18th Venice Biennale

The 18th Venice Biennale, held in 1932, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 13 participating nations. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy.

18th Venice Biennale
Poster of the 1932 Venice Biennale
Genre	Art exhibition
Begins	28 April 1932
Ends	28 October 1932
Location(s)	Venice
Country	Italy
Previous event	17th Venice Biennale (1930)
Next event	19th Venice Biennale (1934)

The 1932 Biennale was historically the most important in Venice, due to the presence of a historical and no longer living painter like Antonio Rotta and the presence for the first time of a non-European country, the United States with its own building as a seat, further requests from governments were not lacking but the state of the gardens at the time did not allow further construction. The Italian Pavilion was built by Duilio Torres. The "Venice pavilion" was created by Brenno Del Giudice destined in its central body to the decorative arts section and in the wings to welcome foreign countries without their own headquarters.

Jury and prizes

The jury composed by Italico Ottone, Elio Zorzi and Domenico Varagnolo, awarded the Special Mention Prize of the Venice Biennale to Antonio Rotta, not only for the very high quality of his works, for the best historical representation of the themes of the Venetian society of his time, in the concept of the movement of Genre painting, of which Antonio Rotta was the most represented painter in Europe.

Antonio Rotta was exhibited at the XVIII International Art Exhibition by the will of the City of Venice, the City Council and the Mayor of Venice, as a symbolic artist, and icon of the painters of Venice, to celebrate the expeditious anniversary of the thirty years of the Venice Biennale Exhibition.

Exhibited artists

In addition to a main area, commissioned by the City Council of Venice, dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of the art works of the italian painter Antonio Rotta, an event that took place only once in the history of the Venice Biennale, were exhibits artists like Amedeo Modigliani, Filippo de Pisis, etc.

Links

• Antonio Rotta
• Amedeo Modigliani
• Filippo de Pisis

Bibliography

• Adriano Donaggio, Biennale di Venezia: un secolo di storia
• XVIII Esposizione Biennale internazionale d'arte 1932. Catalogue, Venezia 1932
• Di Martino, Enzo (2005). The History of the Venice Biennale 1895–2005. Venice: Papiro Arte. ISBN 978-88-901104-4-3. OCLC 62237064.

External links

• Venezia – XVIII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte – Amedeo Modigliani, Testa di donna

Further reading

• "At long last, Europe will have real glimpse of American art". Art Digest. 6: 5. 15 March 1932 – via EBSCOhost.
• Born, Wolfgang (August 1932). "Internationale kunstausstellung Venedig". Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (in German). 70: 234–242 – via EBSCOhost.
• Gerard, H. (September 1931). "Italian notes; 18th Venetian biennial international exhibition". American Magazine of Art. 23: 260–261 – via EBSCOhost.
• Grassini, G. (April 1932). "La XVIIIe exposition biennale de Venise". Beaux-Arts; Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (in French). 10: 15 – via EBSCOhost.
• "Important cross section of American art will be feature of eighteenth international show in Venice". ARTnews. 30: 5. 5 March 1932. ISSN 0004-3273.
• Nebbia, Ugo (June 1932). "La diciottesima biennale". Emporium (in Italian). 75: 338–432 – via EBSCOhost.
• Uhde-Bernays, H. (October 1932). "Die internationale kunstausstellung in Venedig". Die Kunst (in German). 67: 1–12. ISSN 0341-1974.
• "Venice biennial". Art Digest. 6: 12. 15 January 1932 – via EBSCOhost.
• "Venice biennial international art exhibition". Art Digest. 6: 4. June 1932 – via EBSCOhost.
• Wildenstein, Georges (May 1932). "La leçon de Venise". Beaux-Arts; Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (in French). 10: 2–3 – via EBSCOhost.
• "XVIIIth Venice biennial excels its predecessors". ARTnews. 30: 5–6. 26 March 1932. ISSN 0004-3273.