Ben Davis, Artnet News's National Art Critic, reviews the 2022 Venice Biennale, looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the this major survey.
of the all-important international art show, was named in early 2020, just as the pandemic was set to hit Italy.
Telescope pointed at the Central Pavilion as part of a work by Cosima von Bonin for “The Milk of Dreams.” Photo by Ben Davis. Okoyomon’s room feels like it holds the spirit of the mysteries of the Leigh/Ayón room and the anxieties of the Kruger room together, in suspension. You pass from a sense of rooting in tradition and the past, to confronting a charged present, to a future that could go either way.Over at the Central Pavilion space, things feel a bit less clear-cut as a narrative .
Neo-Surrealist painting is everywhere throughout the show, in lovely and engaging forms. Louise Bonnet’sis a gas; Jana Euler’s strange trick painting of an unravelling face is as odd as any painting I’ve seen recently.There’s also quite a bit of sculpture with an edgy mythological presence. Ali Cherri’s earthen beasts have an elemental power, as do Hannah Levy’s menacing, spidery constructions. Myths and monsters recur again and again.
In one mini-show dedicated to the metaphor of the container or vessel, there are non-functional ceramic vase-sculptures paired with tiny medical models of the womb . In another mini-show about body augmentation, facial prosthetics for victims of war dialogue with far-out Martian-themed costume sketches .“Corps Orbite” is the name of a room in the Central Pavilion that includes displays of concrete poetry, but also Ouija board drawings and hoax seance photos.
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