Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship
presents itself as an "exhibition of exhibitions", laid out in the various spaces within the Arsenale and in the Giardini della Biennale, including the national participations in the Giardini pavilions, as well as in other locations in the heart of Venice and elsewhere. Director Francesco Bonami wished his project to make the best use of the singleness of the Biennale di Venezia's exhibition structure in order to put together a major international survey that, like a “map”, would comprise different areas (like islands in an archipelago), each with its own identity and independence.
The viewer-reader of this map will thus be able to explore the single artistic individualities and build up a personal itinerary through the various trends or specific realities of contemporary art.
According to Bonami, in contemporary society the viewers with their presence and absence control the success of every exhibition and cultural enterprise; in Dreams and Conflicts they appear as one of the subjects that contribute to define the structure of the show, the artist, the curator, the viewer.
Along with the artist, the beholder is one of the connection poles that produce the spark that activate the art work successfully in the social and cultural context.
The Venice Biennale also includes cinema, poetry, music, theatre and dance.
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