No Images? Click here 57th Venice BiennaleMay 13 – November 26, 2017 The central exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale will feature 120 participants. Curated by Christine Macel, the main exhibition, Viva Arte Viva, has been pitched as a biennale "with the artists, by the artist, and for the artists" and aims to reiterate the importance of art in unstable times. Featured outsider artists will include Lubos Plny, Judith Scott and Dan Miller. The main exhibition will be surrounded by the 85 pavilions of participating countries, each with its own curator. Works by Frank Walter will be shown in the Antigua and Barbuda pavilion. Frank Walter, The Last Universal Man (1926–2009) will include a selection of paintings, sculpture, audio recordings and writing, as well as video exploration of Walter's entire oeuvre consisting of 5,000 works of art and a 25,000-page archive. Tickets to the Venice Biennale can be purchased here. Lubos Plny Judith Scott Dan Miller Frank Walter Yummm! at AVAMRamon Alejandro-Mècanisme until September 3, 2017 In Yummm! The History, Fantasy, and Future of Food, 34 visionary artists explore humankind's complex, multi-layered relationship with food. The exhibition aims to inspire a greater awareness of the revolutionary creativity needed to envision how a future planet of 9.5 billion earthlings will safely eat, cultivate, distribute, share, and even package food in radically more healthful, less wasteful, and equitable ways. Yummm! features food-centric paintings, sculptures, embroideries, installations, and films. Some artworks are even directly created from edibles. Artists include Gil Batle, Wayne Coyne, Christian Twamley, Wendy Brackman and Ramon Alejandro. American Visionary Art Museum Adolf Wölfli Exhibition in JapanAdolf Wölfli: A Kingdom of 25,000 Pages is the first large-scale retrospective of Adolf Wölfli ever held in Japan, tracing the artist’s entire output from the beginning to the end of his career. Organised in collaboration with the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, it includes 74 specially selected works. Showing at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art until February 26. Adolf Wölfli, St. Wandanna Cathedral in Band-Wall 1910, FEATURED ARTIST: Richard Greaves (b. 1950)
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