ART in every corner - VENEZIA

Not romance is bringing us today to Venice but the Biennale. This exhibitions all over the town should show the acutal status and development of art in the world and we want to be up to date - so here we are!

We go by public bus and vaporetto from Mestre directly to the main exhibition center in the Giardino. After  one hour we pass the ticket corner and then we are in the center of Art of this summer! Interesting to see what things are called art nowadays. We participated from time to time a guided tour and learn more about the things we see and suddenly our picture changes: to understand the installations, pictures, objectes you need always explanation and then it makes sense. Definitely it is not as simple as looking to a picture of the old days. The whole exhibitions here and in Arsenale are filled with things we only partly understand but we see that everything is filled with the wish to activate our brain and to make us think of the world, the politics, the living conditions in some areas ...!!!

Even the walls in the cafeteria are ART: a broomstick on the wall

It didn't work with the Austrian and the Turkish pavilion (too abstract for our minds) but some we understood better. All in all it stimulated us for our own work, we had a lot of fun e.g. in the Spanish pavilion where some actors made a performance and at the end you didn't know who is actor and who is visitor or the special effects of Korea were surprising, the Japanese entertained with some cartoon oriented work or even Greece with showing nothing but water with the tittle Sold Out (what a political statement). Even the German pavilion where they built up a church to render homage to the late Mr. Schlingensief.

After more than 6 hours art and again more than 35 degrees celsius we are exhausted and tired but it is our only day in Venice - so what to do. We decide for a longer Vaporetto tour and finally we stranded in Murano - the island of glass art. Nice atmosphere, many shops and workshops with interesting objects and also art - art of the past and centurylong tradtions.

cloth hanging art in Murano

As this is our last evening in Italy we have our last dinner at the Canale Grande close to Rialto in a hidden place with direct view to the water and this finally fully relaxes and makes the romantic feeling everyone sees in combination with Venice. Also the food is art (as we expected) - big plates, little food, high prices but the most breathtaking view you can have in this city.  Due to technical problems will will be able to show you fotos of that evening only in few days - but we will!