Frontiers Reimagined: Art That Connects Us - Venice Art Biennale 2015
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10644328
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Venice
- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output consisting of an exhibition, an edited book and a chapter in a book
- Open access status
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- Month
- May
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This exhibition is presented as a MULTI-COMPONENT output supported by contextual information on USB and a book (hard copy which can be requested from the REF archive).
Presented as an official collateral event of the Venice Art Biennale in 2015, it is underpinned by 30 years of scholarly and curatorial collaboration between Marius Kwint and Sundaram Tagore, a fellow art historian, film-maker and founder-director of commercial galleries New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Venice Art Biennale is the world’s premier contemporary art event and comprises approximately 90 national pavilions /exhibitions, with a further 44 official collateral shows of grouped and solo artists in 2015, with many more fringe exhibitions and events around the city.
Frontiers Reimagined, which was visited by 25,000 people, brought together the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Venetian State Museums Authority and the Venice Biennale for the first time. Kwint’s role in this exhibition included concept development, sourcing artists and commissioning new works, obtaining grant funding, writing the rationale for the 85-page Biennale application document, key exhibition panels, and one of the underpinning essays in his co-edited 120-page catalogue. He also gave supporting lectures and talks.
Frontiers Reimagined featured 44 artists from 25 countries worldwide, who responded creatively to technological modernization, environmental crisis and other elements of globalization. The theme proposed the artistic imagination as a model of hopeful problem-solving, as a counterpoint to models of the collective imagination as an instrument of divisive nationalism. Artists ranged from emerging talents such as the Haitian-Swiss activist artist Sasha Huber and Iranian abstract calligrapher Golnaz Fathi, to eminent figures such as Nigerian painter Osi Audu and international stars including Bulgarian environmental artist Christo, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and the late American neo-Dadaist Robert Rauschenberg. Seventeen new works were specially commissioned for the exhibition.
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- Non-English
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