Melissa McGill created an unprecedented public art work in the form of a regatta with 52 traditional sailboats in Venice’s waterways between May and September 2019, presented in parallel with the 58th Venice Biennale. We interviewed the artist, the curator Chiara Spangaro and project manager Marcella Ferrari ahead of the celebratory sail in the lagoon on Sunday for the release of the volume Red Regatta by Melissa McGill in collaboration with Associazione Vela al Terzo Venezia and in advance of the exhibition Melissa McGill: In Venice at Mazzoleni in London, to open next week.

Title and theme of the 59th Venice International Art Exhibition announced today. The biennale will run April 23 – November 27, 2021, (pre-opening on 20, 21, 22 April) in the Giardini, at the Arsenale, and at various sites around Venice.

Inspired by the works of Carla Lonzi, Io dico Io - I say I arises from the need to speak, and speak in the first person, to affirm one's own subjectivity, composing a single multitude, a multiplicity of selves that resonate with consonances and dissonances.
An interview with curators Lara Conte, Paola Ugolini and Cecilia Canziani.