10/15/2009

“EXPERIMENT” by NATHALIE DJURBERG, Swedish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Review by Helen Nisbet. Back at the Giardini Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg's 'Experiment' was supposed to be a “surrealist garden of Eden where all that is natural goes awry” and I loved every →

10/15/2009

VALERIO BERRUTI’S La Figlia di Isacco, Italian Pavilion

A review by Helen Nisbet The Arsenale was a totally different experience - room upon room one after the other of art, each room so separate from the other. Amongst some astonishing human sculptures r →

10/15/2009

FIONA TAN , the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

A review by Helen Nisbet One of the first pavilions we visited. Three sets of films were showing but I was most taken by 6 films, which at first looked like portraits depicting a moment in time of ea →

10/15/2009

IMRAN QURESHI and KHADIM ALI, the Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

A review by Rebecca Bell Another off-site exhibition is the Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan Pavilion. This time based in an enormous old building which feels basilica-like in its weight and height. Raf →

10/15/2009

THE END by RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Icelandic Pavillion, Venice Biennale

A review by Rebecca Bell. In many ways more exciting for me were the sites beyond the Biennale territories of the Giardini and the Arsenale where art is lined up ripe for the picking. One of the off- →

10/15/2009

GIARDINI by STEVE MCQUEEN, British Pavillion at the Venice Biennale.

A  review by Rebecca Bell. Amongst the many national pavilions of the Giardini is the British Pavilion, whose entrance sits at the top of a flight of steps between heavy neoclassical columns. When we →