I want to share with you a few of my favorite artist's works - I took lots of photos as you can imagine and I have found it difficult to choose just a few - maybe I'll introduce some more of the artists whose work I enjoyed in future posts - meantime - this was in the main exhibition Palazzo in the Giardini - a very beautiful installation of black threads by the Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno with the wonderful title 'galaxies forming along filments, like droplets along the strands of a spider's web'
Also in the Giardini in the Egyptian Pavilion was the work of the artist Adel El Siwi - tall, straw woven figures bowed us in!
I loved his work and his sense of humor - the exhibition was called 'Lightly Monumental' and it was!!
Some of the best exhibits were projections and artist films and impossible to capture so I am hoping I can find links for you if you are interested in seeing some of the work - below is Nathalie Djurberg (Sweden) who created a 'Garden of Eden' installation of enormous plants and several screens showing her rather disturbing feminist gothic animated films - (she calls them Claymation films) disturbing and brilliant - I saw one of her films at the Frieze Art Festival four years ago and it made an impression on me then!
Very different and equally powerful - Krzysztof Wodiczko projections of windows on the Polish Pavilion walls showed immigrants washing windows and chatting together outside while the viewers watched from the inside - the link HERE gives a lot more information about the work that was created for the Biennale - It had a profound effect on me and will stay with me for a long time
The link for the British Pavilion is HERE - I was inspired by Steve McQueen's film made in the Giardini and depicting it's other life once the Biennale was over and winter arrived. the work from artists in Northern Ireland was also strong - the most disappointing of all was the Welsh artist John Cale - I'm afraid to say it did nothing for me at all!
Well that's all for now!
5 comments:
my own work may not show it but I am totally into contemporary art and am so jealous you got to go-- I would love to go some day. I have seen a number of Kyzysztof Wodiczko videos-- they are extremely moving and powerful. I actually saw him in person at a contemporary opening in Denver right before Obama's big speech but I was too much in awe to approach him.
oh, those straw figures! and the coffee place! i think i would've been positively vibrating if i had more than one cup while i was there!
happy fall, rosie!
What wonderful peeks into your world. So glad you explained the melting feet. I thought you were in serious trouble. - Jeanne
Rosie,
What a trip...
That cafe looked amazing as all the art here.
"Lightly Monumental" is wonderful...
Love those Galaxies and the coffee bar. Thanks for posting a great set.
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