French street art progenitor Ernest Pignon-Ernest, who inspired next-generation street art virtuosos like his countrymen JR and Blek le Rat, the British Banksy, Americans Shepard Fairey, Swoon and many others is a feature of this year’s Venice Biennial. Here, in this timeless city of canals and bridges, the art world’s elite has gathered for the 60th time to see and be seen as participants in the world’s longest-running contemporary art exhibition.