A good motto for the Biennale

In the left-liberal daily La Repubblica art critic and former Venice Biennale director Achille Bonito Oliva assesses this year's event in Venice and its motto: "Create art to create worlds. … The subject is well chosen for this is the function of art and the destiny of the artist, who through his work tries to create new worlds. This means having and conveying an alternative vision and perspective of things and giving expression to a force of renewal. Art, above all contemporary art, is never a statistical celebration of the present or a neutral and impersonal documentation of the reality that surrounds us. Rather it is an auspicious, catastrophic surprise attack by the artist on the tectonic balance of normal language, aimed at developing an increasingly advanced level of communication."

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