(AGENPARL) - Roma, 15 Aprile 2024 - (AGENPARL) – lun 15 aprile 2024 Arena for a Tree
AN ART INTERVENTION
BY KLAUS LITTMANN
ARSENALE NORD, VENICE
17 APRIL?— ?31 JULY 2024
An ‘ark’ in the Arsenale
Starting April a platform bearing a circular structure made of wood will
be moored close to the “La Biennale di Venezia”. From a distance, the
large ‘hull’ looks like an upside-down dome or a giant walnut shell with a
sapling sprouting from it. Seen close-up, it reveals itself as architecture,
sculpture and stage rolled into one. Mimicking the growth rings of a tree,
its horizontal structure can seat up to fifty people in three tiers.
Visualization by Axel Vansteenkiste
Artist and curator Klaus Littmann prefers to develop art projects for public
spaces. In autumn 2019, the football stadium in the Austrian city of
Klagenfurt was transformed into a forest.
Arena for a Tree
AN ART INTERVENTION
BY KLAUS LITTMANN
Arena for a Tree developed like a seed from that large-scale art project.
It was installed first on Basel’s Münsterplatz (Cathedral Square) in 2021
and graced the inner courtyard of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich
in the spring of 2022. Venice is its third port of call – and the first one
on water. Water makes the temporary island tangible as part of a global
ecological cycle. And it also shows trees in their global mobility and
adaptability. This is how Arena for a Tree connects to themes from this
year’s “La Biennale di Venezia”. Dubbed “Foreigners Everywhere”, it
explores the wider field of art as part of the global tension between
south and north and provides a space for contemplation and reflection
for anything and anyone that might seem distant, foreign and overlooked.
Presented by:
PRESENTED BY:
KULTURSTIFTUNG BASEL H. GEIGER | KBH.G
kbhg.ch
In collaboration
with:
ecc-italy.eu
Klaus Littmann
Kulturprojekte
Dear,
We are pleased to invite you to the Inauguration Dinner of the
project Arena for a Tree, by Klaus Littmann. The event will take place
on April the 16th, 7.30 pm, at the Restaurant In Paradiso,
Castello 1260, 30122, Venezia.
Raphael Suter
Director Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G