Category: museums
徐冰 Xu Bing’s phoenixes at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale 2015
Another work we saw in Venice that is worth mentioning. Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰, born 1965) is a Chinese-born artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years. Currently residing in Beijing, he used to serve as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The two installations – The Phoenix – weighing 8
Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 @ Venice Biennale 2015
This and the following two posts will be about works by individual artists that caught our eyes in Venice. Co-incidentally, the three artists are all of Chinese descent. The first is Qiu Zhijie (邱志杰, 1969) who was invited to participate in the Biennale by the organizer. His work –The Jinling Chronicle Theater Project – was exhibited in
La Biennale di Venezia at the Arsenale venue
The 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, entitled “All The World’s Futures” and curated by Okwui Enwezor, was open to the public for about 6 months at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues. Posts about the exhibition at the Giardini venues are here and here. The Venice Biennale was founded in 1895 and has been
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