The storied and celebrated contemporary art event, the Venice Biennale, will take place in the spring of 2022. Taking place every two years since its inception in 1895, this major art exhibition gathers the world’s most compelling working artists today from every corner of the earth and awards them a place on the world’s stage in Venice, Italy where over 300,000 people will attend the Biennale.
The Golden Mean, 2013 Venice Biennale
Carole Feuerman has participated in multiple Venice Biennales; a rare honor that few artists achieve. She returns again this year for the 2015 Biennale collateral exhibition Time. Space. Existence. Presented by Personal Structures. Her monumental scale pieces DurgaMa and Leda and the Swan will be on display in Palazzo Mora starting May 9th through November 22, 2015.
Leda and the Swan is based on the Greek myth in which Zeus, disguised as a swan, seduces Leda. The reclining female figure drapes her relaxed body across the back of the inflatable swan in an elegant curve that moves from the swan’s neck to its tail. She is simultaneously strong and serene in a vintage women’s bathing suit and swim cap. When the Swan left Carole’s NYC studio the combined weight of the sculpture and its crate was over 1,000 pounds.
DurgaMa is also formidable measuring 101 H x 90 W x 91 D. The figure is hand-painted bronze and its title is a combination of the vikhelic battle-maiden and the loving Mother of all beings.
The lotus flower is a universal symbol that represents a struggle against the odds as its beauty is able to defy the dirty water it grows out of. It also symbolizes rebirth.
EXHIBITED DURING THE VENICE ART BIENNALE 2015
PERSONAL STRUCTURES
Palazzo Bembo & Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy