Tag: Venice Biennale
Richard Mosse’s fascinating Congo project’s latest incarnation at the Venice Biennale looks fascinating. Mosse had traveled all over eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrated armed rebel groups, and documented devastated, terrorized communities. Since 1998, 5.4 million people died from war-related incidents. No one cared. Mosse shot all this with infrared-detecting aerochrome film originally developed for military camouflage detection purposes. […]
British-born Tino Sehgal — the artist behind this year’s much talked about manga-inspired piece at the Frieze Art Fair — just won the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Bienniale. The award, essentially the equivalent of an artist receiving an Academy Award, is quite an impressive achievement for an artist who not only prohibits the photography of his work, but sells much of his “constructed situations” based solely on verbal contract, leaving […]
Despite their government’s minor aversion to boundary-pushing art, China is killin’ it at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Featured at this year’s Chinese Pavilion is the work of digital artist Miao Xiaochun (and six others) centering around the theme of “transfiguration.” Playing on this notion, the installations figuratively explore the transformation of life to art by reinterpreting canonical Christian […]
