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An essential guide to the 57th edition of the event that has the whole art world talking, featuring new work by Mark Bradford and an exhibition curated by trolls
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The Icelandic Art Center unveiled the Icelandic Pavilion — “Out of Controll in Venice” — for the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Ve
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The most important global art event of the year is upon us, as thousands descend upon the slowly submerging islands in the Venetian Lagoon to view the microcosm of the art world that is the 57th Venice Biennale. In keeping with the theme of the exhibition by this year’s curator, Christine Macel, Viva Arte Viva, in which she “orientate[s] the Biennale toward the art and the artists,” we are looking at the most sensational National Pavilions through the artists whose art will activate them.
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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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Looted art and ancient works from Iraq that have never been exhibited outside that country will appear in its pavilion at the Venice Biennale this yea
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As we slough off the year 2016, all that remains is hope for the new year ahead. Luckily for art lovers, there are myriad art events to look forward to in the coming months, from new museums opening around the world, to blockbuster solo exhibitions at major museums, to must-see biennials. Here are 17 of them to mark on your calendar.
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This week, it’s Berlin’s turn to do a pirouette across the global art world stage. Until 18 September, commercial galleries, institutes, and non-profit art spaces will put on their best-in-show, giving the outside world a projection of what art is selling, but also, what kind of ideas are mobilizing local artists, curators, and audiences now. So what does the city’s art week say about them this year?
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Artist Egill Sæbjörnsson has been selected to represent Iceland at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, the pavilion will be curated by Stefanie Böttcher
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Israel and Iceland have both announced their plans for their 2017 Venice Biennale pavilions this week.
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Egill Sæbjörnsson (b. 1973) studied at the Icelandic College of Arts and the University of Paris, St. Denis.
All artworks are descriptions or drawings/photographs of something in the world. Simultaneously they are a new independent part of the world, an extension. Sæbjörnsson sees art, culture and nature as inseparable phenomenons and deals with the connection of humans with their environment. Recently he has focused on the relationship between evolution and creativity, seeing creativity as an essential/ unavoidable part of life. By looking far a back, like 35.000 years we can see art in a different light, as something more spiritual and essential to human nature rather than human “culture”. Artistic, spiritual, mental, scientific behaviour is a tool that creatures (not only humans) use in their search for answers and to deal with a world that carries already the art, the spirit, and the science in itself. Sæbjörnsson sees art as something not only belonging to humans but to all living and non living forms of existence. He sees it as an essence.
Sæbjörnsson is most known for his video installations and performance/music based activities. Recent events and exhibitions have taken place in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, The Watermill Center New York, HOPSTREET Gallery in Brussels, i8 Gallery Reykjavik, Johann König Berlin and Reykjavik Art Museum. Sæbjörnsson was nominated for Carnegy Art Awards in 2010. ARTE made a 26 minute long portrait on him in 2009 and a substanable book about his work came out on Argobooks in 2010. He is a fellow at International Artist Program at Villa Concordia in Bawaria in 2011 and in the summer of 2011 he was invited by Robert Wilson and Lisa de Kooning to create an in-situ installation at the Long Island Studio of Willem de Kooning.
Sæbjörnsson to represent Iceland at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
