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Providing poetic threads as much as pragmatic guidelines, the manifesto helped orchestrate both the physical cue and imaginative glue that holds this enormous exhibition together.Īrsenale: rope curtain at entrance to the Corderieįor a start, the emphasis on generosity, materiality and light is reflected in the curators’ approach to the dressing of the two main venues themselves, which is kept minimal.

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These articulated ‘Freespace’ as, among other things, ‘a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity focused on the quality of space itself’ an ‘opportunity to emphasise nature’s free gifts … sunlight and moonlight, air, gravity, materials’ and ‘the freedom to weave the archaic with the contemporary’. This coherence was in large part down to a curatorial statement and manifesto that qualified and amplified Farrell and McNamara’s thinking behind the title. Yet the event is, in fact, one of the most tightly curated and reigned-in Biennales for years, with the two main centrally curated venues – the Corderie (an old rope-works) in the Arsenale and the Central Pavilion in the Giardini – feeling highly coherent in terms of common threads between exhibits and installations, if without the fireworks of previous years. The Freespace title of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects, is as typically vague and open one as for previous editions – an umbrella term for exhibitors and visitors to interpret as they wish.