Ruscha will represent U.S.

Los Angeles-based artist Edward Ruscha has been named the U.S. representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. A selection of his work, yet to be determined, will fill the American pavilion when the show opens in June.

Ruscha was chosen by directors and curators from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

This will be Ruscha’s second appearance at the prestigious international exhibition. He constructed his “Chocolate Room” there in 1970. The sweet-smelling room, lined with 360 chocolate-covered sheets of paper, is currently on view at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art.

Suzanne Muchnic