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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

focus on autonomous experiences specified by the individual sections Arts Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in which a necessary threshold
of the Biennale. The aim is for the viewer to no longer be devoured by between art and the world is crossed by the viewer in order for his /
the ‘monster show’ but encounter an experience of human scale. This her to experience the real world as transformed by the vision of the
Biennale will be conceived as a polyphonic exhibition where a group of artist. This exhibition is not an attempt to forget about the world. On
voices and thoughts speak within the same context through his/ her the contrary, it is conceived in effort to understand it through the
own identity. specificity of the visual arts which have been consistently weakened
by the fear of isolating it from society and humankind. ‘Dreams and
Dreams and Conflicts Conflicts‘ is based on works of art that are not only metaphorical but
contain messages from and about the world. In this way, the show
If the present does not permit us to think about large scale exhibitions becomes an active gaze upon the world instead of a passive outlook as
as merely an aesthetic exercise or dream detached from the world and an index of a world of images.
society, at the same time it is inconceivable to think of an exhibition
as solely documentation of the world and its conflicts. Today any large
contemporary art event is the result of a clash between the aesthetic
dream and the document of a conflict. This clash forms the 50th Visual

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