My Art Week: Highlights and News from the Art WorldLa Biennale di Venezia - Belgrade Biennial - Trafalgar Square - Scicli Sicily

 

My Art Week: Highlights and News from the Art World La Biennale di Venezia awards Golden Lions to Calvesi, Celant, Enwezor, and Gregotti The President of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto stated: “La Biennale di Venezia’s international standing must also be credited to the work and the originality of its artistic directors, who have marked some of the most significant changes in contemporary culture. Portrait of Okwui Enwezor

Petrit Halilaj withdraws from Belgrade Biennial as it fails to recognise his nationality The Kosovar artist has written an open letter outlining his experience with the 58th October Salon: Belgrade Biennial. Petrit-Halilaj, photo by Enver Bylykbashi

Heather Phillipson’s latest work “The End” has finally been unveiled on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth “It is a strange time to be doing anything right now. But it also felt like it was never going to be the right time, so maybe it was the right time to just let it happen.” Phillipson on her mixed emotions about unveiling "The End"  The statue “The End" by Heather Phillipson which was unveiled in Trafalgar Square in London on Thursday.

“Ex Machina” set to transform the Sicilian city of Scicli into a living theatre of contemporary art. The project highlights the current need to emerge from the mechanics and automatism that distinguishes our society and instead aims to think about ways that technological and scientific developments can be used as a means for the awareness of the complexity of the present.