VENICE 2022 – Artforum International
IT’S NO EXAGGERATION to say that the 127-year-old Venice Biennale is the usual in opposition to which each main worldwide artwork exhibition is judged. So when the fifty-ninth version lastly arrived in April, its opening delayed a 12 months by Covid-19, all eyes turned to the traditional Metropolis of Masks to see what sort of future the pandemic would possibly engender.
Curator Cecilia Alemani’s “The Milk of Desires,” the occasion’s polestar, forcefully but subtly engages canonical prejudices. Within the pages that observe, Artforum affiliate editor CHLOE WYMA and contributing editor DANIEL BIRNBAUM reckon with Alemani’s phantasmagoric present, whereas artist KEN OKIISHI displays on one other of town’s touchstones: Udo Kittelmann and Taryn Simon’s coyly cerebral “Human Brains: It Begins with an Thought” on the Fondazione Prada’s Venetian headquarters.
The Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale and “Human Brains: It Begins with an Thought” are on view by means of November 27.
