After firmly deciding not to attend either the pre-opening days of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale or the opening ceremony scheduled for May 9, Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli went to Venice this morning. Welcoming him at the Pier della Gru, in front of the Italian Pavilion, was the president of the Biennale Foundation, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. Buttafuoco handed him the Biennale catalog and later accompanied him on his visit to the Italian Pavilion, which lasted about forty minutes.
Asked by reporters if he had made peace with Buttafuoco, Giuli replied, “Of course,” clarifying, however, that “there has never been any personal war.” The minister then added aristotelically, “Friend Pietrangelo has never failed, but greater friend is the truth that I represent as a minister.” “It is a perfect day, a beautiful day,” he concluded.
“The message that comes from the Art Biennale is, as always, that of freedom, beauty and the centrality of the social function of the arts,” Minister Giuli went on to say. “The visit to the Italian Pavilion represents not only an institutional duty towards an initiative of the Ministry of Culture, but also a sign of attention and closeness to the Biennale, its history and all that it expresses. And it is of course also a tribute to Venice.”
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