What to see in Venice

Until September 25, the Piazza San Marco Gallery in Venice presents the first Italian exhibition by the Xijing Collective, formed by artists Shaoxiong Chen (China), Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Japan) and Gimhongsok (Korea). The group is representative of Asia and has an emerging art project together for five years.

The exhibition, curated by Beatrice Leanza, is part of the residency program for artists that takes place in the atelier of the BLM. In addition, Davide Quadrio, Ayas Define and Rosella Mengazzo assist in the curatorial work.

Shaoxiong Chen was born in Santo, Guangdong Province, China in 1962. Chen is one of the best-known conceptual artists from China. He studied in the printing department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and the Normal School of Art, Guangdong.

In his work Chen plays with perception of the images reflected in photography and video. The intention of this work is to provoke the viewer to look beyond what the eye sees in front of him. Chen´s life and human existence is composed of thousands of looks that are repeated and altered at a time, so no image can be seen in the same way twice. This conceptual view is the one he develops in his videos.

Tsuyoshi Ozawa was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1965. Through his work, he goes into the political and social problems facing humanity today. His concern is placed on diversity in nature despoiled by man and in the wars; hence he uses organic materials in his works which he prepares a meal with and takes pictures with the spectators tasting some of the work.

Ozawa uses interactive spaces where he can work with the viewers of his pieces to start a debate about topics such as war, injustice etc. Among others places, his work has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, the Biennale in Venice in 2003 and the Biennale in Istanbul in the same year.

Gimhongsok ist a Korean conceptual artist who works with installations, videos, performances, painting and sculpture. He has an interesting relationship to communication. He works with different materials, electronic devices, synthetic materials, with those he creates his interesting architectural structures. The satire in his look on things is directed at the forms of communication within a society that looks at the world through the media.

These 3 artists go on a fictional journey of their works and the limits of the Xijing cartography, a place in China, and play with the symbolic meaning and power of the conjunction of their works.

If you would like to find out more about art from Asia today you should visit this fantastic exhibition.

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Nancy Guzman

So if you happen to go on vacation staying in apartments in Venice come to the Galería Piazza San Marco and enjoy an excellent exhibition.

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Until the 25^th of June, we will be able to attend the Venice Dance Biennial. Among its notable activities is the Arsenale della Danza, which will present its shows at theater Piccolo Arsenale and theater Calibran.

The Dance Biennial is one of the activities taking place within the framework of the Venice Biennale, and it is meant to blend plasticity, creation and music together to represent it through dance performances. The Arsenale della Danza was created to enhance dance performances at Biennale. It is a laboratory, which brings together world-class choreographers, young dancers and artists from many disciplines to create performances of great aesthetic value.

Despite the economic crisis, which has reduced the biennial budget in recent years, the Arsenale laboratory has strengthened and become a professional school for young dancers from around the world. During five weeks, these young dancers receive and share their knowledge and experiences with internationally recognized teachers. Nowadays, the school reaches a capacity of 25 students from all over the world.

The poetic metaphor and aesthetics of Arsenale della Danza is based on the need to generate new proposals inspired on diversity. To meet this objective, experiences from different worlds and backgrounds are brought together, while integrating new concepts, which go hand in hand with art in its entirety. Among these manifestations, we find dance performances, which deconstruct movements and sounds interpreting shows without trial or motion planning, where the concept is freedom of creation.

In this poetic metaphor, Arsenale has developed an active collaboration with children from the Brazilian favelas, who make interesting dance workshops to enhance skills that will serve as tools for life. Along with these workshops, they carried out activities to rescue the lost values of their communities.

The artistic director of the Biennale and Arsenale, Ismael Ivo, is one of the creative minds of this great proposal. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, his modernist project integrates dance and theater, as a synthesis of his long artistic experience, which has led to interesting changes in the dance that are applied and refined in the laboratory of Arsenale.

The Biennale of Dance will close with a flourish, the program will include first-line shows created by well-known choreographers, who are considered the most important in the dance scene: Ismael Ivo, the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Xavier Le Roy, Michele Di Stefano and Lia Rodrigues among others. We will also have the opportunity to appreciate the presentation of Brilliant Corners by Emanuel Gat, which will be presented for the first on the last night of the Biennale.

For more information www.labiennale.org/it/danza/

Nancy Guzman

Venice is a wonderful place to live during the summer, so if you are on vacation in apartments in Venice you must come to the theaters Piccolo and Calibran to outstanding dance performances at Arsenale della Danza.

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