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Abbazia di San Gregorio, Dorsoduro 172, 30123 Venice
Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Cannaregio 4392, 30121 Venice
Over 100 artists, both Asian and non-, offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of a new aesthetic paradigm currently proliferating from Asia to the rest of the world. Crossing genres and disciplines as they appropriate the digital culture of the 21st century, artists working in this eclectic new aesthetic are generating new types of relationships to the globalizing world, offering us all a possible Pass to the Future.
Future Pass explores the relationship between the creative energy of contemporary art in Asia and the rest of the world. The exhibition responds to the general theme of the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, presenting not only an artistic "nation" that transcends national boundaries, but also a new artistic universe centered in Asia.
Curated from an Asian perspective, this exhibition brings attention to different values that can be recognized in contemporary art. The installation of the show privileges a kaleidoscopic vision that breaks away from the typical "white box" of the museum. This all-over visual experience speaks directly to the viewing habits of our digital age, especially our relationship to the computer screen.
Future Pass has been structured around a series of dichotomous pairs, beginning with the dyad that lies at the very root of ancient Chinese philosophy - the concept of "yin" and "yang," the idea that opposites complement each other. Yin and yang, male and female, lightness and darkness are interdependent; they have a shared origin. One cannot exist without the other, and each can transform into its opposite. The same law applies to the other concepts around which Future Pass is organized: East/West, Past/Future, Yin/Yang, Universal/Individual (all exhibited at the Abbazia di San Gregorio), Virtual/Real and Cosplay (exhibited at the Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana). While these concepts may seem dichotomous, they are brought to resolution in each work of art on display. Future Pass is a meeting of different cultures, ages and personalities. Cosmopolitan Venice, historically an empire of travellers, is the perfect site for it.
In its two venues, the exhibition brings together 106 artists and artistic groups from every corner of the world - some already well known, others up and coming. Their works employ a variety of media - from painting, interactive installation, animation and video to sculpture, live performance and body art -, defying any attempt to classify them.
Future Pass also involves a dynamic confrontation with the past. These contemporary artworks interact with, and sometimes almost seamlessly blend into, the historic buildings in which they are installed - the 14th-century Abbazia di San Gregorio and the 18th-century Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, which serve as the headquarters of the Fondazione Claudio Buziol -, offering new possibilities of interpretation for both the past and the future.
On the evening of the opening there will be an event dedicated to cosplay, hosted by the senior Italian cosplayer Giorgia Vecchini. This combination of costume and play seeks to blend the virtual with the real, the imaginary personae created in the worlds of computer games and anime with the physical world of the here and now, the space of the exhibition with the bodies of the performers.
After the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Future Pass will travel to the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam in December 2011 and to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung and the Today Art Museum in Beijing in 2012. A special collection of artworks from Future Pass will also be exhibited by the Streaming Museum, a new public art hybrid museum for the 21st century that brings contemporary arts programming to global audiences via screens on seven continents and online at streamingmuseum.org.
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