Dear readers of Finestre sull’Arte,
we feel the duty to apologize to all of you. Especially to those who, in these hours, are searching our homepage for the “Definitive Review” of the Venice Biennale. We regret to disappoint you, but we are afraid you will have to wait a few more days.
And we say this with extreme honesty: excuse us for our blatant and embarrassing slowness.
While everywhere it is all a flourish of judgments and evaluations, while the web world has already delivered lapidary judgments and analyses not even twenty-four hours before the gates open, we at Finestre sull’Arte have fallen dramatically behind.
You won’t believe it, but we are wasting so much time viewing exhibitions, reading press releases and even captions, and this activity, again because of our slowness, takes time away from us, but unfortunately, there are so many things to see at the Biennale, indeed: so many.
We are well aware that, in the age of gigabytes per second, our lack of speed can seem almost anachronistic. We are aware of the fact that we could publish the best possible review right now (after all, modesty aside, we know we have some of the best pens and some of the sharpest looks in the business), but we have a character limitation: we like to understand.
We feel, we don’t know if rightly, that it is impossible to publish something intellectually honest within hours of the preview.
We could, of course, offer you a list of “hot suggestions,” of impressions, or tell you which pavilions have the most photogenic colors for your social media, but we do not want to sacrifice the soundness of a thoughtful judgment in the name of an immediacy that we feel is unhelpful and, let us tell you, unaccountable.
We will continue to give you quick information and insights, but for the actual review (the one you have come to expect from us and which, we are sure, will be the only one worth reading to get a real picture of the present edition) we ask for your patience. Forgive us if we cannot be as superficial as the algorithm would like. It is our limitation, but it is also why you continue to choose us.
Daniele Rocca, editor of Finestre sull’Arte (those who really look at exhibitions)
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