From Biennale to Biennials. Cartographies of an Impossible Desire
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- Anita Orzes - Universitat de Barcelona, España; Université Grenoble Alpes, France - email
- Vittorio Pajusco - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email
- Stefania Portinari - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This volume explores the biennial phenomenon examining their artistic, geopolitical, and institutional dimensions. While primarily centred on these two major events, as the Venice and São Paulo biennials, the essays in this book also enlarge upon other biennials, exhibitions and institutions, offering comparative and relational insights. Ultimately, the volume highlights the historical complexity of biennials and their roles as cultural devices, underscoring their function as spaces of experimentation and legitimation amid broader political and institutional tensions.
Keywords Colonial art • São Paulo Biennial • Biennials • Cultural Politics • São Paulo Bienal • Yugoslavia • Prints • Christo • The São Paulo Biennial • José Goméz Sicre • Modernism • Pietro Maria Bardi • Transnational networks • Colonialism • Krakow International Biennial of Graphic Arts • Francisco Matarazzo • Conceptual Art • Pan-American Union • São Paulo Art Biennial • Brazilian Art Historiography • Venice Biennale Model • Land art • Luca Maria Patella • Discursive engagement • Geopolitics • Exhibition History • America • Contemporary art • Fabrizio Plessi • Richard Long • Desire • Post-war Abstractionism • São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM) • Italian Colonialism • Educational Practices • Venice Biennale • International cultural relations • Demise • Institutional memory • Michael Heizer
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-910-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-910-8 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-912-2 | Pubblicato 24 Luglio 2025 | Lingua en, it
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