Art show. Award winner and i in hopes german picks up the golden lion for best national participation. Meanwhile iranian born artist. Transcends the trauma of exile i dont want to always live with this a sense of longing and this romantic idea of returning to venice be an all or highlight of the twenty seventeen arch show calendar. Its themed are to viva long live art but what kind and why arts twenty one takes the pulse. To napa dated yet breathtakingly beautiful venice can still steal a show even one that celebrates international law. Setting the festival it can feel like visual overkill theres almost too much to look at. The truck appears to have been dropped headfirst into the terrace of the austrian pavilion its classic alvin for the office provoke a turk transform sculpture into a site of action it struck serves as a Lookout Point with stunning views. And warnings on want to come others want to leave some want to cross the mediterranean to reach europe others dont want them to be with the mediterranean is the core of the piece you go up it and at the top is a plaque that says stand quiet and look out over the mediterranean only you dont see the mediterranean because its in our heads and with a. Fullness one minute sculptures address issues such as migration and mobility this one recalls a caravan praise of the one nine hundred sixty s. And seventys its also a performance culture with the public invited to put the heads legs and arms through holes in the camp of an. Other artist through for tackling the topic of migration one of them is Australian Artist tracy morphett at the john dean edell of vienna. Thank. You. Regs a bishop is the first solo show by an indigenous artist at the Prestigious International event. In the peace body remembering she appears as a maybe its an illusion to the fate suffered by Many Australian aborigines who were stolen from their families as children and put to work as needs in white house a. Place a little bit on not Family History my family were domestic they worked at my. My my great great grandmother worked in a nine hundred ten cattle property in remote. Straggle she was the cork by aboriginal grandmother so its a little bit Family History but i dont leave it there i go further. Questions of history and identity are explored many of the pavilions ranging from garish to cerebral the art on display represents eighty six countries in total. The italian pavilion is reminiscent of an alchemy ists laboratory. Jesus after jesus is cast by assistants working with molds and kilns then theyre laid out on their backs in little plastic bubble was i. I am new to part of this year is that visitors can often watch the artists at work the central exhibit action is viva additive viva it features work by a hundred and twenty artists. Dont have spare is an artist from new york at a young age doubles as a music studio. I just think that the roger view is a perfect the perfect way to describe it i mean viva in oz as the celebrate tory you know and its hard and its a sort of suggesting that theres a theres other ways of working. This is what george will be doing for the next six months shell need a lot of stamina thats a certain. No this isnt a souvenir shop its a project by all of. The icelandic danish artist has invited refugees to a temporary workshop to make lamps that visitors can buy. In. The. No seeds go to local refugee organizations. In. The culture sector by all means i think is capable of coming up with solutions and thats right thats why we came to venice of going to venice be an island its such a resourceful event this is my latest also to be very honest because the the analogy of course this is the sort of the panic and of the art world if you want but were still i think i think we have the strength and the mobility to kind of. Try to come up with new solutions these solutions might not be great art but they are very right on. The t. V. Includes a range of what are called trends pavilion in which the curator says put the voice the role and the responsibilities of the artist at its center they have damus such as pavilion of coming of the yacht and of the shamans. In the pavilion of time and infinity visitors can lose themselves in an installation by billion based polish born artist elise your client will watch twenty one found its favorite piece of this years event in the south african pavilion. The country is home to an exciting art scene and more how movie star king is one of its rising stars the multidisciplinary visual artist was born in soweto in one thousand nine hundred six. In the immersive video installation passage he uses his own body to explore south africas violent colonial past. I was interested in the question about the entity and only way i could come around it was to refer back to myself and to my own body but also using it as a reference for the black body in general. In the history of south africa. In a sense its an autobiographical project but it refers back to the black body in african history to. See viva a celebration of ott and for many participating artists a platform for self discovery. Twenty seventeen be anally can be loud and brash but this common tranquillity here as well. Inhofe was the talk of the town even before germany won top honors her Performance Installation is a crowd puller. Was. In hopes performance based artwork plays with viewers emotions who is watching whom. It touches on feelings of power powerlessness fear and freedom will the performers jump do they control the crowds are enthusiastic must queue for at least one hour to get in everyones eager to see in hopes work especially now that shes won the golden lion award. Inside the pavilion the atmosphere is calm and serious casually clad performers discreetly directed by impulse take over the pavilion and retreat to platforms. Where simultaneously other performers crawl underneath the thick glass floor theyre visible but inaccessible. The performance is titled faust german for fist and the pavilion feels like a mix between a cathedral and a nightclub. And i think of the title file you realise. You can only full my fist with all five fingers. Thats so and only then can you use your fists but fists also have political symbolism of course. Politicise. Symbols believes in the power of collective action she gradually developed the piece together with the performers and call names at the pavillion she silently directs them via Text Messages oh today shes too busy to talk to arts twenty one about the performance luckily we interviewed her two years ago i am. Derives its power from ideas in the freedom of thought that plays an Important Role in my work to get us involved studied at frankfurts state of the art school her talent was apparent early on is thanking us and. I primarily produce images to which the aspect of temporality is added that means my work is finite. And just that song i think performances have a different temporality to paintings or sculptures in this sense and place cut as asking me what i mean. By the hard liners. In another performance titled deal involved transformed buttermilk into a concept to be passed on. Two years ago she was nominated for germanys Renowned National gallery award for Young Artists alongside four other artists imhoff one her mysteriously Expressive Art was a hit. She became a rising star on an art scene where Performance Art is all the rage her five hour long opera just by performed in berlin caused a stir that focused on present day obsessions like self presentation self Optimization Technology and surveillance. A woman who. The truck that went in the audience and the performer are in the same room but the performance has no set script it becomes like a dance with this district. Its like a mental dance because little happens thats almost like telepathy and cop phones kept as. Animals are a trademark of imhoff performances they represent the archaic the coincidental and unplanned. Prefers to work with the same group of artists dancers and musicians yes. This perfectly coordinated performance with a strong contemporary point of view is the result of months of collaborative work. But i think its important to realize we live in a time marked by great transformation that off has to reflect on changes. To just that in a very interesting and highly complex way by is a. Many of impulse images have an intense immediacy to them some performers take action others suffer some are included others excluded. The performance invokes invisible power structures fear and isolation and Award Winning commentary on the contemporary world. Naturally we have tons more in store from the world of arts and culture from hip to classic from painting to literature and visit our Facebook Page at detail you dot culture. New york based artist should be in michelle was born in iran against the grand backdrop of venice her latest work explores cultural identities and the concept of home. Venice is familiar territory for this acclaimed artist. Shes received many big awards here now shes exhibiting her photographs at the museum on st marks square. It was a total chance that this Museum Offered this room to me that came with the madonna on the wall and they said to add that this could not be removed but i couldnt have asked for anything better because what they didnt know that and the photographs that i had done were inspired by christian paintings. What i love about this room and this floor is that the remaining of their objects and paintings are entirely really just paintings then you come to this room and youre surrounded by contemporary faces all under the umbrella of a madonna. Past works have focused mainly on Iranian Society for this project shes taken portraits of people of all ages in azerbaijan each of them looking straight into the camera and in similar poses a multiethnic and multireligious country azerbaijan Borders National iranian homeland. Was a part of. A until the Nineteenth Century so when i went to as a reason i felt like i was going home and me that never goes back to iran being you know as i have asian was very sort of moving for me and. Today turks russians ukrainians armenians and georgians also call azerbaijan home in this country bounded by the caucasus and the caspian sea muslims jews and christians live in relative harmony. When she took their pictures. Her subjects what home means to them. Shes incorporated their stories into the pictures that she softened using calligraphy. Its become her trademark. However the home of my eyes is also a very personal quest for the artist and lost a flavor of what is the meaning of home by being nomadic or not homeless but now magic and it was interesting because theyre the things that they pointed out to were the what was the essence of the meaning of home to them it wasnt anything profound but a certain odor certain flowers certain. Certain food and certain reasons that with never ever allowed them to leave. Me questioning them a bad there and their relationships as a concept of home was really my own self looking into the mirror and asking those questions to myself. In her video. Goes a step further. She shows how ruthless she feels in the u. S. Where she now lives. Shes both touched and repelled. Torn between cultures a life full of contradictions. Captures this experience in powerful dreamlike images. Ive moved on and i dont want to always live with this sense of longing and this romantic idea of returning i hear that i have. And of that chapter and my stories my concepts my characters are changing and no longer here i knew what remains constant is myself and that woman thats me obviously so i never have to cut ties with iran because i am near new and i will always remain you know but i dont have to obsess about the onion cutter since i never going back. To. Her current plans include a german produced feature film and a photo series in the u. S. This summer shes trying something completely new directing a production of aida at the festival. Is an artist whos constantly evolving it remains true to herself. Over the years the german pavilion has appeared in many guises but the lines outside are always long a look back at the most outstanding entries from the past two decades. The german pavilion building the doors his house has a murky historical past built in the early Twentieth Century it was redesigned in the one nine hundred thirty s. By the nazis to reflect their pension from monumental is and. Many artists have explored this past with their work and theres another more mundane aspects of the nazi legacy. The german pavilion is a real fascist building no toilet my bathroom i want to eat and i want to rest its purely symbolic so for the last forty years or fifty years you know to see me to use the toilet go to the british pavilion in a way you find out nothing about by looking at the german pavilion. But you find out a lot about the interface between representation and history and desire. In one thousand nine hundred three at the first b. And i like to take place after german really. Vacation artist funds address the buildings history with his piece. Hitlers first trip abroad was to venice in one nine hundred thirty four where he visited the german villian of the be an alley. He ordered a redesign including the laying of marble slabs. Uprooted them and smashed them into pieces visitors literally tried to undermine history and inevitably slip now and then all part of the concept. And im bored and such to. Help if the ground beneath your feet is just roid youre on shaky ground and come on in my opinion thats the situation in which europe and especially germany now finds itself in my dreams and. In that respect i wouldnt call what i have done here an attack on germany. Mr. Howard starts. Going away it could almost be understood as a patriotic undertaking for us to have. Been well outside the building was a multimedia spectacle by Nam June Pike called marco polo their joint work at the german pavilion was awarded a folding lion. You can have it right here yet you. Thank. In two thousand and one a golden lion went to greg. Who relocated the entire interior of a postwar Residential Home inside the door as house for his installation totus house there. It was both stultifying ordinary and strangely creepy. In two thousand seventies against can in case the building in a bright orange net that looked like it had been. Dolan from one of the citys many building sites. Inside this idiosyncratic german artist created a mysterious world of covering space suits rubber reptiles. In two thousand and eleven a church moved into the cathedral like the billion the church of fear versus the alien within to be precise. It was the stage for a Theatre Project by performer filmmaker and director quest of flimsy. But he died of cancer before he could transform his vision into reality at the b. L. S. The spectacle and just how its incredibly sad that we cant see what he had planned because it would have been just great funny and really extreme what. I could never reproduce that liveliness in any film but with very consciously ensuring that his character is present in the pavilion guns but most. Of the. Consensus. Been. Been. Your readers susan against time or made a virtue of necessity and turned the pavilion into an homage to the multitalented. And germany was rewarded with the b. And allies golden line for her efforts. But the pavilion as a reflection of the nation the german nation was increasingly being called into question. In twenty thirteen things became even more confusing the german civilians moved into the french one. This symbolic building. Exchange was made to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the end is a treaty. And the pavilion kept getting fuller. Three International Artists and one german one were invited to represent germany in venice in the french pavilion. Although he was invited chinese artist ai wei wei couldnt travel to venice in two thousand and thirteen as his passport had been confiscated. But his installation bang composed of eight hundred eighty six stools made it to be an ally without him. Or judiciary. Every artists right to express him or herself and to communicate with. Conley dont have that right. Showed you how i believe its impossible to suppress ones imagination and passion e pain and they can only be suppressed superficially her appeal made her trade. In two thousand and thirteen for International Artists exhibited their works at the pavilion to provide different perspectives on our increasingly complicated world with a focus on photography and film. And in two thousand and fifteen another four artist represented germany at the german to billion if you havent been in the fabric we call the pavilion. Thats one way of reacting to the building and reflects a theme touched upon by the art you know me from fits about how we work on a me the western neo liberal economic order and how it affects other parts of the world and of a good thing todays most pressing issues have been addressed at the german to billion among them the refugee crisis. And the flood of images in two thousand and fifteen there was a video installation that was like a video game but one that audiences were going to control this was a critique of the way we interact on several media. And on off nikolai showcased his boomerang performance but top of the german pavilion an act of total artistic liberation thank you very much. Thank god. Thats all from arts twenty one for today are reviewed he achieved a name we leave you with a round up of our favorite images joe and till next time. Overcoming disease and death. Scientists around the world are still trying to unlock the secrets of immortality im going to talk them through looking to floating dung actually looking well through the fire. But what are the chances that this will actually have been. Waiting for immortality. In fifteen minutes. Health. And here in studio. Solidarity. May fall by the wayside when the gap between rich and form grows. Life in an equal society us divide starting november fifteenth on. D. W. Your children like chocolate. You cant live without your smartphone. To buy your tomatoes in the supermarket. As we go about our daily life human rights law from the last thing on the. Invisible hand of. 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