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National Anthems, National Myths, National Crises: Pick of the Venice Special reports ITALY, SPECIAL REPORTS National anthems, national myths, national crises: pick of the Venice Biennale pavilions Official pavilions in the Giardini and the Arsenale that are already talking points, plus national presentations across Venice that are part of the collateral programme by AIMEE DAWSON, GARETH HARRIS, HANNAH MCGIVERN | 9 May 2017 An image from Ali Arkady’s photobook work The Land Beyond War, which will be exhibited at the Iraqi pavilion Courtesy the artist and Ruya Foundation © Ali Arkady Print Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Google+ Reddit Nadine Hattom, Francis Alÿs et Al Iraqi pavilion, Palazzo Canalli Franchetti In an unusual move, the founders of the Ruya Foundation, a Baghdad-based non-governmental body, are pairing ancient artefacts from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad with works by six contemporary artists. e show, with the themes of “water, earth, the hunt, writing, music, conflict and exodus”, is called Archaic. Tamara Chalabi, Ruya’s co-founder, is organising the pavilion along with Paolo Colombo, who organised the 1999 Istanbul Biennial. ey chose 40 objects from the Iraq Museum’s collection, working with basic restrictions such as the prohibition of ivory and other materials. “It’s been a multilayered juggling act,” Chalabi says. Items include a clay figurine of a fertility goddess from around 5000BC, and a dove-shaped Babylonian weight made of stone. Both were returned to the museum from the Netherlands in 2010, having been plundered following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Some of the six participating artists, such as Luay Fadhil and Ali Arkady, live in Iraq, but others are based abroad, including Baghdad-born Sadik Kwaish Alfraji and Nadine Hattom, who live in the Netherlands and Germany respectively. Hattom’s installation, Until the River Winds Ninety Degrees West, features six images from her family album dating from the 1940s to the 1960s. “I’ve removed the people and supplemented them with descriptions of what is happening in the image,” she says. “ese are based on memories, mostly from my father… ere’s [also] a map, which I’ve turned into a large photo collage using landscape images from the UAE, the sea and mountains.” e map, which documents her family’s migration, is based on an excerpt from an ancient Mandaean holy book, but is “an imagined geography between heaven and earth”. Chalabi stresses that most of the works have been commissioned. She says: “Alfraji has made work relating to hunting; he refers to old history school books found in Baghdad. It’s very interesting to see Iraq from [the artists’] point of view and how this experience fits with their identity and station in life.” e Belgian artist Francis Alÿs will also create new works for the pavilion, including 14 paintings and a video, based on his recent experiences with a Kurdish battalion in Mosul, northern Iraq, as part of the military offensive against Isil. Xavier Veilhan French pavilion, Giardini France’s Xavier Veilhan will be in permanent residence for the Biennale’s six-month run. Rather than show his own sculptural practice, he will take the role of “music lover” and host for around 70 invited musicians. e pavilion will become a working recording studio, fitted with obscure electronic instruments such as the ondes martenot and other equipment lent by (among others) Nigel Godrich, the Radiohead producer. e plywood grotto design draws inspiration from Kurt Schwitters’s lost Merzbau, which Veilhan calls a “benchmark” in installation art. With no stage separating performer from audience, the pavilion will give visitors access to the normally unseen “uncertain moment of creation”, Veilhan says. “When you’re in the studio you can take chances—it’s a place for failure.” Assisted by the Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay, the Swiss curator Lionel Bovier and three Venetian programmers, Veilhan has put together a line-up reflecting the “rich scene in Venice and the surrounding area”, along with performers as diverse as the French electro star Sébastien Tellier and the Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies. What unites them is “a focus on sound as a raw material”, Veilhan says. e finer details of the programme remain under A model of Xavier Veilhan’s wraps. “It’s like a blind date,” he jokes. “Maybe on the day you come, there will Studio Venezia at the French pavilion be a hardcore German saxophonist.” Image © Veilhan/ADAGP Carlos Amorales Mexican pavilion, Arsenale Carlos Amorales was chosen to represent Mexico in November, against the backdrop of the US presidential election. Donald Trump’s executive orders for a travel ban and a wall on the Mexican border influenced the dark narrative of e Cursed Village, the new animated film at the heart of Amorales’s exhibition. Puppets—of deliberately indeterminate nationality—tell the story of an Puppets for Carlos immigrant family that is violently rejected by a Amorales’s Mexican pavilion exhibition, Life in village. the Folds Photo Nicolas Mastracchio, courtesy Estudio Amorales e story is one element in a “total work of art”, and kurimanzutto says the curator, Pablo León de la Barra. Life in the Folds, the exhibition’s title, refers to the poet Henri Michaux and the “in-betweenness” of Amorales’s multidisciplinary practice, which encompasses graphic design, performance, literature and cinema. For a decade he also managed a record label, Nuevos Ricos, with the Mexican composer Julián Lede. e pavilion presents music as a “codified language”, Amorales says. He has designed an alphabet of abstract letters based on ocarinas (Aztec whistles) to write poems that double as a music score. Interpreted by the ensemble Liminar, it soundtracks the film, whose characters take on the same graphic forms. ere will also be live performances throughout the Biennale. Geta Bratescu Romanian pavilion, Giardini and Palazzo Correr e 91-year-old Geta Bratescu will show old and new works—many unseen outside her native Romania— at the Romanian pavilion in the Giardini and the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Palazzo Correr. It is not a career survey, but a taster of her wide-ranging works, including drawing, collage, photography, film, installation and writing. e exhibition will touch on recurring themes such as femininity, memory and the studio as a physical and mental space, says the assistant curator Diana Ursan. ough she now rarely leaves her apartment in Bucharest, Brătescu continues to make art daily and without assistants. Among the most recent pieces on show will be geometric paper collages known as the Game of Forms. She calls the process “drawing with scissors”. Tehching Hsieh Taiwanese pavilion, Palazzo delle Prigioni In late 1970s New York, an illegal immigrant from Taiwan embarked on a series of long-duration performances. With limited English, Tehching Hsieh meticulously recorded the year he spent in solitary confinement in his studio (Cage Piece), the year he went with limited sleep to punch a Geta Bratescu in her studio time clock every hour (Time Clock Piece), and the Tehching Hsieh during his in Bucharest; the year he wandered homeless around Manhattan Romanian pavilion is year-long performance of Time Clock Piece; his showcasing her work (Outdoor Piece). Photo © Stefan Sava works will be at the Taiwanese pavilion Photo © Tehching Hsieh Hsieh’s “lifeworks” seem to have been “designed largely for the future”, says Adrian Heathfield, the curator of Doing Time, his exhibition in the Taiwanese pavilion. “If he hadn’t documented them, perhaps he wouldn’t have been believed.” Photographs, films and objects from two of the performances will be on view in the most extensive show of Hsieh’s work to date. e works reveal Hsieh’s prescient commentary on the capitalist condition and the statelessness of migrants, according to Heathfield. A room will focus on previously unseen early works made before he le Taiwan, including his brutal first performance, Jump Piece (1973)—a fall from a second-storey window that broke both his ankles. Mark Bradford US pavilion, Giardini e art and vision of Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist in the US pavilion, could not be more pertinent, says Katy Siegel, the research curator at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. “e pavilion opens with Donald Mark Bradford’s Sexy Cash Trump in office, at a moment of enormous uncertainty and social crisis, and (2013)—at the US pavilion. Mark’s work, his understanding of social life in the US, and his direct action Courtesy of the artist with regard to social need are more relevant than ever,” she says. Bradford opened a shop in April in the Frari district of Venice, where prisoners make and sell products, run in partnership with a local co-operative dedicated to finding employment for people serving prison sentences. “What Mark has personally experienced has helped to make him deeply insightful about the American landscape, about the collapsing centre and the massing periphery,” says Siegel, who is co- curating the exhibition, entitled Tomorrow Is Another Day, with Christopher Bedford, the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. ese social preoccupations spill over into his abstract and collage-based works. Earlier this year, Bradford unveiled a circular fresco of works at the Hirshhorn in Washington, DC (until 12 November 2018), based on Paul Philippoteaux’s 1883 cyclorama depicting the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg. Although the exact nature of his Venice work is under wraps, the pavilion website stresses that Bradford will be more strident than ever in his presentation, renewing the “tradition of abstract and materialist painting”. It adds that “the cyclical threat and hope of American unfulfilled social promise” is the artist’s priority. Asked if there will be any departures, Siegel says: “Some of the surprises are—counterintuitively—returns; others are entirely new artistic experiments.” And has the experience been exciting and daunting? “It was a wild ride.
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