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Fondation Louis Vuitton’s new art installation at Venice
Katharina Grosse has lengthy built work that transcends boundaries her in-situ installations tread the line between sculpture and painting, installation and experience, and her most current do the job – commissioned by and established for Fondation Louis Vuitton – is no exception. On screen at Espace Louis Vuitton in Venice for the Biennale, Grosse has made a multi-layered, sensory and exploratory piece that reaches back again in time though speaking to the existing the set up, referred to as Apollo Apollo, will take its cue from Aeschylus’s ancient Greek trilogy the Oresteia, which charts the rise and tumble of the house of Atreus, the victors of the Trojan war. The…
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Visiting Venice this summer? Here’s the best art on show at the Venice Biennale
The recently opened Venice Biennale — an 8-month-long international festival of art and culture staged every other year (though it skipped 2021 due to the pandemic) — is an opportunity to see some of the world’s best artists all in one place. The event, with origins dating back to 1895, is formed of three parts: The central show, housed in a series of sprawling industrial buildings in an old dockyards area known as Arsenale, and in the main pavilion of the Giardini della Biennale; the national pavilions, most of which are in the Giardini which is home an architectural mismash of houses built in historical and modern styles from 29…
