Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña offered Venice Biennale Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement.
Both artists will characteristic withinside the important exhibition titled The Milk of Dreams
The German artist Katharina Fritsch and the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña have acquired the distinguished Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement offered via way of means of the Venice Biennale. Both artists had been selected via way of means of Cecilia Alemani, the curator of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (The Milk of Dreams, 23 April-27 November).
Fritsch and Vicuña will function in The Milk of Dreams exhibition and are because of acquire their awards at the Biennale inauguration day (23 April).
Venice Biennale the directing questions for this year’s version of the Biennale Arte rotate around three fundamental subjects: the possible transforms of the human body, our association to our home-planet, and the obtrusive weight of commodified, cutting-edge advances.
The universal fair’s title, The Drain of Dreams, alludes to the mind-bending animals of surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, reverberating with the points of the reasonable to recalibrate the modern human condition.
Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) become a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived maximum of her grownupexistence in Mexico City and becomeone of theultimate surviving individualswithinside the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington becomeadditionally a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico in the course of the 1970s.
The 59th Venice Biennial is curated by Cecilia Alemani and will be open to the open from 23 April to 27 November 2022 with elite pre-opening occasions on April 20, 21, and 22.
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Artistas ucranianos se dirigen a la 59 Bienal de Venecia.
“La idea de Rusia es eliminar Ucrania y eliminar la cultura ucraniana. Si no tiene cultura, Ucrania no existe”.
Ese fue el sentimiento que impulsó a Pavlo Makov, el artista ucraniano oficial de la 59 Bienal de Venecia, a viajar a Italia para instalar su exposición.
Makov y su equipo, incluida la curadora Maria Lanko, estaban decididos, dijo Pavlov, a “mostrar que estamos aquí y existimos. No estoy citando a Churchill directamente, pero habló sobre las cosas por las que estamos luchando, y estamos luchando por nuestra cultura, nuestra forma de ver el mundo”.
El trabajo de Makov se llama Fuente del agotamiento: una pirámide de 78 embudos de bronce colocados en niveles, a través de los cuales fluye el agua. La idea original surgió en 1995, cuando, debido a graves inundaciones, la ciudad de Kharkiv se quedó sin suministro de agua durante varias semanas.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture relief NT$4.5 billion plan for artists.
Taiwan's Ministry of Culture (MOC) launched the "bailout 4.0" on Thursday, distributing NT$260 billion to families and companies to help them get through the pandemic, the MOC launched the NT$4.5-billion plan to support the nation's artistic and cultural industries.
Anyone who is a Taiwanese art worker, whether they are a freelancer or studio runner, can apply online or by post. In addition, any art or culture-related business can apply for the maximum subsidy of NT$250,000 for purposes such as personnel and necessary expenses.
El retrato de Sandro Botticelli de un joven rico y apuesto, descrito como una de las mayores pinturas renacentistas que quedan en manos privadas, aparecerá en una subasta con una estimación de más de $ 92 millones de dolares.
Sotheby's dijo que era la estimación más grande que jamás había realizado para un cuadro antiguo, un reflejo de su importancia y rareza.
"Nuestro 'Joven' tiene 550 años, sin embargo, parece que podría haber entrado en nuestras galerías esta mañana", dijo George Wachter, copresidente de pinturas de antiguos maestros de Sotheby's. "Es una verdadera belleza para todas las edades".
