{"id":21238,"date":"2015-05-08T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=21238"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:51:40","slug":"56th-venice-biennale-macedonian-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/56th-venice-biennale-macedonian-pavilion\/","title":{"rendered":"56th Venice Biennale: All Roads Lead To The Macedonian Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo Photo by Will Furtado<\/p>\n

Several drums are stacked up almost scratching the high ceiling, followed by ominous large standing trumpets and a white bust of Mao sitting on cassette tape records. The work of the late Terry Adkins dominates the first rooms of the international exhibition at the Arsenale pavilion, including: \u201cMuffled Drums\u201d, 2013; \u201cThe Last Trumped\u201d, 1995 and \u201cDarkwater Record\u201d, 2003-2008 (from the series Darkwater). A feeling of foreboding lies in the air, which is soon confirmed by Monica Bonvicini<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLatent Combustion\u201d, 2015, consisting of five hanging sculptures of black metal and chain saws, succeeded by Pino Pascali\u2019s \u201cCannone Semovente\u201d, 1965, a black canon made out of wood and metal. It seems the Arsenale (a former military site) was taken quite literally. Did Okwui Enwezor<\/a> curate this part of the biennale while in a bad mood?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Photo Steve McQueen, Ashes (film still), 2014. Photo by Will Furtado<\/p>\n

Luckily there is plenty more to expect elation from. Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse<\/a> is the first to add colossal colour and oomph with her psychedelic installation \u201cUntitled Trumpet,\u201d 2015, which breaks up the Materialschlacht (material battle) of Arsenale\u2019s start by coating it with a burst of pigments. Another example include Steve McQueen\u2019s \u201cAshes,\u201d 2014-2015, a short film about a boy called Ashes. The video is beautifully shot: a topless black boy on a boat wearing blue shorts and facing the deep blue sea. Sometimes he flirts with the camera while the wind blows his hair and the boat rocks and the wind hisses. The screening room is crowded, the viewers are marvelled, they can\u2019t look away even if the story being told is about the boy\u2019s death. His life is celebrated with such indelible beauty that it gives it continuity.<\/p>\n

Further along the crammed rooms and wings of the pavilion is Cao Fei\u2019s video, which is also a must-see. \u201cLa Town\u201d, 2014, is an ingeniously theatrical stop-motion feature about a thrilling microcosmos that reflects on the chaotic changes occurring in society today. Using animated miniatures and figurines, the Chinese female artist creates tragic scenes of a quasi-apocalyptic world that also has a reinvigorating consolation to it.<\/p>\n

\"Installation Installation images: Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski Chapel (We are all in this alone), 2014, 45 cbm, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Photo: Michael Belogour<\/p>\n

After such a visual overload in the main exhibition, the word on the street is that the national pavilions lead to Macedonia, and its conceptual and almost immaterial installation. \u201cWe are in this alone\u201d, 2015, takes the pre-renaissance fresco from the Church of St. Gjorgi, by an anonymous painter in the 12th century, as its premise. Artists Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski recontextualise the painting with a firm focus on trust (which was initially deposited to that unknown artist) and question the importance of faith in human existence, the arts and the artists, complimenting the biennale with alleviating spirituality.<\/p>\n

Text von\u00a0Will Furtado<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mehr: Berlin Gallery Weekend: Katharina Grosse at Johann K\u00f6nig\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mehr: First Look At 56th Venice Biennale\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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