BiennialJune 18, 2021
Venice Art Biennale 2022 in homage to Leonora Carrington
The president of the Venice Biennale, Roberto Cicutto, and the curator of the 59th International Art Exhibition, Cecilia Alemani, announced in an official statement the title and theme of the Biennale Arte 2022, from April 23 to November 27, 2022 (pre-opening April 20, 21, 22) at the Giardini, the Arsenale and other venues in Venice.
The 59th International Art Exhibition will be titled "Il latte dei sogni" (The Milk of Dreams) in homage to surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Cecilia Alemani explains that "The exhibition takes its name from a book by the surrealist artist, who in the 1950s in Mexico imagined and illustrated mysterious fairy tales directly on the walls of her home, and then compiled them in a book entitled "The Milk of Dreams." Told in a dreamlike style that seems to terrify adults and children alike, Carrington's stories imagine a magical world in which life is constantly reinvented through the prism of imagination. A free world filled with infinite possibilities and the allegory of a century that imposes intolerable pressure on identity.
"The exhibition was born out of numerous conversations with many artists and performers over the past few months. From these dialogues persistently emerged a series of questions that not only evoke this precise historical moment in which the very survival of humanity is threatened but summarize many other issues that have dominated the sciences, arts, and myths of our time. How is the definition of human changing? How is life defined, and what are the differences between animal, plant, human and non-human? What are our responsibilities towards our fellow human beings, other life forms, and the planet we inhabit? And what would life be like without us?"
These are some of the questions guiding this edition of the Biennale, whose research focuses in particular on three thematic:
•The representation of bodies and their metamorphoses.
•The relationship between individuals and technologies.
•The ties that intertwine between bodies and the Earth.
The events of recent months have shaped a torn and divided world; the exhibition "Il latte dei sogni" tries to imagine other forms of coexistence and transformation. Thus, despite the climate in which it was born, "Il latte dei sogni" aspires to be an optimistic exhibition, celebrating art and its ability to create alternative cosmologies and new conditions of existence. The exhibition looks at artists not as those who reveal who we are but as those who know how to absorb the anxieties and concerns of these times to show us who and what we can become.
The 59th International Art Exhibition will be titled "Il latte dei sogni" (The Milk of Dreams) in homage to surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Cecilia Alemani explains that "The exhibition takes its name from a book by the surrealist artist, who in the 1950s in Mexico imagined and illustrated mysterious fairy tales directly on the walls of her home, and then compiled them in a book entitled "The Milk of Dreams." Told in a dreamlike style that seems to terrify adults and children alike, Carrington's stories imagine a magical world in which life is constantly reinvented through the prism of imagination. A free world filled with infinite possibilities and the allegory of a century that imposes intolerable pressure on identity.
"The exhibition was born out of numerous conversations with many artists and performers over the past few months. From these dialogues persistently emerged a series of questions that not only evoke this precise historical moment in which the very survival of humanity is threatened but summarize many other issues that have dominated the sciences, arts, and myths of our time. How is the definition of human changing? How is life defined, and what are the differences between animal, plant, human and non-human? What are our responsibilities towards our fellow human beings, other life forms, and the planet we inhabit? And what would life be like without us?"
These are some of the questions guiding this edition of the Biennale, whose research focuses in particular on three thematic:
•The representation of bodies and their metamorphoses.
•The relationship between individuals and technologies.
•The ties that intertwine between bodies and the Earth.
The events of recent months have shaped a torn and divided world; the exhibition "Il latte dei sogni" tries to imagine other forms of coexistence and transformation. Thus, despite the climate in which it was born, "Il latte dei sogni" aspires to be an optimistic exhibition, celebrating art and its ability to create alternative cosmologies and new conditions of existence. The exhibition looks at artists not as those who reveal who we are but as those who know how to absorb the anxieties and concerns of these times to show us who and what we can become.
