Venice Biennale

BEST OF GIARDINI

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

USAFelix Gonzalez-Torres used 700 lbs of individually wrapped licorice in an analogy to missiles and oil, pariotism and capitolism . His use of these dark multiples, manufactured goods, and strings of lightbulbs, playing with the idea of candy is a sinister melange of sweets and darkness. Did anyone else see this guy in the Padiglione Italia? He was walking a mechanical dog on a leash…. bon, bref. He also obscured my shot of Sigmar Polke stunning painting…. rather pigment on […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Giardini, Isa Genzken, Maariya Wirkkala, Sigmar Polke, Tracy Emin, Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale – CANADA

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

CANADA Lets be honest, I am Canadian and I love Canada, but the exterior of the pavillion looks like an outhouse!!David Altmejd creates a hallucinatory architectural environment mixing glass mirrors with natural elements businessman bodies with bird heads all culminating in Giant an anthropomorphic commentary on man nature and our highspeed society.

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Russia – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Last Riot a triptych digital video created by the collective called AES+F (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky + Evgeny Svyatsky).Using very basic computer graphics , the montaged segmented videos showing in digitized computer animation, animals birds and reptiles cut by sceens of desert with army jeeps, then vast arctic landscapes of torso-nu children fighting in slow motion with baseball bats and golf clubs. An apocalyptic view of modern society corruption and video games. Contrastly, Audrey Bartenev Lost Connection spun […]

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Venezuela – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Photographer Antonio Briceno exhibition titled Gods of America. Pensive and heroic, these portraits reconsider our role in the landscape.

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Best of African Pavillion – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Algeria’s Philippe Parreno, an empty room the ceiling filled with black helium filled speach bubble balloons. Haiti’s Mario Benjamin Sublime emotive portraits. Kendell Geers 7 Deadly Sins http://www.youtube.com/get_player MOUNIR FATMI – Save Manhattan 03 An assemblage of speakers old and new lined up in the middle of the space. The subtility is what gives this work its bulldozing effect, a massive spotlight casts from the speakers a shadow reminiscent of the Manhattan skyline. The voice of the iconic city floods […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: African Pavillion, Kendell Geers, mounir fatmi, Philippe Parreno, Venice Biennale

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November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

The Venice Biennale, title theme THINK WITH THE SENSES FEEL WITH THE MIND, curated by Robert Storr. The biennale is divided into two main playgrounds, The Arsenale – a series of connected warehouse spaces VS the Giardini where each country has a house in which they present their most acclaimed artist. Storr quotes as saying the theme is to present the dichotomies between the perceptive and the conceptual, between thought and sentiment. Less descretly the undertone of the Arsenale presented […]

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BEST OF GIARDINI

Venice Biennale – CANADA

Russia – Venice Biennale

Venezuela – Venice Biennale

Best of African Pavillion – Venice Biennale

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