Venice Biennale 2007

The six artists rep­re­sent­ing Scot­land at the Venice Bien­nale were announced this morn­ing: Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hop­kins, Ros­alind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain.

My guess is that Henry Coombes, whose recent film work I loved, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain will be the high­lights of the show, but it’s cer­tainly a strong, and varied, group.

The exhi­bi­tion con­cept is inter­est­ing, too. I wonder if, in dwelling on Scot­tish­ness and the peri­patetic nature of con­tem­po­rary art prac­tice, cura­tor Philip Long is launch­ing a pre-​emptive strike against the inevitable mealy-​mouthed whing­ing in the Scot­tish press that some of the artists selected are—gasp!—not Scot­tish, or are based out­side the country?

Also of note: four of the six are rep­re­sented by dog­ger­fisher, my old boss Susanna Beaumont’s gallery.

Posted at 9pm on 16/01/07 by Jack Mottram to the art and culture category.
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