Thursday 2 July 2009

PABLO'S SELECTION, 53 VENICE BIENNALE, 2009


Andre Cadere's 'Barre des Bois Ronds' 1970-1978
Anonymous, bottle of sparking water in the exhibition space, 2009


Atsuko Tanaka's, pink cloth and fan, 1955



Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 'De Novo' film



Gordon Matta Clark's 'Tree Dance' film, 1973-1974





Wolfgang Tillmans' photographs and tables


Rirkrit Tiravanija's Bookshop


Tobias Rehberger's cafeteria


Aleksandra Mir's Venice postcards



Bruce Nauman's USA pavillion






Elmgreen and Dragset's death homosexual collector's house at the Nordic pavilion


Henrik Olesen's Cubes (after Sol LeWitt) at Elmgreen and Dragset's gay pavillion




Liam Gillick kitchen cupboards and cat at the German pavilion




Haegue Yang's venetian blinds in the Korean pavilion



Teresa Margolle's blood from the assesinated ones at the Mexican Pavillion


Lygia Pape's golden threads


Yonna Friedman and Marjetica Potrc


Yona Friedman's ceiling


Marjetica Potrc's drawings




Cildo Meireles coloured labyrinth





Ulla von Brandenburg coloured labyrinth



Tirdad Zolghadr's United Arab Emirates pavilion


Hassan Sharif's 1979 walk at the United Arab Emirates pavilion


Ghery's Guggenheim and Nouvel's Louvre at the United Arab Emirates pavilion


Catherine David's 'Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage Platform'


Federico Herrero's remain of mural done in the 2001 biennale with which he won the golden lion for best young artist, the space now converted into a cafeteria!


Lara Favaretto's swamp

1 comment:

  1. I thought Leveque's France installation was the purgative antidote to this most banal, "okay-America-art-is-trivial-you-win!" Biennales in living memory!

    I.e., even the potential is locked behind bars!

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