THE SWISS PAVILION’S VENICE BIENNALE EXHIBITION BY GUERREIRO DO DIVINO AMOR
The Venice Bienanale’s Swiss Pavilion presents Super Superior Civilizations: an exhibition with the sixth and seventh chapters of Guerreiro do Divino Amor’s monumental “Superfictional World Atlas” saga: The Miracle of Helvetia and Roma Talismano. Curated by: Andrea Bellini.
The “Superfictional World Atlas” is a worldwide cartographic project, allegorical in nature and potentially infinite in scope, which the artist has been dedicated to for nearly two decades.
Through his studies and research in experimental architecture, Guerreiro do Divino Amor’s artistic practice questions the relationship between urban space and collective imagination, between architecture and ideology, and between political propaganda and national identity.
In the Swiss Pavilion, Guerreiro aims at creating the most complex and ambitious installation of his career so far: a total, immersive work of art, littered with classical architectural elements—artificial symbols of an assumed Western racial superiority. Columns, fountains, and capitals, along with large surfaces of fake marble textures, suggest an imagery of power and supremacy and serve as the backdrop for the Pavilion’s two main installations.
“The Swiss Pavilion, as envisioned by the artist, plays with the national logic of celebratory self-representation through culture, which is at the very origin of the National Pavilions at the Giardini over a century ago,” says Andrea Bellini. “A curious documentarist with a baroque imagination and an extraordinary worlds builder, Guerreiro do Divino Amor invites us to laugh in a benevolent spirit at our chauvinism and at those clichés with which we represent the world and ourselves. The latter attitude seems to us of fundamental importance in a period of increasing polarization of politics and radical oppositions such as the one we are currently experiencing”.
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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Pavilion of SWITZERLAND Super Superior Civilizations. 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Photo Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia
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