{"id":471756,"date":"2026-05-06T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:32:12","slug":"alvaro-barrington-takes-a-road-trip-to-the-venice-biennale-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471756\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvaro Barrington takes a road trip to 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\">UK artist Alvaro Barrington\u2019s vibrant haulage truck (Labor Day Parade \u201991, 2026) decorated with scenes linked to his background, and laden with art historical references, is wowing crowds in the Giardini (next to the notorious <a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2026\/05\/05\/florentina-holzinger-immersive-show-brings-apocalypse-to-venice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austrian pavilion<\/a> if you need the exact location). Barrington explained that he had driven the lorry directly from London on an epic journey across Europe to the lagoon city for the 61st\u00a0Venice Biennale. On the preview day, the colourful vehicle was admired by the artist Julie Mehretu and Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan, who both waxed lyrical about the jaunty juggernaut. Fear not\u2014the front tyres have been punctured so that the lorry cannot move, says Barrington, preventing it from careering into the Austrian exhibition and crushing the nude performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK artist Alvaro Barrington\u2019s vibrant haulage truck (Labor Day Parade \u201991, 2026) decorated with scenes linked to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[207001,365,362,363,364,366,75543,18,117,19,17,95735],"class_list":["post-471756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-alvaro-barrington","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-venice-biennale-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116529302471162491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}