Venezuelan Pavilion, Venezuela at Venice Biennale of Art - Arsenale - 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.
Venezuelan Pavilion at 60th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Venezuelan Pavilion is Esperienza partecipativa. Juvenal Ravelo.
Artists: Juvenal Ravelo.
Curators: Dr. Edgar Ernesto González.
Commissioner:
Reinaldo Landaeta.
Seat: Venezuelan Pavilion, Giardini - Venezia
Press Release Venezuelan Pavilion
The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will see the
participation of the Venezuelan artist Juvenal Ravelo, Master of kinetic art,
participatory and social. Between April 20 and November 24, 2024, the international public who
attends the important and renowned art exhibition you will be able to admire in the Venezuelan Pavilion
a series of installations conceived and designed ad hoc. Entitled Participatory Experience. Juvenal
Ravelo, the national project was organized by the Ministry of People's Power for
Culture, edited by Dr. Edgar Ernesto González and commissioned by Reinaldo Landaeta.
Art and society
In each of the works the fragmentation of light and participatory art are integrated.
Through the latter the artist proposes actions to activate urban space through
community collaboration in the construction of the work of art, a concept that Ravelo introduced in 1975 in his hometown Caripito (Monagas state, Venezuela) and which has become
a reference for an aesthetic practice of great socio-cultural impact. This is how a mural
invites visitors to La Biennale Arte 2024 to collectively create an ongoing work of art,
using the colors that distinguish the Sustainable Development Goals.
“Ravelo, with over 70 years of experience in the art world, is a fierce and convinced defender of the
culture of art in society. This artist promotes creative work that energizes the space of the city
starting from the collaboration of the community that joins in the construction of a work of art” he declares
González, curator of the exhibition.
Color-cesía
This project is a tribute to the Master of kinetic art who, in 1965, began his studies in
sociology of art at the Sorbonne where he had the historians and researchers Pierre as professors
Francastel and Jean Cassou. Ravelo, like other foreign artists, came to Paris to consolidate the
his studies in an effervescent environment, full of socio-political and cultural changes. His
relationship with thinkers and art theorists, such as Frank Popper, gave him the opportunity to
recognize the factors that intervene, from a social point of view, in creation as a part
fundamental of contemporary artistic thought. His skills and new knowledge will
led him to focus his research on the experiences of visual perception, which Ravelo
defines as Fragmentation of light and color.
On a two-dimensional plane, his proposal focuses on the decomposition of light,
through optical illusions that occur in real time thanks to the interrelationship between color and
visual appearances (called color-cesía), which reproduce the visual effects in shades that are
they repeat systematically and generate optical instability.
Juvenal presents a kinetic installation in the Main Hall of the Venezuelan Pavilion and,
similarly, it offers an immersive, participatory and sensorial journey in which the visitor
experiments, starting from the perception of space and time, representation
three-dimensional of the work.
As a contemporary artist, he takes advantage of the possibilities offered by 21st century technologies
and to this end he compares digital art with each of the concepts he has in the Minor Room
developed between 1965 and 2024: the double exposure effect; optical instability; the light
fragmented; the chromatic activation environment; the light and color of the new millennium.
Participatory experience. Juvenal Ravelo, is an encounter with the physical experience of light and color
through dynamic interactions that make art perceived not as a contemplative object
but as a social and aesthetic event.
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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