Biennale Art by Robert Storr
Jul-25-2007
Biennale Art by Robert Storr
Think with the senses, Feel with the
mind: art at present. A title such as
this, serving also as a theme, induces
us to think, perhaps with too much
facility, that this is such a wide proposal,
such a totalizing panorama, that
nothing could in any way remain
alien to it.
Inexorably appears the idea
of a choice-non-choice in which to
leave space for even a minimum trace
of that which can be represented and
manifested, seeing that the two terms
proposed, mind and senses, function
as necessary and sufficient means of
knowledge.
So it seems to be; but it is not exactly so. On the eve of the inauguration, we already had an idea concerning Robert Storr's proposal and about that which would be achieved in the great exhibition which we now behold: we knew that the spaces of the Corderie as well as part of the Artiglierie of the Arsenal and of the Italian Pavilion at the Gardens would be used; we already knew the names of the artists to be invited; but nothing could have made us suspect the success of such a well-articulated, linguistically structured itinerary.
Indeed, these are the wide varieties of artistic languages and of the almost one hundred artists, mostly still alive and active, called upon to translate and to interpret a panoramic vision: the true protagonists of this exposition. Among the artists there are some of absolute international caliber like Gerhard Richter, Bruce Nauman,
So it seems to be; but it is not exactly so. On the eve of the inauguration, we already had an idea concerning Robert Storr's proposal and about that which would be achieved in the great exhibition which we now behold: we knew that the spaces of the Corderie as well as part of the Artiglierie of the Arsenal and of the Italian Pavilion at the Gardens would be used; we already knew the names of the artists to be invited; but nothing could have made us suspect the success of such a well-articulated, linguistically structured itinerary.
Indeed, these are the wide varieties of artistic languages and of the almost one hundred artists, mostly still alive and active, called upon to translate and to interpret a panoramic vision: the true protagonists of this exposition. Among the artists there are some of absolute international caliber like Gerhard Richter, Bruce Nauman,
Sol LeWitt, Louise Bourgeois, the Kabakovs;
then there are young artists,
not well known, and others who, all
together, have amply achieved the
goal of the American curator: no
theory about current trends, no definition,
only a tentative to understand
that reality in which man lives or survives
or dies, in which the flow of experience
will win out over the construction
of differential categories, in
which imagination and art configure
as a basin in which flow together
contemporary ideas concerning humanity.
by Chiara Casarin
:venews july 2007
Tr. Maria Fasolo
«Pensa con i sensi-Senti con la mente»
Arsenale, Corderie e Artiglierie Padiglione Italia, Giardini della Biennale - Castello Back
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