PREJUDICEBy Pablo Larios

Apr 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Pablo Larios |PREJUDICEBy Pablo Larios |Travis Jeppesen |DiarySo CLOSE

For viewers (this correspondent included) who were unable to sort out the registration to visit the Holy See pavilion—at the Giudecca Women’s prison, and with Vatican-grade security (the pope himself is due to visit on Saturday)—I urge a visit, just across the Giudecca canal, to Bulgaria’s impassioned excavation of the psychological afterlives of political imprisonment.

Apr 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |DiarySo CLOSE |PREJUDICEBy Pablo Larios

Eddie Martinez at San Marino pavilion: Micro-nation enthusiasts, unite! Because if there has to be such a thing as countries, then they should be as tiny as possible. Though there’s nothing diminutive about the paintings and sculptures of American artist Eddie Martinez, who was chosen to represent this cute little Italy-enclosed splotch. Martinez’s own splotches, loaded with chromatic charisma and interlaid with dashing and rhythmical linework, are verdant, fruitful, and sexy as hell.