Buvoli Airs in Venice

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Artist's Bio

Born in Brescia, Italy, 1963

BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Venice; MA SUNY-Albany; MFA School of Visual Arts, New York

Lives and works in New York

Recent Solo Exhibitions Include

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2007)

Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston (2006)

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina (2003)


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Luca Buvoli, visit his Web site www.lucabuvoli.com

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Luca Buvoli’s installation A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow—Un Bellissimo Dopodomani is on view in "Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind," the 52nd Venice Biennale's International Exhibition, curated by Robert Storr. The work comprises five videos (this clip is from one of them), sculptures, paintings, and a mosaic, and occupies over 5,000 square feet (460 sq meters). It is the first installation to be seen when entering the Arsenale.

From the artist’s project description:

“Luca Buvoli’s project for the 52nd International Venice Biennale begins with the prediction, ‘There will be a very beautiful day after tomorrow.’ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti—founder of Futurism, the avant-garde movement that brought Italy up to speed with Modernism and into a controversial relationship with Fascism—tried to reassure his daughter with these hopeful words near the end of his life.

"In A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow—Un Bellissimo Dopodomani, Buvoli uses Marinetti’s message as a point of departure, creating a series of free associations relating to velocity and flight–themes central to the artists’ recent work. This dynamic project melds personal and historical narratives with abstracted forms, yielding drawings, sculptures, installations and animated videos.”