Venice Architecture Biennale
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"A Satellite Show at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Hosted Through (and Inspired by) Airbnb."
"Most unofficial pavilions at the Biennale are housed in palazzos or other grand structures around Venice, but the Airbnb Pavilion occupies a modest vacation rental, which will double as Biennale housing for its organizers. “We saw the space for the first time yesterday when we arrived in Venice, carrying all of the works in our hand luggage,” Bava explained by email. “I’m actually writing from the Jacuzzi.” While a host of architects, including Florian Beigel, Raphael Zuber and Pascal Flammer, have supplied renderings of proposed interventions into the space, in the end the organizers chose to leave the rental untouched. Instead, these plans are on display alongside works by more than a dozen artists, including Stewart Uoo, whose video, “Confessions,” loops on a laptop left on the bed; Charles Broskoski, who has replaced framed photos with images of CGI orchids; and Jon Rafman, whose animation of a house infinitely wallpapered by a Juan Gris painting echoes the playful collision of art, design and architecture taking place throughout the apartment."
"Satellite three-day pop-up exhibition opening tonight is organized by Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela and Octave Perrault, a group of students and recent graduates of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. "
Excerpt of news from The New York Times
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