Sunday, June 23, 2013

Vision Quest: Exploring the Venice Biennale

From ARTnews
By Posted 06/18/13

A channel-changing exhibition about imagination headlines a convergence of art from 88 countries

At the start of “The Encyclopedic Palace,” Massimiliano Gioni’s fantastic voyage into the creative recesses of the human mind, the curator provides two guiding spirits—better put, spirit guides—for the journey ahead. Both are early-20th-century European intellectuals who built their careers on dreams.
Carl Jung, page from The Red Book, 1914-30, paper, ink, tempera, gold paint, red leather binding. Encyclopedic Palace. COURTESY THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORK OF C.G. JUNG.
Carl Jung, page from The Red Book, 1914-30, paper, ink, tempera, gold paint, red leather binding. Encyclopedic Palace.
COURTESY THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORK OF C.G. JUNG.
This mesmerizing main exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale begins in the Giardini’s Central Pavilion with Carl Jung, the Swiss psychotherapist, making his first appearance in an international art show. His cosmological illuminations, created between 1914 and ’30, record visions Jung achieved through what he called “active imagination”—a process that helped inspire his concept of the collective unconscious.

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