Pavilion of Chile : Fernando Prats, Gran Sur : announcement

• Other Authors: Prats, Fernando, 1967-, artist; Castro Flórez, Fernando, exhibition curator; Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (Chile), commissioning body; Biennale di Venezia (54th : 2011 : Venice, Italy), issuing body
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Office of Cultural and Scientific Relations 2011
• Subjects: Prats; Fernando; 1967- > Exhibitions; Biennale di Venezia (54th : 2011 : Venice; Italy); Installations (Art) > Italy > Venice > Exhibitions; Art; Chilean > 21st century > Exhibitions; Shackleton; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://digital.clarkart.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16245coll7/id/170

54th International Art Exhibition -- La Biennale di Venezia. Partecipazioni nazionali. Exhibition announcement included in the press kit produced to accompany the exhibition in Venice, the Pavilion of Chile, for the 54th Venice Biennale, June 4-November 27, 2011 Fernando Prats is the artist selected for the Chilean Pavilion at the forthcoming 54th International Art Exhibition -la Biennale di Venezia. His project "Gran Sur" (Big South) will be installed in the Arsenals of this ancient city, the most visited spot during the event.--Press statement Exhibition organized by National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Cultural Affairs Bureau (DIRAC), the Image of Chile Foundation Curator: Fernando Castro Flórez The Gran Sur (Great South) project that Chilean artist Fernando Prats is presenting in the Pavilion of Chile at the 54th Venice Biennale, sets a dialogue between three pieces that are, in themselves, condensation processes of time. The assembly consists of an intervention around the impact of the volcanic eruption of Chaitén (2008); a series of works alluding to the earthquake in south-central Chile (2010); and an installation in neon lettering that reproduces the advert that Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton may have posted circa 1911, calling for men for his expedition to Antarctica.--Announcement