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Historic of the Tahiti Pavilion September 2005: Andreas Dettloff and Jean Paul Forest are on an island. They both fall from the top: ART has its own Olympic Games, the Biennial of Venice, subjected to a reasonable amount of administrative, political and financial requirements. Art in Polynesia would love to be a part of Western art, but without bearing the same concepts nor having equal financial means to participate. So why not try to invest the Biennial in 2007? Would it be possible, coming from an island in the middle of the Pacific, to invest the Biennial of Venice with an artwork labelled as the first Tahitian Pavilion? What kind of history can arise from such an experiment? How will people react and what could be the interest for Venice and Tahiti to confront their mythologies? December 2005: First presentation of a trompe-l'oeil pavilion exempt from artwork and exhibition space to Lino Polegato, independent curator familiar to the Biennial. May 2006: Lino Polegato decides to support the project provided its validation by the government of French Polynesia. July 2006: The Vice-presidency entitles Jean Paul Forest and Andreas Dettloff to present their artwork labelled as "the first official Pavilion of Tahiti" August 2006 to January 2007: The artwork should be financed - just like the Biennial - by patronage. Contact is taken with about a dozen of entrepreneurs representing different branches of industry and sales business in Polynesia. They are interested and amused by the project. But most of them abstain from investing in an adventure not taking place in Tahiti. October 2006 to March 2007: In parallel with the dialog engaged with the authorities of the Biennial, Lino Polegato seeks a direct complicity with national pavillions participating in the Biennial. March 2007: The “first official Pavilion of Tahiti” becomes “Tahiti Pavillon”, a more general symbol of remote and exotic countries and causes first official reactions. April 2007: Opening of the website www.tahitipavillon.com. Artists Francoise Vincent and Elohim Feria, representing the Republic of Venezuela in Venice with an intercultural and ecologic artwork, want to give a home to the Tahiti Pavillon in their workshop in the Biennial. June 7, 2007: Assembly of Tahiti Pavillon inside of the Venezuela Pavillon as an unrollable blind, accentuating its character of a thin and mobile artwork. 7/8/9 June 2007: The house-blind nomadises in the Giardini, hosted temporarily by several curators of different pavilions allured by the concept (R. Block from the pavilion of Finland-Norway-Sweden, M. Francisco of Brazil Pavilion, L. Déry from Canada, C. Macel for the Belgian Pavilion...) Excursion of Tahiti Pavilion to the mythical places in Venice (Grand Canal, Saint Marc...) June 9, 2007: Opening of Tahiti Pavilion in Venezuela Pavillon by Vincent & Feria with a ceremony of cutting the blind and end of the Venetian ballad. July 2007: Return of the artists to Tahiti and publication on the website of the images of the tahitian adventure in the 52nd Biennial of Venice. September 2007: Simultaneous exhibition in Liège/Belgium and Papeete/French Polynesia of the ballad of Tahiti Pavilion. (back) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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