图为Bruce Nauma，1983年
6日，第53届威尼斯双年展评委会宣布美国获得本届双年展最佳国家馆金狮奖，这是美国自1990年以来第一次获此殊荣。
今年代表美国参展的是艺术家Bruce Nauman的作品《拓扑花园》（Topological Gardens）。《拓扑花园》由费城艺术博物馆负责策划，并与威尼斯两所大学合作。希望借此拓展同威尼斯教育界的关系。
《拓扑花园》通过呈现艺术家四十年来各种大胆创新的作品来表现其艺术生涯的主题探索，主要包括三场展览，其中一场于美国国家馆进行，另外两场分别于威尼斯两所大学进行。
《拓扑花园》围绕着“拓扑学”这一概念，“拓扑”是一个监测在不断改变的环境中空间延续性的数学领域，它能让观众更好的理解艺术家的作品及所要展示的内容。
图为Bruce Nauma的作品装置《恶与善》（Vices and Virtues），霓虹，透明玻璃管，铝制底板。
双年展组委会对这一获奖作品的选择的陈述为：这是对Bruce Nauma艺术创作的持久能量和精确性所做的肯定。
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Golden Lion for the Best National Participation Awarded to the U.S. Representation
VENICE.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioning institution for the United States Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, announced today that the U.S. representation, Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for the Best National Participation. According to a statement from the Biennale, the presentation was selected “in recognition of the sustained energy and precision of Bruce Nauman’s art. From iconic embodiments of human pain and fragility to pithy jabs at our frailties, his oeuvre reveals the magic of meaning as it emerges through relentless repetition of language and form.” This is the first time since 1990 that the United States has received the much-coveted award.
Said Basualdo following the ceremony: “We at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are extremely grateful for the enormous support this project has received all along the way, beginning with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, as well as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Henry Luce Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and so many donors and lenders to the exhibition. We are also so grateful to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Universitá Iuav and the Univesitá Ca’ Foscari. Most of all, it has been an amazing honor to work closely with one of the great artists of our time, Bruce Nauman. We hope that this project will help establish a lasting and expanding relationship between the U.S. Pavilion and the educational institutions of the city of Venice.”
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens presents a thematic survey comprising four decades of the artist’s innovative and provocative work and is featured at three exhibition sites throughout the city of Venice: the United States Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Università Iuav di Venezia at Tolentini, and the Exhibition Spaces at Università Ca’ Foscari. The exhibition is structured around the notion of topology—a field in mathematics that examines the continuity of space amid changing conditions—which is used to understand the artist’s work as well as the context in which it will be displayed. On view are more than 30 works lent from public and private collections in the United States and Europe, some of which the artist has adapted and redeveloped specifically for Venice, working in direct response to the spatial context of the sites. The exhibition also includes two new sound-based works, Days and Giorni, the latter created by Nauman working in collaboration with students at each university. These two works will travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to make their U.S. premiere from November 21, 2009 – April 4, 2010.
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