Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys “Mondo Cane” Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition

Jos de Gruyter, Harald Thys, Mondo Cane, Venice Biennale of Art

Gruyter Thys, Mondo Cane “Mondo Cane” is the exhibition’s title proposed by Brussels artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys at the Belgium Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale.

On one side is a reassuring world, with its old trades and craftsmen.

On the other, a disturbing world, with its zombies and outsiders, fortunately, confined behind bars!

In the white space of the Belgian Pavilion, the central, quiet world that goes about its daily business lives its little life well ordered, well protected and away from the frightening reality surrounding it.

Gruyter Thys, Mondo Cane In the rooms that border the traditional and reassuring world are locked up mentally ill, psychotic murderers, infirm, spies, collaborators, frustrated, criminals, possessed of the devil.

All these characters of good and evil are represented by automatons whose jerky movements, for the most part, add to the general malaise.

Tintin for adults.

Jos de Gruyter, Harald Thys “Mondo Cane”

Sculpture, Automaton - Fabric, Metal, Oil, Pigments - 2019 Venice Biennale of Art

Gruyter Thys, Mondo Cane