At the beginning of 2022, the Venice Biennale committee sent invitations to 22 encryption artists from all over the world, officially confirming that they will participate in the 59th Venice Biennale, hosted by the Cameroon National Pavilion, curator Sandro Orlandi. Stagg curated the Venice Biennale's first crypto art exhibition, The Time of the Chimeras.
Venice Art Biennale (www.labiennale.org) began in 1895 and is held every two years. Each exhibition lasts for half a year and has lasted for 127 years. It is the most important large-scale exhibition group in the art world. It is led by a distributed, open and diversified natural management system. The development of modern and contemporary art history around the world. Millions of artists, collectors, curators, scholars, art lovers and art professionals flock to Venice every two years to showcase their latest works and conduct in-depth discussions and research on current issues.
The first presentation of encrypted art at the Venice Biennale will be a historic milestone for artists, curators, and creators of the Web3 world. The Time of the Chimeras will open on April 23, 2022 at the Bernardo Palace (Palazzo Bernardo Venice, San Polo 2186) on the central island of Venice, at the same time as the theme exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
At 20:00 on April 2, Beijing time, the "Chimera Era" Global Encryption Art Exhibition at the Cameroon National Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale will hold an online press conference.
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The curator Sandro Orlandi Stagel, representatives of the art committee Ji Xiaofeng and Yuan Yuan will respectively introduce the curatorial concept of this exhibition, the background and historical significance of the launch, the selection mechanism of artists and other information. Artists Marina Núñez and Wang Xing will speak as artist representatives of this exhibition.
