Venice Biennale 2011, Italian Pavilion

· exhibition design, set up & production·
54th Art Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, 2011
Exhibition curated by Vittorio Sgarbi

For the traditional venue of the Italian Pavilion, expanded on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, were selected 200 major personalities of recognized international prestige who have been asked to indicate an artist who has had a significance in the first decade of this millennium, from 2001 to 2011.
200 artists will be exhibited, as a result of 200 different ways of understanding art. A kaleidoscopic representation that is not limited to the choices of critics and does not follow the trends of the galleries, but feeds the extraordinary union between art, literature, philosophy.

The Arsenal will also exposed the Mafia Museum, brought from Salemi in Venice, offering the leit-motif of exposure: «Art is not ours.»
The design project was entrusted to the architect Benedetta Tagliabue, winner of last Expo in Shanghai for the Spanish Pavilion.

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54th Art Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion
Curator  Vittorio Sgarbi
Design  Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT
Design assistant & Set up coordinator  Beatriz Minguez de Molina / EMBT