52nd International Art Exhibition

　　Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense

　　The Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, presided over by Davide Croff, is setting up the 52nd International Art Exhibition, entitled "Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind." The exhibition opens to the public from June 10 to November 21, and is curated by Robert Storr, the first American curator in the event's history.

　　The central international exhibition, set up in the Arsenale Corderie, the Arsenale Artiglierie and in the Italian Pavilion at the Giardini, will present about 100 artists from all over the world with works - including site-specific and new productions - created in co-operation with the Venice Biennale for this occasion.

　　Storr notes that the show looks forward, not back. He has invited living and active artists to display, as well as exhibiting the works of some recently deceased artists.

　　"Each work will be there to speak for itself," Storr said.

　　The international landscape is flanked and enriched by the expositions of the 77 countries, a record number, displaying works in the historical city centre as well as at the Giardini and Arsenale; since 2006 the latter premises have been the permanent seat of the new Italian Pavilion, an area of central future development for the Biennale exhibition spaces, making its debut this year with an exhibition curated, for the first time, by Ida Gianelli and representing one of the main novelties in the 52nd Venice Biennale Exhibition.