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      11 Apr 2010

      Venice Art Biennale 2011 first entries

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      updated: see Venice Art Biennale 2011 entries – (update January 2011) links: - Iceland Libia Castro og Ólafur Ólafsson to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2011 - Australia Hany Armanious to represent Australia at Venice Biennale 2011 - Britain Mike Nelson selected for Venice Biennale 2011 - New Zealand New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2011 - Israel Artist Sigalit Landau to represent Israel at 2011 Venice Biennale - France Christian Boltanski représentera la France à la Biennale de Venise 2011 - Germany Susanne Gaensheimer named curator of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale - United states Franco to represent US at Venice Biennale 2011 - Italy Shock appointment of anti-modernist to Venice Biennale img: La vida es un contratiempo / Life is an offbeat / Photography, The artists, courtesy Sjónauki - The Pavilion of Iceland
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      6 Mar 2010

      Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors

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      txt: Not So Great Expectations - blog.nzatvenice.com
      Venice is synonymous with tourism. It has been a destination sought out and romanticised about for centuries and remains at the top of many a ‘bucket’ list. It is a city that has positioned itself to benefit from its historical and cultural significance but this may in many ways have contributed to its current state of decay by oversubscription. “Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.” As the American expatriate writer Henry James pointed out the expectations of Venice often differ somewhat from the actual experience. As I work my way through the hundred plus pavilions and exhibitions associated with this year's Biennale I ponder how many artists have used these ideas as a catalyst for their work.
      img: Food, got food? - Tjflex2 on flickr.com
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      7 Jun 2009

      Lateral Biennale view

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      I haven't been to the official Biennale. Not yet. Not being part of the art jet-set or a correspondent with a strict dead line has some privileges, and lot of consequences on job.. So I've found a sort of affinity with the feelings expressed by Christy Lange on Frieze Magazine. "I started to feel relieved, and, actually, relaxed". I think that is the best way for being part of a place, Venice, and of an event, the Biennale. "And, without even realizing it, that’s exactly what I had been waiting for." txt: Postcards from Venice - pt. 5: Easy Does It - Frieze Magazine
      It was the first time I’d looked out at the tourists gliding by in gondolas and not wished that I was one of them, but rather felt I was perfectly content to be here, exactly in this spot, not worrying what I should be seeing next or what else I might be missing. Meanwhile, Kjartansson proceeded with his work unhurriedly – rearranging his easel and mixing paints and stopping to chat with his mother, while his model sat on the sofa plucking a guitar and looking sulky. I know it sounds like a bad music video, but in fact the Icelandic pavilion succeeds in creating an informal atmosphere without being shabby. And, without even realizing it, that’s exactly what I had been waiting for.
      img: 167 - kDamo on flickr.com
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      7 Jun 2009

      The Biennale is open: making worlds, art and money

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      txt: What recession? In Venice, party rolls on - www.boston.com
      With the art world supposedly in crisis - prices dropping, profits of auction houses plummeting, museums engaged in drastic cost-cutting - a provocation like this might hit a nerve. But instead the video has passed largely unnoticed, and the art world has gone on doing what it does best: partying, partying, and more partying.
      txt: Venice Biennale opens to public - BBC news
      "The Venice Biennale is not here to be loved, it's here to be discussed. And if people keep coming back to discuss it, that's the best result that we can have" Mr Birnbaum says. [...] Whatever else, the Biennale offers an unprecedented opportunity to see vast amounts of modern art in one of the world's most historic cities.
      video: Steve McQueen Talks About His Film "Giardini," His Exhibition For The 2009 Venice Biennale 2009. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G6UJwzj5Ro]
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      5 Jun 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: Liam Gillick

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      txt: Venice Biennale: Navigating the "Grande Confusione" - nytimes.com
      You immediately know you’re in trouble when a very polite attendant at the Giardini, the public gardens that serve as one of the event’s main sites, tells you “go talk-a to the box, please,” and the box turns out to be a tiny office called the Organizing Secretariat. Here, petitioners stand with their arms crossed in long lines, waiting to plead, in seventeen different languages, to people behind glass, who are very hard to hear and who mostly shrug their shoulders and smile and say no.
      video: Liam Gillick - La Biennale di Venezia 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EVR_39KyQ]
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      3 Jun 2009

      Venice and art in the age of globalization

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      I was drinking a spritz in campo Santa Barnaba while I noticed a man with a white band on the head with a red write: "biennalist". I didn't know him, he didn't know me. I discover now he actually was Thierry Geoffroy (www.emergencyrooms.org). That is Venice theese days: biennale art market vernissages bellini. And something of new and unknown. links: www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html BIENNALIST Facebook group EMERGENCY ROOM and BIENNALIST at the VENICE BIENNALE Facebook group video: Daniel Birnbaum talks about art in the age of globalization - biennalechannel on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuLaZnE8jiI]
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      2 Jun 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: The Swimming Cities of Serenissima

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      Yesterday was a "no-photo-no-video-no-nothing" day. Just walking on small paths aside the lagoon. Laying on the beach. But coming back on the vaporetto we saw an adventure getting his happy end: The Swimming Cities of Serenissima fleet was approaching the Arsenale area. Welcome to Venice! txt: The Swimming Cities of Serenissima - about
      The Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Litoral region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007). SWOON’s boats are inspired by dense urban cityscapes and thickly intertwined mangrove swamps from her Florida youth. The Swimming Cities of Serenissima are built from salvaged materials, including modified Mercedes car motors with long-tail propellers. The boats’ crew is made up of 30 collaborating artists from the United States.
      links: www.swimmingcities.org swimming cities on Facebook img: R0015125 from swimmingcities photostream
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      31 May 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: collateral events and other venues map

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      The Oddtag map of other venues and collateral events of the 53° Venice Art Biennale 2009 on Google Maps (an in progress mash-up of video, images and Google maps) UPDATE: Iceland pavilion and Mercury House One _ Save the Poetry videos Ok, the Venice Biennale exhibition venues are the Palazzo delle Esposizioni and the national pavilions at the Giardini, as well as the Corderie, the Artiglierie and other venues at the Arsenale. But a lot of VERY interesting venues and events are disseminated all over Venice from 7th June to 22nd November 2009. Probably it's not the most important, famous, visible side of the Biennale. But I feel that it's the best part: have fun discovering Venice places and palazzi and artists and people. I'll be around in the next months making photos, videos, and posts. Hope to see you! View a Larger Map on the Google maps page [googlemaps http://maps.google.it/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=1004376770...,12.332497&spn=0.029391,0.055275&output=embed&w=500&h=400]
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      31 May 2009

      Venice biennale 2009: SubTiziano

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      txt: Alexandre Ponomarev: SubTiziano - RNA Foundation
      Former submariner Alexandre Ponomarev did some reverse engineering: he snuck into that secret and closed area, reclaiming the deadly weapon as an art object. With the aid of chromatism, he transformed a submarine into a medium of artistic interaction, stripping it of its main advantage: secrecy.
      Alexandre Ponomarev - SubTiziano Dates:  June 4 – October 22, 2009 Locations: Ca' Bernardo, Dipartamento di Americanistica, Iberistica e Slavistic dell'Universita di Ca' Foscari - Dorsoduro, 3199, Venezia; Ca' Rezzonico, Fondamenta Rezzonico - Dorsoduro, 3136, Venezia. video: Oleg Chubykin - "The Tourist" on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/2272285]
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      29 May 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: Guyton/Walker

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      txt: At Carpenter Center, Empire Strikes Back - Harvard Gazette
      Paint leaks through the wooden frames of canvases. Ketel One vodka ads can be glimpsed through the clutter. Inside it becomes clear that what you're looking at are the politically charged installations of Guyton/Walker, the Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The exhibit is called "Guyton/Walker: Empire Strikes Back" and is on display through April 20 [2006]. The disturbing, colorful, eclectic pieces by the collaborative dynamic duo Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker have been called perverse still-lifes. Aptly so.
      video: The Empire Strikes Back/ Luke vs Vader on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frX00n3gngU]
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