Venezia, Venezia is a 1:60 model of the 28 national pavilions at the giardini della biennale. The Chilena artist Alfredo Jaar makes al almost political statement reminding us on the importance of resistance.
I resist , ergo I am seems to be Jaar's motto as the idea culture itself suffer a inundation just to slowly reemerge in its struggling for survival. 24860 times the Biennal will be flooded and 24861 times it will reemerge, a symbol of the human resistance and capacity to rethink itself. the exhibition is completed by a 1946 picture of Lucio Fontana amongst the rubbles of the second world war. Once again Alfred Jaar's vision proves to be a spectacular projection of human hopes and desire to resist to negative forces.
I resist , ergo I am seems to be Jaar's motto as the idea culture itself suffer a inundation just to slowly reemerge in its struggling for survival. 24860 times the Biennal will be flooded and 24861 times it will reemerge, a symbol of the human resistance and capacity to rethink itself. the exhibition is completed by a 1946 picture of Lucio Fontana amongst the rubbles of the second world war. Once again Alfred Jaar's vision proves to be a spectacular projection of human hopes and desire to resist to negative forces.
