Venice Biennale curator wrests focus away from politics to art
Chief curator Christine Macel has coralled a Biennale designed with artists, by artists and for artists
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IN 2015, the Venice Biennale with Okwui Enwezor as curator sometimes felt more like a political manifesto, with readings from Marx's Das Kapital and work that touched on climate change, colonialism and the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. The curator of this year's Biennale, Christine Macel, had a distinctly different vision: to put artists and artistic practices front and centre.
For Ms Macel, chief curator of the Pompidou Center in Paris, the 57th Biennale, which opens this week, is "an exclamation, a passionate outcry for art and the state of the artist".
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