Venice Biennale: Mondo Cane
Feb 17, 2019, 07:15 PM
Mondo Cane was a scandalous Italian documentary movie of the early 1960s which consisted of totally unrelated segments ranging from pet cemeteries in California to ornamentally arranged monk's bones in Rome to women in New Guinea nursing piglets. Flemish artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys and curator Anne-Claire Schmitz have now used the Mondo Cane concept as a basis for this year’s Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, commissioned by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. They tell us all about it.