MILAN – Born in 1895, the Venice Biennale is still considered today as one of the most prestigious and well-known cultural institutions in the world. The Biennale organizes exhibition and research activities in all its sectors such as Art, Cinema, Architecture, Music, Dance and Theater, precisely to be at the forefront of research and promotion of new contemporary artistic trends. For this edition some of the most famous contemporary artists will be on display with their works until November 26 at the Giardini Arsenale. Let’s get to know them better. Riccardo Guarneri
Riccardo Guarneri is a Tuscan painter, who began to paint in 1953 at the same time as his musical activity. His first artistic research leads to the creation of very clear paintings in which the space is marked by luminous variations and with surfaces treated mainly in pencil. Years later, his pictorial research has managed to reconcile formal rigor and expressive freedom, coming to be considered by critics as one of the precursors of analytical painting. Sometimes spots of color appear on his canvases created using the aquarelli technique experimented since the 1980s, or graphic signs as a kind of illegible writing. Giorgio Griffa
This is the third participation in the Venice Biennale for the Turin artist Giorgio Griffa. Considered as one of the major protagonists of abstract art and as one of the most creative exponents of “analytical painting”. It was in 1968 that Griffa laid the foundations of his pictorial language by elaborating his particular working method. The raw canvas of jute, hemp, cotton or linen and without frame, is placed on the floor to absorb the color, that is, colors diluted with water, that is acrylic, tempera and watercolors. The canvas must be worked flat, spread on the floor, to prevent the very fluid color from dripping downwards. The absence of the frame allows the artist to walk freely on the different fabrics, often of large dimensions. Irma Blank
Irma Blank is an artist born in Germany who uses writing with the aim of recovering the primordial symbols and signs of communication. Her conceptual art manages to find fertile ground in the seventies, in which Blank can carry out the artistic experimentation of the autonomous sign. The artist creates an open language, in which the typographical settings of real books are copied, but the pages are filled with signs that have no linguistic meaning. In the nineties, however, she devoted herself to abstraction in which pastels, ink and china are replaced with acrylic colors and oils. Daniele Bongiovanni
Daniele Bongiovanni is a young academic painter and illustrator born in Palermo. This year he returned to the Biennale with the exhibition “Natura con Deus” through a realistic and at the same time light pictorial solution. The artist will try to enhance the objective beauty of nature, with the clear ambition of overcoming those superficial canons dictated by modernity. Patrizia Taddei
Patrizia Taddei is a San Marino artist who proposes a figurative painting carried out in a symbolic-narrative key, where she is the protagonist and the human figure. At the center of her contemplation are the themes of creation, earthly life and the contrast between good and evil. You love to combine those suggestions that come from the mythological and religious tradition. Franca Pisani
Franca Pisani’s artistic career began when she began attending the studio of the painter Alessio Sozzi. She is the artist and protagonist of the exhibition entitled “Everybody admires Palmyra’s greatness”. The choice of setting up an exhibition at one of the most famous archaeological sites in the Middle East joins the desire to pay homage to her undisputed glory in the past.The theme of the exhibition is the evolution and comparison of Syrian and international artists such as Franca Pisani. The change in the artistic and contemporary world is related to the comparison of diversity to discover that art is beyond barriers and frontiers. Kiki Smith
Kiki, daughter of the sculptor Tony Smith, is on display at the Biennale with an exhibition of life-size figures on a precious Nepalese paper. The images draw from mythological heritage or from legends and fantastic tales, evoking archetypes of femininity such as the mother goddess. Figures that belong simultaneously to the feelings of fear and joy, often inseparable. Takesada Matsutani
The Japanese artist with his subtle, poetic and universal art combines the spiritual questions relating to space and time. The tools with which the artist works are glue and graphite pencil. Starting from the size of the canvas or paper, the artist creates reliefs of vinyl glue that leave a part to chance. The repetitive rhythm of the passage of the pencil or brush is interrupted by the bulges produced by the glue.

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