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52nd Venice Biennale is one of the most visited for the exhibition history
The 52nd International Art Exhibition, first and last stop of the Grand Tour 2007, closed yesterday, November 21st , with an outstanding result in terms of visitors: 319,322 people attended this year's exhibition within its 165 days. This has been the most attended Biennale of the past twenty-five years and one of the most visited in the whole history of the exhibition.
The 52nd International Art Exhibition has been set up within 25,000 squared-meters spread between the Giardini and the Arsenale and included the extraordinary number of 76 National Participations and 34 Collateral Events. Since its opening, last June, the 52nd Biennale has been the most visited art show in Italy. Think with the senses - Feel with the mind. Art in the Present Tense, was curated by Robert Storr.
The 42 free entrance National Pavilions spread around the city of Venice, hosted in historical buildings and churches, have been visited by more than 827,000 people. Ukrainian pavilion was presented by the Centre for contemporary art PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) and hosted in Palazzo Papadopoli built in 17th century. Project "A Poem about an Inland Sea" was created by a group of Ukrainian and foreign artists including Boris Mikhailov, Serhiy Bratkov, Oleksandr Hnylytsky and Lesia Zayats, and also Mark Titchner, Sam Taylor-Wood, Juergen Teller and Dzine. At the opinion of vice-premier minister and minister of culture of Italy Francesco Rutelli, Ukrainian exhibition became one of the three top events of 52nd Venice Biennale.
The 34 free entrance Collateral Events set up around Venice and the lagoon islands attracted 650,000 visitors, ca.
As "mother of all the Biennials", the exhibition interested a large number of art professionals who participated to the preview which took place last June from 6th to 9th. More than 34,000 guests - artists, museum directors, gallerists, collectors and authorities, both Italian and international - attended the event and among them 3,311 were journalists from all over the world. The party organized within opening of the Ukrainian Pavilion became one of the most popular events. The special guests of Ukrainian pavilion in this evening became Elton John, Miucia Prada and Mark Jacobs, Larry Gagosian, heavyweight world boxing champion Vitaly Klichko.
The accredited press to this year's Biennale reached the record number of 5,691 journalists (4,661 in 2005), 3,927 of which from 60 foreign countries (particularly from Germany, United Kingdom, USA and Eastern Europe) and 1,764 from Italy.
