Venice 2024

 

Hi,

Today's adventures were brief. We only went to two places. The first was the Pierre Huyghe exhibition called Liminal and the second was a visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum where we could view her permanent collection.

First lunch by the pool at the hotel.

Then a boat trip from the Cipriani which you see below to the Punta della Dogana.

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St Marks ahead

                                                                

                                                                            Punta della Dogana ahead

Liminal means: Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. So that is what the show was about. It was a hard show to see literally - it was so dark in the space.

The first piece was a 35-minute video of a woman's body moving and changing from light to dark, standing to lying down, and all the spaces in between.

Then there was the little part human part monkey figure doing things in a kind of trashed environment.

These aquariums followed.

And then a smoke show where the smoke turned a variety of colors with these two figures sitting behind the smoke display.

I don't know what to say about this. Any suggestions?

Or this.

Ok, take a breath, get out of the dark, smoke, and liminal spaces and arrive with me at the Peggy Guggenheim museum.

This is by Mirko

George Braque

Constantin Brancusi in the middle

Giorgio de Chircio

Max Ernst

Salvador Dali

Picasso

Tanguy

Pollack

Clifford Still

Kandinsky

Magriette

Mondrian 

Leger

Peggy's chair

Across the canal from her water entrance

Dinner

Ok, that is all I have time for today. I have to rush off to the Biennale with our guide Valentina.

Until the next time.

Susan