THE SALON OF EVERYTHING
This year the 55th Venice Biennale featured many of the self-taught artists historically exhibited by The Museum of Everything.
As the only organisation of its kind officially invited to participate, The Museum of Everything assembled some of the world's leading artists, curators and writers for The Salon of Everything: a free-form philosophical forum on private art-making practices and visual culture today.
For a short taste of their radical chit-chat, click here or press play below. To watch these enlightening conversations in full, please visit www.salonevery.com
THE SALON OF EVERYTHING: TRAILER
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THE SALON OF EVERYTHING
28th May to 12th June 2013
The Salon of Everything featured some of the art world's most articulate and opinionated voices, assembled and recorded during the opening weeks of the 55th Venice Biennale in a cosy caravan parked at Il Palazzo di EVERYTHING in the historic the Serra dei Giardini in Venice.
Over two dozen conversations were filmed in conjunction with the BBC to form an important historical archive. Together they suggest that the aesthetic languages, creative monologues and manifestations of otherness commonly segregated as being outside the art historical canon, should perhaps be re-considered as a vital missing link and cornerstone of contemporary art.
Participants in this theoretical revolution included gallerists Adam Lindemann, Andrew Edlin and Jose Kuri, museum directors Ginevra Elkann, Jonathan Watkins, Sarah Lombardi, Andrea Bellini, Beatrix Ruf and Joelle Pijaudier Cabot, and curators Donna De Salvo, Francesco Stocchi, Brett Littman, Daniel Baumann, Peter Miller, Ralph Rugoff, Marc Olivier Wahler, Bianca Tosatti, Valerie Rousseau, Natalie Kovacs, Paulo Colombo, Jean Hubert Martin and Iris Muller-Westermann.
The salon also welcomed writers Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, artists Akram Zaatari, Thomas Houseago, Ron Arad, Enrico David, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Terry Smith, Christof Mascher, Alice Anderson, Vito Acconci, Luigi Ontani and Peter Fischli, collectors Jean Pigozzi and Monty Blanchard, psychiatrist Professor Vittorino Andreoli, biennale directors Fulya Erdemci, Shwetal Patel and Bose Krishnamachari, educators Kathy Battista and Professor Andrew Renton, filmmakers Camille Henrot and Lola Montes Schnabel, art historian Jean Wainwright, designer Angela Missoni and Terezie Zemankova, whose grandmother's work was celebrated in the main exhibition.
All conversations at The Salon of Everything were filmed, transcribed and will eventually be available online on this site and for research purposes. For more information, please email salonevery@gmail.com or click here.
The Salon of Everything was kindly sponsored by Masha B and Groupe Emerige together with Microclima and The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show.
| WHAT | Il Palazzo di Everything featuring Carlo Zinelli and The Salon of Everything |
| WHEN | The Salon of Everything is now closed. Please email salonevery@gmail.com to get involved. |
| WHERE | Serra dei Giardini (The Greenhouse) Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1254 Castello 30122, Venice |
| HOW | next to the entrance of the Giardini map: http://goo.gl/maps/qXoSq vaporetto: Giardini |
| WHY | Official Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennale |
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