Katrin Sigurdardottir's FOUNDATION Set for Icelandic Pavilion at Venice Biennale, Now thru Nov 24

Katrín Sigurdardóttir: Foundation will be on view at the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno Moorat, Fondamenta del Soccorso 2596, Dorsoduro, today, June 1-November 24, 2013. Preview Days: May 29-31, 2013.

For the Pavilion of Iceland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia in 2013,
Katrín Sigurdardóttir has created a large-scale sculptural intervention titled Foundation for the Lavanderia-The Old Laundry at Palazzo Zenobio. The artist has created a floating platform covered by ornate, baroque-inspired tiles, measuring approximately 90 square meters. The outline of the architectural structure takes its form from the footprint of a typical 18th-century pavilion, intersecting both interior and exterior spaces of this auxiliary building.

The project is born from the artist's career-long exploration of distance and memory, and their embodiments in architecture, urbanism, cartography, and landscape. After la Biennale di Venezia, the piece will travel to the Reykjavík Art Museum and then to the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York.

Sigurdardóttir has worked with two curators in realizing the exhibition, Mary Ceruti, Executive Director and Chief Curator, SculptureCenter and Ilaria Bonacossa, Director of Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce in Genova, Italy.

For additional information, visit the Icelandic Art Center's website.

Artwork: Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Foundation, 2013.