Hi,
This was a totally packed day and I am barely going to get this finished before I am on to the next day's adventures. Please forgive me if I leave some explanation out or spell something incorrectly.
First, as always we start on the water taxi provided by the Cipriani to St Mark's Square. This is the man in charge of conducting traffic at the dock.
Then we walked to the Giardini where all the pavillions are.
The first exhibit that Valentina takes us to is the Japanese pavilion. It is about the leaks in the subways and the shabby way they are repaired. Kind of funny.
Then to the German pavilion where the entrance is blocked by dirt supplied by the artist Ersan Mondtag. It is from Turkey
Yael Bartana- Light to the Nations- This is a beautiful show about our future. We will have to go to outer space to let the Earth heal itself. There is a ritual dance performed to say goodbye to earth. It was all based on the Kabbalah and was very moving. We might need to go see it again.
Also inside the same pavilion was the Turkish artist Ersan Mondtag- Monument eines un-bekannten Menschen This was a tribute to his father who was a laborer who died of asbestos poisoning. There was dust over everything.
The British Pavilion featured John Akomfrah-Listening All Night to the Rain It is really hard to explain this barrage of videos. I am not even goingto try.
In the French Julien Creuzet from Martinique
Here he is with his tall hat which he thinks poets should wear.
He loved the Venetian door knockers so he did some of his own. I love them.
Archie Moore- Kith and Kin Australian Pavillion and won the Golden Lion award. Done in memory of his first-nation ancestors going back to the Neantherals who are not acknowledged in the culture.
Then to the US pavilion with Jeffrey Gibson. Native American and colorful... or some say gaudy. He did very political work with a lot of slogans.
Using all the ingredients of the native traditions he made the sculptures and then a video of dancers
The Biennale show called Foreigners Everywhere was curated by Adriano Pedrosa and in fact that is the theme for the whole Biennale this year.
Nil Yalter won the Golden Lion this year for career achievement. This piece was in the entrance to the Biennale show
This was a room of abstraction
Guess who shows up.....Olga de Amaral from 1969
Next is a young artist doing these gold sculptures of his mother and sister Victor Fotso Nyie
Malinconia Gloria Veglia
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A bit of Danish humor
Portrait Gallery
Tarsila do Amaral
Camilo Mori
Hamed Ewals
Guess who?
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This is about the US relationship to Puerto Rico..
Father - Abel
Son Wilson or Aýcoobo
Madge Gill drawing Crucifixion of the Soul 1934
Giulia Andreani - this drawing is of Madge Gill (the previous artist) 2023
This is an interesting story if you can read it.
Belgium pavilion's sacred place by the Congo co-operative did this work in chocolate
Egyptian Pavillion has an opera by Wael Shawky about the intervention of foreigners - the British
And finally the Vaporetto home
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