OPEN 12. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations

OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, alcove its twelfth copy with a new developing course, an amphitheater art workshop, area the works themselves are paths that may be followed with the eye or by interaction. Nearly all created distinctively for the exhibition, the sculptures, installations, photographs and canvases that accomplish up this ideal beck of alertness are spaces for absorption in which art renews its astriction appear the indefinite, abstract anatomy and finiteness, to action the company the achievability of cerebration of art chargeless from schemes or contemporary set-ups.

The accident will be captivated from 2 September to 4 October, in alongside to the 66th Venice International Film Festival, at Venice Lido, and for the additional time on the Island of San Servolo. The tree-lined avenues, the brilliant promenade, the terraces and the celebrated hotels that accept hosted Lido’s active cultural activity over the years, and the baroque area of the Island of San Servolo, abounding with memories of their accomplished history, anatomy the accomplishments for the works of art and are at the aforementioned time assemblage of aesthetic and intercultural movements in which they too are protagonists to a assertive extent: the area of the works modifies the observer’s perception, clarification the way the beholder interprets them and authoritative OPEN a different and unrepeatable event.

Conceived and curated by Paolo De Grandis, accordingly organised by Carlotta Scarpa and Arte Communications, in accord with the Department of Culture of the Venice City Council, the exhibition has been awarded the Silver Shield of the President of the Republic and is captivated beneath the advocacy of the Italian Ministry of the Cultural Heritage, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the Province of Venice and Venice City Council.

OPEN’s success over the years has been apparent by the attendance of abundant curators who accept brought to the exhibition a analysis focussing on the latest trends in art and ability on both the civic and the all-embracing scene. Among the innovations, there is the accord of Christos Savvidis, administrator of Artbox, art administrator of Art Athina and babysitter of Poets Machine in the 53th Venice Biennale, who will abbey artists from the Mediterranean across with site-specific artworks. A belvedere for allegory and collaboration, such as that proposed by Anna Caterina Bellati who allotment with her activating appearance of Italian art in its abounding aspects. She has alien abundant projects, from works by celebrated masters to the a lot of contempo proposals by able adolescent artists: the aim is to outline contexts, means of activity and alternate proposals, appropriately enabling visitors to accurate their opinions. The acknowledged accord with Chang Tsong-Zung, Enrico Pedrini, Nevia Pizzul Capello is continuing, with the new attendance of Gertrud Kohler-Aeschlimann, administrator of Art-St-Urban the celebrated building of carve in Lucerne.

The important adventure of giving amplitude to new talents in the art apple is continuing: this year the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts is accommodating with a activity curated by Massimo Pulini, housed in the arresting area of the Island of San Servolo.

The absorbed of the exhibition is not to actualize a authentic scene, amid aural specific ambit of style, but to authorize a chat amid adverse elements on the absolute amid representation and the concrete attributes of the work. OPEN presents the chargeless body of abreast art, amid amid new adept capacity and aberrant provocations, amid irony, theatricality and a antic vocation, to redefine the present day through the eyes of forty-two artists from twelve altered countries.

Among the protagonists, León Ferrari, who was already awarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, will present an important plan in bronze. Also demography allotment will be the masters Ercole Pignatelli and Ugo Riva, the Indian artisan Nataraj Sharma, Andreas Savva with an important site-specific project, Stefano Bombardieri and the Georgian artisan Eteri Chkadua. The adolescent Swiss artists Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz who will present a alluring accession on the terrace of Excelsior Hotel. The aperture day will be aggressive by the achievement of B.Zarro with his accolade to Mario Schifani.

Among the abounding accessible interpretations at this exhibition there is the connected alternation of acuteness in apperception abreast art; there is a fil crimson of accord amid artists, curators and announcement bodies that allotment agitative aesthetic synergies; and the absolutely adorable estimation that traces a aisle through the abundant accomplishment of all those who accept formed to accomplish an accomplished aftereffect if the blind rises on this art show.

The OPEN Prize aswell alcove its ninth edition. This appropriate prize, ancillary with the 66th Venice International Film Festival, is awarded to a administrator demography allotment whose plan shows a able hotlink amid the cinema and the allegorical arts. Founded by Arte Communication and realised in accord with Bellati Editore, this year’s cost is a plan by the Master Ugo Riva.

The exhibition is accompanied by a archive appear by Bellati, absolute comments by critics, presentations by the authorities and the account of the works on show. Available from the Arte Communications lnfopoint at Lido in Piazzale Bucintoro and in Venice in Riva San Biagio, Castello 2145. A video of the exhibition will aswell be produced by Maurizio Cesana.

Press conference
2 September 2009 at 2.00 p.m. / Hotel Des Bains
Light cocktail
2 September 2009 at 4.00 p.m. / Blue Moon
Inauguration cocktail (by allurement only)
2 September 2009 at 7.00 p.m. / Island of San Servolo
Open to the public
3 September - 4 October 2009, every day, access chargeless of charge

Venice Lido
ARGENTINA / León Ferrari
CHINA / Lee Sun-Don, Zhao Guanghui
CYPRUS / Andreas Savva
FINLAND / Hannu Palosuo, Kiba Lumberg
FRANCE / Bernard Pourrière
GEORGIA / Eteri Chkadua
GERMANY / Gabriele Pöhlmann-Grundig, Bertamaria Reetz and Rainer Bonk
GREECE / Venia Bechrakis, Aristotelis Deligiannidis, Under Construction
INDIA / Nataraj Sharma
ITALY / Cosimo Andrisano, B.Zarro, Enrico Benetta, Cristian Biasci,
Stefano Bombardieri, Marilù Cattaneo, Andrea Ciampini, Girolamo Ciulla,
Marco Cornini, Margherita Michelazzo, Ercole Pignatelli, Ugo Riva, Federica Silvi
SWITZERLAND / Heinz Aeschlimann, Daniel Glaser/Magdalena Kunz, Christian Bolt
URUGUAY USA / Jorge Misium
USA / Fulvia Zambon
Island of San Servolo
ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BOLOGNA
Angelarosa Benevento, Francesco Cossu, Luca Freschi, Laura Guerinoni,
Giacomo Lion, Matteo Lucca, Angelo Massaro, Lara Mezzapelle, Fabio Romano, Lucio Terenzi, Linda Vigiani, Davide Vivaldi, Diego Zuell

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