BIENNALE GUIDE 2011 - The Art Newspaper

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Mainland p46 Dorsoduro p24 Cannaregio p14 Santa Croce p42 San Polo p42 Giudecca p30 San Marco p36 Castello p18 San Giorgio Maggiore p31 Islands p34 Arsenale p8 Giardini p2 San Servolo p23 Lido p35 Certosa p21
At the 2009 Venice Biennale, we at The Art Newspaper very much liked this neat and really useful guide, produced by Art World magazine, so when we had a sponsor this year in the form of the London gallery Haunch of Venison, we leapt at the chance to take it on. The way in which the guide is organised, by main biennale venues, but also by the neighbourhoods of Venice, makes finding even the most remote collateral event easy. It shows that it has understood Venice by being divided into sestieri, the six administrative units of the city under the old Venetian Republic. These are symbolised on every gondola by the six teeth beneath the curving metal prow, and they are the reason for an apparently bizarre house numbering system, which only becomes comprehensible when you realise that the numbers start anew with 1 in each sestiere and go on rising until they reach the last house in that sestiere. This guide is exceptional also in that it integrates the biennale with the city. It pays you, the reader, the complement of assuming that, although you are here for the contemporary art, you might also want to know, for example, that one of the most beautiful paintings by Titian is in the Frari. As part of the Venice in Peril Fund, I long for this and future biennales—and the elite of the art world who come to them—to engage more with the city. I beg you to notice where the water is in relationship to the buildings: 23 cm (9 inches) higher than in 1897 when scientific measuring began and due to rise by a minimum of another 50cm by the end of the century. Please take the message back to your countries that Venice has no long-term future unless the world begins to take a serious, informed interest in it now. Anna Somers Cocks Founder editor, The Art Newspaper Gondola prows and Chairman, Venice in Peril Fund KEY TO THE LISTINGS ● National Participations: Countries exhibited in their own pavilions at the Venice Biennale ● Collateral Events: Additional exhibitions that are officially associated with the Venice Biennale ● Other Events: Exhibitions that coincide with the Venice Biennale but are not an official part of it ● Classics: Museums, galleries and churches of year-round interest, plus a few quirkier locations ● Food & Drink: Refreshment stops recommended by artists and curators involved in the biennale ★ Highlights: A selection of exhibitions recommended by the contributors to this guide RANKEELAW 1 THE ART NEWSPAPER VENICE GUIDE 2011 Contents 02 GIARDINI 04 Christian Boltanski 05 Biennale for beginners 07 ILLUMInazioni 08 ARSENALE 09 Paolo Ventura 11 The Italian Pavilion 12 Christian Marclay 14 CANNAREGIO 17 Tintoretto in Venice 18 CASTELLO 20 Monica Bonvicini 21 Certosa 23 San Servolo 24 DORSODURO 27 Mark Wallinger 28 Iwan Wirth 30 GIUDECCA & SAN GIORGIO 31 San Giorgio Maggiore 34 LIDO & ISLANDS 36 SAN MARCO 39 Maxwell Anderson 41 Daniel Birnbaum 42 SAN POLO & SANTA CROCE 45 Anne Ellegood 46 MISCELLANEOUS 46 Mainland 46 Multiple sites 47 Stop press
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