The Italian Pavilion at next year’s 57th Venice Biennale, due to open on 13 May 2017 until 26 November 2017, will show the work of three artists who were born in Italy between the mid-1970s and 80s: Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey and Giorgio Andreotta Calò. This is a distinct paring down from recent past editions of the event, which showed 15 artists and duos in 2015 and 14 in 2013.
“I’ve chosen to invite fewer artists than in the past in order to align the Italian Pavilion with the other national pavilions at the Biennale,” the exhibition's curator Cecilia Alemani, who also the chief curator and director of the High Line park’s contemporary public art programme, said in a statement. She added that the presentation “is not meant to provide a full overview of Italian art: instead, it will provide an in-depth look at the work of three unique voices that have come to the fore in recent years, giving them the space, time, and resources to develop an ambitious large-scale project that will mark a milestone in their career, and give visitors the opportunity to explore their minds and universes”. Further details on the pavilion will be released in early 2017.
