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This paper focuses on the role of contemporary art in international relations and world politics. In IR, art is often examined within the framework of cultural diplomacy, country branding, and soft power, or approached as a site of... more
The author excavates the histories of both the Taiwan and Hong Kong Pavilions and their struggle to establish a “national” identity without having official national status within the Venice Biennial. (Yishu: Journal of Chinese... more
This study offers an analysis of the critical reception and exhibition history of Courbet in Italy between 1920 and 1954, the year of the second retrospective dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale. Starting with detailed documentary... more
Squisito al selz è un grande dipinto a olio esposto alla XV Biennale di Venezia del 1926 e oggi disperso. Il suo autore, Fortunato Depero, lo considerava la punta audace della sua ricerca. Non si tratta di uno studio preparatorio per uno... more
Presentation as part of the international conference "Venice Biennial and the Arab World" at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice, October 2017. This paper proposes a study of the international exhibitions of Egyptian painter Inji... more
This anthology on the global biennial phenomenon includes seminal republished texts collected from around the world as well as newly com missioned contributions by the leading scholars, curators, critics, and thinkers of bien nials today.... more
By means of several documents, mostly preserved in the Archives of the Biennale (ASAC), the essay Giovanni Boldini and the French artists’ participation in the first Venice Biennale focus on the role played by the Italian artist Giovanni... more
Art events in the modern world takes place in a number of stages ranging from exhibition centers, trade fairs, vanity galleries, temporal venues or as travelling exhibitions (e.g. Body Worlds, California). Variety in frequency and... more
The paper focuses on the analysis of the 57 Biennale di Venezia and Documenta 14 in Kassel in 2017.
A catalogue article for the work of Sarkis at the Turkey Pavillion, curated by Defne Ayas, at the 2015 Venice Biennial
Kotlomanov A.O. It's boring and pathetic, but it’s art: Venice biennale 2017. Vestnik SPbSU. Arts, 2017, vol. 7, issue 3, pp. 373–377. (In Russian) Котломанов А.О. Это скучно и пафосно, но это искусство: Венецианская биеннале — 2017 //... more
The failure of the American state-building project in Iraq has hit back in the form of the ever-expanding caliphate of the Islamic State, disregarding former colonial boundaries both in the territories of Iraq and Syria, as well as in its... more
The project focuses on the Cooperative Centre – a multipurpose public building most often set in a rural context. In villages, small towns and suburban areas they serve as venues for various administrative, economic, social and cultural... more
Compte rendu de la 56e biennale de Venise publié dans l'Art même, (Bruxelles), n° 66, 3e trimestre 2015, p. 8-10.
Fear and violence in children’s stories. An interpretation of a Greek nursery rhyme with old toys and fairy tales' heroes used as models for the animation
In this presentation, I discussed the presence of women artists from Egypt on the globalised scene from the beginning of the 1950s to the mid-1970s. I observed their inclusion into the Egyptian pavilion at the Biennale of Venice, Sao... more
Nel 1901 Vittorio Pica coniò la definizione di "ossessione nordica" come caratteristica assunta da molta pittura italiana a ridosso delle prime Biennali veneziane. Questo valse soprattutto per i pittori di paesaggio esaminati in questo... more