Tag Archives: contemporary art

Wannabe a contemporary artist?

txt: Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction “Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s [...]

Venice Biennale Architecture: Out Where?

[links]+[txt] Out There: Architecture Beyond Building 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition – Jacaranda blooms as Venice swoons – www.theaustralian.news.com.au a lot of very strong ideas here and the crossover between artists and architects – Venice Biennale: The highlights – www.bdonline.co.uk: first you enter a room that describes personal loss, then on to the garden, which [...]

Venice is a great place for coffee

[txt] Letter From Venice Off-Season: Art between the Biennials – brooklynrail.org However, this also happens to be a summer season when there is no biennial—at least, no biennial of contemporary art. The architectural biennial and the film fest—both under the aegis of the Biennale di Venezia—will make their quixotic appearances in September, when the weather [...]

The thing I hate/love most about advertising

[txt] Room 116 – Banksy The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by [...]

Postmodernist Venice

txt: Venezia, aperto nella notte il ponte di Calatrava/Venice, opened in the night the Calatrava bridge Una vera e propria opera d’arte contemporanea, la prima di una serie che in citta’ ha diversi cantieri aperti: quelli di Punta delle Dogana con il progetto di Tadao Ando, le Gallerie dell’Accademia con Tobia Scarpa, il nuovo Palazzo [...]