{"id":418505,"date":"2026-05-08T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:13:09","slug":"fashion-figure-jordan-roth-wows-in-collage-at-the-venice-biennale-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418505\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion figure Jordan Roth wows in collage at the Venice Biennale &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">There is a plethora of events around the Venice Biennale but some stand out more than others. One talking point was a performance held 7 May at Palazzo dei Fiori, a Renaissance Venetian palazzo, devised by Jordan Roth, the US multi-disciplinary artist who wowed crowds earlier this week at the <a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2026\/05\/05\/artist-met-gala-metropolitan-museum-costume-institute-gala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met Gala<\/a> in New York with a \u201cliving sculpture\u201d look. Presented in collaboration with Performance Space New York\u2019s Visionaries Circle patrons group, the work staged in Venice was attended by art world luminaries such as Scott Rothkopf, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the London-based dealer Kristin Hjellegjerde. Guests were unsure what to expect as they filed into the grandest of halls. But Roth left the onlookers speechless and silent as he tore apart vinyl prints of the 16th-century polymath Irene di Spilimbergo affixed to a glass pane in a custom gilt frame, elegantly repositioning and refashioning the fragments into compelling collages accompanied by classical music. \u201cBound within the frame, Roth and the paintings are fused together, muse and artist becoming one,\u201d says a pithy project statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a plethora of events around the Venice Biennale but some stand out more than others. One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,72765,156,1438,111,139,69,85317],"class_list":["post-418505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-venice-biennale-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}