The 2022 Venice Biennale, Part II

hello everyone we are on our way to the second part of the Venice biennale and if you haven't seen my first biennale video I will leave it linked above and below so be sure to check that out you can watch them in any order but I do go into greater detail about the history of the biennale in the first video also if you haven't subscribed just click that subscription button and that notification Bell and you'll be alerted every time I publish a new video foreign so we just left the central Pavilion as well as the majority of the national Pavilions and now we're going to see a continuation of the main exhibit the milk of Dreams which is curated by Cecilia alemani in the arsenale [Music] these sculptures that we're about to see by Lorenzo Quinn were actually part of the 2019 Venice biennale and the work is titled Building Bridges and the union of the hands is meant to represent the quote human ability to overcome barriers and to act together so the building that houses the main part of the main exhibit is called the coteri and it was used to build Mooring ropes and cables used on ships and it was rebuilt in the late 1500s by the same sculptor and architect of the Rialto Bridge Antonio de Ponte and the biennale started using this space in 1980 and it's honestly one of my favorites it is just super long it is a 317 meters in length and just as a reminder you're just going to see a highlight of this exhibit the overall space of course is so massive putting everything in the video would be nearly impossible so you're just going to see some of my favorites I'll also be sure to include the names of every artist on the screen as well as more information about each of them in the description box below if you want to dive a little bit deeper [Music] laughs foreign [Music] [Music] foreign here we have a really beautiful combination of painting and sculpture the paintings by Portia zavajera and the sculpture by Gabrielle Chile [Music] Porsche's paintings are inspired by her dreams so that's why her Works have this otherworldly quality to them because they're depicting the space between the Earth and a spiritual plane foreign [Music] [Music] and then next to Portia's paintings are Gabriel Chile's sculptures and there are five sculpture Ovens that are meant to portray members of his family and the series is meant to be a quote expression of the body's capacity for communalism giving and Care especially in the specific context of a family foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] installations like this really help you appreciate the size of this venue and how they can accommodate something like this this is a work titled in Earthly Paradise by delsi Morelos and it's meant to represent that we are quote Earthly beings we become live die and decompose with and as the Earth [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] it's always a pleasure to see Tao Lewis's sculptures she creates these works from salvaged materials and pieces them together in such a beautiful way and spoiler I will be sharing a solo exhibit of hers at 52 Walker in my next video so if you like these you will be seeing a lot more of them in the future foreign [Music] foreign exhibit is so large there are sort of many exhibits within the larger exhibit so this next grouping of Works we're going to see centered around the seduction of the Cyborg and this features works from artists who utilize technology as an extension of themselves in some way or another I was really drawn to these funky sculptures and after learning their backstory I found them even more intriguing these are works by Lavinia Schultz and Walter Holt and they were German artists who created these wild costumes and sculptures that were inspired by dance actually created back in the 1920s dance was becoming socially acceptable for women to partake in at that time and so Lavinia Schultz was a dancer who performed these expressionistic dances by doing things like quote creeping stamping squatting crouching kneeling and leaping in mostly diagonal spiraling patterns so it sounds like she was really pioneering modern dance as we think of it today foreign [Music] I've always really loved eliasime's work I've been lucky to see a few of his exhibits now at James Cohen Gallery in New York and if you're not familiar Elias is an Ethiopian artist and he creates these Works made from thousands of electrical wires type Keys microchips computer hardware components any kind of discarded piece of old technology using technical objects is a specific choice of his because they are symbolic of our interconnected World quote alluding to the frictions between tradition and progress human contact and social networks nature and the man-made and physical presence and the virtual [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign ER has had quite the year I honestly don't know how she did it not only is she presenting here at the biennale but she's had exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York the Noya National Gallery in Berlin LACMA in LA and honestly the list goes on and on it is wild foreign this is a work by precious okoyoman and it's titled to see the Earth before the end of the world and in her practice she creates these sculptural topographies to discuss the relationship between nature and colonization so here in this room we can see a lot of Katsu which if you're not familiar with it is known as the quote Vine that ate the South it is very hard to kill and when I would say the south I mean the south of America not South America and the reason that it came to the South was that plantations had degraded the soil by an overproduction of cotton so they brought this weed from Africa to Mississippi to fortify the erosion of the soil and it had a very different effect than they were anticipating foreign this is the malta Pavilion and it features works by three artists this is honestly probably my favorite National Pavilion and the work is reimagining caravaggio's the beheading of Saint John the Baptist as this kinetic sculptural installation so that really explains the Moody lighting of the room sort of a real life tenebrism and the lights that we see falling from the sky are molten steel droplets and they're falling into seven of these rectangular basins of water and each of these are meant to represent a subject in the beheading foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign the day at the 59th Venice biennale has now come to an end and hopefully I will see you all back in Venice for the 60th biennale wow it's always such an incredible experience to be able to be here and to see this and to share it with you all so please let me know which was your favorite artist or thing that you saw in this video and before I go I'm going to find one of my favorite places to get jacquetti in Venice chiketti if you're not familiar these amazing little sandwiches and this place is right around the corner from the arsenales so very convenient location and very good chicate foreign [Music] foreign

Channel: Mary Lynn Buchanan

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Keywords: venice, art, italy, contemporary art, venice biennale, biennale, culture, venezia, la biennale di venezia, biennale di venezia, simone leigh, arsenale, Malta Pavilion, Barbara Kruger, Gabriel Chaile, Portia Zvavahera, Ruth Asawa, Tau Lewis, Elias Sime, Raphaela Vogel, Louise Bonnet, Precious Okoyomon, Marguerite Humeau, Sandra Mujinga, Teresa Solar, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Louise Nevelson, Solange Pessoa, Noah Davis, Delcy Morelos, Belkis Ayón, Giulia Cenci, Wu Tsang

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Length: 20min 43sec (1243 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 08 2022