created by the Italian collective
working at the Artificial Reserve in Darsena di Marghera located at the Gruppo A12, and where Massimiliano Gioni has invited five young
edge of the lagoon, where they will aim to create a meeting place in artists to exhibit new work. The Padiglione di Venezia (Venice Pavillion)
order to reconstruct and narrate stories. provides the stage for the Best Emerging Artists’ Prize organised by
The Biennale di Venezia will also be present outside the borders of DARC (Direzione Generale per l’Architettura e l’Arte Contemporanee),
the city. Positioned in numerous Italian cities, a visible communicative stressing the commitment toward Italian contemporary art on the part
agent described as a ‘tunnel’ will link the various sites of the of national cultural institutions.
exhibition. The Cord Project, realised by archea associati and c+s Once again, the 64 national pavilions in the Biennale di Venezia aim
associati, arose from the idea of Franceso Bonami’s desire to connect to reveal a cross-section of the world’s realities, which will be used
art with contemporary architecture while underscoring the work of as an open map by the viewer-reader enabling for the most vivid
this innovative architecture firm. experiences in Venice.
The presence of Italian art in this Biennale regains an equilibrium (as
compared to past shows) above all in the Giardini. In addition to the

Matthew Barney
Untitled, 2003
Drawing

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