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The Art Biennial Exhibition has always testified avant-garde trends, schools, movements and individualities, thus setting an example which has often been followed all over the world.
The Biennale has played - during last century as well as today, despite the evolution in models and art production and promotion systems - a central role indispensable for artistic research, thus becoming a magnet and an international creative laboratory on contemporaneity.
Given our responsibility and the international exchange we participate in, we are aware that exhibition and contemporary art promotion models, as those we are presenting here today, are in need of deep changes and structural innovation, both in the form in which they are developed and in the ways they are presented to the public.
In 2004 we recognized our mission and need to start a new course towards a redefinition of our role, by launching a reflection that would involve the 2005 and 2007 exhibitions, as well as by listening and gathering opinions and contributions from a significant part of the contemporary art world during a Symposium we organized in 2006.
We have chosen to give a wider time perspective to the Biennale Artistic Directors' work (not only as concerns the Visual Arts section), thus granting continuity rather than irregularity to their efforts in and for the Biennale.
Contrary to the past, when the Artistic Director was appointed as the new edition was close at hand, Robert Storr was entrusted with the role of curator as early as in 2004. This has allowed him to develop his job during three years, thus having more time than any other curator in the past Biennale International Art Exhibitions.
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense results from the point of view Robert Storr has used in looking beyond the new borders of international art - not only to quickly-developing artistic languages, but also to individualities, countries and rising trends from each of the five continents which would be normally peripheric with respect to the established artistic milieu.
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
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