Georgia Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale Revisits Avant-Garde Book with Contemporary Commissions
At the 2024 Venice Biennale, the Pavilion of Georgia unveiled 'The Art of Seeing — States of Astronomy,' under the curation of Julia Marchand and Davit Koroshinadze, located at Palazzo Palumbo Fossati. This exhibition revolved around Max Ernst's 1964 publication '65 Maximiliana or the Illegal Practice of Astronomy,' which honors astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Tempel. New works were commissioned from Grigol Nodia, Nika Koplatadze, and Juliette George with Rodrigue de Ferluc. George and de Ferluc designed an interactive 'archival cabinet,' while Nodia introduced a video installation named 'In-between,' and Koplatadze displayed sculptural book assemblages. The exhibition resonated with Biennale curator Adriano Pedrosa's theme 'Stranieri ovunque,' emphasizing the immigrant histories of Tempel, Ernst, and Iliazd.
Key facts
- The exhibition 'The Art of Seeing — States of Astronomy' was at the Pavilion of Georgia during the 2024 Venice Biennale.
- It featured the 1964 artist's book '65 Maximiliana or the Illegal Practice of Astronomy' by Max Ernst and Iliazd.
- New commissions included works by Grigol Nodia, Nika Koplatadze, and Juliette George with Rodrigue de Ferluc.
- The show was curated by Julia Marchand in collaboration with Davit Koroshinadze at Palazzo Palumbo Fossati in Venice.
- Ernst Wilhelm Tempel was a 19th-century German astronomer who discovered a planetoid in 1861 named after King Maximilian II of Bavaria.
- Iliazd and Max Ernst's book was published in a limited edition of 65 copies with manual printing and no punctuation.
- Juliette George and Rodrigue de Ferluc created an archival cabinet with 24 drawers to display the book's folios and related documents.
- The exhibition connected to the Biennale's theme 'Stranieri ovunque' through the emigrant stories of Tempel, Ernst, and Iliazd.
Entities
Artists
- Grigol Nodia
- Nika Koplatadze
- Juliette George
- Rodrigue de Ferluc
- Max Ernst
- Iliazd
- Ilia Zdanevich
- Ernst Wilhelm Tempel
- Pablo Picasso
- Alberto Giacometti
- Joan Miró
- Alexandra Timonina
- Julia Marchand
- Davit Koroshinadze
- Adriano Pedrosa
- Johanna Drucker
- Boris Fridman
- George Shioshvili
- Hélène Zdanevich
Institutions
- Pavilion of Georgia
- Venice Biennale
- Palazzo Palumbo Fossati
- Galerie Chave
- Iliazd Archive
- Ca’ Foscari University
- Pinault Collection
- ROST Media
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- ARTMargins Online
- Venice Biennial
Locations
- Venice
- Italy
- San Maurizio
- Georgia
- France
- Germany
- Tbilisi
- St. Petersburg
- Russia
- Paris
- Constantinople
- Turkey
- United States
- Bavaria
- Zurich
- Switzerland
- Moscow
Sources
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