Published: July 16, 2013
Massimiliano Gioni’s exhibition “The Encyclopaedic Palace” at this year’s Venice Biennalehas received much praise. Its whole-embracing concept — based on a utopian museum dreamt up in the 1950s by the Italian American Marino Auriti and designed to host all human knowledge — has proved a perfect umbrella theme, allowing the curator to juxtapose works from the four corners of the globe, and by artists and amateurs of all stripes. But with more than 150 of them in an exhibition spread over both the Arsenale and the Giardini, it remains an overwhelming experience. To help you navigate your way through, BLOUIN ARTINFO UK has picked up 20 key works.