Just back from the Venice biennale, which was nothing new but lots of nice and some excellent. Here's a mix of faces and places and things that grabbed my very short attention:
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The impossible to photograph but utterly fantabulous Canadian pavilion by David Altmejd, full of business men corpses with owl heads out of whose wounds fly smaller birds
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and golden chains and moss grows on their knees while other body parts turn into mirror crystals,
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and the men turn into werewolves
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and the installation seems to engulf the pavilion itself, turning everything
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into a magically gay forest nightmare disco funeral.
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Also fabulous and out of control was the German pavilion by Iza Genzken, full of venetian samsonite cat poster dead ninja turtle silver spray paint and mirrors too.
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yes
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couldnt resist a self portrait, because I waited 45 minutes to get in, so I really had to take a picture of everything
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Genzken
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and Genzken
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and Genzken too
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all the while Angelo was sleeping with the winged lion of Venice that fell off it's pedestal, Sylvia danced around and Christodoulos studied carefully
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comparing foldable wayfarers with Marina Fokidis
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R.I.P. Jason Rhoades
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boxes that fell on boxes in the curiously interesting Australian pavilion by Daniel von Sturmer, and a great great title: The Object of Things
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I cant remember the name of this artist at Arsenale, but he was born in 1920
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and makes these apocalyptic invisible cities hanging rocks
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walking around exhausted we passed by the best fence in Venice
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the great "Hamster Wheel" where Gelitin caused havoc and terrified the police with their nakedness, and their "back in 5 minutes" video
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and a rabbit with a flower on it's head checking out the chaos
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umm this
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and Paola Pivi's lovely yellow feather polar bear
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and Kostis Velonis going up some amazing stairs
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the typical chandelier in our room in Dorsoduro
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the fantastic animation in the Russian pavilion
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the fabulous Grotto on Garibaldi street
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anarchy and ivy
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sometimes hardware looks like art too
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typical venetian skyline of tourists and boats and pink street lamps and antennae and palazzos and clouds
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and of course the completely amazing Greek pavilion by Nikos Alexiou, a monastic hallucination on the floor of Iviron Monastery, overlaying paper cuts with projections with hanging plastic strings and models of tables on piles of papers and triangles and patterns
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and amazing artists' studio installation where the table becomes the world
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fragile paper labyrinths become the byzantine sky of complexity
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that magically reappears in a hole on a building on the beach in Lido