When beauty visits : Venezia 2017

Item Information

Title:
When beauty visits : Venezia 2017
Creator:
Lee, Mingwei, 1964-
Name on Item:
Lee Mingwei
Date:
2017
Format:
Ephemera
Location:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Collection (local):
Venice Biennale Ephemera Collection
Subjects:
Lee, Mingwei, 1964---Exhibitions
Performance art--21st century--Exhibitions
Biennale di Venezia (57th : 2017 : Venice, Italy)
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
1 online resource (5 images)
Link to Item:
http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16245coll7,749
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Venice, Italy?] : [Lee Mingwei],
Language:
English
Notes:
Produced for the performance held as part of the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Viva Arte Viva 13 May–26 November 2017; "This is a project about how each of us defines, remembers and shares our encounters with beauty. There are three stages to the project. First, prior to Venice, I am collecting stories from friends and strangers about their encounters with beauty. Second, in the Scarpa garden of the Biennale International Pavilion, a host in costume will stroll through the galleries. S/he will approach a single visitor and invite them to the garden, where they will find a single chair, and a soundscape of summer insect song. They will be asked to sit in the chair and simply enjoy the beauty while the host leaves them alone to go retrieve a gift for them. The host will return to the garden minutes later, bearing a small package for the visitor, and explain that this gift comes with a stipulation: the visitor may take the gift with them when they leave the museum, but may only open it after their next encounter with beauty, preferably outside the Giardini area. This is the third stage of the project. The encounter may be when the visitor is walking in Venice that evening, or when they hear a church bell, or see a young girl in a red dress, or perhaps notice a bird flying above them. Any of these experiences, or many others, could be the experience that invites them to open the gift. Once they do, they will find inside the story of another person's encounter with beauty."--Leemingwei.com; Card wrapped in 1 sheet of thick white paper and 1 sheet of varigated gray rice paper folded together to form an envelope, front of envelope has title and artist name printed in dark blue ink and Chinese title blind embossed, envelope sealed with dark red wax on back; Text on card begins "Julie. It was here in Venice. An old man bowed and browned and crumpled wih years, was sitting at a cafe table in a small campo in Castello, his spritz quite forgotten ..."
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): When beauty visits : Venezia 2017 / Lee Mingwei. [Venice, Italy?] : [Lee Mingwei], [2017]. -- 1 card in envelope ; 16 x 20 cm. Call number of original: VB17 NF237 L479 V46 2017
Identifier:
b12368477