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JORDI COLOMER TO REPRESENT SPAIN AT 2017 VENICE BIENNALE

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ROBERT IRWIN (1928–2023)

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October 21, 2016 11:54 am

Artist Jordi Colomer has been selected to represent Spain in the Fifty-Seventh Venice Biennale, which will be held from May 13 to November 26, 2017. Manuel Segade, director of the Center for Dos de Mayo Art Madrid, will curate the pavilion.

Colomer, who lives and works in Barcelona and Paris, is best known for his video installations, which explore urban spaces and how they influence human behavior. His work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Argos Center for Art and Media in Brussels, Matadero Madrid, and the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, among other places.

The winning proposal, titled “City of Pocket,” was selected from a short list that also included projects by artist Luis Bisbe and curator Alicia Chillida, artist Eugenio Ampudia, and artist Cristina Lucas and curator Gerardo Mosquera.

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