The restless Muses, the Biennale between art and history

(ANSA) - VENICE, AUGUST 29 - Arts and History. In 125 years of existence, since the first art exhibition in 1895, La Biennale di Venezia has not been able to escape this combination.
    A comparison, following the path of the exhibition "Le Museinquiete. The Biennale in the face of history", at the Central Pavilion of the Giardini, until 8 December, which becomes tight, as today, in that "very short century" that goes from years '20, when the hand and the will of fascism reach out to the institution, to the great moments of the post-war revival, with the memorable art exhibition of '48 (Picass for the first time or the "discovery" of American art thanks to Peggy Guggenheim), to the protests of '68, to the outbreak of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, up to the 1990s with the dawn of globalization and the change of Statute and the passage of the institution to a Foundation.
    Driven by one of those great events that change history, the Covid19 pandemic - as it happened before with wars, social conflicts, generational clashes and the profound transformations of the 20th century that "pressed against the borders of the Venetian institution" to put it with Cecilia Alemani, coordinator of the project and director of the arteslittata exhibition in 2022 - the Biennale wanted to deal with its events in relation to society, politics and the great events of the world. (HANDLE).