Abstract
In August 2004, Spanish curator María De Corral and Rosa Martínez were invited to direct the 51st Venice Biennale. These two women thus became the first to curate the Biennale in all its history. Their experience in curatorship since that time eight years ago reflects many months of intense work, with all its satisfactions and setbacks, in conversations with the artists and battles over the budget. The exhibition was neither historicist nor linear, but it testified to a relationship that developed between the artists of various generations and countries who discussed and worked on specific ideas concerning art and modern life, intertwining attitudes that were similar in intensity and obsessive quality.