Friday, June 7, 2013

Venice on display


It's photo essay time!   Here's one way of walking to the Biennale.  I wish this were blown up into an 8' x 6' piece - then you'd see that the man on the right hand side is wearing an eye patch, which perfectly complements that disconcerting eye to the left ...


Here various shows, Biennale related and not, are advertised opposite the Accademia;


Here - well, I don't know.  But I like the giraffe.


Close to the Biennale Giardini - but not actually inside - is the Museum of Everything (this year's official Biennale theme is "The Encyclopedic Palace");


and here is someone feeing desperate.  Or not - maybe just performative ...


and here is an installation shot of the Biennale itself - the Arsenale part - which was notable for the section that Cindy Sherman has curated, which was very, very strange and disturbing indeed.


Then there are so many other kinds of display, from upscale windows reflecting other windows opposite;


to decidedly funkier store windows;


to windows that are just downright strange;


and then windows that are shuttered over, and decorated in a whole range of ways.  In other words, I did a very, very great deal of walking today ...

1 comment:

  1. IL PALAZZO DI EVERYTHING // EXTENDED UNTIL THE 18th OF AUGUST

    We have the pleasure to let you know that our Exhibition Il Palazzo di Everything has been extended until the 18th of August!

    See you soon,

    The Museum of Everything


    WHAT Il Palazzo di Everything
    featuring
    Carlo Zinelli and The Salon of Everything

    WHEN from 29th May to 18th August 2013
    Tuesday to Sunday // 11am to 7:30pm

    WHERE Serra dei Giardini (The Greenhouse)
    Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1254
    Castello 30122, Venice

    HOW next to the entrance of the Giardini
    map: http://goo.gl/maps/qXoSq
    vaporetto: Giardini

    WHY Official Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennale

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