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Friday, 3 June 2011

Day 4 - Venice Biennale

Fiona Campbell and Rodolph de Salis with Song Dong installation.
Photograph by Fiona Campbell
Still Life, San Samuele.
Detail of sculpture by Luca Francesconi 'non operative electric hot plate' in the context of marble, bronze,iron,
objects of chinese production, variable dimensions.
One of a collection of public waste paper baskets.
Detail of the Arsenale, electrical fitting.
Argentinian contribution at The Arsenale.

Day 3 Venice Biennale

Milanese offering.  Hat by Victoria Grant.
Front door of the Palazzo, location of very exclusive birdsnest party at which most of the guests arrived by boat.
View through the window of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum.
Koen Vanmechelen's Chicken, part of the CCP / Cosmopolitan Chicken Research Project. http://www.koenvanmechelen.be/

"After so many generations, I started noticing the diversity on the surface, what made we wonder. And so, together with a team of scientists, we jumped inside the chicken."  Koen Vanmechelen
Narrow House, 2010, Erwin Wurm Austria.
This lady was sitting on a bench with a bucket on her head singing.  Art?  discuss...

Artist Performer applying ice to the buttocks of his victim who had been whipped as he circled the pole. 
This was accompanied by an 'art' rock band and men in suits melting glass bottles in a furnace.
Part of the Chinese offering at The Arsenale by Yang Maoyuan
Party goer awaits water taxi in her stilettos... probably on the way to the Bauer Hotel.