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On the keynote of La contemporaneità dell’arte (The contemporary in art), the 12th International Sculpture Biennial of Carrara runs from Saturday 29 July until 24 September 2006.
This year’s edition, entrusted to the critical curatorship of Bruno Corà, with the assistance of a Scientific Committee that includes academics and experts in the plastic arts, will feature an array of events designed to give a complete overview of the specific sphere of sculpture, extending well beyond the traditional historical breakdowns and the diversities of aesthetic concept that characterise the major artistic currents.
The artistic director has brought together the works of approximately a hundred artists from different countries and different historical periods, to emphasise how, beyond the epoch and origins of the artists, and also beyond the quality of the materials and the techniques utilised – all significant factors to be taken into consideration – what nevertheless determines the singularity of the plastic expressions has to be ascribed to the concept of space and the linguistic significance highlighted by each artist in his work. From this perspective, the entire 12th edition of the Biennial features the presence of works and artists which contribute to illustrate the diverse aspects of the plastic discipline from a super-temporal viewpoint.
This edition “ una Biennale per il Museo” – “ A Biennial for the Museum” – becomes the event in the event, also launching the opening of the new Sculpture Museum of Carrara (former Convent of San Francesco).The exhibition is articulated in three other section: Works from the Workshops in Piazza San Francesco, Pre-dictions, in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, and “Pietro Tacca – an artist, a story, a city”, which will open in April 2007.

» THE CONTEMPORARY IN ART by Bruno Corà

» Artists (click here for more detailed information)

Giovanni Anselmo, Autori Vari, Marco Bagnoli, Stephan Balkenhol, Bìzhan Bassiri, Bernd e Hilla Becher, Joseph euys, Alighiero Boetti, Stefano Bonacci, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paolo Canevari, Gianni Caravaggio, Enrico Castellani, Loris Cecchini, Giuseppe Chiari, Dai Hyun Choung, Gino De Dominicis, Jan Dibbets, Diego Esposito, Luciano Fabro, Andrea Fogli, Lucio Fontana, Pietro Fortuna, Marco Gastini, Antonio Gatto, Gilbert & George, Eugenio Giliberti, Antony Gormley, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Abel Herrero, Paolo Icaro, Karpüseeler, Jannis Kounellis, Wolfgang Laib, Christiane Löhr, Richard Long, Francesco Lo Savio, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Matta Clark, Eliseo Mattiacci, Vittoria Mazzoni, Fernando Melani, Fausto Melotti, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Vittorio Messina, Diego Morandini, Klaus Münch, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Nunzio, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Nakis Panayotidis, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Pino Pascali, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jaume Plensa, Luisa Protti, Renato Ranaldi, Giovanni Rizzoli, Chris Sacker, Remo Salvadori, Shigeru Saito, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Ettore Spalletti, Mauro Staccioli, Grazia Toderi, Stefano Tondo, James Turrell, Giuseppe Uncini, Franz West, Eduard Winklhofer, Peter Wüthrich, Yang
Jian Ping, Gilberto Zorio.

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» Workshops (click here for more detailed information)

» PRE-DICTIONS: THE PLASTICITY OF BEING
by Alessandro Romanini

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