Canadian Pavilion, Canada at Venice Biennale of Art - Arsenale - City of Venice
(Fotot: Kapwani Kiwanga, Transfer II (Metal, breath, beads), 2024. Bronze, blown glass, glass beads, 160 × 120 × 32 cm. Installation view, Kapwani Kiwanga: Trinket, 2024, Canada Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts © Kapwani Kiwanga / Adagp Paris / CARCC Ottawa 2024. Photo: Valentina Mori)
Exhibition in progress from April 20th to November 26th 2024
The 60th Biennale Arte will open to the public on April 20. But on the 17th, 18th and 19th there will be the various events and collateral events that always enliven
suddenly Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place the day of opening to the public.
The title of the 60th edition of the Art Biennale is Foreigners Everywhere - Foreigners Everywhere.
The exhibition will be divided into between the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and the Arsenale, including 213 artists from 88 nations. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, 80 new productions.
Go to the page of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
Curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
The 2024 edition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
– Adriano Pedrosa (born 1965) is a Brazilian curator. He is the artistic director of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP) and the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Canadian Pavilion, Canada at 60th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Canadian Pavilion is Trinket (Paccottiglia).
Artists: Kapwani Kiwanga.
Curators: Gaëtane Verna
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada.
Seat: Canadian Pavilion, Giardini - Venice
Press Release Canadian Pavilion
The National Gallery of
Canada (NGC), commissioner of Canadian participation
at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di
Venice, unveiled the Kapwani Kiwanga exhibition today:
Trinket [Package].
Kapwani Kiwanga transformed the Canadian Pavilion
with a site-specific sculptural installation. The artist invites i
visitors to enter an immersive environment obtained for
means of an ambitious intervention that involves both the interior
than the exterior of the building. Seen from the facade, the building
becomes a gigantic tableau: three-dimensional space is
compressed into a two-dimensional plane, where the distinction between
internal and external dissolves through transparency, the
stratification and transgression of the original boundaries of
pavilion. Kiwanga's work is anything but static:
when the viewer moves in the spiral architecture of the
pavilion, this unfolds, thus offering a multiplicity
of perspectives.
They are conteria beads, also known as
daisies, to provide the main material used
in the installation. Spread from Murano throughout the archipelago
Venetian, the glass beads came later
incorporated into the most varied material cultures throughout the world
world. Historically used both as currency and as
object of exchange, these very small glass units
they serve Kiwanga to create, with dexterity, the
monumental from the minuscule. The bead itself can be
considered on a par with an archive, a witness to transactions
passes that inexorably transformed the landscape
socio-economic development of the 16th century and beyond.
Kiwanga's attention focuses on the manifestations of
different forms of power, on the way narratives often
histories suppressed by them are ignored and on
daily repercussions of these power dynamics. The
The artist's multidisciplinary works are like archives
experiences that offer a temporary escape from
pre-established conventions, allowing the public to
imagine and also experience ways of interacting and being
different from usual. This installation considers the side
often destructive of the history of trade, but it pushes
even further away, and asks the viewer to reflect on the
manner in which the use of these beads for the exchange of
many different materials have shaped the current world.
Other materials are integrated into the exhibition space, almost
in its raw state, which Kiwanga chose after studying
the transoceanic trade of beads. These materials
they emerge from the floor, climb up the walls and pour out
in the courtyard, then coming to meet the beads.
The intersection of these distinct elements with the beads
formalizes a place of exchange, which invites reflection
issues of intrinsic value, aesthetics, and complexity
of global economic relations
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