Tag: venice
Wandering into The Biennale Library in Venice
This is the third post in a series on public libraries that we came across during our travels. The public libraries in the earlier posts are in Stuttgart and Melbourne. Let’s start with some music. We and IT visited Venice for the 60th Biennale Arte, which runs from April to November 2024 (since its inception
刘若望 Liu Ruowang’s wolves came to Venice Biennale 2015
The outdoor installation by Liu Ruowang (刘若望, 1977) is known as 狼来了 (The Wolves Are Coming), created in 2008 and shown previously in Beijing’s 798 art space, New Zealand, and now in Venice. Click here, here and here to see more about the Venice Biennale. The wolves are installed in the Telecom Italy Future Center located outside
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