Venice 2024

 Hi for the last time,

We had a great time today (that would actually be Saturday) and saw a lot of great shows. We got an earlier start since we skipped lunch at the Cipriani.  First our walk to the Shahzia Sikander show. She shows with Hosfelt in San Francisco.

Shahzia Sikander is a very interesting artist who uses many mediums. She is from Pakistan.

This is tiled

So is this.

Stained glass

This was a fascinating look at daily life in this watercolor with two details below.

This is a collage

This is the work of hers that I am most familiar with.

Back to walking. Sorry, there are so many images of Venice and not art but I just loved walking around in these old places with such narrow passages.

This is on the opposite side of the island from St Marks.

This was an interesting project taken up by the Croatian artist Vlatka Horvat called By the Means at Hand

She invited several other artists to reflect on being a foreigner. You see some of their work below.

These are Vlatka's photos that she is using for collages she is using to return to the artists who sent her drawings.

Here are some of the artworks.

These are images of the packages the drawings came in.

More walking

In the beautiful church Scuola Grande della Misericordia LACMA put together a show of Near and Far / Now and Then by Zeng Fanzhi. It was a collaboration between Zeng and Tadao Ando. I am not sure I really liked the paintings of Zeng but Tadao's contribution was captivating.

Close-up of painting technique.

Water

The Virgin

Tadao's divisions with these walls and the cutout area were beautiful

We walked along the side of the church to get to the next location.

At the Chiesetta della Misericordia church, Yu Hong presented Another One Bites the Dust which was very beautiful and moving.

The altar area shows the main themes of birth, life, and death.

Left panel

Right panel

This was at the opposite end of the church. There was also choir music playing while we were there creating quite an atmosphere.

And finally at last The Fortuny building

This featured an artist named Eva Jospin who is Parisian. She was an embroiderer of scenes of nature and she also used cardboard to create the frames of these and also an archway. It was all pretty wonderful.

The whole exterior is cardboard

This is the archway

The ceiling of the archway- again all cardboard cutouts.

The other end of the archway. So stunning.

You have seen the Fortuny collection in past blogs from Venice but as a reminder here are a couple of images.

Here are portraits of the husband and wife Fortuny team.

They were famous for their pillows.

Goya

And so finally we come to the end of the day and for me the end of blogs for you. This has been a wonderful journey and for those of you who followed along - thank you. I do it for you. 

Until the next time.

Hugs,

Susan