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Ziga Kariz: TERROR=DECOR: ART NOW
Inauguration of the Slovenian Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennial 2003.

You are kindly invited to attend the official opening of the exhibition 
TERROR=DECOR: ART NOW which will be held at the Slovenian Pavilion at the 
50th Venice Biennial 2003. Please join us on Friday, June 13 2003 at 8 p.m. 
at the A+A Gallery, Calle Malipiero 3073, Venice.

Drinks and buffet dinner will be provided at the Corte dell Duca Sforza 
square in the immediate vicinity of the pavilion.

The new project by Ziga Kariz and collaborators, developed for the Venice 
Biennial, is part of a series entitled TERROR=DECOR that began in 1997. The 
TERROR=DECOR: ART NOW project establishes the relation between the violence 
of extreme forms of socio-political struggles and artistic avant-garde 
movements, and the popular visual culture as a possible field of the 
commodification of this kind of attacks. The project is being developed in 
line with two parallel artistic principles: one unfolds at the surface of 
the painting/object, while the other develops in the complex mise-en-scene 
of installation and management of the objects in the urban fabric of the city.
The forms of objects comprise visual codes of the past and present 
socio-political and artistic utopias, filtered through the machinery of the 
commodification and domestication of contemporary cultural production. In 
the process of commodification, which flattens the violent act into sheer 
spectacle, the critical charge of the visual is neutralized and adapted to 
enter, or place itself, into the elitist surroundings of consumer society 
decorated precisely with the once problematic visual material. During the 
intervention or installation of objects in the selected apartments in 
Venice the pavilion will host a team of "gaze supervisors" who will control 
the interactive network spread between the objects and the Slovenian 
Pavilion and make sure that everything that is being seen by the 
paintings/objects placed in the apartments can also be seen in the pavilion.

Produced by: Kapelica Gallery, Zavod K 6/4, Ljubljana
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia
Thanks to our sponsors: Goriska Brda, Offset tisk Lampelj & Co., Adria 
Airways, AV:studio
Promoted by: Slovenian Tourist Board

For further information please visit www.terror-decor.org or contact:
Kapelica Gallery, Kersnikova 4, Ljubljana, Slovenia
T: +386 1 43 80 302, F: +386 1 43 80 301, E: gallery at kapelica.org

The exhibition venue:
The Slovenian Pavilion / A+A Galleria d'arte, Calle Malipiero 3073, Venice
T/F: +39 041 277 0 466, E: aplusa at libero.it
Vaporetto station: S. Samuele
Vaporetto routes: 82, N
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