Day #15 - Art for Lent: Studio Azzurro's "In Principio (e pot)" #Lent2016
ART + RELIGION
By Aaron Rosen
The curators of the Vatican Pavilion at the first-fifth Venice Biennale assigned Studio Azzurro the theme of Creation (followed by Un-Creating and Re-Creation by other artists). To embody creation, the group manufactures interactive video walls that displayed the gestures of deaf-mute people, while also recording the impressions of viewers' hands. The piece hints at a king of intimate, immediate, and intuitive communication we have all but lost -- a sort of original language prior to the confusion of tongues. [page 38]
Lent is the annual Christian preparation for Easter. "Today's Art for Lent2016" features artworks that illustrate the Christian "Battle between Carnival and Lent."
By Aaron Rosen
"In Principio (e pot)" 2013 by Studio Azzurro | Italy. Video installation, the Pavilion of the Holy See (Vaitcan), Venice Biennale |
Lent is the annual Christian preparation for Easter. "Today's Art for Lent2016" features artworks that illustrate the Christian "Battle between Carnival and Lent."
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