“Genoma Contemporary. Virtual, Real, Geolocalized” International Contemporary Art and New Media exhibition at Ex Wales Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale context | 2011 Giudecca 800/o, 30133 Venice - Italy Curators: Europe, Asia and North America: Oriana Carrer South America and Ispanic Countries: Juan Saravi Platero Artists: MAKOTO KOBAYASHI - Japan, STEFANO MITRIONE - Italy, MARYANNE POLLOCK - United States, ANDRZEJ RAFALOWICZ - Poland - TIM SLOWINSKI - United States, JURGEN STOLTE -Germany, ARKIV VILMANSA - Indonesia, ALKISTIS WECHSLER - United Kingdom The Genome is the chromosome complement contained in a cell's organism. The Genome includes both the genes and the “DNA “ of each human being and , as such, it makes us potentially different from each other even if we all come from a single ancestor. In the same way Artists taking part in Genome are the “Genes” contained in the exhibition space and have in themselves the “Chromosomes” from which stems the ideas of the exhibition process itself. Genome is the entirity of the artistic metamorphosis' space, actors and objectivity. The artists of this exhibition, which curator Oriana Carrer together with its creators and co-ordinators Virtualgeo Srl and Base.exib Design Tm wanted in the context of the Venice Biennale, were selected in accordance with this same point of view, in order to hypothesise the invisible dialogue between Humanity and Technology, emotion and calculation, real and virtual world. The result is an unexpected mix of short startling dialectical circuits that make the viewer stand in front of a choice where borders are visible because of the diversity of the Media used to originate them, but where the flow of transmitted information alternates in an invisible way between the multiple subjective and objective diversities, creating in turn a self-sufficient micro-organism like in fact in the case of the cell itself. "Genome" as in DNA fingerprinting in Art (today), but also in music (yesterday). In fact who does not remember the Venetian group that enjoyed great success with their Hip Hop atmosphere in the Venice and Trieste neighborhoods ten years ago. It is also true that art is timeless and spaceless and it looks anywhere for a source of inspiration. Thus Nebo and later Nasdaq, founders of the Genome group, collapse on a hypothetical visual dimension of a name that made history in the Venetian underground, and now seems to revive in the names of these international artists: Makoto Kobayashi, Stefano Mitrione, Maryanne Pollock, Andrzej Rafalowicz, Tim Slowinski, Jurgen Stolte, Arkiv Vilmansa e Alkistis Wechsler. The resulting product is a multimedia event in the 54th Venice Biennale context, curated by Oriana Carrer, who is now considered by many an icon for trends and colors, with her blond hair and large black glasses that hide magnetic eyes reserved only for selected few. She began her career after her honors degree in Art History, no less than at the Biennale Giovani Barcelona. They, the invisible co-ordinators of the brand new Genome Contemporary exhibition, and we refer to Erminio Paolo Canevese, president of VirtualgeoSrl, with his personality that is strongly oriented to the internationalization, and Leonardo Kucharski, co-founder of Base.exib Design USA, followed by a large group of professionals and staff that make up the back-scene of Genome Contemporary. We know all about them now, as well as the exhibition space, in this case the Ex Pavilion of Wales (UK) - which this year has been moved on to its new home of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, where the reknowned Tim Davies of the Tom Rowland gallery of London will exhibit. +So Genome Contemporary has the difficult task of keeping a famous area alive; an area whi is famous both because of its "genetic DNA", and because of the British celebrities in the last four Venice Biennale, who were able to give it an excellent imprinting chromosome; that is, artists like Paul Seawright, Cerith Wyn Evans, Simon Pole, Bethan Huws, Peter Finnemore, Laura Ford, Paul Granjon, and more recently Richard Deacon e John Cale. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dates: September 3rd to November 26th 2011 Reception day: September 3rd 2011 , 4pm Press day: August 28th 2011, 6pm ------------------------------------------------------------------ Press office: Jayanta voce fax +39 041.887.6435 voice +39 041.810.64928 fax press-office@base-exib.com www.genomacontemporary.com