57th Venice Biennale

Installation view of the exhibition Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy, dated 2017.

Carol Bove 
Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss

Installation view of the exhibition Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy, dated 2017.

Carol Bove 
Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss

Installation view of the exhibition Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy, dated 2017.

Carol Bove 
Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss

Installation view of the exhibition Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy, dated 2017.

Carol Bove 
Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss

Installation view of the exhibition Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy, dated 2017.

Carol Bove 
Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss

Installation view of the exhibition Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy, dated 2017.

Carol Bove 
Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss

 

The artist's works respond to the legacy of Alberto Giacometti

2017

May 13–November 26, 2017

For the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Carol Bove created an installation in response to the late figurative work of Alberto Giacometti. Curated by Philipp Kaiser, the Pavilion exhibition Women of Venice also featured the work of the artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler.

Bove's installation, which spanned an indoor and outdoor space, comprised nine steel sculptures including a "collage sculpture," seven bright cyan colored columnar structures, and a white glyph work.

Interviewed for Apollo magazine, the artist described how Giacometti's work has influenced her own: "He's one of my favorite artists, so it was insightful for Philipp to choose me because I don't always think it's so explicit in my work . . . I've been thinking about Giacometti a lot as somebody who has an interesting sense of the space between objects, or the suggested space around objects . . . "

Read more: further details about the exhibition and the artists' works in Aesthetica Magazine and e-flux