Archive for September, 2011
The Innocents Abroad
12Sep11
Elisabetta Benassi, The Innocents Abroad 2011 Venice Biennale: Nine microfiche machines in a darkened room. The machines are automated and retrieve hundreds of press photographs from the 20th century. The screens displays a photograph for a moment before moving on to the next retrieval. The busy machines clatter in their work. When they stop you […]
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Tags: Elisabetta Benassi, Microfiche art, The Innocents Abroad
Venice grids
06Sep11
Antonio Biassiucci, 2011 Dayanita Singh, File Room 2011 Birdhead, 2011 There is something intrinsic to photography, compared to other visual media, that an idea needs elaboration, repetition and variation to make its point. Paintings and drawings can stand alone, their pictorial space is plastic enough to allow complexity and multiplicity, and an artist’s idea can […]
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Tags: Antonio Biassiucci, Birdhead, Dayanita Singh, grids in photography, photographic grid, photographs in grids, Venice Biennale photography
Angel Soldier
Lee Yongbaekm, Angel Soldier Artist Lee Yongbaek is representing Korea at the Venice Biennale with, amongst other things, a brilliant installation called Angel Soldier. This is a series of large colour photographs with related video and objects. It is an elaborate anti-war statement, understandable coming from South Korea with the most deranged country on earth […]
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Tags: Angel Soldier, Korea at Venice Biennale, Lee Yongbaek, Lee Yongbaek Angel Soldier, The love is gone but the scar will heal