The 33rd Venice Biennale, held in 1966, was an exhibition of international
contemporary art
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, with 36 participating nations. The
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
takes place
biennially in
Venice, Italy. Winners of the ''Gran Premi'' (Grand Prize) included Argentine painter
Julio Le Parc, Danish sculptor
Robert Jacobsen ''ex aequo'' with
Étienne Martin (France), Japanese etcher
Masuo Ikeda
was a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.
Awards
*Ikeda won the Akutagawa Prize
The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its pres ...
, and Italians painter
Lucio Fontana, sculptor
Alberto Viani
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, and etcher
Ezio Gribaudo.
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