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What can I possibly say to sum up my recent visit to the Venice Biennale, this onceevery- other-year event first established in 1895 to promote Italian art before developing into an international exhibition with countries competing to be ‘best in show’? It’s an utterly overwhelming, totally bemusing theme park of contemporary world art. It consists of two main parts: 90 national pavilions organised by the participating countries, each with its own bespoke exhibition featuring an artist, or artists, commissioned to represent the host country, scattered around the city’s public gardens and its vast former arsenal (the Arsenale); plus a huge central exhibition entitled ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’. The event presents world art created in myriad contemporary media (there’s so much video it’s almost passé), on colossal scales and in forms only consumable in these vast spaces. Nobody can take in this much art. You don’t have time for anything more than a quick walk past and through the work. It’s relentless.
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