The 42 free entrance National Pavilions spread around the city of Venice, hosted in historical buildings and churches, have been visited by more than 827,000 people. The show took place in the 25,000 square-meters spread between the Giardini and the Arsenale, was directed by Robert Storr and included the extraordinary number of 76 National Participations and 34 Collateral Events. This was the most attended Biennale of the past twenty-five years and one of the most visited in the whole history of the exhibition. Art in the Present Tense ran June 10 to November 21, 2007. The 52nd International Art Exhibition Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Around 915,000 visitors attended the exhibitions in the Biennale venues and in other venues throughout Venice: 265,000 visitors at the two main shows, 370,000 visitors at the exhibitions of 40 countries in Venice, and a further 280,000 visitors at 31 collateral events. The two main exhibitions were complemented by 70 participating countries and 31 collateral events. For the first time in its history, the direction of the Biennale Art Exhibition was entrusted to two directors, both women, both from Spain. The 2005 edition (from June 12 to November 6) presented two distinct yet complementary exhibitions, The Experience of Art directed by María de Corral, and Always a Little Further directed by Rosa Martínez. Other exhibitions which were part of the overall project included The Zone, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Fault Lines, curated by Gilane Tawadros, Individual Systems, curated by Igor Zabel, Zone of Urgency, curated by Hou Hanru, The Structure of Survival, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Contemporary Arab Representations, curated by Catherine David, The Everyday Altered, curated by Gabriel Orozco, and Utopia Station, curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Bonami in fact curated three exhibitions within this project: Delays and Revolutions (along with Daniel Birnbaum), Clandestine, and Pittura/Painting, a large retrospective about painting at the Venice Biennale from 1964 to the present day, which took place at the Museo Correr. Bonami said the Exhibition, which attracted over 260,100 visitors, created “a polyphony of voices and thoughts: it is a large body in which different and independent spirits of contemporary art are shown”. The 50th edition of the International Art Exhibition was directed by Francesco Bonami and took place from June 15 to November 2, 2003. Then come a number of those contemporary artists who have focused on the human figure – for example, Ron Mueck”. Alongside Beuys, various other artists of the 20th century were exhibited: “Cy Twombly, whose generous gestures restore myth to the modern world Richard Serra, the creator of a new concept of the monumental Niele Toroni, the champion of painting as trace. According to Szeemann, “It was Beuys above all who was the indefatigable spokesman for the concept of liberty”. A key work by Joseph Beuys, The End of the Twentieth Century, was exhibited. The Venice Biennale hopes to serve as a raised platform offering a view over humankind”. Szeemann said that “No set theme was applied in choosing the artists indeed, it is their work which decides the dimension of the event. It was directed, as the 1999 edition, by the Swiss critic Harald Szeemann and attracted over 243,400 visitors. The 49th International Art Exhibition took place from June 10 to November 4, 2001, under the title Plateau of Humankind.
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