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 Contemporary art • Institutional memory • Land art • Biennials • Conceptual Art • Christo • America • Krakow International Biennial of Graphic Arts • International cultural relations • Fabrizio Plessi • São Paulo Biennial • José Goméz Sicre • Cultural Politics • Post-war Abstractionism • Richard Long • Venice Biennale • Modernism • Yugoslavia • São Paulo Art Biennial • Luca Maria Patella • Prints • Colonial art • Demise • Discursive engagement • Transnational networks • Brazilian Art Historiography • Michael Heizer • Pan-American Union • Desire • Italian Colonialism • Pietro Maria Bardi • Colonialism • São Paulo Bienal • São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM) • Exhibition History • Geopolitics • Educational Practices • Francisco Matarazzo • Venice Biennale Model • The São Paulo Biennial
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-910-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-910-8 | Pubblicato 24 Luglio 2025 | Lingua en, it
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