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UTTER: The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope, Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-23 10:17:01. “UTTER / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope”, a new project by JAŠA, representing Slovenia at the 56th Venice Biennial International Art Exhibition. The project’s title embraces the very core of JAŠA’s aim to create an artwork as both a poetic stance and…

Sean Lynch – Adventure: Capital, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-21 21:06:19. The Irish Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – presents a new artwork by Sean Lynch titled “Adventure: Capital”. Sean Lynch’s work “As a transcendental journey through history and myth, from the Gobán Saor to castaway minimalist sculpture. Lynch’s ethnographic…

Heri Dono: Voyage trokomod, Indonesia Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-21 09:05:43. The Indonesia pavilion is themed “Trokomod”. conveys the expectations of all historically dominated cultures to be granted equal room and recognition. Myths, legends and folk tales infuseDono’s imagination. Recently he joked:“I am Semar, considered a clown, but inmy former life I was a dinosaurus.” Heri Dono,…

Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Mozambique, Mozambique Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-21 07:08:08. This is an exhibition of contemporary art production focusing on traditional and modern objects to explicate the relationships of art to spirituality, as an example of lived experience of Mozambique, a country of heterogeneous culture, crystallized by holding masterpieces of oral and intangible heritage of humanity,…