57th Venice Bienniale
It seems like a lifetime ago that Okwui Enwezor gave his dark, poetic, haunting and urgent vision of “All the World’s Futures,” in the 2015 Venice Bienniale. The 57th art exhibition is curated by Christine Marcel, Chief Curator at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris. This year’s theme “Viva Arte Viva”, is an exclamation and expression of the passion for art and for the state of the artist. A bienniale that deals with the forms they propose, the questions they pose, the practices they develop and the forms of life they choose. In a statement explaining the choice of title, Marcel writes, “In a world full of conflicts and jolts, in which humanism is being seriously jeopardized, art is the most precious part of the human being.” Now the world’s concerns are unfold over the course of nine “transpavilions” with titles that refer to a contemporary interest: