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Ai Weiwei – DispositionThe artist's only major new solo show in 2013, it will be presented across two locations: the Zitelle complex,home of Zuecca Project Space, and the church of Sant'Antonin. Ai Weiwei will present Straight, the firstproject developed using the long steel reinforcing bars recuperated from the schools which collapsed duringthe Sichuan earthquake in 2008. This work, first presented at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., ishere installed in a larger scale at Zuecca Project Space. Ai Weiwei is known internationally for his workreflecting present-day China and his concern with human rights and freedom of expression. His secondwork, entitled S.A.C.R.E.D., is a new site-specific presentation for the Venice Biennale at the Church ofSant'Antonin, offering an immediate sense of the drama of an event which underlines the contradictorydevelopment of contemporary China.Zuecca Project Space Complesso delle Zitelle, Giudecca 32 (Fondamenta delle Zitelle)Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, Castello (Salizada Sant’Antonin)May 29th – September 15thh. 10 – 18 open everydayOrganization: Zuecca Project Spacewww.zueccaprojectspace.comArt and Knowledge - The Spirit of the Place in the 5 Platonic Solids of Lore BertIn the Monumental Room of the prestigious Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (San Marco Square) Lore Bertexhibits 5 mirror sculptures into a paper environment along with 11 large format works, in an exhibitionentitled Art and Knowledge – The spirit of the place in the 5 Platonic Solids. The 5 Platonic Solids represent 5elements: earth, water, fire, air and universe. Lore Bert has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.She has organized over 200 exhibitions and 125 environments in more than 26 Countries around the world,including 40 personal exhibitions in museums. Several publications, among them 38 monographs documenther work which is exhibited in several international collections.Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Piazzetta San MarcoMay 29th – November 24 thfrom May 29th to November 1st h. 10-19, from November 2nd to November 24th h. 10-17open everyday admission fee from June 1stOrganization: van der Koelen Foundation for Arts and Sciencewww.platonicsolids.lore-bert.comwww.marciana.venezia.sbn.itwww.zkw.vanderkoelen.deBack to Back to Biennial - Free expressionContemporary art, from the post-war period to date, has theorized and explained the many and differentmanners of self expression. Writers are a phenomenal, artistic movement which has arisen from the ashes ofthe highly urbanized societies, where peripheries are considered ghettoes and where being a citizen meansseeing the city as a great palette through which to interpret one’s notion of reality. The Back to Back toBiennale project is a cultural event, which from a certain collective and generation-wise point of view ischaracterized by performances that the artists deliver, with no filter whatsoever from a Curator or athematic point of view, there is freedom of expression, as the subtitle claims.Campo Sant’Agnese, Dorsoduroh. 0 - 24Ca'Bonvicini, Santa Croce 2161h. 10 - 19 closed on MondaysJune 1st – November 24thOrganization: Associazione Eventi d'arte e d'architetturawww.bb2biennale.com