Irina Korina, “Good Intentions”, 2017. All images by Marsha Owett
We’ve spent the better part of a day looking at the Venice Biennale’s exhibition, “Viva Arte Viva“. Curated by Christine Macel and described as a Biennale designed “with artists, by artists and for artists”, the show amounts to a love letter addressed to artists. Studios have been transported, materials worshipped, and methodologies examined. Weaving as a metaphor for making, togetherness, and life, is completely and utterly ubiquitous. The sincerity of it all can be a bit much. But more on that later. A look at the Arsenale section of the show below.
Juan Downey, “The Circle of Fires”, 1979 and Rasheed Areaeen, “Zero to Infinity in Venice”, 2016-2017
Rasheed Areaeen, “Zero to Infinity in Venice”, 2016-2017
Lee Mingwei, “The Mending Project”, 2009-2017
Maria Lai, “Enciclopedia Pane/Bread” date unknown
Maria Lai, “Untitled”, date unknown
David Medalla, “A Stitch In Time”, 1968
David Medalla, “A Stitch In Time”, 1968
Franz Erhard Walther.
Martin Cordiano, “Common Places”, 2017
Yorgos Sapountzis, “Sculptures Cannot Eat”, 2017
Yorgos Sapountzis, “Sculptures Cannot Eat”, 2017
Franz Erhard Walther.
Charles Atlas, “The Tyranny of Consciousness” with Lady Bunny, 2017
Charles Atlas, “The Tyranny of Consciousness” with Lady Bunny, 2017
Bonnie Ora Shark, “Evolution of Life Frames” 2005-2017
Kananginak Pootoogook
The Play, “Current of Contemporary Art”, July 20, 1969, June 5, 2012
The Play, “IE: The Play Have A House”, August 5-10, 1972
Shimabuku, “The Snow Monkeys of Texas, “Do Snow Monkeys Remember Snow Mountains?” 2016
Michael Blazy
Michael Blazy, detail
Erika Verzutti, “Turtle” 2017
Julian Charriere
Petrit Halilaj, “Do you realize there is a rainbow even if it’s night!?” 2017
Thu Van Tran, installation view, 2017
Art barnicle. (One of several unidentified performance artists who parachute into biennales to stage their own interventions with the hopes of garnering press.)
Installation view, Viva Arte Viva, 2017
Per Achraf Touloub, installation view, 2017
Achraf Touloub, “Untitled” (Installation view), 2017
Achraf Touloub, “Untitled”, 2017
Leonor Antunes, “Then we raised the terrain so that I could see out”, 2017
Francis Upritchard
Irina Korina, “Good Intentions”, 2017
Guan Xiao
Hao Liang, “Eight Views of Xiaoxiang – Mind”, 2016
Teresa Lanceta, installation view, 2012-16 plus original carpet (Moyen Atlas), date unknown
Leonor Antunes, Installation view, Viva Arte Viva, 2017
Sopheap Pich
Yee Sook Yung
Ernesto Neto, “Um Sagrado Lugar (A Sacred Place)”, 2017
Ernesto Neto, “Um Sagrado Lugar (A Sacred Place)”, 2017
Ernesto Neto, “Um Sagrado Lugar (A Sacred Place)”, 2017
Younes Rahmoun, “Taqiya-Nor”, 2016
Naufus Ramirez-Figueros, “Third Lung”, 2017
Rina Banerjee
Huguette Caland
Heidi Bucher
Mariechen Danz, Various works, 2011-2017
Mariechen Danz, detail, 2011-2017
Kader Attia, “Narrative Vibrations”, 2017
Kader Attia, “Narrative Vibrations”, 2017
Maha Malluh, “Food for Thought, “Amma Baad” (detail), 2016
Eileen Quinlan
Pauline Curnier Jardin, “Grotta Profunda, Approfundita”, 2011-2017
Jeremy Shaw, “Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (New Covenant Church prayer meeting, Pray IV, June 8, 1980 M)
Karla Black
Riccardo Guarneri
Abdoulaye Konate
Installation view
Judith Scott, “Untitled”, 1988-2004
Liliana Porter
Hale Tenger, “Balloons on the Sea”, 2011
Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks
Liu Jianhua, “Square” 2014
All images by Marsha Owett
Tagged as:
Abdoulaye Konate,
Achraf Touloub,
Bonnie Ora Shark,
charles atlas,
Christine Macel,
David Medalla,
Eileen Quinlan,
Erika Verzutti,
Ernesto Neto,
Francis Upritchard,
Franz Erhard Walther,
Heidi Bucher,
huguette caland,
Irina Korina,
Jeremy Shaw,
Juan Downey,
Judith Scott,
Julian Charriere,
Kananginak Pootoogook,
Karla Black,
Lee Mingwei,
leonor antunes,
Liliana Porter,
Liu Jianhua,
Maha Malluh,
Maria Lai,
Mariechen Danz,
Martin Cordiano,
Naufus Ramirez-Figueros,
Pauline Curnier Jardin,
Per Achraf Touloub,
Petrit Halilaj,
Rasheed Areaeen,
Rina Banerjee,
Sheila Hicks,
Shimabuku,
Sopheap Pich,
Thu Van Tran,
Venice Biennale,
Viva Arte Viva,
Yee Sook Yung,
Yorgos Sapountzis,
Younes Rahmoun
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