La Biennale
Courtesy of Jerome Grand, I've been able to go to the openings for the Biennale here in Venice. I thought I'd get some pictures and post them, though maybe due to the possibility of the heat, there weren't that many arty people dressed to the nines. Oh well. Here's some of the highlights that I've been able to see.
These were from the Austrian pavilion in the Giardini. It's a pretty ugly building, so it seems the artists chose to engulf it in a mountain structure that you had to go around back to enter. The insides consisted of the scaffolding and walkways, along with small doors you could open and stick you heads out of.
A couple of installations in the old Italian pavilion, Giardini. The top one is a mirror ball hanging with no lights on it, the artist used a router to blow holes in the wall where the light would be. The bottom columns are wood lather cut telephone books, floor to ceiling. There was a lot of video at this venue, way too much to take in with the amount of people there.
Ed Rushcha enduring a press conference. I think the question here was "if you had the mandate, what would you remove from the United States and what would you replace that with? I know this is a bit of a hypothetical question, but..."
Some installation shots from the Arsenale. Again, a little too much to take in, but some more interesting uses of space. I was there today to see John Bock, he was there only for the openings giving performances. Pictures below.
It was facinating to watch the audience while this was going on- in particular parts involving flour, eggs, cereal, etc, rubbed in each others faces, and throw in the air. There was a large number of props, as well as video- the projections from performances run regularly, but stopped during the performace and used only to provide a different view on what was going on, like when a performer was climbing out of a pile of stuffed animals, there was an interior view of the pile.
Lots of things to take in, I'm glad I'll be here a few more months to go back and really look...
These were from the Austrian pavilion in the Giardini. It's a pretty ugly building, so it seems the artists chose to engulf it in a mountain structure that you had to go around back to enter. The insides consisted of the scaffolding and walkways, along with small doors you could open and stick you heads out of.
A couple of installations in the old Italian pavilion, Giardini. The top one is a mirror ball hanging with no lights on it, the artist used a router to blow holes in the wall where the light would be. The bottom columns are wood lather cut telephone books, floor to ceiling. There was a lot of video at this venue, way too much to take in with the amount of people there.
Ed Rushcha enduring a press conference. I think the question here was "if you had the mandate, what would you remove from the United States and what would you replace that with? I know this is a bit of a hypothetical question, but..."
Some installation shots from the Arsenale. Again, a little too much to take in, but some more interesting uses of space. I was there today to see John Bock, he was there only for the openings giving performances. Pictures below.
It was facinating to watch the audience while this was going on- in particular parts involving flour, eggs, cereal, etc, rubbed in each others faces, and throw in the air. There was a large number of props, as well as video- the projections from performances run regularly, but stopped during the performace and used only to provide a different view on what was going on, like when a performer was climbing out of a pile of stuffed animals, there was an interior view of the pile.
Lots of things to take in, I'm glad I'll be here a few more months to go back and really look...
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