Personne et les autres
By: Katerina Gregos & Vincent Meessen, eds
Contributors: Biennale di Venezia (56th : 2015 : Venice, Italy)
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Milan]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9788867491360
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Personne et les autres: postface to the scenic unit.
Description: The publication accompanying the Belgian Pavilion at the next Venice Biennale, Personne et les autres borrow its title from a lost play by André Frankin, a Belgian art critic affiliated with the Lettrist and Situationist Internationals. The exhibition takes the history of the Belgian Pavilion and the international context of the Biennale (both derived from the colonial exhibitions and world expositions) as its points of departure. The Belgian Pavilion itself was the first foreign Pavilion to be built in the Giardini in Venice, during the reign of King Leopold II. Meessen's work and artistic research have consistently explored the history and afterlife of colonial modernity.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held within the 56th International Art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, at the Belgian Pavilion, Venice, Italy, May 9-November 22, 2015.

Issued with booklet:  Personne et les autres: postface to the scenic unit (unpaged ; 18 cm).

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in French and English.