OPEN2OO6 9. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations 30.08 > 01.10 2006 Venice Lido

The prerogative of OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations, is the ‘art’ of catching the visitor unawares along the avenues and in the Hotels (the Westin Excelsior, Des Bains and Hungaria) of Venice Lido with an immensely rich selection of artistic works that are mostly ‘site specific’. The show, as conceived by Paolo De Grandis, uses an exhibition strategy with an undeniably high impact to overcome the routine rhetoric incumbent even in the undercurrents of the more ‘fringe’ circuits. The operation not only experiments the use of artists from all over the world who, in a climate of mutual exchange, give shape to a highly striking exhibition itinerary, but also exploits the enchanting green parks animated by the procession of celebrities at the Cinema Festival.

OPEN is a pioneering stimulus that presents art by metaphorically playing it on expressive strings, poised between form and space and above all in the visual dimension, to reveal the positive sense of individual and collective advancement in interactive artistic experience.

The exhibition, curated by Paolo De Grandis, Vincenzo Sanfo and Chang Tsong-zung is organised by Arte Communications in collaboration with the Executive Committee for Cultural Production of the Venice District Council and the Centro Italiano per le Arti e la Cultura di Torino (Italian Centre of Art and Culture of Turin). While previous editions attempted to establish a pluralist core, capable of determining the creative itineraries of internationally recognised artists, this ninth edition, with an even larger number of participants (43), will also give voice to a series of artists from the Academy of Fine Arts, who, after being marginalised or even completely omitted in every international exhibition event, can now find a chance for a real, vibrant confrontation. This decision of the curators, backed up by Gloria Vallese, is expected to give a new impetus, to be expressed in a common exhibition itinerary that will confirm the state of affairs of the experience of the international Academies and the results produced. So OPEN2OO6 aims to define a series of scenarios or contexts that can make the bouquet of this ‘art workshop’ flourish, itineraries of academic creativity hailing from Macao, Venice and Vienna.

Plastic arts will nevertheless remain the main core, declined not only in their orthodox form, but also in those twilight zones where creativity confronts communication, with its schemes and its ends. The group of artists from three continents offers significant notables such as Louise Bourgeois, Arman, Luigi Mainolfi, John Henry, Zhao Guanghui, Chen Changwei and the performer Xiao Ge.

The project involves the district in a single happening, spurring visitors towards more and more emotional confines of inspiration. Art and open space are bonded ever more closely, making them almost inseparable.


EXHIBITING ARTISTS

CHINA - Chen Changwei
CHINA - Xiao Ge
CHINA - Zhao Guanghui
CYPRUS - Kakia Catselli Trachoniti
FRANCE - Arman
RANCE – Louise Bourgeois
FRANCE - Nisa
FRANCE - Dorothée Selz
ITALY - Roberto Bricalli
ITALY - Stefano Fioresi
ITALY - Massimo Franchi
ITALIA - Massimiliano Galliani
ITALY - Michelangelo Galliani
ITALY - Bobo Ivancich de la Torriente
ITALY - Giuseppe Linardi
ITALY - Luigi Mainolfi
ITALY - Marco Nereo Rotelli
LAOS - Aligna
MEXICO - Gabriela Malvido Oest
MEXICO - Javier Marín
SAN MARINO - Giovanni Giulianelli
SWITZERLAND - Alessandro Lo Monaco
USA - John Henry
CIVIC AND MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS BUREAU, MACAO MUSEUM OF ART
Ng Fong Chao - MACAO CHINA
Wong Ka Long - MACAO CHINA
Ieong Kent - MACAO CHINA
Chan Pan - MACAO CHINA

ACADEMY OF FINE ART OF VENICE
Alex Bellan - ITALY
Nebojša Despotović - SERBIA
Marco Rodolfo Fin - ITALY
Resi Girardello - ITALY
Jaša & Meta - SLOVENIA
Giacomo Roccon - ITALY
Cristina Treppo - ITALY
Giuseppe Vigolo - ITALY
Dania Zanotto - ITALY
Stefano Zaratin - ITALY

UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS, VIENNA
Christian Eisenberger - AUSTRIA
Brigitte Kovács & Thomas Scherzer - AUSTRIA
Claudia Larcher - AUSTRIA
Benjamin Tomasi - ITALY


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