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Welcome to His Palace: How Venice Biennale Curator Massimiliano Gioni Is Making Everything Work for Him
And taking on the very nature of big international art exhibitions
Gioni preparing the exhibition. (Photo by Francesco Galli, courtesy la Biennale di Venezia)
The Venice Biennale was the last place I expected to encounter the Hodag. If you attended elementary school in Wisconsin, as I did, you learned about this mythological monster, a hybrid frog-elephant-dinosaur with clawed feet and a spear-like tail. It resided, according to a late-19th-century hoax, in the city of Rhinelander, in the woodsy region that downstaters call “up north.” The Hodag is mentioned on a wall label in the Biennale, next to a cabinet full of woodcarvings—some of animals, others of fantastical beings—by Levi Fisher Ames, who toured his curious carvings around Wisconsin in the 1880s.
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