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The melancholy of the Swiss Pavilion
Text by Rob Wilson
Venice and melancholy are good bedfellows, but usually only when the mists of autumn come. However, while hanging around the Swiss Pavilion during the opening days of the Biennale, I caught myself humming the tune of Lana del Rey’s Summertime Sadness. The pavilion is curated by the master of melancholic atmosphere, Miroslav Šik, who studied under Aldo Rossi in Zurich, and his work has always echoed some of the De Chirico–esque sensibility of Rossi’s, seeming to hark back to some timeless Ur-past of the European city. In the near empty main gallery, Šik has wrapped around immense monochrome images of both his own work and that of Knapkiewicz & Fickert and Miller & Maranta, the two practices he asked to collaborate with him. These huge photographs developed directly on the walls have the quality of drawings, and the leitmotif seems to be of empty benches facing onto people-less places – relating in atmosphere to Šik‘s early drawings designed to represent the city specifically at 7:00 AM just after dawn. (Photo, background: Benedikt Hotze)
Portrait of Miroslav Šik. (Photo: Torsten Seidel)
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