Representing Italy at the Venice Biennale is Gian Maria Tosatti, the first solo artist to have the honor. Learn more about his installation which is curated by Eugenio Viola, alongside collaborator Valentino here.
“The Venice Biennale is the Olympics of contemporary art,” as the curator Eugenio Viola puts it. That’s a well-used metaphor: In addition to the selected artists from around 80 nations who exhibit in their respective pavilions, the 59th Venice Biennale—which opened to the public on Saturday—features acontaining work by 213 artists from 58 countries. Just like the Olympics, the real achievement is just to be here—but there are also prizes to be scooped.
Representing Italy is Gian Maria Tosatti, the first solo artist to have the honor—Italy has always shown groups of artists in the past. He worked to realize his installation, which is curated by Viola, alongside a collaborator whose artistry and Italian-ness are both inherent: Valentino.
, is an artwork that makes the viewer work. Put very simply, it is divided into two sections. The first is a series of rooms which strike you as a monumental archaeology of post-industrial decay. Viewers enter it one by one to ensure a degree of contemplative solitude, and are confronted by a series of workplaces in which the workers seem to have suddenly disappeared.
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