NINA The Venice Biennale is an international art exhibition that was started in Venice over a 100 years ago. This is the mother of all contemporary art shows, in which selected artists from different countries install work in permanent pavilions at the Giardini, a huge park at the end of the big island. There's also another big venue, the Arsenale, that hosts well-know artists and also work from countries not represented in the Giardini. This was an amazing event and eight hours on foot was just not enough time to absorb everything.
Erica really enjoyed this one by Han Hoogerbrugge (Netherlands) called Quatrosopus.
The US pavilion represented by Allora and Calzadilla was very interesting. Besides the Pipe Organ ATM machine, there was also this strange overturned army tank with a treadmill on top.
and a statue in a tanning bed called Armed Freedom:
The Israeli pavilion was amazing. Really powerful stuff by Sigalit Landau. I didn't take a video of the video projected on the floor, which was called Askelon, a video of people playing a knife game on the beach. The beach is shared by two towns separated by the Gaza Strip.
This was a funky one by Lee Yongbaek at the Korean pavilion:
Here's a site with more really cool stuff in the Korean Pavilion.
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| And their version of the Pieta... |
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| Can't remember where this was but I love teapots; they were filled with cement to stay in this pile. |
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| Melting sculptures made of wax |
And some souvenir shots of us!
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| At the Giardini |
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| In front of the Venice Pavilion (Tintorettos and more inside!) |
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