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Article: Venezia/Venezuela: a project for Artforum by Meyer Vaisman.
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- Artforum International
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- June 22, 1995
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The Venezuelan artist Meyer Vaisman, elected to represent his country in this year's Venice Biennale, proposed a project consisting of two housing units, each of a type familiar in the Venezuelan landscape. One structure, Verde por fuera, roja por dentro (Green outside, red inside), which was previously installed at the Galeria de Arte Nacional, would have replicated the kind of rancho or shanty in which most of the country's urban population lives. Inside the makeshift structure of hollow bricks and mortar, the artist would re-create his bedroom from his adolescence in Caracas, complete with furniture in the watered-down international style favored by Venezuela's ...
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