Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind:
Art in the Present Tense

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Take Vaporetto #1 line, the closest stop is Arsenale.

About the exhibition and artists
The Director of the Venice Biennale 2007, Robert Storr, has selected three leading Australian artists for his thematically curated exhibition, "Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense": Rosemary Laing; Shaun Gladwell and Christian Capurro.

The participation of these three artists complements Australia’s official representation at the Venice Biennale 2007 with Susan Norrie, Daniel von Sturmer and Callum Morton.

Sydney-based artist Rosemary Laing is exhibiting three works from her 2004 series, to walk on a sea of salt. The three photographs, Welcome to Australia; 5.10am, 15 December, 2004; and And you can even pay later, depict the exterior of the Woomera detention centre.

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Sydney-based artist Shaun Gladwell is exhibiting two video works - a romantic painting-inspired self-portrait of the artist skateboarding at Bondi, and a conceptual drawing tracking the highway lines in the Australian outback.

Gladwell's videos depict individuals - skateboarders, breakdancers, bike riders - who critically and poetically reinvent the forms of their environments.

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Melbourne artist Christian Capurro is exhibiting a site-specific installation of works related to his project Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette. The work centres on a Vogue Hommes magazine that was erased by hand by more than 260 people between 1999 and 2004. This five-year collaborative erasure work was shown at nine sites around Melbourne, Australia in 2004 – 2005.

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Australia’s participation at the Venice Biennale 2007 is an unprecedented opportunity to present a body of significant Australian contemporary art.

To download a list of Australian artists and venues (including opening hours & Storr’s exhibition) click here.

Cornice Art Fair

Leading Indigenous artist, John Mawurndjul, has become the first Australian artist to show at Cornice Art Fair - a new event on the art world's calendar and presented in association with the prestigious Venice Biennale. Mawurndjul has received world recognition for his work as a Kuninjku bark painter and sculptor. John Mawurndjul is represented by Maningrida Arts & Culture.