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gabriel orozco participate in la biennale di venezia - venecia with  57th International Art Exhibition

 

The Artist’s Practice project features a series of short videos made by the artists invited to the 57th International Art Exhibition: videos about themselves and their way of working.

Orozco text in the presentation of the catalog is also more ambiguous. To explain the logic of his curatorship, I wrote an elaborate paraphrase in Italian that, in one fell swoop, of an image (including irony) of the central idea of ​​his exhibition, the subject of which is "The Altered Everyday." The text begins with the word Vita that is repeated several weeks, and interrupts words like love, shock, bomb bomb bomb. It ends with the word dead. Final point.
     "El Cotidiano Alterado" was the seventh room of the old Arsenal, the baroque factory used as an exhibition area. Francesco Bonami, its director, writes in the catalog that the result of sharing the responsibility for the selection of aristocrats with other curators should not be allowed to be a complex exhibition, without an exhibition of many complexities. The mix, more than complex, resulted in confusion. Nor did the title help: "Costumes and conflicts: the dictatorship of the spectator." Debate on the number and variety of votes, this is more like the dictatorship of the curator (or the ten curators, for that matter).
     It is not trivial to mention that, to read the room of what Orozco is loading, he has to walk, in scorching heat, through the traditional and chaotic exhibitions of the other curators. From time immemorial, one is crowned by revelations, such as the work of the artist Mladen Stilnovic in the room called "Individual Systems", a post by Igor Zabel. The introduction to the work says: "I agree that art is nothing. Nothing, pain." The work consists of an exhibition of all the words in a dictionary (523 pieces in total), including the definitions of the words based on only one: color. Following the criticism of the English magazine The Guardian, this will be the manifesto of the International Enter Exhibition, in contrast to the elaborations on utopias and dystopias, the dominant theme in the rest of the exhibitions.