On Thursday morning, the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale was opened with an exhibition by Vladimir Nikolić Walk with water.
The Venice Biennale is one of the most important events in the world of contemporary art. This year, after last year's break due to the pandemic, it is being held for the 59th time, and 213 artists from 80 countries are participating. About this year's Biennale slogans Milk of dreams, artistic director Ćecilija Alemeni says that it refers to the focus of the Biennale: the representation of the body and its metamorphosis, the relationship between the individual and technology, and the connection between the body and the Earth.
As before, the Venice Biennale includes an international exhibition, and exhibitions in the national pavilions and the Giardini and the Arsenale. Serbia has had a pavilion at the Venice Biennale since 1938.
Photo: PromoOur art in Venice since 1938: Serbian pavilion
Biljana Ćirić, curator of the exhibition, says that the media "reacted excellently to the appearance of the pavilion and the presentation of the exhibition" and explains that the Serbian pavilion is "a reflection of the crisis of our time, but also a civilizational reflection on how to be a different person in the world that is slowly being created in front of us".
Exhibition Walk with water Vladimir Nikolić has two works 800m i Documents, answers to the given theme of this year's biennale - the relationship between technology and nature, specifically with water as a basic part of our bodies and as a space of connection. Nikolić describes his work as an ambient installation. These are video projections that, as he says, he likes to call monumental images because of their size. "Both works are realities brought to a state of geometric abstraction." It is the most unreduced image of reality that I could imagine and perform," says Nikolić.
Today, the exhibition was opened in the Croatian Pavilion with an exhibition No name Tome Savića-Gecina is dedicated to today's post-truth era and its content will practically depend on current news every day until the end of the Biennale.
Today, Montenegro presented itself to Venice with an exhibition The art of holding hands / as we make our way through the sediment cloud with the works of artists Dante Buu, Lidija Delić, Ivan Šuković, Darko Vučković and Jelena Tomašević, and works from the Art Collection of Non-Aligned Countries: Zuzana Halupova, René Portocarer, an unknown author from Iraq, as well as a video about the sculpture of the artist Bernardo Matemera. The exhibition builds an experience similar to a sci-fi story about possible futures.
The Venice Biennale is open until November 27.
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