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Arsenale Novissimo, past and future of Venice

June 17, 2009 – 20:51

Got a little time to see Venice? Go to the Arsenale Novissimo. You’ll find four very interesting collateral events (Unconditional Love, The Fear Society – Pabellón de la Urgencia, Rietveld Arsenale, ADACH Platform for Venice, Jan Fabre – From the Feet to the Brain), and a unique view of one of the most important shipyard [...]

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Oddtag Biennale

June 10, 2009 – 20:48

I think it’s going to be my personal view of the Biennale: a journey through places, events, streets, people, art: a slow pace, a map of the collateral events and the other venues and my eyes open
txt: Not seeing but drowning: my visit to the Venice Biennale

Three days follow, throughout which you are doing pretty [...]

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Slowness is a pleasure

June 9, 2009 – 21:16

txt: Venice | Slowly but Surely – themoment.blogs.nytimes.com

To say that everybody I spoke to offered up a different and contradictory opinion on the Biennale is to state the obvious, but most people would most likely agree that this one will go down as the Slow Biennale. But that is a good thing, like a wonderful [...]

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Lateral Biennale view

June 7, 2009 – 15:21

I haven’t been to the official Biennale. Not yet. Not being part of the art jet-set or a correspondent with a strict dead line has some privileges, and lot of consequences on job..
So I’ve found a sort of affinity with the feelings expressed by Christy Lange on Frieze Magazine. “I started to feel relieved, [...]

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Punta della Dogana: the medium is the message

June 4, 2009 – 21:51

txt: How the French Charles Saatchi became the merchant of Venice – www.guardian.co.uk
The good thing about the recession is that we will now be able to concentrate on art, on what matters. The bullshit we had to deal with before is over.
video: Time Lapses – Punta della Dogana and Tadao Ando – PalazzoGrassiTV on youtube [...]

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A contemporary Venice

May 18, 2009 – 17:19

txt: Venezia e il giugno della grande arte – La rivincita della città contemporanea – corriere.it

Hopefully the month of june will infringe the laughable, resistant stereotype of decadent town, theme park, museum city. I hope that the senseless postcard will leave room for the real picture: a contemporary city in which are operating Renzo Piano, [...]

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Venice Biennale 2009: Estonia

May 13, 2009 – 21:22

KRISTINA NORMAN
After-War
Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3079, Venezia
txt: “After-War” at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia – Center for Contemporary art Estonia
Using the concept of a memory community, Kristina Norman describes and analyses past events and proposes subsequent cultural practice. The title of the work “After-War” is a reference to the idea [...]