Welcome to Scotland Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale has long history stretching back to 1895, when it was one of many international trade fairs set up in the spirit of internationalism and curiosity, an eclectic and exotic. Nationalist chauvinism Venice Biennale, World Expo, and other fairs were particularly fresh in many European countries have undergone revolutions and changes of government in the nineteenth century, resulting in an entirely new state. Germany was united into a modern nation state in 1871, Italy completed its merger with foreclosure of the Papal States from French in 1870, France also has been established the Third Republic at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1870. These toddler nation-state, inter alia, were proud of and seek to formalize the national cultural heritage, to strengthen the political.
Other function of the world cultural fair was, of course, education. In spite of a strong bourgeois class emerged in the nineteenth century, it would still be several decades before the world of travel has become a pastime for the middle class, the journey was still long and costly, exclusive only for the rich. World's fairs and exhibitions were the only means to enter the majority of Europeans to the cultural and artistic heritage of many countries near and far. The assembly and fragmentation of cultures was also noted that the effect of Darwin's control or fear of the circus sideshow, and the Europeans were surprised exotic people and places represented.
Now, more than a century later, the Venice Biennale remains a major art fair - one of the most important in the world - which is expanded to include satellite fairs and festivals in the two-year and much more. But the tradition of national pavilions remain, despite the fact that we certainly live in a time of postnationalism. Postnationalism, for those who need a definition is the understanding that the globalization of the economy, business, communication, and, of course, the arts, we do not identify themselves at the national level, but global.