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Biennale Day 2

11/25/2013

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We spent Day 2 of our Biennale viewing in the Giardini, which is where most of the country pavilions are located as well as the main pavilion. Here's the entrance to the main pavilion....
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Belgium Pavilion selfie. Thankfully it was a bright sunny day. There was a wonderful wax cast of a very large felled tree in here but it was so dark my pics didn't really come out.
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This was in the Dutch Pavilion
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Eva Kotatkova at the Czech Pavilion. A table covered in interesting sculptural objects.
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Loved these two small paintings by Ellen Altfest in the main pavilion
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Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser,  The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz in the main Pavilion
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Exquisite sketchbook drawings by Jose Antonio Suarez Londono of Columbia
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Hilarious clay sculpture by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
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"Dr Spock looks at his home-planet of Vulcanus and is a bit sad that he cannot have any feelings"
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"Charlton Heston kisses Dr Zira in Planet of the Apes"
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Rialto Bridge before repairs.
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Lunch
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Not quite as good as yesterday's pumpkin tortellini but some nice salmon and roast beef.
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Brazilian Pavilion. Interesting interleaved phone books.
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Serbian Pavilion. Mickey Mouse product placement.
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Serbian Pavilion, little animal heads from found camera cases.
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This was, i think, one of the best pavilions, the Romanians, who were recreating historical performance pieces. Fun, witty, unexpected, somewhat theatrical but also very mundane and even kinda sexy.
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Ai Wei Wei at the German Pavilion. Are German artists ok with that?
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The little stool that didn't get to be an Ai Wei Wei.
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Jim in the British pavilion
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Shary Boyle representing Canada.
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Some light in a corridor in the French Pavilion, not part of the Biennale.
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The Russian Pavilion where a shower of golden coins fell on the female spectators, but not the men. It felt a bit weird to be excluded by gender but i guess that was the point.
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Those coins could hurt so an umbrella is provided.
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Sarah Sze does an excellent job at the American Pavilion.
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After about 5 hours and all but one pavilion, here we are with our legs only slightly longer.
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Walking our way back home.
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Fleur-Ange Lamothe
11/25/2013 07:40:59 am

Thanks for the virtual tour! I loved the interwoven phone books!

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