54th Venice Biennale: ILLUMInationsArsenale, Venice, Italy
Past gallery exhibitions exhibition
Overview
Installation view, Melanie Smith: Red Square Impossible Pink, 54th Venice Biennale, Mexican Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 2011
Melanie Smith: Red Square Impossible Pink is an exploration on the frame as the aesthetic and political limit of representation in art. In Melanie Smith’s work the pictorial question on the frame as a limit has driven large part of her artistic research. By questioning the aesthetic and artistic practices of modernity - particularly the relationship between abstraction and utopia in Suprematism - this project works on the displacements and variations this utopia has produced in Latin American geo-esthetical emplacements. Thus, Smith tackles the issue of the transformation of utopias as artistic projections into heterotopias as productions of social and political experience in Latin America.
Curator: José Luis Barrios Lara
Installation Views
Installation view, Melanie Smith: Red Square Impossible Pink, 54th Venice Biennale, Mexican Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 2011
