Category: museums

  • La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, part 2

    La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, part 2

    Let’s take a closer look at some of the work shown at the national pavillions at the Venice Biennale. Part 1 is here. Our favorite work is the mobile bonzai (as we called them) in the French pavillion. Several small trees with their roots bounded at the base move imperceptibly slowly around an open courtyard with…

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  • La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, part 1

    La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, part 1

    While canals, vaporettos and gondolas are really interesting (see earlier posts here, here and here), the main draw for us to go to Venice is La Biennale. The 56th International Art Exhibition ran from 9th May to 22nd November 2015. The exhibition took place at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations across the city of…

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  • Arts & Foods, Milano – part 4

    Arts & Foods, Milano – part 4

    This is the last of our 4-part mega blogpost about the exhibition –  Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 at the Palazzo di Triennale … On the day, we were a bit of short of time because of our train for Venice in the afternoon. So we rushed through the museum. This was a far cry from the crush…

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  • Arts & Foods, Milano – part 3

    Arts & Foods, Milano – part 3

    Continuing with our tour of the Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 at the Palazzo di Triennale …  click to see part 1 and part 2. This section of the exhibition is concerned with more conceptual rather than the applied aspects of foods, starting with an igloo made of bread by Mario Merz (in the far corner…

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  • Arts & Foods, Milano – part 2

    Arts & Foods, Milano – part 2

    Part 1 of our tour of the Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 at the Palazzo di Triennale is here. ARTS&FOODS CONTINUA According to the Catalog, the show “… allows us to take a unique and unrepeatable journey through the artistic languages that have characterized the relationship between arts and foods since 1851 – the year of the…

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  • Arts & Foods, Milano – part 1

    Arts & Foods, Milano – part 1

    Before we go any further into Venice and the Biennale, let’s come back to Milan for a bit of applied arts. Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 is an exhibition curated by Germano Celant, held at the Palazzo di Triennale in Milan from April 9 to November 1, 2015. It was a World Expo “pavilion”…

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