54 Venice Biennale - Pavilion Campano
Exhibitions, Italy, Salerno, 29 September 2011
A joint initiative of
HALL TO ITALY 54. INTERNATIONAL
ART OF THE VENICE BIENNIAL OF UNIT 150 ° '
OF ITALY
edited by Vittorio Sgarbi
FROM 30 SEPTEMBER TO PONTECAGNANO FAIANO
The participation of our country to 54. Exposure
International Art Biennale of Venice, has all the characteristics
exceptionality: the curator of the Pavilion Italy, Vittorio Sgarbi, has
now drawn up a project conceived with original criteria,
emphasizing the importance of the 150 th anniversary of the Unification of Italy,
providing a number of important special initiatives, including
promoted in exhibitions in collaboration with the Italian Regions
Regional governments, provincial and municipal.
As for the Campania, the critic chose Ferrara
Former Tobacco Complex Centola, dear example of Archaeology
Industrial Pontecagnano Faiano, as the ideal location for
the exposure of contemporary artists from the region.
The exhibition sponsored by the City of Pontecagnano Faiano, with the
contribution of the Province of Salerno and the Chamber of Commerce
Salerno, is run personally by Vittorio Sgarbi, and sees
involved over 90 artists including painters, sculptors, potters, photographers, video artists,
graphic designers and authors of installations.
"The presence in Pontecagnano is equivalent to the one in Venice - says
Sgarbi - and sometimes longer has title to aesthetic considerations that motivated
are independent of the indication of a writer, a poet, a director,
a philosopher, who was elected to the patron, as happens in Venice. A
commission, open, effective with reports from
Regional, proposed artists that I have observed with great
interest and selected, effectively and respectfully hope for
This 54. Edition of the Venice Biennale, the first in Salerno
Pavilion in Italy that has found its ideal location in the complex
Former Tobacco Centola. "
The inauguration, which will be open to the public, is scheduled for Thursday
September 29, 19.00, and the same Vittorio Sgarbi will attend
together with the Mayor of Pontecagnano Faiano, Ernesto Sica, who has
commented: "An artistic event so important to
Pontecagnano Faiano is an event not to miss a unique opportunity.
The quality of the works of artists is very high, and I'm sure that the
Centola will become the benchmark for the entire art world
The region. "

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