Beyond the Giardini of the Biennale: some considerations on a supposed model

One of the many possible ways to view the Venice Biennale – is through its spaces. Here we are referring not just to the architecture and the places occupied by works of art or used by the artists during the exhibition months but, above all, to the “areas” of attraction of the event, each different in their reciprocal relationships; in the ways the artistic projects are realized; of the way they relate to the city itself, and how they are the presented to the public. In particular, investigating those processes which have forced the Biennale to move away from its conformation of modernist “expo”, the occasions when it was forced to expand out of its traditional site at the Giardini di Castello, are important: its boundaries were blurred and tangibly merged with the city.