或许是上一届威尼斯双年展(La Biennale di Venezia)关于政治和资本的议题过于激烈,舆论界似乎对于本届威尼斯双年展所谓“艺术本体论”的诉求也颇为不满。选择性地忽视全球动荡的政治和经济格局,以及日益艰难的资源和环境压力,沉浸于艺术精英式的狂欢,并不能治愈外部世界此起彼伏的阵痛和呻吟。而与威尼斯双年展档期交错开幕的第十四届卡塞尔 Perhaps the issue of politics and capital at the last Biennale di Venezia was over-heated, and the media seemed quite dissatisfied with the appeals of the so-called “art ontology” at this Venice Biennale. Selectively ignoring the political and economic turmoil of the global turmoil and the increasing pressure of resources and the environment, immersing ourselves in the elite carnival of the arts can not cure the throes and moaning of the external world one after another. And with the Venice Biennale staggered the opening of the fourteenth Cassell