Florence Biennale 2009

The seventh copy of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will crop abode at the celebrated Fortezza da Basso from 5th - 13th December 2009. 650 artists advancing from 78 countries will be announcement added than 2.000 artworks and there will be an amazing affair of cultures, languages and assorted aesthetic styles. The Florence Biennale supports the United Nations affairs “Dialogue amid civilizations”, to which the Biennale has clearly adhered back 2001.

The Biennale will aswell see the attendance of important artists. In the 2007 edition, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico" career cost was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 copy to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney. The 2009 Life Achievement accolade will be accustomed to Marina Abramovic and Shu Yong for their addition to the International Contemporary Art Scene.

The International Scientific Committee (I.S.C.), composed of 20 able members, categorizes the works in the categories of painting, sculpture, graphic, alloyed media, installation, photography and agenda art. The alternative is done with no ageism of style. Artists are called based on the above of their artwork and the cultural ethics their plan represents.

The International Jury that assigns recognitions and awards to the arrive artists is composed of acclaimed abstracts such Elza Ajzenberg, exhibition babysitter of the MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Dominique Edouard Bacheler, art history assistant and art critic, Paris; Pang Bang Ben, artisan and professor, China; R.B. Bhaskaran, accomplished President of Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Francesco Buranelli, General Manager of the Pontifical Commission for the Church’s Cultural Beings; Pasquale Celona, President of the Biennale, Florence; Piero Celona, General Manager of the Biennale, Florence; Gregorio Luke, accomplished Director of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) Long Beach, California; Bianca Laura Petretto, Curator, journalist, able on avant-garde and Asian arts, Italy; Matty Roca affiliate of AICA and President of the Arts Corporation in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico; Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center of Linz - Austria; Rosa Tejada, drillmaster at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and Stefano Francolini, Artistic Director of the Biennale, above Director of the C3 Super of the Ministry of the Cultural Activities, Florence, Italy.

The Florence Biennale is organized by Arte Studio.
Fortezza da Basso Florence - 5-13 Decembre 2009 - hours: 10-20 - info: + 39 0553249173
tickets 10 euro for added information: www.florencebiennale.org

Lorenzo il Magnifico accolade to Marina Abramovic
The Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence dedicated, as is customary, the "Lorenzo il Magnifico career " accolade an all-embracing acceptance of abreast aesthetic ability to those decidedly outstanding and that still abide to angle by their work.
The VII Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea of Florence awards the "Lorenzo il Magnifico career " accolade to Marina Abramovic, one of the a lot of important and absorbing abreast performers.

Of Yugoslav origin, breath from the 1970s with a alternation of memorable performances, in which the artist's anatomy is the amount and axial allotment of the plan of her analysis on the banned of animal physicality, Marina Abramovic, the adventures through abandon to the point of putting her own anatomy at accident with the attendance and use of alarming items including "On the table there are seventy-two altar that can be acclimated at will on me. I am the article "(Studio Morra, Naples, 1974), absolutely involving her public, for example, in the acclaimed achievement airiness (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, 1977), fabricated with the German artisan Ulay ( Uwe Laysiepen), with whom she has an aesthetic affiliation back 1976 and from which it breach in 1989 aloft achievement of their achievement 'Great Wall Walk': their affair in the average of the Great Wall of China, 2000 kilometers long, afterwards a adventure that lasted ninety days.

Through the testing of concrete and cerebral banned of her existence, Marina Abramovic withstands pain, exhaustion, abhorrence and crisis in gluttonous about-face of their affecting and airy sphere.

Marina Abramovic has presented and presents her plan with images, sounds and video in abundant abandoned and accumulation exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

Since 1991 she has accomplished in Germany at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In 1997 the XLVII Venice Biennale has accustomed the Golden Lion for 'Balkan Baroque', eight hour performance, during which Marina Abramovic cleans one hundred cow femurs, an action that becomes the attribute to abolish the atrocities that her countrymen accept committed in aboriginal conflicts, the Balkan in the 90s.
This work, calm with the performances 'The Hero' (2001), 'Count On', 'Nude with Skeleton' (2003) and 'Balkan Erotic Epic' (2005), was allotment of her exhibition advantaged "Balkan Epic" captivated Hangar Bicocca in Milan in 2006.

In 2003 Marina Abramovic accustomed the New York Dance and Performance Award The Bessies for 'The House with Ocean View' a twelve-day achievement at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.

In 2005 she presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York a alternation of performances advantaged 'Seven Easy Pieces'.
The works of Marina Abramovic are present in the a lot of important abreast art collections in the world.

Stefano Francolini
Artistic Director VII Biennale

Collateral events

5 December 11:00am
Opening

5 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an acumen into Japanese films
After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda
in accord with Kaori Watanabe

6 December 11:00am
An Artist and a Scientist: a accepted way
Lecture by Francesco Saverio Pavone and Dony Mac Manus
in accord with OpenLab Florence University

6 December 5:30pm
Living Arts of Contemporary India
Lecture by Sushma Bahl

7 December 11:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an acumen into Japanese films
When The Last Sword Is Drawn by Takita Yojiro
in accord with Kaori Watanabe

7 December 5:30pm
Octavio Paz Art and thought
Lecture by Gregorio Luke

7 December 7:30pm
Saint James Church
Artists projects: Paul Lorenz, Barbro Eriksson, Danielle Lindsay

8 December 11:00am
Mathematics as an Art form
Lecture by Vanni Noferini
in accord with OpenLab Florence University

8 December 5:30pm
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic meets Biennale's artists
followed by the presentation of the accolade Lorenzo il Magnifico to Marina Abramovic

9 December 11:00am
Canvas, Paper, Plastic: Abstraction in 2-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz

9 December 5:30pm
Rufino Tamayo adept of ablaze and color
Lecture by Gregorio Luke

10 December 11.00am
Art and Chemistry as alternate sources of inspiration
Lecture by Cristiana Lofrumento
in accord with OpenLab Florence University

10 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an acumen into Japanese films
Tokyo Sonata by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
in accord with Kaori Watanabe

11 December 11:00am
Can Carbon-14 be a acceptable dating apparatus even for abreast art authentication?
Lecture by Mariaelena Fedi
in accord with OpenLab Florence University

11 December 5:30pm
Stone, Bronze, Wood: Abstraction in 3-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz

12 December 11:00am
Art and symmetries
Lecture by Roberto Casalbuoni
in accord with OpenLab Florence University

12 December 4:00pm
Development of Art in China
Lecture by Zhang Hongbin
followed by the Lorenzo il Magnifico cost celebration awarded to
Shu Yong

12 December 9:00pm
Gala Dinner

13 December 3:00pm
Awards ceremony

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