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Venice Biennale: Giardini
Although the Venice Architecture Biennale invades all nooks and crannies of the four-square-mile island, most of the festival's big-hitters reside under the roof of only one building, the Italian…
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Venice Biennale: National Pavilions 2
As promised, here is the second part of our grand tour through the national pavilions at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Sejima forecasted well - the strongest crowd-pleasers were not the ones that…
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Venice Biennale: National Pavilions 1
The concept of each country showing their best colors at the Venice Biennale began from 1895, in the same spirit of nationalism (or chauvinism) of the World's Fair. This year, proceeding straight…
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2010 Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale, which has its offices in Ca' Giustinian (San Marco, 1364/A), has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its…
"The Forty Part Motet," or an installation almost identical to it was shown at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati 4 or 5 years ago. Interesting....but not new.
Ah, yes - good point, Bernard. The piece was performed first in 2001, and Cardiff had actually been experimenting with this type of installation since 1991, starting with a piece for 16 female voices. But this year, it was exhibited for the first time at a Biennale.
The works of R&Sie(n) was not exactly Grotesque...Do you think that 8 kg of Uranium is Grotesque or Paranoïd. The scenario they proposed was a little bit a distance from the "perfect world for perfect people" in the Ghetto of Beauty and Elegance. It was revealing the bordeline, not of the design, but of our futur... rare and unique
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