Artist Jeremy
Deller will represent Britain at next year's Venice Biennale, the British
Council has announced.
The Turner Prize winner will present a solo
exhibition at the British Pavilion from June to November 2013.
His installations include a recreation of a 1984
confrontation between police and striking miners and an inflatable model of
Stonehenge entitled Sacrilege.
Lucian Freud, Anish Kapoor and Tracey Emin are among
the artists who have represented the UK in previous years.
The British Council has commissioned leading artists
to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale since 1938, with the aim of
celebrating the best of emerging and established British art.
Chris Dercon, director of Tate Modern, who sat on the
selection panel, described Deller as an "exciting and daring choice".
"He is a master of an art which is very
different from most contemporary art production," Mr Dercon said.
"His observations and actions, invoking and
depicting the harsh morals of contemporary life, are incredibly precise yet full
of comical relief."
Deller's inflatable Stonehenge was unveiled in
Glasgow last month and will visit London during the Olympic Games.
Another of his works comprised the wreck of a car
that was bombed in Baghdad, intended to spark debate about the conflict in
Iraq.
The Venice Biennale is one of the world's most
prestigious contemporary art showcases and was first held in 1895.
Source: BBC
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