The 60th Venice Art Biennale
The 60th Venice Art Biennale
FoW trip November 2024
The 60th Venice Art Biennale
The 60th Venice Art Biennale
FoW trip November 2024
Having arrived in Venice in the dark we emerged on Day 2 to glorious sunshine. A brisk walk along the Riva degli Schiavoni, with our guide Nirvana Romell, took us to the first of two major locations, the Giardini Park. It houses 29 national pavilions and Nirvana selected three to view together:
Padiglione Centrale, Giardini
Australia, winner of the Golden Lion, contains the work of Archie Moore of aboriginal heritage. It is a monumental work ‘Kith and Kin’ tracing his family tree.
Austria features the work of Anna Jermolaewa born in Leningrad in 1970 and based in Vienna. It draws a thematic arc from her experience as a political refugee.
The Serbian exhibition ‘Exposition Coloniale’ by Aleksandar Denic recalls the consequences of the colonial era with a collection of commercial architecture.
After a break a Biennale guide took us round the Central Pavilion, A celebration of ‘outsiders’. The Portrait room, with work from 112 artists, included a beautiful painting by Frida Kahlo “Diego and I”.
On Day 3 we moved to the second major location, the Arsenale, a complex of former shipyards and armouries. A Biennale guide introduced us to the Corderie, brimming with high quality works by artists from all over the world.
On the way to the Arsenale
On Day 4 we visited the Scuola Grande di San Marco, originally home to one of the six major confraternities, now the city’s hospital. Later we had a tour of the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Dominican Church). It contains tombs of the great and the good including 25 Doges, paintings by Bellini and Tintoretto, and the magnificent ceiling paintings by Veronese in the Chapel of our Lady of the Rosary.
On our final day we visited the Scuola Dalmatia dei Santi Giorgio e Trifone where we viewed the great narrative cycle by Carpaccio.
The Dalmation Scuola
Many thanks for a wonderful trip to organiser Rosemary Aikman Bull and the indispensable Nirvana, and not forgetting that throughout we had glimpses of Venice, the beauty and decay at every turn.
Having arrived in Venice in the dark we emerged on Day 2 to glorious sunshine. A brisk walk along the Riva degli Schiavoni, with our guide Nirvana Romell, took us to the first of two major locations, the Giardini Park. It houses 29 national pavilions and Nirvana selected three to view together:
Padiglione Centrale, Giardini
Australia, winner of the Golden Lion, contains the work of Archie Moore of aboriginal heritage. It is a monumental work ‘Kith and Kin’ tracing his family tree.
Austria features the work of Anna Jermolaewa born in Leningrad in 1970 and based in Vienna. It draws a thematic arc from her experience as a political refugee.
The Serbian exhibition ‘Exposition Coloniale’ by Aleksandar Denic recalls the consequences of the colonial era with a collection of commercial architecture.
After a break a Biennale guide took us round the Central Pavilion, A celebration of ‘outsiders’. The Portrait room, with work from 112 artists, included a beautiful painting by Frida Kahlo “Diego and I”.
On Day 3 we moved to the second major location, the Arsenale, a complex of former shipyards and armouries. A Biennale guide introduced us to the Corderie, brimming with high quality works by artists from all over the world.
On the way to the Arsenale
On Day 4 we visited the Scuola Grande di San Marco, originally home to one of the six major confraternities, now the city’s hospital. Later we had a tour of the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Dominican Church). It contains tombs of the great and the good including 25 Doges, paintings by Bellini and Tintoretto, and the magnificent ceiling paintings by Veronese in the Chapel of our Lady of the Rosary.
On our final day we visited the Scuola Dalmatia dei Santi Giorgio e Trifone where we viewed the great narrative cycle by Carpaccio.
The Dalmation Scuola
Many thanks for a wonderful trip to organiser Rosemary Aikman Bull and the indispensable Nirvana, and not forgetting that throughout we had glimpses of Venice, the beauty and decay at every turn.
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