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by Ida Gerosa
When one approaches a visit to a great art exhibition like the Venice Biennale, the expectation is to see something new. Something that will surprise you or grab your attention. Having visited the past Biennale exhibitions over the years, I saw innovative and carefully put-together exhibitions, but also others that were so dull as to seem downright boring. This year, the intriguing theme of the Biennale ["Think with the senses, feel with the mind"] particularly aroused my curiosity, so I expected to see unusual, innovative, and meaningful works. I am an artist myself, so I make a concerted effort to understand each artwork, and avoid summing it up with just a one-liner. But, to my chagrin, I must say that I saw only a few pieces that I found attractive and that communicated anything meaningful to me. I might not have had time to see all the collateral exhibitions, but I would say that overall the installations or pavilions to be "saved" are 5+1…. [The author addresses the national exhibitions at the Biennale, and then turns to the collateral exhibitions.] So I have exhausted the 5 pavilions to be "saved." The collateral events are another story. Very interesting are the digital images of artist Adi Da Samraj. The exhibit is curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (+1). This pavilion is the other one to be "saved" and, even if one makes only a brief visit to the Biennale, is not to be missed. After the artist concentrated his work for many years on drawing and painting, in 1998 he began working with photography, creating his images through computer-elaborated manipulations. He has experimented with the transformations that these digital means allow him, finding his own unique expression. Work relatively common among those who, not having fully mastered the use of the computer, use it for manipulations that, at most, express a "knowledge" of the technical means and a personal contemporary expression. I often wonder when the time will come when everyone will understand what it really means to make art using a computer. His formation and experience as an artist has prompted him to create images that are very complex and fragmented, giving origin to repeated geometric forms. The colors are splendid, though they are constricted and delineated by and in these geometric forms. He creates images that seem devoid of the fluidity characteristic of the best computer art. However, among the artists who use digital means in this way, he is certainly the best I have seen…. [The article continues to describe other collateral exhibitions.] In conclusion, a Biennale to be remembered only for a few works of value that arouse curiosity and interest; in a general context that's rather anguishing. Which is not surprising. Download full text of this article - PDF FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS CONTACT: Da Plastique
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