Commercial Break Trailer – 54th Venice Biennale

by Lauren Festa   |  May 26, 2011

Giving censorship the boot. Trailer after this..Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow presents the mobile installation Commercial Break from 1 to 5 June 2011 as part of the opening week of the 54th Venice Biennale.

On a giant video billboard navigating the heart of Venice, over eighty artists engage with the relationship between advertising and culture in a city where advertising is virtually banned. The short digital works by globally recognized and emerging artists from around the world bring the form and language of advertising to Venice. The project is curated by Neville Wakefield and powered by POST magazine.

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