Cleveland hopes to become the next Venice

The triennial, to be held until September 30 and expected to take place every three years after that, is the idea of

Fred Bidwell.

A collector from Cleveland who runs an art space called Transformer Station, he wants to add the Cleveland Triennale to a worldwide art tour that has long included similar European shows such as the Venice Biennale in Italy and Documenta in Kbadel, in Germany. Kbadel can attract a crowd, surely Cleveland can, "Bidwell said.

Triennial organizers use 28 sites, including a 1925 steamship moored next to the Cleveland Great Lakes Science Center to show Los Angeles artist

Allan Sekula & # 39; s

film about the economies of the sea, "The lottery of the sea."

Several vendors in the West Side Market of the city will serve Milwaukee artist

John Riepenhoff

Cleveland Curry Kojiwurst, a sausage that he created with the help of a local chef and an urban farm. Prior art projects of Mr. Riepenhoff included developing his own beer and making his own cheese, and he said his latest recipe, which contains saffron paprika, is aimed at capturing the story. from Cleveland "in one bite."

Public Library, British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare will pack over 6,000 African textile books to create "The American Library". Mr. Shonibare has already engraved half of the books with notable names of first, second or third generation. immigrants from

Steve Jobs

to the Governor of Ohio John Kasich.

Even the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland will be used to expose the art. Wisconsin-born artist

Philip Vanderhyden

plans to divide its three-story gilded lobby with 24 video screens to show "Volatility Smile 3", its fluid and lively look at the uncertainties of money.

Vanderhyden said the video, which slice and twists the historical symbols of wealth like coins and wheat, aims to subvert the intent of the Beaux-Arts Lobby's architecture, which was designed to feed confidence in the reserve bank. Even so, he said the bank approved his proposal to take the place. "Economists have enjoyed my exploration of fear," he said.

The Artistic Director of the Triennial,

Michelle Grabner,

She said Front wanted to "feel rooted in the Midwest," so she visited studios in places like Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Buffalo, NY, before listing her attendees.

comprising

Allen Ruppersberg,

which gained an international reputation in the late 1960s for upholstering the walls with Day-Glo prints containing snippets of commercials and phrases like "This is not art". He was born in Cleveland, but Ms. Grabner exhibited locally – until now.

For the triennial, Mr. Ruppersberg walked the Cleveland steel courses and the shores of the lake for billboards and then took pictures of their views. The work will be shown in light boxes at the Cleveland Museum of Art

. The triennial is also recreating an abstract 12-story fresco by Julian Stanczak, a Polish painter who settled outside Cleveland after the Second World War. In 1973, he set up his striped coin on the side of a downtown Cleveland building and, before his death last year, he authorized Front to paint the same work at the same location, at the same time. 39, Prospect Avenue and Ninth Street. 19659005] Artists still living in the Cleveland area could also see their profiles strengthened.

Dale Goode,

who sprays gold paint on bundles of wigs, rakes and other debris that he finds in his Hough neighborhood, will display a glittering set at the University Circle. Nearby, artist and professor Oberlin College

Johnny Coleman

create a haunting installation and sound piece on the steps of an abandoned church in the Glenville neighborhood.

Other Midwestern artists used the invitation to investigate Cleveland, who picked up the derogatory nickname "Error on the Lake" after a loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector and the Urban plague in the 1970s.

Jonn Herschend,

A multimedia artist born in Branson, Missouri, but long based in San Francisco, said he was struck by the fact that he often met Ohio natives in his journeys that left the state. but told him that they wanted to go home. "I'm from Missouri and I do not want to come back, so this desire is not just Midwestern," said Herschend.

As an artist whose works often take on unusual formats like instructional videos or PowerPoint presentations, to capture that homesickness by producing "A theme song for Cleveland and Akron." He enlisted the composer

Silas Hite,

His uncle is Mark Mothersbaugh, singer of Devo and Mark Mothersbaugh of Akron, and the accompanying video presents a local fanfare, a stage group and a roller derby team. It will be performed at the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Most of the triennial can be seen in three practicable sections in Cleveland and Oberlin and Akron, each about 40 minutes away by car. Architecture lovers should go to Oberlin, where is located

Juan Araujo

Surrealistic paintings of mid-century homes will be hung throughout a 1949

Frank Lloyd Wright

House. Near the

Richard D. Baron

& # 39; 64 Art Gallery, Chinese artist

Cui Jie & # 39; s

Futuristic urban scenes and sculptures, some of which are made with a 3D printer, will be exhibited

The Akron Art Museum has dedicated 6,000 square feet to 16 triennial artists, including the "emoji-like" of the artist from Buenos Aires Ad Minoliti. "Geometric murals that take on playful shapes like pigs and robots," said Chief Curator

Ellen Rudolph.

Another must-see:

Gerard Byrne & # 39; s

"In Our Time", a wood panel radio installation that airs pop tunes, weather forecasts and news from 1980, some from Cleveland, others from Pittsburgh and elsewhere.

"He creates a whirlwind of place and time," said Mrs. Rudolph. "It's hypnotizing."

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