Artist Jeremy Deller will represent Britain at next year's Venice Biennale, the British Council has announced.
The Venice Biennale is one of the world's most prestigious contemporary art showcases and was first held in 1895.
"You become a world player once you've done a Venice Biennale, " said Biggiero.
Swansea artist and lecturer Tim Davies has been named as the choice to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale exhibition.
"We have increased the number of pavilions from 77 to 89, with some very interesting results, " said Paolo Baratta, Venice Biennale president.
That beats the famed Venice Biennale, which attracted 440, 000 visitors in 2011.
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We also spotlighted the Networking Nature exhibit at the Venice Biennale -- a small ecosystem that lives off of seawater and produces fresh drinking water.
It also opened the door to more high-profile collaborations and projects around the world, including his representation of the United States in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
Honours followed, including representing Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale.
But what really has Gioni distracted this evening is that for over a year now he's been the man responsible for conceiving, assembling and managing the 2013 Venice Biennale.
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.
Since representing Brazil at the Venice Biennale in 2001, the 42-year-old artist has shot to success for creating globular, amorphous environments called Naves (ships), made out of stretchy, translucent stocking material.
In between those two exhibitions comes the Venice Biennale, the international art fest that sees artists and oligarchs sharing Bellinis and boats for a week of hedonism at the end of May.
Though he gained some prominence before his death in 2007, including an inclusion in the 2003 Venice Biennale, it's unlikely he was ever completely aware that he was on the road to recognition as a contemporary artist.
Launched in Toronto in October 2010, the show brings together the whole range of El Anatsui's creativity, from his early ceramics to his wooden sculptures and assemblings of driftwood, finishing up with the huge, shimmering wallhangings made from the metallic tops of whisky and other bottles which were the centrepiece of a recent Venice Biennale.
The centre also agreed to put together the Scottish stand at the 2008 Venice Design Biennale programme.
The project was also featured at the Greek pavilion of this year's architecture biennale in Venice.
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