Tag Archives: Venice

Oddtag summer

June 30, 2008 – 17:36

Oddtag goes (almost) offline this summer, until Summer Bank Holiday (more or less). No travelling but hard work, sweat and sun. Have a look on the Venetian Writings (in italian), be good, have fun.
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The Venice Factory

May 11, 2008 – 14:47

Gondolas full of tourists. In the background the renovation works’ scaffolding of the Punta della Dogana de Mar (also known as Punta della Salute). Project: architect Tadao Ando, $$ François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi.
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Daniel Birnbaum xè el Diretòr

April 7, 2008 – 19:39

txt: Biennale Art 53rd International Art Exhibition (2009) The Board nominates Daniel Birnbaum as Director
The Board of Directors of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, held a meeting on 7th April 2008 in which it nominated Daniel Birnbaum as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility [...]

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That sinking/not sinking feeling

March 30, 2008 – 9:27

txt: Is Venice Sinking?
The net effect was like letting the air out of your tires, or perhaps more aptly, draining your waterbed. It wasn’t until the late 60’s that hydrologists put one and one together, slapped their foreheads, and sounded the alarm. The Italian government acted swiftly and banned groundwater pumping in the area forever.
That [...]

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Fondamenta Nuove

March 28, 2008 – 8:41

Looking at the sea
While my ferry’s approaching:
I won’t look back.
—-
Guardando il mare
arriva il mio traghetto:
non mi volto più.
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In search of new audiences

March 28, 2008 – 6:14

txt: Biennale Art 52nd International Art Exhibition
The 52nd Exhibition also features another new initiative emblematic of the spirit with which the Biennale relates to the international art world. During the course of 2006, the Organisational Division of the Biennale di Venezia initiated a forward-looking dialogue with Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, skulptur projekte [...]

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The long Pigtails (a Venice story)

March 14, 2008 – 12:20

txt: Who was Emily Harvey? - Emily Harvey Foundation
In 1992 she married, Angelo Colombo, her Venetian friend, Her marriage to Angelo brought her to Venice for increasing lengths of time. Under Angelo’s tutelage she began to learn Venetian Italian and to understand Venice, and the customs of its people. Out of this grew a commitment [...]

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Tomorrow. Now. In Venice

March 12, 2008 – 8:08

txt: Tomorrow now. Work without center. Conferences on the nature of art work in the digital age
The title of the event introduces the issue concerning works of art that, in the digital age, transform the idea behind exhibition space, the concept of the aesthetic fruition of the observer, and the role of the artist and [...]

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