Beautiful work by Chinese artist Song Dong…Four artists were invited by curator Bice Curiger to create ‘para-pavilions.’ These large site-specific structures are designed to host works by other artists, in order to break up the expansive ‘illuminations’ exhibition. The artist de-constructed his family home in order to create this work…
This made me smile…Artist Lateefa Bint Maktoum at the United Arab Emirates pavilion – think she might be their answer to Jack Vettriano!
Installations by Monica Bonvicini
Yang Maoyuan’s ‘all things are visible‘
China always seems to show in this space… When i asked a Chinese artist friend about his opinion on the work by Yang Maoyuan, he was hugely dismissive saying it was government art by a government artist…so there you go!
other posts on the venice biennale 2011 in this blog
pavilions inside gardens inside the biennale
stars of track and field we are
biennale supermarket
l’arte non è cosa nostra
awesome post
thanks a lot!