The Value of Venice Biennale

　　As I already mentioned, we believe that many cultural formulae and models need a brave structural updating.

　　We have undergone a deep change and have deeply improved our work, the organization of openings, the offer of services to the public, and the layout of exhibitions and of the various sections, and we have renovated each sector, including the length of the Exhibition, which, starting from the latest Architecture Exhibition, will be lasting until the end of November .

　　In the last four years we have started an updating on several fronts and levels. There is still much work to do, and the show we are presenting today is just a stage in this journey, a stage I hope we have managed to clearly describe and that I wish you will read in its complexity, in its four-year development, from 2004 on, and in the efforts it has made for the sake of art and with the aim of renovating the instruments needed for its constant promotion.

　　Davide Croff