La Biennale di Venezia – författare

The second issue of the reborn magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, titled The Shape of Chaos, is dedicated entirely to the theme of the Archive. This new monographic issue again opens a dialogue among the disciplines intrinsic to La Biennale di Venezia (art, architecture, cinema, dance, music, theatre) as well as fashion, science, poetry, literature, anthropology.“Looking through the summary of the second issue of La Biennale di Venezia Magazine published in October 1950 – explains Debora Rossi – it is surprising to encounter the same critical spirit and interdisciplinary research The Magazine – continues Rossi – is reborn today with the same spirit and nature that has characterised it since its very first edition, guided by one essential keyword, ‘research’, a term that recurs in the constituting law of La Biennale. It represents a space for reflection and discussion on today, always with a view to better understanding and imagining the future”.“This printed magazine – writes director Luigi Mascheroni in his editorial – thus becomes a record of papers. And of ideas, documents, memories, and collections. The archive is humanity’s hope (or illusion?) to create order and give shape to chaos, generating knowledge.”The contributions in issue 1/25 are by Adonis, Matteo Al Kalak, Eleonora Barbieri, William Basinski, Cesare Bisantis, Boris Behncke, Sue Black, Irene Boyer, Silvia Calandrelli, Edoardo Camurri, Mircea Cărtărescu, Maud Ceriotti Giaccari, Roberto Cicutto, Giuseppe Conte, Maria Cristiana Costanzo, Pablo Delano, Okwui Enwezor, Marta Franceschini, Alessandra Iadicicco, Gianfranco Linzi, Luigi Mascheroni, Giulio Maira, Alberto Manguel, Pablo Maurette, Damiano Michieletto, Paolo Nori, Federico Pontiggia, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Carlo Ratti, Amerigo Restucci, Bruno Ruffilli, Debora Rossi, Wang Shu e Lu Wenyu, Gian Antonio Stella.The cover is illustrated with a photograph of Archèus. Labirinto Mozart, an immersive installation by Ophicina and Damiano Michieletto. The issue is illustrated with photographic images from the Biennale Archive, the Archivio Luciano e Maud Giaccari, Bergman Center Foundation, Getty Images, Warburg Institute. It also contains photographs by Iwan Baan, Giacomo Bianco, Antonio Biasucci, Frankie Casillo, Giacomo Doni, Thierry Du Bois, Charles Fréger, Mary Gelman, Roberto Marossi, Domingo Milella, Alessandro Scotti, Giovanna Silva, Dayanita Sing, Gerald Ulmann.The graphic design and layout is by Studio Tomo Tomo, Milan.Text in English and Italian.

Things to Come is the title of issue number 2/2025 of the historic Magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, brought back to life after 53 years of editorial silence.Each issue contains original and exclusive articles, testimonies, interviews, dialogues and contributions by artists, scholars and leading Italian and international figures in culture and civil society. The magazine is characterised by the multiplicity of languages and freedom of expression it cultivates, allowing ample space for experimentation in graphic design and a cross-fertilisation between different forms and codes.Conceived and produced exclusively in print, the magazine features a significant iconographic apparatus that draws largely from the Historical Archive of La Biennale and from national and international photographic research. Published quarterly, each issue will be monographic in focus, establishing a dialogue between the disciplines that distinguish La Biennale di Venezia – visual arts, architecture, dance, music, theatre, cinema – while also venturing into the realms of science and literature.The cover is illustrated with a work by Mino Maccari: it is the image of a stage panel portraying a face and its reflections for the final parade in the opera “The Comedy on the Bridge” by Bohuslav Martinů at the 1951 Biennale Musica (tempera on plywood).The contributions in issue 2/25 are by Christine Macel, Germaine Acogny, Roberto Cremascoli, Gianni Forte, Mazen Khaled, Luigi Gallo, Luca Francesconi, Antonio Marras, Darco Pellos e Wael Shawky, Josep Oriol Esteve, Claudio Magris, Robert Jan van Pelt, Mizue Hasegawa, Annarita Colombo, Jon Padfield, Javier Cercas, Gohar Dashti, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Anita Likmeta, Valentina Tanni, Silvano Tagliagambe, Felix Azhimov, Giovanni Caprara, Cinzia Zuffada, Pier Luigi Sacco, Matt Leacock, Krystian Lupa, Stefania Vitulli, Alexander Sokurov, Denis Brotto, Mark Salvatus. The issue is illustrated with photographic images from: Biennale Archive; Fototeca Cinema; Sfeir-Semler Gallery; Lisson Gallery; Lia Rumma; Barakat Contemporary; Museo Nacional del Prado; Scala, Firenze; New Picture Library; Summerfield Press; Carlo Valsecchi; Collezione Maramotti; Elvert Bañares; National Commission for Culture and the Arts NCCA – Philippine Arts in Venice PAVB. Sono presenti, inoltre, le fotografie di Stefano Graziani, Junpei Katayama e Jon Padfield, Carlo Valsecchi, Gohar Dashti, Luca Capuano, Lorenzo Pesce, Gabrielle Traversat, Toni Fabris, Joan Fontcuberta, Jason Larkin, Masahisa Fukase.The graphic design and layout is by Studio Tomo Tomo, Milan.Text in English and Italian.