The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Milan : 5 Continents Editions, [2019]
Description:	192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Biennale di Venezia. -- Canada Pavilion. Biennale di Venezia. Exhibition buildings -- Italy -- Venice. Art, Canadian -- 20th century. Art, Canadian -- 21st century. Art, Canadian. Exhibition buildings. Italy -- Venice.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12411185

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Other authors / contributors:	Legault, Réjean, 1956- editor. National Gallery of Canada, publisher.
ISBN:	9788874398843 8874398840
Notes:	Issued also in French under title: Le pavillon du Canada à la Biennale de Venise. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book examines the various figures and interests involved in the design and construction of the Canada Pavilion and explores how it was used over the past sixty years to exhibit the work of Canadian artists and architects. This publication intends not only to underline the pavilion's importance in the broader context of modern architecture, but also to highlight its role as an early example of cultural diplomacy. The book is fully endowed with archive material, such as photographs, drawings, and maps, along with a portfolio created by contemporary photographers (Francesco Barasciutti and Andrea Pertoldeo), showing the building before, during, and after the restoration. The essays of the various contributors to the book analyse the cultural and political context in which the Canada Pavilion committee worked (Cammie McAtee); the concept and construction of the building and the links with the architect Enrico Peressutti and the BBPR partnership (Rejean Legault); the pavilion's role in the postwar Italian cultural context (Serena Maffioletti) and its fortunes from its inauguration in 1958 to the restoration in 2018 (Josee Drouin-Brisebois); the restoration project itself (Susanna Caccia Gherardine), and, lastly, the relationship between the Canada Pavilion and the Biennale Gardens (Franco Panzini).

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Karen Colby-Stothart
Portfolio 1958 / Studio Giacomelli
The National Gallery of Canada Commissions an Exhibition Pavilion / Cammie McAtee
The Harmony of Human Proportions: BBPR's Architectural Dialogues / Serena Maffioletti
Designing the Canada Pavilion / Réjean Legault
The Life and Times of the Canada Pavilion / Josée Drouin-Brisebois
"A careful, museum-quality restoration": Rethinking and Rebuilding the Canada Pavilion / Susanna Caccia Gherardini
"The Venetians are jealous of every tree": The Canada Pavilion and the Giardini della Biennale / Franco Panzini
Portfolio 2018 / Andrea Pertoldeo
Interview with Alberico Belgiojoso
Interview with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Sixty Years of Biennales: Exhibitions in the Canada Pavilion,1958-2018.

The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale /

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