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More than 100 works to be displayed in Baltic Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2016
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The project has won three separate national competitions with the proposal to represent the three countries in one joint exhibition, the Estonian Center of Architecture (ECA) said.
The Baltic Pavilion will bring to the biennale the know-how and creations of tens of architects, urban planners, photographers, geographers, geologists, economic experts, cultural theorists, historians, philosophers, anthropologists, artists, museums and numerous other organizations from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Estonian Center of Architecture (ECA) said.
The Baltic Pavilion will inhabit 1,600 square meters of floor space in the Palasport Arsenale, Giobatta Gianquinto – a brutalist architecture sports hall located next to the main Arsenale exhibition grounds. Designed by Enrichetto Capuzzo, the building has been actively used by the Venetian community for sports activities since the 1970s. The Baltic Pavilion provides the occasion for its doors to be opened to visitors of the International Architecture Exhibition for the first time.
The project of the Baltic Pavilion is to be presented to the public at the Latvian National Library by the nine curators in the presence of Latvia's Minister of Culture Dace Melbarde and the project's three commissioners on Thursday. The ministers of culture of Estonia and Lithuania will speak at the event by videoconference.
The Baltic Pavilion will attempt to unravel the conventions and instruments operated by a wide range of spatial practices, industries, and infrastructures that are actively transforming the built space of the three Baltic countries and wider region. Without distinguishing between abstract ideas and their material projections, the exhibition will seek to distill parameters and thought structures that enable formulation of a range of spatial interventions to reconfigure the inert built environment, authors of the project say.
The final shape and final solution of the exhibition will first become public at the opening of the Baltic Pavilion in Venice on May 27.
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