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Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Flash Art Newsletter - You are right, our
review-life is more difficult and impossible
Dear Sir
You are right, our review-life is more difficult and impossible.
-The Berlin Biennial will be
inaugurated next week, at precisely the same time as ARCO in
Madrid, the great Spanish art fair.
-The Fair in Basel, hindering
hundreds of gallerists and art lovers, busy at Basel, from going
to Venice.
– It
will only make Review-life more difficult for the Biennial itself
and for those who have to choose between them.
Walter & Marga Prankl MA., DJV
Internet-Journal
www.kultur-punkt.ch
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Sent: Friday,
February 06, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: Flash Art
Newsletter
FLASH ART NEWSLETTER
On Dilettantism and Cynicism in Art:
The Berlin Biennial
The Berlin Biennial will be inaugurated next week, at precisely
the same time as ARCO in Madrid, the great Spanish art fair.
It is not the first time that important artistic initiatives have
overlapped in an awkward and unprofessional way (I still remember
with horror a Venice Biennial, curated by Germano Celant, which
was inaugurated at the same time as the Fair in Basel, hindering
hundreds of gallerists and art lovers, busy at Basel, from going
to Venice). But it is a typical characteristic of curators and art
critics (paid with public money) to try to devalue the work of
others (while depreciating only their own work) with cynicism and
indifference. ARCO, the important fair held every year in Madrid,
has been active and flourishing for 23 years, fixing its own
opening dates at least a year in advance. It has always invested
energy and money (perhaps even too much in my opinion) in inviting
to its conferences artists, critics, curators, museum directors,
merchants, and art historians, and has now become a prominent
cultural appointment. It has been known for over a year that in
2004 ARCO would open and close between the 10 and 15 February.
So why, then, does the Berlin Biennial, curated by Ute Meta Bauer,
decide to open during exactly the same days as ARCO, regardless of
all those who for professional and business reasons want or are
obliged to go to Madrid? This means that people are forced to
choose between Madrid or Berlin. This does not seem a bright way
to manage a cultural event that costs so much public money!
Congratulations to whoever decided on this date, showing a lack of
awareness and consideration to the point of cultural dilettantism.
Let us hope that at least the Berlin Biennial can come up with a
better idea next time. Not unlike the Berlin art fair that cannot
take off, it is beginning to look somewhat moribund. But the
Berlin Biennial’s decision to open at the same time as ARCO will
not put the Spanish art fair in difficulty – it will only make
life more difficult for the Biennial itself and for those who have
to choose between them.
I myself, as well as many others, had already chosen to go to
Madrid about a year ago.
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