Nine prominent Chinese contemporary artists - Zhang Xiaogang, Zhou Chunya, He Duoling, Wang Guangyi, Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun, Zhang Peili, Wu Shanzhuan and Ye Fang - participated in the exhibition. As a tribute to Marco Polo, the participating artists combined elements from the East and West in their interpretations of Italian art, European culture and western civilization. Their work reflects what makes modern and the modern Oriental.
The exhibition was organized by Institutions of Chinart, the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai and Venice International University, and curated by Lu Peng and Achille Bonito Oliva.
Island of San Servolo
from June 7 to June 9, 2007
Joining arts, technology and mobile lifestyle, Mobile Journey was focused on the concept of mobility. Curated by Lorella Scacco, the exhibition displayed interactive works conceived by artists and developed together with mobile communication engineers. Invited artists included: Laura Beloff & Erich Berger & Elina Mitrunen, Peter Callesen, Empfanghalle, Globalgroove, Crispin Gurholt, Kalle Laar, Gaston Ramirez Feltrin, Silver & Hanne Rivrud.
Organization:
Venice International University in collaboration with Vodafone and Palm.
Press Release
The Inner-soul Island: Isolation and foolery
Island of San Servolo
from June 7 to August 4, 2007
The Inner-soul Island: Isolation and foolery, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, was the theme faced by Vettor Pisani, an artist who has investigated, precociously well ahead of others, the incest, the anti-nature, the hostage, the plagiarism, the anti-heroism and the abuse of ideology and of art.
Always in the balance between art and critical quotation, the work of Vettor Pisani proposes a rich mixture of imageries, alchemies, iconographies and contents without any gap between past and present.
Organization:
Venice International University in collaboration with Fondazione Morra and Cardelli&Fontana. Press Release
Venice International University regards contemporary art as an experimental tool to promote innovative forms of training and research. VIU encourages the practice of contemporary art in order to pursue research based not only on data and statistics but also on human and artistic implications.
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