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Who
visited the First Roma Pavilion?
Venice, December 2007 -- With over 20,000 guests, Paradise
Lost was one of
the best visited exhibits at the 52nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in
Venice.
According to the official website of the Biennale,
the 52nd International Art Exhibition attracted 319,332 visitors. This has been
the most attended Biennale of the past twenty-five years.
That means that every 15th visitor of the Biennale attended the Roma Pavilion. Given that this Pavilion was away of Giardini and Arsenal,
in the Canareggio district, hidden to the guests and tourists alike who do not
know Venice, this is a big success.
Among the visitors were numerous curators, gallerists,
collectors, art lovers, representatives of media, civil society, academia,
educational institutions and government, including:
Viktoria Mohacsi, Member of the European Parliament;
Dzamila Stehlikova, Czech Minister of Human Rights and National Minorities; Dr.
Marta Schneider, Hungarian State Secretary in Charge of Culture; Niccolo
Rinaldi, Deputy Secretary General, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for
Europe; Donna Leon, Author of internationally
renowned crime novels featuring Commissario Brunetti; Esma Redzepova,
Performer, “Queen of Gypsy Music”, Macedonia; Gottfried Wagner, Director of the
European Cultural Foundation, Brussels, Belgium; António Pinto Ribeiro, Chief
Curator - The State of the World Forum, Lisbon, Portugal; Paollo
Ferruzzi, Director, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy; Low Kee Hong, General
Manager, National Arts Council, Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Florian
Waldvogel, Director, Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands; Thomas Soraperra, Director, Kunst Museum, Lichtenstein; Leoni
Baumann, Director, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany; Dirk
Snauwaert, Director, Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium; Mag. Christian
Bauer, Managing Director, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Zsolt Petranyi, Director,
Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary; László Jakab Orsós, Director of the Hungarian
Cultural Institute in New York; Beral Madra, Director of the BM Contemporary
Art Center in Istanbul; Dr. Raminta Jurenaite, Art Critic, Professor, Academy
of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania; Bojana Piskur, Curator, Modern Gallery
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Zaklina Ratkovic, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Belgrade, Serbia; Theo Lenders, Curator, Oda Paark Museum, Venray, the
Netherlands; Torun Ekstrand, Curator, Stromshall, Karlskrona, Sweden; David
Dadone, Director, Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, USA; Helen Monaghan,
Events Programmer, National Galleries of Scotland, UK; Julianne Pierce, Visual
Arts Director, Adelaide Film Festival, Australia; Martin Sturn, Director,
Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria; Roy Cross, Director, British
Council, Scotland, UK; Eva Kraus, Director, Galerie Steinle, Munich, Germany;
Menno Meewis, Director, Middelhimmuseum, Antverpen, Belgium; Anna Capella,
Director, Museu Empordà, Figueres, Spain; Ingrid
Schiöler, Treasurer, National Union of Roma, Sweden; Michael O' Flaherty, Professor of Applied Human
Rights and Co-director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of
Nottingham, UK; Katia Anguelova, independent curator, Milan, Italy; Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, curator
of the Armenian Diaspora exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale;
Annie Fletcher, independent critic and curator, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Guido Tintori, resident researcher at Turin's
International and European Forum on Migration Research, a member of the Network
of International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, funded
by the European Commission; Joselina
Cruz, Curator, Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Nathan Mason,
Curator, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA; Adrian George, Curator,
Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Government Art Collection, London,
UK; Anuradha Vikram, Program Director, Headlands Center for the Arts,
Sausalito, USA; Dirck Möllmann, Artistic Director, Stile-Der-Stadt, Hamburg,
Germany; Simoneta Gorrieri, Art Director, Artlife, Venice, Italy, and many,
many others.
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