Swiss Pavilion, Switzerland at Venice Biennale of Art - Giardini, Castello - City of Venice
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.
Swiss Pavilion, Switzerland at 60th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion is Super Superior Civilizations.
Artists: Guerreiro do Divino Amor.
Curators: Andrea Bellini.
Commissioner:
Fondazione svizzera per la cultura Pro Helvetia Madeleine Schuppli, divisione Arti visive; Sandi Paucic, Project Leader; Rachele Giudici Legittimo, Project Manager.
Seat: Swiss Pavilion, Giardini - Venice
Press Release of Swiss Pavilion
With the exhibition Super Superior Civilizations, Guerreiro do Divino Amor presents the sixth and seventh chapters of his monumental saga “Superfictional World Atlas”, whose new episodes are entitled The Miracle of Helvetia and Roma Talismano. The “Superfictional World Atlas” is a global cartographic project, allegorical in nature and potentially infinite, to which the artist has been dedicating himself for almost twenty years. Through a series of studies and experimental research in the architectural field, the artistic practice of Guerreiro do Divino Amor investigates the relationship between urban space and collective imagination, between architecture and ideology, between political propaganda and national identity.
In the Swiss Pavilion, Guerreiro do Divino Amor intends to create the most complex and ambitious installation of his career: a total and immersive work of art, dotted with classic architectural elements, false symbols of a presupposed Western racial superiority. Columns, fountains and capitals, together with large surfaces of fake marble textures, suggest an image of power and supremacy and act as the backdrop to the two main installations of the Pavilion.
The Miracle of Helvetia, a video that stages a great allegory of Switzerland, represented as a miraculous and "superfictitious" paradise on earth, in which nature and technology, capitalism and democracy, rusticity and refinement are in perfect and surreal balance. A long corridor connects The Miracle of Helvetia with the Rome Talisman installation, an allegorical entity and phantasmagorical double of Roman civilization, as well as a symbol - through the centuries - of its presumed moral, political and cultural superiority. The Brazilian artist and singer Ventura Profana embodies the Capitoline wolf, a symbolic and ghostly animal, who sings the deeds of three allegorical animals: the she-wolf, the lamb and the eagle. Mythical figures in the constitution of white identity and its imaginary superiority, the she-wolf is the universal mother from which the superior people descend; the eagle is the symbol of Roman military supremacy; and finally the lamb embodies, in Christian Rome, the very idea of purity and innocence.
“The Swiss Pavilion, as imagined by the artist, plays with that political logic of celebratory self-representation through culture, which is at the very origin of the birth of the National Pavilions in the gardens of Venice over a century ago”, states Andrea Bellini . “A singular documentary maker with a baroque imagination and an extraordinary creator of worlds, Guerreiro do Divino Amor invites us to laugh with a benevolent spirit at our chauvinism and at those clichés with which we represent the world and ourselves. This latter attitude seems to us to be of fundamental importance in a period of growing political polarization and radical contrasts such as the one we are experiencing."
Useful information for the visit
Hours:
Gardens from 10.00 to 19.00. Arsenale from 10.00 to 19.00 (from 10.00 to 20.00 on Friday and Saturday until September 30th). Closed on Mondays (except April 22, June 17, July 22, September 2, September 30, October 31, November 18).
Tickets: please visit the official website.
Phone: +39.041.5218711; fax +39.041.2728329
E-mail: aav@labiennale.org
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