13/6/2001
3 conceptual performances
Il Ghetto Nuovo, Venezia
Angel Orensanz, Spain's leading conceptual artist who is participating in the current Venice Biennale, will enact three performances in public in Venice on June 14, 2001. Unrehearsed and unscripted, the three performances will be taped for a forthcoming documentary on Orensanz that will be aired on public television in the USA next year. Orensanz's theme, The Three Ages of Man, represents the artist's response to the Biennale's chosen theme, Plateau of Humankind.
Angel Orensanz, Spain's leading conceptual artist who is participating in the current Venice Biennale, will enact three performances in public in Venice on June 14, 2001.
Unrehearsed and unscripted, the three performances will be taped for a forthcoming documentary on Orensanz that will be aired on public television in the USA next year.
Orensanz's theme, The Three Ages of Man, represents the artist's response to the Biennale's chosen theme, Plateau of Humankind.
Press and public are invited to witness the performances in at the following locations and times.
Each performance is expected to last 30 minutes.
Transportation by watertaxi will be provided for press and critics who preregister (see below).
Spanish-born and New York-based artist Angel Orensanz is known internationally for his conceptual installations on the themes of world peace.
In recent years his works have been constructed at sites all over the world, including the United Nations, Cologne, the Florence Biennale '99, Madrid, Paris, Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome. A personal exhibition of his Drawings 1991-2000 is currently on view at the Palazzo Ducale in Pavullo (Modena).
June 14, 2001
9:30 The Ghetto Nuovo
12:00 Piazza San Marco
14:00 Via Garibaldi, entrance to the Gardens of the Biennale
For further information:
Davide Scarabelli, Director Palazzo Ducale di Pavullo
tel 0536 20675 fax 0536 20741
email davsca@cimone.it