Venice Biennale: Revenge of the Raptors
By Randy Kennedy
Inside the Canadian pavilion, devoted to an installation by the artist David Altmejd.
One of the artists who seems to be getting a lot of attention is also among the youngest, David Altmejd, 32, representing Canada. He has been known mostly for his recurrent werewolf motif: heads of fanged changelings sprouting crystals and mirrors and chains, as if decaying or exploding. “It’s partly about our fear of our animal instincts,” Andrea Rosen, Mr. Altmejd’s dealer, says, “but transformed into things that are beautiful.”
For the Canadian pavilion, a glass-and-wood greenhouse-looking structure that has a reputation of being hard to show art in, the werewolves are still there but they are starting to disappear — eaten by birds. Altmejd (pronounced AWLT-mayde) said he created the space to look something like an aviary partly so he could completely fill the pavilion, as birds would fill an aviary. More...
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