From Biennale to Biennials. Cartographies of an Impossible Desire
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- Anita Orzes - Universitat de Barcelona, España; Université Grenoble Alpes, France - email
- Vittorio Pajusco - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email
- Stefania Portinari - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This volume explores the biennial phenomenon examining their artistic, geopolitical, and institutional dimensions. While primarily centred on these two major events, as the Venice and São Paulo biennials, the essays in this book also enlarge upon other biennials, exhibitions and institutions, offering comparative and relational insights. Ultimately, the volume highlights the historical complexity of biennials and their roles as cultural devices, underscoring their function as spaces of experimentation and legitimation amid broader political and institutional tensions.
Keywords Venice Biennale • Fabrizio Plessi • São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM) • Italian Colonialism • Krakow International Biennial of Graphic Arts • São Paulo Art Biennial • Contemporary art • Discursive engagement • Michael Heizer • Conceptual Art • Colonialism • Institutional memory • Biennials • The São Paulo Biennial • Land art • Brazilian Art Historiography • Francisco Matarazzo • Pan-American Union • Christo • Modernism • São Paulo Bienal • International cultural relations • Transnational networks • Educational Practices • Demise • São Paulo Biennial • Cultural Politics • Post-war Abstractionism • Yugoslavia • Exhibition History • Colonial art • America • Geopolitics • Pietro Maria Bardi • José Goméz Sicre • Richard Long • Venice Biennale Model • Prints • Luca Maria Patella • Desire
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