Closing Reception: Mare Nostrum, 23 Nov 2019 — 23 Nov 2019
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Closing Reception: Mare Nostrum

The closing event of the exhibition "Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum" one of the official collateral exhibitions of the Venice Art Biennale 2019.

Fondamenta Cannaregio (Cannaregio) 910, 30121 Venice

The closing celebration of the exhibition “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum” a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, with an evening of programming. The exhibition, curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo, brings together 73 international artists who reflect on the urgencies related to global changes (climate and beyond) taking the Mediterranean as a starting point, an ecosystem of great fragility and around which a heated public debate unfolds.

4:30 pm – Artist Paolo Canevari performs “Ora pro nobis” inside the church;

5 pm – Viol quartet Parthenia performs an hour of early music for the viola da gamba by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 –1543), Philippe Verdelot (c. 1470 –1542), Andrea Gabrieli (1542 –1585), and Nicolò Corradini (1585-1646) among others, as well as a contemporary composition by Lucille M. Jones (b. 1955) addressing the urgency of the environmental crisis based on data about Earth’s global warming and climate change;

6.15 pm – Cooking performance by Sarah Sze, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Tomas Vu in the courtyard, and reception.

Contacts & Details

VENUE:
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti

OPENING TIMES:
November 23, 2019 4-8 pm


ADDRESS
Fondamenta Cannaregio (Cannaregio) 910, 30121 Venice
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