Tag: Everlasting Plastics

CAN Celebrates the Cleveland debut of Everlasting Plastics with a recycling project

Few art events in Cleveland have provoked a level of energetic discussion comparable with what accompanied Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition commissioned by SPACES for US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice  Biennale Architettura.  It was an unprecedented accomplishment for any Ohio organization to win the international honor—especially one with a budget tiny by comparison to typical Venice Biennale commissioning organizations. Curated […]

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From Cleveland to Venice and Back Again, Everlasting Plastics Comes Home

SPACES is pleased to welcome Everlasting Plastics back to its Cleveland home. Originally premiering in the U. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and then travelling on to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in 2024, this compelling group exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists and designers to examine our complex relationship with plastic. This […]

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Art in the Plastocene Era: Everlasting Plastics at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

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A swirling, circular tangle of twisting black lines, Simon Anton’s Orologio (Plastic Time) (Fig. 1) looms above the heads of visitors to the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.  Comprised of bits of black and white salvaged plastic waste fused to a metal armature, Anton’s sculpture is on view as part of the exhibition Everlasting […]

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Meet the US Artists of the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura

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As this issue of CAN goes to press, curators Tizziana Baldenebro of SPACES and Lauren Leving of moCa Cleveland were on the verge of departure for Italy, where they would oversee the installation of Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition they have built for the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura. Their proposal, via Cleveland-based SPACES Gallery, was chosen by […]

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