Unfolding Pavilion

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Unfolding Pavilion

/// 18th Venice Architecture Biennale /// May 19, 2023 /// 7 PM

21/06/2023

Unfolding Pavilion:
Giardini Pubblici: Venezia
Images © Laurian Ghinitoiu

Built up during the exhibition preview, the majority of the installations were removed by Biennale staff in the following days, once entry to the Giardini became ticketed. Of course, we expected the Biennale's reaction: their removal of our unauthorized interventions, however, had the sole effect of making the boatmen's daily lives just as difficult as before.

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15/06/2023

In the editorial of the June 2023 issue of The Architect's Newspaper, executive editor Jack Murphy dedicates a generous space to Unfolding Pavilion: ❤

"We have our own contemporary provocations, many of which surface in the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture, curated by Lesley Lokko, which opened last month. Among them are the current iteration of the (very unofficial) Unfolding Pavilion, curated by Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Davide Tommaso Ferrando, which adopted the theme of . The organizers criticize the near-total controlled access to the Giardini, which began as a park. Currently, only a third of the grounds are open to the public without purchasing a ticket to the art or architecture biennales, and the green space’s edges are hardened “by the system of gates, walls, fences, CCTV cameras, metal spikes, barbed wire, and armed guards,” according to Munteanu and Ferrando. Still, there are two locations where the barriers break down and people can slip by, so the pavilion highlighted them with signage, stairs, protective caps for the aforementioned spikes, and ladders, all painted red, plus red carpet. Vernissage attendees were able to see the interventions for a few days before the biennale removed them and life returned to business as usual."

Here is the link to the full article: https://www.archpaper.com/2023/06/the-june-2023-issue-of-the-architects-newspaper-is-out-today/

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13/06/2023

Unfolding Pavilion:
Giardini Pubblici: Venezia
Images © Laurian Ghinitoiu

The pavilion's opening took place behind the Lando Arch. There, Laurian Ghiniţoiu's photographic project was exhibited: the result of several walks around the perimeter of the Giardini made to document the various devices by which the permeability and impermeability of the Biennale is negotiated in space. The images were printed on transparent plexiglass, so that viewing them required looking through them, symbolically dissolving the pictured borders.

09/06/2023

Unfolding Pavilion: is mentioned in the "Deconstruction, Analysis and Borders" section of the emerging themes of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, according to ArchDaily.

"Unfolding Pavilion suggested unlocking the Giardini, a public land with the highest concentration of modern architecture granted to the Biennale, investigating the “paradoxical state of a public space that is not publicly accessible, through a series of site-specific interventions.”

The article is by Christele Harrouk: https://www.archdaily.com/1001521/emerging-themes-at-the-2023-venice-architecture-biennale-highlights-from-the-national-pavilions

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08/06/2023

Unfolding Pavilion:
Giardini Pubblici: Venezia
Images © Laurian Ghinițoiu

At the opposite end of the canal, a steel ladder inserted in the thickness of the Giardini's brick wall on the back of the Austrian pavilion (whose theme and exhibition we greatly appreciate) was improved with more reliable grips and taped red to make it easily visible - and therefore usable - from public space.

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07/06/2023

Unfolding Pavilion: is in the top 10(+1) of Hungarian architecture magazine Építészfórum favourite pavilions at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale ✌

"Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Daniel Tudor Munteanu (OfHouses) are making their fourth subversive pavilion running in parallel with the Venice Architecture Biennale. This year, the curators, like the Austrian pavilion, are problematising the Biennale's enclosed nature. It seems extremely odd that the Napoleonic-era 'public park' is not accessible to Venetian residents outside the Biennale period." (translated with Deepl)

Here you can find the article by Levente Borenich and Maté Hulesch: https://bit.ly/3CzoIjH

05/06/2023

Unfolding Pavilion:
Giardini Pubblici: Venezia
Images © Laurian Ghinițoiu

Beyond the portal, three red ladders installed to mediate the height differences led to a long red carpet that accompanied the walk to a rusty spiked fence. Red tape was applied to cover the rust, puffy clown noses were glued to the spikes, and a soft grip was installed where the boatmen hung to swing around the barrier. The red carpet extended all the way across the fence to the first docking stations.

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31/05/2023

On Archphoto, a short interview by Emanuele Piccardo to Unfolding Pavilion curators Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Davide Tommaso Ferrando about .

"We were introduced to Lesley Lokko during the preview days and gave her a copy of our catalogue, explaining how the Biennale has colonized the Giardini over the past 130 years. When you are bound to an official institution, it is difficult to address such issues. On the other hand, because we are completely independent, we have the freedom to pursue the kind of institutional critiques that the other curators could not."

Full text here: https://www.archphoto.it/interview-with-unfolding-pavilion/

30/05/2023

Unfolding Pavilion:
Giardini Pubblici: Venezia
Images © Laurian Ghinitoiu

At the southern end of the canal that splits the Giardini in two, behind the Greek pavilion, an arch with the sign topped the riverbank access. Alessandro Mason, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, and Lucas Geiger designed this portal to resemble a ceremonial doorway to a discovered gap in the fence of the Giardini. The portal was meant to dignify the informal and accidented route walked everyday by the owners of the boats that are docked within the perimeter of the Biennale.

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25/05/2023

Unfolding Pavilion:
Giardini Pubblici: Venezia
Images © Laurian Ghinitoiu

The Unfolding Pavilion's most visible intervention was a large banner hung to the Lando Arch of Sant'Antonio di Castello. The banner, designed by Michele Galluzzo, was strategically placed in the public part of the Giardini, directly in front of the Biennale's entry gate, on the opposite side of the visual axis that ends with the British Pavilion. The banner featured an angry emoji face demanding that the Giardini be returned to the people.

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18/05/2023

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