La Biennale of Venice, US Pavilion
Project
Routine maintenance and assistance during fitting out
Location
Venice
Project year
1986-in progress
Client
Private
Surface
315 mq
The US Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello, Venice, dates from 1930 and was designed by Chester Holmes Aldrich and William Adams Delano, who went back to the ‘neo-classical colonial’ style. The pavilion is included in the “Piano Particolareggiato “Giardini della Biennale” del P.R.G.” of Venice, as a listed building based on the Italian law L. 1089/39 and L. 1497/39 (now D. Lgs. 42/2004). The building forms a C around a central courtyard with terracotta paving and has a facade with Doric pronaos and a frieze with stone metopes and triglyphs that run around the entire perimeter. A double dome covers the circular central room and its paving in Venetian terrazzo with a star decoration. The two lateral wings extending symmetrically from this room have two exhibition rooms each, covered by a flat roof with skylights. The main entrance is from the rotunda through the pronaos. Every year the pavilion hosts the exhibitions of art and architecture during the Venice Biennale. The studio takes care of its maintenance, but also takes an active part in the exhibitions, contributing to executive project, providing technical assistance during the fitting out, dealing with the authorization requirements for carrying out the works.
BIENNALE OF VENICE
Dimensions of Citizenship
Commissioners: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Paul Coffey, Jonathan Solomon),The University of Chicago (Bill Brown, Bill Michel)
Curators: Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, Mimi Zeiger
Exhibitors: Amanda Williams + Andres L.Hernandez in collaboration with Shani Crowe;Design Earth; Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Laura Kurgan, Robert Gerard Pietrusko with Columbia Center for Spatial Research; Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman; Keller Easterling with MANY; SCAPE; Studio Gang, Frances Bodomo, Mandana Moghaddam, David Rueter and Marissa Lee Benedict, Mika Rottenberg, Liam Young
Tomorrow is Another Day
Commissioner: Christopher Bedford, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Fine Arts, Brandeis University.
Curators: Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel, Senior Programming and Research Curator, The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibitor: Mark Bradford.
Venue: Giardini and San Polo 2559/A (Fondamenta dei Frari)
The Architectural Imagination.
Commissioner: Monica Ponce de Leon.
Curators: Cynthia Davidson e Monica Ponce de Leon.
Joan Jonas: They come to us without a word.
Presented by: MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Commissioner/Curator: Paul C. Ha, Ute Meta Bauer.
OfficeUS.
Commissioner: Storefront for Art & Architecture.
Co-Organizer: Praxis.
Curators: Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački, Ashley Schafer.
Sara Sze: Triple Point.
Organized by: the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Co-Commissioners: Holly Block, Carey Lovelace.
Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good.
Organized by the Institute for Urban Design, New York.
Commissioner and Curator: Cathy Lang Ho. Co-curator: Ned Cramer.
Co-curator: David van der Leer.
Allora&Calzadilla: Gloria
Organized by: Indianapolis Museum of Art
Commissioner/Curator: Lisa Freiman.
Workshopping. An American Model of Architectural Practice.
Organized by: High Museum of Art, Atlanta / 306090 Inc.
Commissioner/Curators: Michael Rooks, Jonathan D. Solomon.
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens
Organized by:Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Commissioner: Carlos Basualdo, Michael Taylor.
Into The Open: Positioning Practice.
Organized by: Slought Foundation, Parc Foundation
Commissioner: William Menking Curators: William Menking, Aaron Levy, Andrew Sturm.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America
Organized by: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Commissioner: Nancy Spector.
After the Flood Curator: Christian Ditlev Bruun.
Organized by: Architectural Record, New York
Commissioner: Robert Ivy Design by Christian Ditlev Bruun and Jens Holm.
Ed Ruscha. Course of Empire
Project administered by: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Commissioner: Linda Norden, Associate
Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums
Consulting curator: Donna De Salvo.
Transcending Type.
Organized by: Architectural Record, New York Commissioner: Robert Ivy
Consultant Curator: Christian Ditlev Bruun.
Fred Wilson. Speak of Me as I Am
Organized by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Commissioner: Kathleen Goncharov.
World Trade Center. Two Perspectives: The Aftermath & Before.
Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz A New World Trade Center Design Proposals. The Max Protetch Gallery
Organized by: Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Commissioner: Robert Ivy.
Robert Gober
Organized by: The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Commissioners: James Rondeau, Olga Viso.
Lynn/Rashid: ARCHitecture LABoratories with Columbia University and UCLA.
Organized by: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Commissioner: Max Hollein.
Ann Hamilton Myein
Commissioners: Katy Kline, Helaine Posner.
Robert Colescott. Recent Works
Organized by: Site Santa Fe, New Mexico
Commissioner: Miriam Roberts.
Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture.
Organized by: Disney Imagineering, and The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Commissioner: Thomas Krens.
Bill Viola. Buried Secrets.
Organized by: Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Commissioner: Marilyn Zeitlin.
Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work.
Organized by: The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Commissioner: Charlotta Kotik.
Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry.
Organized by: The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Commissioner: Philip Johnson.
Jenny Holzer. The Venice Installation.
Organized by: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Commissioner: Michael Auping.
Jasper Johns. Work since 1974
Organized by: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Commissioner: Mark Rosenthal.
Isamu Noguchi. What is Sculpture?
Organized by: P.S.1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., Long Island City, New York
Commissioner: Henry Geldzahler.