Venice Biennale Part II

The Germany Pavilion, of which the most interesting part was it being called "Egomania."

Tucked in the corner of the Giardini is the Canadian pavilion, which was covered by this big "poster".  To me...a big who cares.  The exhibition inside didn't improve in my opinion.

Oops, I missed the British Pavilion (the exhibition inside was again, meh) because I was intrigued by what I saw through the door of the French Pavilion. 

 

There was also this "film slot machine" where if the same three parts of a face all came up to form a real face, the person who pressed the button won something.  Regardless, this huge film machine was awesome, and the sound it made was mesmerizing.

A remnant of political history, the pavilion of Czechoslovakia.

The only thing of interest I saw in this pavilion.  I'll use it as an example of similarity in my Geometry classes.

The Uruguay Pavilion was a former maintenance facility.

Skipping over Australia, we cross the canal to see the Facist era set of pavilions, such as Egypt.

The Greece Pavilion, its classical facade was covered up by this wood slat front.

And the Greek exhibition was an experiential one....walk in, silence, water, take a right turn and back outside.

Hmmmmm.....

The Romania Pavilion

The snark.......

....found on the walls of the Romania pavilion didn't come through with the exhibition.

More politics, the Yugoslavia pavilion is now the pavilion of Serbia.  The exhibition about the drab life in Belgrade was a bit depressing.

Simulated water in the Venetian Pavilion

DD, having lived in Brazil when younger was excited to see the exhibition in the Brazilian pavilion.  The disappointment of what we saw became the running joke.  "Does putting fish heads in a box of sand constitute art?

The exhibition in the pavilion was a piece about an artist trying to build a salt bridge (not sure if it was a metaphor or for real as I was getting tired) but outside, I thought this was more powerful.

Right in the middle of the action, with the prime real estate, Gli Stati Uniti d'America!

Not sure what most of the exhibition was trying to convey, but this working ATM that played organ music when being used was great.

Outside the US Pavilion.  Too bad there wasn't an actual runner on it so we could see the piece in action.

My favorite pavilion, from an architectural point of view was the Hungarian Pavilion!

Walk in and you see two people in a video singing about, what in context is a car crash.  Not sure why until.....

You walk to the other half of the exhibition and see this.  I liked how there was kind of a mystery involved.

Three Western European pavilions line the walk towards the former Italian exhibition space, which has moved to the other location.  Holland here, turned it's pavilion into a theater space.

Spain's exhibition was supposed to be an ongoing performance piece, but nothing was going on while we were there.

The last pavilion of the first afternoon, Belgium

Huh?

So, it turns out the artist puts glass over media, and paints as the picture moves.....and then once the glass is removed it's just a mess.  Kind of like the way our news is when removed from any context.  Another DD interpretation.

After the Bienannle, we decided to walk to Fondamente Nove from where we would take a boat to Burano for dinner at a restaurant a friend had suggested.  We walked by the hospital of Venice and here's a water ambulance.

I love finding stuff like this where you can find out how cities function.

 

This is just the appetizer!