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John Cale to take part in Venice art festival
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 12 December 2008
John Cale will exhibit an audio-visual artwork at the 2009 Venice Biennale, a biennale art festival. Cale’s work will be there to represent his home country of Wales, and I think it will involve other Welsh artists, filmmakers and poets. The welsh language and communication will be themes explored by the piece, apparently.
Commenting on the art festival, Cale says: “As surprised and honoured as I was to be asked to contribute to the Welsh presentation at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009 it also was a challenge that I eagerly accepted. It offers an occasion to address certain pernicious issues in my background that had lain dormant for so long”.
“There are certain experiences uniquely suited to the exorcism of mixed media and I am grateful for this opportunity to address them”.
