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Frank Walter’s Mysterious World on the Island of Antigua
Behold the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion was featured on PBS's Digital Studio Art Trip: Venice Biennale. This is an excerpt of the wok of Frank Walter, The Last Universal Man. See the full Venice Biennale video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXY7hsIo2CM
PBS's ART TRIP: VENICE BIENNALE, Featuring the Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural Pavilion
Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion, Artist's Practice Project, "Art is the Chief Expression of Human Intellect."
Art is the Chief Expression of Human Intellect, Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion
Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion Artist's Practice Project
On Art — A Planter’s Feeling, Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion
Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion, Artist's Practice Project, "How I Became European."
How I Became European, Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion
Antigua and Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia Frank Walter: The Last Universal Man 1926-2009 Curated by Barbara Paca, Ph.D.
Hike to Frank, Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion
Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion, Artist's Practice Project, "What My Ancestor's Believed."
What My Ancestor’s Believed, Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion
Frank Walter The Last Universal Man, Venice Documentation Project
Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion, Artist's Practice Project, "The Sculptor."
The Sculptor, Venice Biennale Antigua & Barbuda Inaugural National Pavilion
Frank Walter: The Last Universal Man 1926–2009 marks Antigua and Barbuda’s inaugural representation at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition invites visitors into the world of Caribbean artist Frank Walter through a selection of his paintings, sculpture, audio recordings, and writing—as well as through video exploration of his entire oeuvre. The Last Universal Man also represents a posthumous fulfilment of Walter’s intention to open his house and studio as a centre for art.
Fittingly situated in the tranquil setting of central Venice’s fifteenth-century monastery, Don Orione Artigianelli, the exhibition extends outdoors to an Antiguan garden. This sets the contemplative mood of Walter’s artistic retreat and paradisus terrestris, which he built above the southern Antiguan coastline in the last decades of his life. The artwork that once filled Walter’s house and studio is inextricable from his postcolonial experience. Yet the issues he engaged with—such as identity, memory, and environment—still resonate today.
For more information on Frank Walter at the 57th Venice Biennale visit www.frankwalter.org
