Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting IslamWhen Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the incoming new president of the Venice Biennale, was once asked in an interview whether he was a fascist, the Italian rightwing journalist and public intellectual replied: “I am not a fascist. I am something else.”After Buttafuoco was this week officially nominated to lead the oldest and largest cultural exhibition in the world, it is not just the artists, actors, architects, film-makers, dancers and musicians whose work will be shown at the coming biennales’ six events who are asking themselves what exactly that “something else” may be. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/18/venice-biennale-rightwing-director-pietrangelo-buttafuoco
Author : Philip Oltermann and Lorenzo Tondo
Publish date : 2023-11-18 05:00:12
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Venice Biennale’s new, rightwing director has art world guessing
