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Article: Valencia Bienal announced. (Front Page).
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- Art in America
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- May 1, 2003
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With a theme ("the ideal city") that is slightly less vague and pretentious than those of most international biennials, the second Bienal de Valencia opens in Spain's third largest city on June 8, following a two-day press preview. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the director, Italian curatorial impresario Luigi Settembrini, has invited an architect (Will Alsop, who will collaborate with artist Bruce McLean), a filmmaker (Mike Figgis) and a photographer (Sebastiao Salgado), as well as two museum curators (Jean Louis Maubant, who will team with philosopher Francisco Jarauta, and Lorand Hegyi), to create five separate exhibitions. There will also be several other ...