{"id":52216,"date":"2020-08-24T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art50art.gurudesk.dev\/?p=52216"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:31:26","slug":"the-disquieted-muses-when-la-biennale-meets-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/the-disquieted-muses-when-la-biennale-meets-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disquieted Muses. When La Biennale Meets History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Biennale di Venezia, to mark the 125th anniversary of its foundation, is presenting Le muse inquiete (The Disquieted Muses). When La Biennale Meets History, an exhibition by the Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts \u2013 ASAC, to be held in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini della Biennale from Saturday, August 29 to Tuesday, December 8, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52210 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1948_afis_venedik_bienali.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the first exhibition to be curated by all the artistic directors of La Biennale\u2019s six departments. Working together, they have used the one-of-a-kind sources of the Historical Archives of La Biennale and other Italian and international archives to retrace key moments during the 20th century when the Biennale crossed paths with history in Venice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52212 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The_Disquieted_Muses_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cecilia Alemani (Art), Alberto Barbera (Cinema), Marie Chouinard (Dance), Ivan Fedele (Music), Antonio Latella (Theatre), and Hashim Sarkis (Architecture) have drawn on the materials of the ASAC, Istituto Luce-Cinecitt\u00e0 and Rai Teche, but also on the records of the Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna di Roma, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Archivio Ugo Mulas, Aamod-Fondazione archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico, Archivio Cameraphoto Arte Venezia, IVESER Istituto Veneziano per la Storia della Resistenza e della societ\u00e0 contemporanea, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Roma, and Tate Modern London.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52206 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The_Disquieted_Muses_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In presenting the exhibition, Roberto Cicutto, President of La Biennale di Venezia, expressed his gratitude \u201cfor the generous support that the directors and staff of the Historical Archives and the entire Biennale have given to this project, parallel to their work on the exhibitions and festivals. It is one that bolsters La Biennale\u2019s role as a hub of research in the contemporary arts, a fundamental driving force for investigating the present and future, and a strategic tool for development, even in terms of economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52208 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The_Disquieted_Muses_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this exhibition, the directors have selected rare footage, first-hand accounts, and a range of artworks, following various lines of research to examine the many times when the history of La Biennale has overlapped with the history of the world\u2014revealing or generating institutional rifts and political and ethical crises, but also new creative languages.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is laid out in the rooms of the Central Pavilion and weaves its way through all six disciplines: from Fascism (1928-1945) to the Cold War and new world order (1948-1964), to the unrest of \u201968 and the Biennales chaired by Carlo Ripa di Meana (1974-78), then from the postmodernism to the first Architecture Biennale and until the 1990s, and the beginning of globalization (see attached document \u201cThe Rooms\u201d with details).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52204 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The_Disquieted_Muses_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a period of global instability that over the course of just a few months has brought a succession of environmental disasters, new pandemics, and social revolutions, La Biennale di Venezia serves as a wellspring and channel for the most innovative currents in the artistic disciplines of our era\u2014but also continues to bear witness to the many shifts and crises that have supervened from the late nineteenth century to the present, like a seismometer recording the tremors of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Biennale di Venezia, to mark the 125th anniversary of its foundation, is presenting Le muse inquiete (The Disquieted Muses). 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