Venice Biennale 2009

7 June 2009

Just back from a few days in Venice. Didn’t take enough pics – need a proper camera!

I work for an art gallery in Paris, Kamel Mennour, and they rented a Palazzo for a few days to entertain guests, since one of their artists, Claude Lévêque, was doing the French Pavilion. Nice place we had there:

and the view:

The Australian Pavilion had Shaun Gladwell, who put quite a few clichés from his country on display: Kangaroos, surfing, dry deserts, and Mad Max-looking cars:

A “Russian” “submarine” by Alexander Ponomarev:

But my highlight of the trip is the absolutely mind-blowingly perfect and clever New Zealand Pavilion logo:

Even more clever than the Roman Ondák’s Czech pavillion, which was already quite well-thought and executed.